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| Iban language Iban_language | |
| Javanese language Javanese is the language of the people in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. In addition, there are also some pockets of Javanese speakers in the northern coast of western Java. It is the native language of more than 75,500,000 people.The Javanese language is part of the Austronesian family, and is therefore related to Indonesian and other Malay varieties. Javanese_language | |
| Kawi language Kawi (from Sanskrit:kavi, "poet") is a literary and prose language from the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok, based on Old Javanese, language with a sizable vocabulary of Sanskrit loanwords. Kawi is the ancestor language of modern Javanese. "sekhara" (“garland”.) Kawi uses a unique script for writing commonly colloquially called hanacaraka, but the more correct term is "Dentaw Kawi_language | |
| Madurese language Madurese is a language of the Madurese people of Madura Island and eastern Java, Indonesia; it is also spoken on Kangean Islands and Sapudi Islands. The Kangean dialect may be a separate language. It was traditionally written in the Javanese script, but the Latin alphabet is now more commonly used. The number of speakers, though shrinking, is estimated to be 8-13 million. Madurese_language | |
| Makassarese language Makassar (sometimes spelled Makasar or Macassar) is both a language and a writing system used by the ethnic Makassar in South Sulawesi island (Celebes) in Indonesia. The Makassar language (or Macassarese) is a member of the Austronesian language family, and closely related to Buginese in the group South Sulawesi languages. Makassarese_language | |
| Minangkabau language The Minangkabau language (autonym:Baso Minang(kabau); ) is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Minangkabau-people of West Sumatra, in the western part of Riau and in several cities throughout Indonesia by migrated Minangkabau, who often trade or have a restaurant. Minangkabau_language | |
| Nicaraguan Sign Language Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua, Portuguese Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense) is a signed language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. It is of particular interest to the linguists who study it, because it offers a unique opportunity to study what they believe to be the birth of a new language. Nicaraguan_Sign_Language | |
| Formosan languages The Formosan languages are the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines (those recognized by the government) currently comprise about 2% of the island's population. However, far fewer can still speak their ancestral language, after centuries of language shift. Of the approximately 26 languages of the Taiwanese aborigines, at least ten are extinct, another four (perhaps five) are moribund, and several others are to some degree endangered. Formosan_languages | |
| Lorem ipsum Talk:Lorem_ipsum | |
| Bashkir language The Bashkir language (BashkirBašqort tele) is a Turkic language. Bashkir_language | |
| Afar language Afar () is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers, the Afar. The basic word order in Afar, like in other East Cushitic languages, is subject object verb. Its speakers have a literacy rate of between one and three per cent. Its closest relative is the Saho language. Afar_language | |
| Dzongkha language Dzongkha ( Wylie:rdzong-kha, Jong-kă) is the national language of Bhutan. The word "dzongkha" means the language (kha) spoken in the dzong, – dzong being the fortress-like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century. Dzongkha_language | |
| Bihari languages Bihari is a name given to the western group of Eastern Indic languages, spoken in Bihar and neighboring states in India. Bhojpuri and Maithili are spoken in Nepal as well. The Bhojpuri and Maithili speaking population form more than 20% of Nepalese population. Bihari_languages | |
| Fijian language Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 450,000 first-language speakers, which is less than half the population of Fiji, but another 200,000 speak it as a second language. The 1997 Constitution established Fijian as an official language of Fiji, along with English and Hindustani, and there is discussion about establishing it as the "national language", though English and Hindustani would remain official. Fijian is a VOS language. Fijian_language | |
| Kashmiri language Kashmiri (कॉशुर, کٲشُر Koshur) belongs to the Dardic languages and is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It had about 5,554,496 speakers in India according to the Census of 2001. Most of the 105,000 speakers or so in Pakistan are mostly immigrants from the Kashmir Valley and include only a few speakers residing in border villages in Neelum District. Kashmiri_language | |
| Kirundi Kirundi (also written Rundi) is a Bantu language (D62 in Guthrie's classification) spoken by some 6 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda. 84% of the speakers are Hutu, 15% are Tutsi and 1% are Twa.Kirundi is closely related to Kinyarwanda, the main language of neighbouring country Rwanda and to Giha, a language spoken in western Tanzania. Kirundi and Kinyarwanda are mutually intelligible. Kirundi | |
| ISO 639-2 ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. The three-letter codes given for each language in this part of the standard are referred to as "Alpha-3" codes. There are 464 language codes in the list.The U.S. ISO_639-2 | |
| Nauruan language The Nauruan language (dorerin Naoero) is an Austronesian language spoken in Nauru. It is estimated that it has 7,000 speakers, approximately 50% of the Nauruan population. Almost all speakers are bilingual in English.It is a member of the Micronesian family of Austronesian languages. Its ISO 639 codes are 'na' and 'nau'. Nauruan is a UN recognized language. Nauruan_language | |
| Sango language This article is about the language. For the fictional character from the Japanese anime and manga series InuYasha , see Sango (InuYasha).Sango (also spelled Sangho) is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic:vehicular language, based on the language of the Sango tribe, belonging to the Ngbandi language cluster (including Ngbandi and Yakoma), with many French words. Sango_language | |
| Swati language SiSwati (SiSwati in the language itself; iSiSwazi in iSiZulu) is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Swaziland (eSwatini) and South Africa (eSikhwahlande / eNingizimu Afrika). The number of speakers is estimated to be in the region of 1.5 million. The language is taught in Swaziland and some South African schools in Mpumalanga and KaNgwane areas. SiSwati is an official language of Swaziland, (along with English), and is also one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. Swati_language | |
| Tongan language Tongan (lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language spoken in Tonga. It has around 100,000 speakers and is a national language of Tonga. It is a VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) language. Tongan_language | |
| Tsonga language The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan. Tsonga_language | |
| Zhuang language Zhuang language (autonym:''language from the Tai language group used by the Zhuang people. Most speakers live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region within the People's Republic of China, where it is an official language. Standardized Zhuang is based on the dialect of Wuming County (武鸣县). Buyei is actually just a slightly different standard form of Zhuang, used across the province border in Guizhou. There is a dialect continuum between Zhuang and Buyei. Zhuang_language | |
| Flex Flex may refer to Flexible electrical cable FLEX, acronym for "Fleet Landing Exercise". A series of landing exercises conducted by the Fleet Marine Force, a combined-United States Navy/Marine landing force. In computing Flex | |
| Nǀu language ''Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the people in South Africa. The name is used by the South African government, but apart from that is not recognized by the . belongs to the Tuu () language family, with extinct ǀXam language being its closest relative. The slash symbol in these names represents a click like the English interjection tsk! tsk! used to express pity or shame; "" is pronounced like noo, with a tsk! pronounced in the middle of the . Its closest living relative is the ǃXóõ language. Nǀu_language | |
| List of Chinese dialects The following is a list of Chinese dialects and languages. List_of_Chinese_dialects | |
| English Talk:English | |
| Auslan Auslan is the sign language of the Australian deaf community. The term Auslan is a portmanteau of "Australian sign language", coined by Trevor Johnston in the early 1980s, although the language itself is much older.Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL); the three have descended from the same parent language, and together comprise the BANZSL language family. Auslan | |
| Inflection Talk:Inflection | |
| Algonquin language For the larger language family of which Algonquin is but one member, see Algonquian. Algonquin_language | |
| French Sign Language French Sign Language (langue des signes française or LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in the nation of France. According to Ethnologue, it has 50,000 to 100,000 native signers.French Sign Language is related to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), German Sign Language (DGS), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB) Irish Sign Language (ISL), American Sign Language (ASL), and Quebec Sign Language (LSQ). French_Sign_Language | |
| Dacian language The Dacian language was spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Dacia. It belongs to the Indo-European language family. Dacian is often considered to be a dialect of the same language as Thracian or to be a separate language from Thracian but closely related to it. (See Daco-Thracian.) Dacian_language | |
| Galatian language Galatian is an extinct Celtic language once spoken in Galatia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) from the 3rd century BC up to the 4th century AD.Of the language only a few glosses and brief comments in classical writers and scattered names on inscriptions survive. Galatian_language | |
| Eyak language Eyak is an extinct Na-Dené language that was historically spoken in southcentral Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River.Marie Smith Jones (May 14, 1918 January 21, 2008) of Cordova was the language's last native speaker, as well as the last full-blooded Eyak. Because of the dying-off of its native speakers, Eyak became a symbol in the fight against language extinction. Eyak_language | |
| SIL International SIL International (current name of the former Summer Institute of Linguistics) is a U.S.-based, worldwide non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy and aid minority language development. SIL provides a database, Ethnologue, of its research into the world's languages. SIL has more than 6,000 members from over 50 countries. SIL_International | |
| Ramon Magsaysay Magsaysay redirects here, for other uses see Magsaysay (disambiguation).Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay (August 31, 1907 - March 17, 1957) was the third President of the Third Republic of the Philippines from December 30, 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1957. He was elected President under the banner of the Nacionalista Party. Ramon_Magsaysay | |
| Sranan Tongo Sranan (also Sranan Tongo "Surinamean tongue", Surinaams, Surinamese, Suriname Creole, Taki Taki) is a creole language spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 400,000 people in Suriname. It is the mother tongue of the Creoles. Sranan was previously called nengre or negerengels (Dutch, "negroenglish").Since this language is shared between the Dutch-, Javanese-, Hindustani-, and Chinese-speaking communities, most Surinamese speak it as a lingua franca. Sranan_Tongo | |
| Martha's Vineyard Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) is a sign language once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S., from the early 18th century to the mid 20th century. It was remarkable for its use by both deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness did not become a barrier to participation in public life. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language is also notable for the role it played in the development of American Sign Language. Martha's_Vineyard_Sign_Language | |
| Khoekhoe language The Khoekhoe language, or Khoekhoegowab, also known by the ethnic term Nàmá and previously the now discouraged term Hottentot, is the most populous and widespread of the Khoisan languages. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by three ethnic groups, the Nama, Damara, and Haiǁom people. Khoekhoe_language | |
| Avar language The modern Avar language (self-designation магарул мац "language of the mountains" or Авар мац "Avar language") belongs to the Avar-Andi-Tsez subgroup of the Alarodian Northeast-Caucasian (or Nakh-Dagestani) language family. Avar_language | |
| Old Persian language The Old Persian language is one of the two attested Old Iranian languages (besides Avestan). Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets, seals of the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BCE to 300 BCE). Examples of Old Persian have been found in present-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt the most important attestation by far being the contents of the Behistun inscription (dated to 525 BCE). Old_Persian_language | |
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| Middle Dutch Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.In historic literature Diets and Middle Dutch (Middelnederlands) are used interchangeably to describe this whole of dialects from which later standard Dutch would be derived. Middle_Dutch | |
| Middle High German Middle High German (), abbreviated MHG (Mhd.), is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350. It is preceded by Old High German and followed by Early New High German. In some uses, the term covers a longer period, going up to 1500. Middle_High_German | |
| Manx language Talk:Manx_language | |
| Orizaba, Veracruz Orizaba is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located 20 km west of its sister city Córdoba, and is adjacent to Río Blanco and Ixtaczoquitlán, on Federal Highways 180 and 190. The city had a 2005 census population of 117,273 and is almost coextensive with its small municipality, with only a few small areas outside the city. The municipality's population was 117,289 and it has an area of 27.97 km² (10.799 sq mi). Orizaba,_Veracruz | |
| Rhetorical question A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for its persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply (ex"How much longer must our people endure this injustice?", no formal answer is expected. Rather, it is a device used by the speaker to assert or deny something. Rhetorical_question | |
| Spanish-based creole languages Talk:Spanish-based_creole_languages | |
| Dena’ina language Dena’ina (sometimes spelled Tanaina, ) is the Athabaskan language of the region surrounding Cook Inlet. It is geographically unique in Alaska as the only Alaska Athabaskan language to include territory which borders salt water. Four dialects are usually distinguished Upper Inlet, spoken in Eklutna, Knik, Susitna, Tyonek Outer Inlet, spoken in Kenai, Kustatan, Seldovia Iliamna, spoken in Pedro Bay, Old Iliamna, Lake Iliamna area Inland, spoken in Nondalton, Lime Village Dena’ina_language | |
| Ilokano language To view the Ilokano edition of this Wikipedia article, select from the in other languages section, to the side of this page. Ilokano (variantsIlocano, Iluko, Iloco, Iloko, Ylocano, and Yloco) is the third most-spoken language of the Republic of the Philippines.An Austronesian language, it is related to such languages as Indonesian, Malay, Fijian, Maori (of New Zealand), Hawaiian, Malagasy (of Madagascar), Samoan, Tahitian, Chamorro (of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), Tetum (of East Timor), and Paiwan (of Taiwan). Ilokano_language |
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