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| Phoenician language Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called Pūt in Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic, and Phoenicia in Greek and Latin. Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup; its closest living relative is Hebrew. The area where Phoenician was spoken includes modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, northern Israel and Malta. Phoenician_language | |
| Abipón language Abipón is a native American language of the Mataco-Guaycuru family that was at one time spoken in Argentina. Its last speaker is thought to have died in the 19th century.As a people they were a nation of Argentina's Gran Chaco. Seasonalbly mobile their territories as hunters, gatherers, fishers and to a limited extent farmers. Abipón_language | |
| Aequian language Aequian is an extinct language that was part of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, closely related to Umbrian. It was spoken by the Aequi in northeast Latium.It was spoken in east-central Italy in the Alban hills near Rome from the 5th to the 3rd century BC. Aequian_language | |
| Alemannic German Alemannic German (Alemannisch) is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family. It is spoken by approximately ten million people in six countries, including southern Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Italy. The name derives from the ancient Germanic alliance of tribes known as the Alamanni (from which also comes French "Allemagne", Spanish "Alemania", Portuguese "Alemanha" and Arabic and Turkish "Almanya", all names for Germany). Alemannic_German | |
| Brithenig Brithenig is an invented language, or constructed language ("conlang"). It was created as a hobby in 1996 by Andrew Smith from New Zealand, who also invented the alternate history of Ill Bethisad to "explain" it.Brithenig was not developed to be used in the real world, like Esperanto or Interlingua, nor to provide detail to a work of fiction, like J.R.R. Brithenig | |
| Zimakani language Zimakani is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by around 1500 people. Zimakani_language | |
| Palatinate German Palatinate_German | |
| Old High German Old High German (OHG, German'Ahd.) refers to the earliest stage of the German language and it conventionally covers the period from around 500 to 1050. Coherent written texts do not appear until the second half of the 8th century, and some treat the period before 750 as 'prehistoric' and date the start of Old High German proper to 750 for this reason. Old_High_German | |
| Old Latin Old Latin (also called Early Latin or Archaic Latin) refers to the Latin language in the period before the age of Classical Latin; that is, all Latin before 75 BC. The term prisca Latinitas distinguishes it in New Latin and Contemporary Latin from vetus Latina, in which "old" has another meaning.The use of "old", "early" and "archaic" has been standard in publications of the corpus of Old Latin writings since at least the 18th century. Old_Latin | |
| Xavante language The Xavante language is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in about 170 villages in the area surrounding Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Xavante language is unusual in its phonology, its Object-Subject-Verb word order, and its use of honorary and endearment terms in its morphology. Xavante_language | |
| Moghol language Moghol (also known as Mogholi Mongolic language spoken in Afghanistan by the Moghol People around Herat, where Dari (Persian) is the common language. In the 1970s, when the German scholar Michael Weiers did fieldwork on the language, few people spoke the language, most knew it passively and most were older than 40 years. It is probably extinct by now. Moghol people in northern Afghanistan now speak Pashto. Moghol_language | |
| Marwari language The Marwari language (mārwāṛī; also variously Marvari, Marwadi, Marvadi) is spoken in the Indian state of Rajasthan, but is also found in the neighboring state of Gujarat and in Eastern Pakistan. With some 13.2 million speakers (as of 1997, ca. 13 million in India and 200,000 in Pakistan) it is the largest of the Marwari subgroup of the "Rajasthani cluster" of Western dialects of Hindustani. Marwari_language | |
| Mozarabic language Mozarabic was a continuum of closely related Romance dialects spoken in Muslim dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of the Romance languages' development in Iberia. Mozarabic descends from Late Latin and early Romance dialects spoken in the Iberian Peninsula from 5th to 8th centuries (Hispania was the name of a group of three provinces of the Peninsula and the name more commonly used at Roman and Visigothic times). Mozarabic_language | |
| Hattic language Hattic was a language spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC. Scholars call this language 'Hattic' to distinguish it from the Hittite language--the Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire. The heartland of this oldest attested language of Anatolia, before the arrival of Nesian (i.e., "Hittite") speakers, ranged from Hattusa (which they called "Hattus") northward to Nerik. Other cities mentioned in Hattic include Tuhumiyara and Tissaruliya. Hattic_language | |
| Somali language The Somali language (, ) is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of it from before 1900. Somali_language | |
| East Low German East Low German is a group of Low German dialects spoken in Northeast Germany as well as by minorities in present northern Poland. Together with West Low German, it constitutes Low German. Prior to 1945 the dialect was spoken along the entire German Baltic Coast, from Mecklenburg, through Pomerania, West Prussia into certain villages of the East Prussian Memel-Klaipėda Region. East_Low_German | |
| Venda language Venda, also known as ''Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in South Africa, but there are also speakers in Zimbabwe. During the Apartheid era of South Africa, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa. Venda_language | |
| Bemba language This article refers to the Bemba language. For other uses, see Bemba (disambiguation).The Bemba language, Chibemba, also known as Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba, is a Bantu language that is spoken primarily in Zambia by the Bemba people and about 18 related ethnic groups. The noun class prefix 'chi-' indicates languages and the prefix 'ba-' indicates people, so 'Babemba' also means the Bemba people. The other close tribe is the Bisa people living in Mpika and Lake Bangweulu areas. Bemba_language | |
| Hopi language Hopi is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people (a Pueblo group) of northeastern Arizona, USA, although today some Hopi are monolingual English speakers.The use of the language gradually declined over the course of the 20th century. In 1990, it was estimated that over 5,000 other people could speak Hopi natively (approximately 70% of the population), at least 40 of them monolingual. Hopi_language | |
| Adele language The Adele language is spoken in central eastern Ghana and central western Togo by about 21000 people. It belongs to the Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Volta-Congo, Niger-Congo. The speakers themselves call the language Gidire. Adele_language | |
| Zizilivakan language Zizilivakan (also known as Ziziliveken, Ziliva, Àmzírív, Fali of Jilbu) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province and neighboring Nigeria. Zizilivakan_language | |
| Lozi language Lozi, also known as Silozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language (of the Niger-Congo language family) that is spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries. Lozi and its dialects are spoken and understood by approximately six percent of the population of Zambia. Lozi_language | |
| Comox people This article refers to the Comox people. For other uses please see the disambiguation page at Comox.The Komox people, usually known in English as the Comox people and also spelled K'omoks, are an indigenous group of Coast Salishan-speaking people in Comox, British Columbia and in the Toba Inlet and Malaspina Peninsula areas of the British Columbia mainland across Georgia Strait. Comox_people | |
| Western Panjabi language The Western Panjabi language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly in the Pakistan's Punjab region. It has over sixty million native speakers according to the Pakistan census of 2000 and the India census of 1991 . Western Panjabi is influenced by the Urdu language while in addition to that Eastern Punjabi is influenced by the Hindi language. Western_Panjabi_language | |
| Lunda language Lunda, also known as Chilunda, is a Bantu language (of the larger Niger-Congo family) that is spoken in Zambia, Angola and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lunda and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 2.6% of Zambians (1986 estimate), and the language is used overwhelmingly in the northern part of that country. Lunda_language | |
| Masaba language Masaba, (Lumasaaba) sometimes Lugisu, after one of its dialects, is a Bantu language spoken by about 1,500,000 people in eastern Uganda in the administrative region of Bugisu on the border to Kenya. The language is closely related to, and mutually intelligible with Bukusu, spoken in western Kenya. Masaba_language | |
| Mauritian Creole Mauritian Creole, called Kreol Morisyen in the language itself, is a creole language spoken in Mauritius. Almost all of its vocabulary stems from French, with smaller numbers of words from English and the many African and Asian languages that have been spoken on the island. Mauritian_Creole | |
| Tahitian language Tahitian, a Tahitic language, is one of the two official languages of French Polynesia (along with French). It is an Eastern Polynesian language closely related to Rarotongan, New Zealand Māori, and Hawaiian. Tahitian_language | |
| Palauan language Palauan (also spelled Belauan) is one of the two nationally recognized official languages spoken in the Republic of Palau (the other being English). It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia (the other being Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group; all others are considered to be members of either the Micronesian or Polynesian outlier subgroups of Oceanic. Palauan_language | |
| Franco-Provençal language Franco-Provençal (Francoprovençal) or Arpitan or Romand (in Switzerland) (Vernacular:'Romance language with several distinct dialects that form a linguistic sub-group separate from Langue d'Oïl and Langue d'Oc. The name Franco-Provençal was given to the language by G.I. Ascoli in the 19th century because it shared features with French and Provençal without belonging to either. The neologism Arpitan is becoming a popular name for the language and the people who speak it. Franco-Provençal_language | |
| Sicilian language Sicilian (, , also known as Siculu or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language. Its dialects comprise the Italiano Meridionale-estremo language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria (where it is called Southern Calabro); in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento (where it is known as Salentino); and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is called Cilentano (Gordon, 2005). Sicilian_language | |
| Comorian language Comorian (Shikomor) is the most widely used language on the Comoros (independent islands in the Indian Ocean, off Mozambique and Madagascar) and Mayotte. It is a set of Swahili dialects but with a much stronger Arabic influence than standard Swahili. Each island has a different dialect; that of Anjouan is called Shindzuani, that of Mohéli Shimwali, that of Mayotte Shimaore, and that of Grande Comore Shingazija. No official alphabet existed in 1992, but Arabic and Latin scripts were both used. Comorian_language | |
| Europanto Talk:Europanto | |
| Maithili language Maithili (मैथिली Maithilī) is a language spoken in the eastern part of India, mainly in the Indian state of Bihar and in the eastern Terai region of Nepal. It is a uniqe and stunning language. It is an offshoot of the Indo-Aryan languages which are part of the Indo-Iranian, a branch of the Indo-European languages. Maithili_language | |
| Outline of linguistics Talk:Outline_of_linguistics | |
| Haitian Creole language Haitian Creole language (kreyòl ayisyen), often called simply Creole or Kreyòl (pronounced ), is a language spoken in Haiti by about 7.0 million people (), which is nearly the entire population, and via emigration, about 400,000 speakers who live in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and United States Haitian_Creole_language | |
| Old East Slavic Old East Slavic, also known as Old Russian () was a vernacular literary language used in 10th-15th centuries by East Slavs in the Kievan Rus' and states which evolved after the collapse of the Kievan Rus'. Dialects of it were spoken, though not exclusively, roughly in the area today occupied by the European part of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and several eastern voivodships of Poland.As the language is part of the (pre-)national history of all East Slavs, in recent years it has been increasingly referred to as Old Belarusian (Belarusian старабеларуская or старажытнабеларуская мова) instead of traditional supranational старажытнаруская мова or Old Ukrainian (Ukrainian староукраїнська or давньоукраїнська мова) (Old Ukrainian Language) or давньокиївська мова (old Kievan Language) rather than давньоруська мова (Old Russian Language). Old_East_Slavic | |
| Bhojpuri language Bhojpuri () is a regional language spoken in parts of north-central and eastern India. It is spoken in the western part of state of Bihar, the northwestern part of Jharkhand, and the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, as well as an adjoining area of southern plains of Nepal. Bhojpuri_language | |
| Cajun French ) is one of three varieties or dialects of the French language spoken primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana, specifically in the southern parishes. Other Louisiana French dialects include Napoleonic French and Colonial or Plantation Society French, spoken primarily in the parishes of Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Jefferson, West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupée, Avoyelles, St. Mary, Iberia, Assumption, and St. Landry. Cajun French is not the same as Cajun_French | |
| Picard language Picard is a language closely related to French, and as such is one of the larger group of Romance languages. It is spoken in two regions in the far north of France Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy Belgian region Wallonia (but is clearly distinct from the Walloon language).Picard is known by several different names. Picard_language | |
| Crimean Gothic Crimean Gothic was a Germanic dialect spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea (now in Ukraine) until the late 18th century.The existence of a Germanic dialect in the Crimea is attested in a number of sources from the 9th century to the 18th century. However, only a single source provides any details of the language itselfFlemish ambassador Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, dated 1562 and first published in 1589, gives a list of some eighty words and a song supposedly in the language. Crimean_Gothic | |
| Selonian language Selonian was a language appertaining to the Baltic languages group of the Indo-European languages family. It was spoken by the Eastern Baltic tribe of the Selonians, who until the 15th century lived in Selonia, a territory in South Eastern Latvia and North Eastern Lithuania.During the 13th-15th centuries the Selonians lost their language after being assimilated by the Latgalians and partly by the Lithuanians. Selonian_language | |
| Thracian language The Thracian language was the Indo-European language spoken in ancient times by the Thracians in South-Eastern Europe. Thracian_language | |
| Chichewa language Chichewa (Chicheŵa in Malawian English, also known as C(h)inyanja) is a language of the Bantu language family widely spoken in south-central Africa. The prefix chi- means "the language of" so that "Chichewa" means "language of the Chewa tribe", and hence the language is also known simply as Chewa. Chichewa_language | |
| Macedonian Talk:Macedonian | |
| IJ (digraph) The IJ (lowercase ij) is the digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or even a letter in itselfalthough in most fonts that have a separate character for ij the two composing parts are not connected, but are separate glyphs, sometimes slightly kerned.An ij in written Dutch usually represents the diphthong . IJ_(digraph) | |
| Slavey language Slavey (also Slave, Slavé, ) is an Athabaskan language spoken among the Slavey First Nations of Canada in the Northwest Territories where it also has official status. In older literature, the name of the language was spelt Slave; however, the connotations of this, along with the pronunciation of the homograph slave (the final e should be pronounced) have caused the change to Slavey instead. Slavey_language | |
| Wu Chinese Wú (; also “Wu language”) is one of the major divisions of the Chinese languages. It is spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province, as well as smaller parts of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces. Major Wu dialects include those of Shanghai, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Yongkang, and Quzhou. Wu_Chinese | |
| Tuvan language Tuvan (TuvanТыва дыл Tyva dyl), also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan, or Tuvin, is one of the Turkic languages. It is spoken by around 200,000 people in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language borrows a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and more recently from the Russian language. There are small diaspora groups of Tuvan people that speak distinct dialects of Tuvan in the People's Republic of China and in Mongolia. Tuvan_language | |
| Church Slavonic language Church Slavonic (also Church Slavic) is the liturgical language of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Macedonian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church and other Slavic Orthodox and Slavic Greek Catholic Churches, as well as the liturgical language of Croatian and Czech Church Slavonic Roman Catholic traditions. It was also the liturgical language of the Orthodox Church in Wallachia and Moldavia until the late 19th century. Church_Slavonic_language |
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