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| Old French Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 900 to 1300. It was then known as the langue d'oïl (oïl language) to distinguish it from the langue d'oc (Occitan language, also then called Provençal), whose territory bordered that of Old French to the south. Old_French | |
| Chamorro language Chamorro is a Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana islands (especially Guam and Saipan) by about 47,000 people (about 35,000 people on Guam and about 12,000 in the N. Marianas). Chamorro_language | |
| Sotho language Sotho_language | |
| Aromanian language Aromanian (limba armãneascã, armãneshce or armãneashti), also known as Macedo-Romanian, Arumanian or Vlach in most other countries, is an Eastern Romance language spoken in Southeastern Europe. Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlachs (which is an exonym in widespread use to define the communities in the Balkans).It shares many features with modern Romanian, having similar morphology and syntax, as well as a large common vocabulary inherited from Latin. Aromanian_language | |
| Sindhi language Sindhi (Arabic script:Devanagari script:Sindhī) is the language of the Sindh region of Pakistan. It is spoken by approximately 18 million people in Pakistan, and is also spoken in India; it is the third most spoken language of Pakistan, and the official language of Sindh in Pakistan. It is also an official language of India. The government of Pakistan issues national identity cards to its citizens only in two languages, Sindhi and Urdu. Sindhi_language | |
| Old Tupi language Old Tupi or Classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who lived close to the sea. It belongs to the Tupi-Guarani language subfamily, and which has a written history spanning the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. Old_Tupi_language | |
| Jino The Jino (also spelled Jinuo) people (; endonymTibeto-Burman ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They live in Xishuangbanna in Yunnan province, China. Jino | |
| Kinyarwanda Kinyarwanda | |
| Burmese language The Burmese language (; ; MLCTS:myanma bhasa) is the official language of Burma. Although the government officially recognizes the language as Myanmar in English, most continue to refer to the language as Burmese. It is the native language of the Bamar and other related sub-ethnic groups of the Bamar. It is spoken by 32 million as a first language, and as a second language by ethnic minorities in Burma. Burmese_language | |
| Wichita language Wichita is a moribund Caddoan language spoken in Oklahoma. Only one fluent speaker remains, Doris McLemore,, although nine other people are believed to speak it to some extent. It is almost certain that Wichita will soon become extinct. Wichita_language | |
| Tajik Persian Tajik Persian, or the Tajik language, or Tajiki, (sometimes written Tadjik or Tadzhik; , , ) is a modern variety of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. Most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Tajik is the official language of Tajikistan.The language has diverged from Persian as spoken in Afghanistan and Iran, as a result of political borders, geographical isolation, the standardisation process, and the influence of Russian and neighbouring Turkic languages. Tajik_Persian | |
| Samoan language The Sāmoan or Samoan language is the traditional language of Samoa and American Samoa and is an official languageEnglish—Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum.There are approximately 870,337 Samoan speakers worldwide, 69% of whom live in the Samoan Islands. Thereafter, the greatest concentration is in New Zealand, where people of Samoan ethnicity comprise the fifth largest group after New Zealand European, Māori, New Zealander and Chinese Samoan_language | |
| Uyghur language Uyghur (//, or //') is a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a Central Asian region administered by China. In English, the name of the ethnicity and its language is spelled variously as Uyghur, Uighur, Uygur and Uigur, with the preferred spelling being Uyghur. Many English speakers pronounce it as but the pronunciation is closer to native . Uyghur_language | |
| Oromo language Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromoo, Oromiffa(a) (Ethiopic:’Orominya), Afan Boran, Afan Arsi, and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names (Oromic, Afan Oromo, etc.), is an Afro-Asiatic language, and the most widely spoken of the Cushitic family. It is spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighboring peoples in Ethiopia and Kenya, such as the Werji. Older publications refer to the language as "Galla", a term that is resented by Oromo people and no longer used. Oromo_language | |
| Aymara language Aymara (Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over a million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia. It is also spoken to a much lesser extent in Chile and in Northwest Argentina.Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely-spoken neighbour, Quechua. Aymara_language | |
| Oriya language Odia or Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ 'Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian state of Orissa. The language is also one of the many official languages of India. Oriya_language | |
| Shona language Shona (or chiShona) is a Bantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Shona language dialects, namely Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Ndau and Korekore. Shona is a principal language of Zimbabwe, along with Ndebele and the official language, English. Shona_language | |
| Aleut language Aleut (Unangam Tunuu) is a language of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It used to be the first language of the Aleut () people living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, and Commander Islands. As of 2007 there were about 150 speakers of Aleut (Krauss 2007, p. 408). Aleut_language | |
| Hindko language Hindko (هندکو /Hindkoŭ/), also Hindku, Hinko, or Lahnda (ਲਹਿੰਦਾ, لَیہندا) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Hindkowans in Pakistan and northern India, as well as by the Hindki people of Afghanistan. The literal meaning of the word "Hindko" is "Mountains of the Indus". Hindko_language | |
| Silesian German Silesian_German | |
| Noongar Noongar (alternate spellingsNyungar/Nyoongar/Nyoongah/Nyungah/Nyugah), are an indigenous Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. Their country extends from Jurien Bay in the north to the southern coast, and east to Ravensthorpe and Southern Cross. Noongar | |
| Mari language The Mari language (Marimarii jylme, ), spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic (MariMarii El, i.e. Mari Land) of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals. Mari speakers, known as the Mari are found also in the Tatarstan, Udmurtia, and Perm regions. Mari_language | |
| Sassarese language Sassarese (local name Sassaresu or Turritanu) is a Southern Romance language and a diasystem of the Sardinian and Corsican. It's regarded as a Corsican-Sardinian language because of Sassari's historic ties (and neighborhood) with Tuscany and Corsica, despite the heavy Sardinian influences (especially in the vocabulary) it still keeps its Tuscan roots which closely relate it to Gallurese, which is regarded as a Corsican dialect despite the geographic location, although this fact has been causing a deep controversy. Sassarese_language | |
| Hittite language Hittite (natively "Neša") is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who created an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia. The language is attested in cuneiform, in records from as early as the 20th century BC down to the 12th century BC. Dialects derived from Hittite may have been spoken after the Bronze Age collapse in various parts of Anatolia and northern Syria, in the so-called Neo-Hittite states of the Early Iron Age. Hittite_language | |
| Manual of Style (pronunciation) Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(pronunciation) | |
| Istriot language Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Western Region on the coast of the Istrian Peninsula, especially in the towns of Rovinj () and Vodnjan (), on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.Its classification remains unclear, due to the specificities of the language, which has always had a very limited number of speakers. Istriot can be viewed Istriot_language | |
| Cebuano language Cebuano is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people. It is the most widely spoken member of the Visayan languages. Its name comes from the island of Cebu, the site of the second-largest metropolitan area in the country. Cebuano is given the ISO 639-2 three letter code ceb, but has no ISO 639-1 two-letter code. Cebuano_language | |
| Frank Laubach Dr. Frank Charles Laubach (September 2, 1884 June 11, 1970) was a Christian Evangelical missionary and mystic known as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." In 1935, while working at a remote location in the Philippines, he developed the "Each One Teach One" literacy program, which has been used to teach about 60 million people to read in their own language. Frank_Laubach | |
| Papuan languages Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. That is, the term is defined negatively and does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892. Papuan_languages | |
| Huilliche language The Huilliche language (also known as Veliche and Huiliche) is an Araucanian language spoken (as of 1982) by about 2,000 ethnic Huilliche people in Chile. It is spoken in an area south of the area inhabited by the Mapuche, in the nation's Los Lagos and Los Ríos regiones (states); and mountain valleys, between the city of Valdivia and south toward Chiloé Archipelago. Huilliche has a dialect called Tsesungún. Huilliche_language | |
| Mapudungun Mapudungun (from mapu 'earth, land' and dungun 'speak, speech') is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche (from mapu and che 'people') people. It is also known as Mapudungu, Mapuche, and Araucanian (Araucano). The latter was the name given to the Mapuche by the Spaniards but nowadays both the Mapuche and their academic circles, avoid this usage. Mapudungun | |
| Mam language The Mam language is a member of the Mamean branch of the Mayan language family. It is spoken by the Mam people of the highlands of western Guatemala.There are at least three major divisions in the languagedepartment of Huehuetenango, Southern Mam spoken in and around Quetzaltenango and Central Mam spoken in and around San Marcos. Mam_language | |
| Mitla Mitla is the name commonly given to an archaeological site located in the town of San Pablo Villa de Mitla in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is famous for its pre-Columbian Mesoamerican buildings. Mitla | |
| Lingua Franca Nova Lingua Franca Nova (abbreviated LFN) is an auxiliary constructed language created by Dr. C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. Its vocabulary is based on French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. The grammar is highly reduced and similar to the Romance creoles. The language is phonetically spelled, using 22 letters of either the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets. Lingua_Franca_Nova | |
| Silesian language Talk:Silesian_language | |
| Silesian language Silesian or Upper Silesian (SilesianŚlůnsko godka, , ) is an ethnic Slavic language spoken in the region of Silesia. The ISO 639-3 language code is szl. Sometimes it is also defined as a dialect of Polish; one of Silesian dialects – the Lach dialect – is also sometimes defined as a dialect of the Czech language. Silesian_language | |
| Lombardic language Lombardic or Langobardic is the extinct language of the Lombards (Langobardi), the Germanic speaking settlers in Italy in the 6th century. The language declined from the 7th century, but may have been in scattered use until as late as ca. AD 1000. The language is only preserved fragmentarily, the main evidence being individual words quoted in Latin texts.In the absence of Lombardic texts, it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the language's morphology and syntax. Lombardic_language | |
| Cherokee language Cherokee () is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people which uses a unique syllabary writing system. It is the only Southern Iroquoian language that remains spoken. Cherokee is polysynthetic. Cherokee_language | |
| Yoruba language Yoruba (native name èdè Yorùbá, 'the Yoruba language') is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 25 million speakers. The native tongue of the approximately 28 million Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among communities in Brazil, Sierra Leone (where it is called Oku), northern Ghana (where it is spoken by urban migrant Yoruba communities alongside Hausa and local languages) and Cuba (where it is called Nago). Yoruba_language | |
| Chinantecan languages The Chinantecs are an indigenous people that lives in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, especially in the districts of Cuicatlán, Ixtlán de Juarez, Tuxtepec and Choapan. Some Chinantecs are still very traditionalThe Chinantec languages belong to the Chinantecan branch of the Oto-Manguean family. The Ethnologue lists 14 different partially unintelligible varieties of Chinantec. Chinantecan_languages | |
| Baoulé language Baoule is a language spoken in Côte d'Ivoire.Example phraseNyanmien Kpli lafiman meaning "God the Greatest never sleeps.".The Baoule are of the Akan group and are from the central region (including Baouké, Yamoussoukro, Bouaflé, Béoumi, Sakassou, Toumodi, Dimbokro, M'Bahiakro, Tiassalé) of the Cote d'Ivoire. Baoulé_language | |
| Papiamento Papiamento (or Papiamentu) is the official and most widely spoken language on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (the so-called "ABC islands").Papiamento is a Portuguese creole language, with vocabulary influences from African languages, Spanish, Dutch, English and Arawak native languages. Papiamento | |
| Taa language Taa, also known as ǃXóõ, is a Khoisan language with a very large number of phonemes (speech sounds), with at least 58 consonants, 31 vowels, and four tones (Traill 1985, 1994 on East ǃXoon), or at least 87 consonants, 20 vowels, and two tones (DoBeS 2008 on West ǃXoon), by many counts the most of any known language. Taa_language | |
| Borneo Talk:Borneo | |
| Twi Twi ( in Twi; , , or ), specifically Ashanti Twi, is a language spoken in Ghana by about 2.8 million people. It is one of the three mutually intelligible dialects of the Akan language, the others being Akuapem Twi and Fante, which belong to the Kwa language family. Twi is spoken in the Ashanti Region and in parts of the Eastern, Western, Central, Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana. Twi | |
| Government and binding theory Government and binding is a theory of syntax in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s. This theory is a radical revision of his earlier theories and was later revised in The Minimalist Program (1995) and several subsequent papers, the latest being Three Factors in Language Design (2005). Government_and_binding_theory | |
| Sinhala language Sinhalese or Sinhala (සිංහල, ISO 15919:Singhalese) is the language of the Sinhalese, the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.Sinhala is spoken by about 19 million people in Sri Lanka, about 16 million of whom are native speakers. It is one of the constitutionally-recognised official languages of Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. Sinhala has its own writing system (see Sinhala alphabet) which is an offspring of the Indian Brahmi script. Sinhala_language | |
| Balinese language Balinese or simply Bali is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by 3.9 million people () on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as northern Nusa Penida, western Lombok and eastern Java. Most Balinese speakers also know Indonesian.Kawi is a related priestly language. Balinese_language | |
| Buginese language Buginese (, elsewhere also Bahasa Bugis, Bugis, Bugi, De) is the language spoken by about four million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Buginese_language | |
| Gayo language Gayo Language is the spoken language of about 180,000 people (1989) in the mountain region of North Sumatra around Takengon, Genteng, and Lokon. It is classified as belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, but is not closely related to other languages.Gayo is distinguished with other languages in Aceh. Not only limited to the language, but also the art and culture of Gayo people is different with the Acehnese people. Gayo_language |
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