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| x Japanese Language |
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Japan | Hida dialect | Altaic languages |
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo (help·info)) IPA: [nʲihoŋɡo] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Japonic-Ryukyuan languages. Its relationships with other languages remain...
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| x Cantonese |
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Taishan dialect | Chinese language |
Cantonese (academically known as Yue (Pinyin) or Yüeh (Wade-Giles), after the Mandarin pronunciation of 「粵」) is a primary branch of Chinese. The name "Cantonese" is also commonly used in a narrower sense for Standard Cantonese, the prestige dialect...
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| x Spanish Language |
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Spain | Andalusian Spanish | Romance languages |
Spanish (español) sometimes called Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken most...
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| x Tamil Language |
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India | Madurai Tamil | Dravidian languages |
Tamil (தமிழ் tamiḻ; IPA: [t̪əmɨɻ]) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia,...
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| Sri Lanka | Kongu Tamil | ||||
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| x Russian Language |
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Russia | East Slavic languages |
Russian (русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yazyk, Russian pronunciation: [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
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| x Hindi Language |
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India | Indo-European languages |
Hindi (Devanāgarī: हिन्दी or हिंदी, IAST: Hindī, IPA: [hɪnd̪iː] (help·info)) is the name given to an Indo-Aryan language, or a dialect continuum of languages, spoken in northern and central India (the "Hindi belt").
Native speakers of Hindi...
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| x Czech Language |
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Czech Republic | Indo-European languages |
Czech (pronounced /ˈtʃɛk/; čeština Czech pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna]) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. Czech is similar to and mutually...
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| x Greek Language |
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Greece | Indo-European languages |
Greek (ελληνικά, IPA: [e̞liniˈka] or ελληνική γλώσσα, IPA: [e̞liniˈkʲi ˈɣlo̞sa]) is an Indo-European language native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greeks. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European. It has the...
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| x Afrikaans Language | South Africa | Germanic languages |
Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from Dutch and thus classified as Low Franconian West Germanic. It is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers living in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe,...
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| x Persian language |
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Davani dialect |
Persian (local names: فارسی, Farsi IPA: [fɒːrˈsi]; or پارسی, Parsi IPA: [pɒːrˈsi]; see Nomenclature) is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is mainly spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan,...
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| x Xhosa Language |
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South Africa | Niger-Congo languages |
Xhosa (pronounced [ˈkǁʰoːsa] , isiXhosa) is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language,...
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| x Bengali Language |
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Bangladesh | Indo-European languages |
Bengali or Bangla (IPA: [ˈbaŋla] (help·info) বাংলা) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages.
Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which...
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| x Standard Mandarin |
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China | Luoyang dialect | Sino-Tibetan languages |
Standard Mandarin, or Standard Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore.
The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect of...
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| x Portuguese Language |
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Portugal | Romance languages |
Portuguese ( português (help·info) or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that was originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely...
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| x Polish Language |
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Poland | Mazovian | Lechitic languages |
Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is a West Slavic language. and the official language of Poland. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet which corresponds basically to the Latin alphabet with a few additions. Polish-speakers use the language...
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| x Swedish Language |
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Sweden | Finland-Swedish | Indo-European languages |
Swedish ( svenska (help·info)) is a North Germanic language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands. It is to a considerable extent mutually...
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| x Arabic language |
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Saudi Arabia | Arabic, Sudanese Creole Language | Semitic languages |
Arabic (العربية al-ʿarabīyah; less formally: عربي ʿarabi) is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Syriac. In terms of speakers, Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic...
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| x Kurdish language |
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Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is the language spoken by Kurds in western Asia. Unlike many other languages it does not have a single standardized linguistic entity with the status of an official or state language. On the contrary, it is a...
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| x Serbian language |
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The Serbian language (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски језик, Serbian Latin: Srpski jezik) is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora. Standard Serbian is based on the...
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| x Montenegrin language |
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Montenegrin language (Црногорски језик, Crnogorski jezik) is the name given to the Ijekavian-Štokavian dialect spoken in Montenegro. It is recognized as a specific language and is official language of the country, but some Serbs regard it to be a...
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| x Norwegian language |
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Norway | Germanic languages |
Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants (see Danish...
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| x Telugu | India | Dravidian languages |
Telugu may refer to:
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| x Punjabi language |
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Punjabi or Panjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in Gurmukhi script, پنجابی in Shahmukhi script, Pañjābī in transliteration) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region (in Pakistan and India) and their diasporas. Speakers include...
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| x Finnish Language |
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Finland | Rauma dialect | Uralic languages |
Finnish ( suomi (help·info), or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority...
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| x Malayalam Language |
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India | Dravidian languages |
Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is one of the four major Dravidian languages of South India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala, spoken by around 36 million people. Malayalam is also...
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| x Filipino language |
Filipino is the national and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is based on the existing native language Tagalog. The Filipino language is in evolution,...
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Philippines | Austronesian languages |
Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 22 million people. It is related to Austronesian languages such as Indonesian, Malay,Javanese and Paiwan (of Taiwan). Fijian, Maori (of New Zealand), Hawaiian, Malagasy (of...
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| x Maltese Language |
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Malta | Afro-Asiatic languages |
Maltese (Maltese: Malti) is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English, while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is...
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| x Thai Language |
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Thailand | Tai-Kadai languages |
Thai (ภาษาไทย, Phasa Thai (help·info), transcription: phasa thai, transliteration: p̣hās̄ʹāthịy; IPA: [pʰāːsǎːtʰāj]), is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai...
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| x Dutch Language |
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Netherlands | Limburgish language | Germanic languages |
Dutch ( Nederlands (help·info)) is a West Germanic language spoken by over 22 million people as a native language, and over 5 million people as a second language. Most native speakers live in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, with smaller...
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| Brabantian | Indo-European languages | ||||
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| x Hebrew language |
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Israel | Hebrew languages |
Hebrew is an ancient Semitic language that was revived into modern use around the end of the Nineteenth century, with the effort initiated by Eliezar Ben-Yehuda."Ivrit" can be interpreted to mean "boundary crosser", because the...
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| x Maya, Yucatán Language |
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Mexico | Mayan languages |
Yucatec Maya ("Maaya T'aan" in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, northern Belize and parts of Guatemala. To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - ...
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| x Indonesian Language |
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Indonesia | Ambon | Austronesian languages |
Indonesian, or Bahasa Indonesia, is the official language of the Republic of Indonesia, as officiated in article 36 of the nation's constitution. Even though it had been previously declared as the unifying language in the Indonesian Youth Pledge of...
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| Betawi | |||||
| Medan | |||||
| x Inuktitut |
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Inuktitut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (fonts required), literally "like the Inuit") is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line, including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland...
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| x Berber languages |
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Afro-Asiatic languages |
The Berber languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, as well as by Berber communities in parts of Niger and Mali. A relatively sparse population extends into the whole Sahara and the...
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| x Danish Language |
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Denmark | Indo-European languages |
Danish (dansk, pronounced [d̥ænsɡ̊]( listen)) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in...
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| x Dari |
Dari (Persian: دری - Darī; pronounced [dæˈɾi]) or Dari Persian (Persian: فارسی دری - Fārsīy e Darī; pronounced [fɒːɾsije dæˈɾi]), also known as Eastern Persian is a historical name for the Persian language and, in contemporary usage refers to the...
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| x Min Nan | China | Penang Hokkien | Min |
The Southern Min language, or Min Nan (Hokkien: Bân-lâm-gú), ("Southern Fujian" language) refers to a family of Chinese dialects which are spoken in southern Fujian and neighboring areas, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in...
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| Hokkien | Sino-Tibetan languages | ||||
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| x Romani language |
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy (native name: rromani ćhib) is the language of the Romani people. It is an Indo-Aryan language, sometimes included in either the "Central" or the "Northwestern" group, sometimes treated as a branch of its own....
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| x Latin Language |
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Vatican City | Ecclesiastical Latin | Italic languages |
Latin (lingua Latīna, pronounced [laˈtiːna]) is an Italic language historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe. Romance languages such as Italian,...
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| x Yiddish language |
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Germanic languages |
Yiddish (ייִדיש yidish or אידיש idish, literally "Jewish") is a non-territorial High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other Germanic languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin...
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The Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland, through the Isle of Man, to the north of Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), and Manx ...
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| x Icelandic Language |
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Iceland | North Germanic languages |
Icelandic is a human language of the North Germanic family. It is the official language of Iceland and the mother tongue of the Icelandic people.
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| x Khmer language |
Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ), or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. It is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language (after Vietnamese), with speakers in the tens of millions. Khmer has been...
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| x Klingon language |
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The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is the constructed language spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to be "alien", it contains many peculiarities. The language's basic sound, along...
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| x Lakota Language | United States | Siouan languages |
Lakota (also Lakhota, Teton, Teton Sioux) is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. While generally taught and considered by speakers as a separate language, Lakota is mutually understandable with the other two languages,...
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| x Swahili Language |
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Tanzania | Niger-Congo languages |
Swahili (Kiswahili) is spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands. Although only 5-10 million people speak it as...
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| x Marathi Language |
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India | Indo-European languages |
Marathi (मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of south western India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are 90 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi is the 4th most spoken language...
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| x Ukrainian Language |
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Ukraine | East Slavic languages |
Ukrainian (in Ukrainian: украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayins'ka mova, [ukrɑˈjinʲsʲkɑ ˈmɔwɑ]) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
The...
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| x Macedonian Language |
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Republic of Macedonia | Indo-European languages |
Macedonian ( македонски јазик (help·info), IPA: [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]) is the official language of Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual...
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| x Waorani Language | Ecuador |
The Huaorani language (also Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Waorani, Wao, Sabela, Ssabela, ; autonym: Huao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is a language between the Napo and Curaray Rivers. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may...
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| x Lithuanian language |
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Lithuania | Indo-European languages |
Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad....
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| x Vietnamese Language |
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Vietnam | Austro-Asiatic languages |
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ), formerly known under French colonization as Annamese (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people (người Việt or người Kinh), who...
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| x Taiwanese |
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Taiwanese Minnan (臺灣閩南語), commonly known as Taiwanese (Tâi-oân-oē, 臺灣話), is a variant of the Min Nan Chinese language spoken by about 70% of the population of Taiwan. The largest ethnic group in Taiwan for which Taiwanese Minnan is considered a...
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| x Bosnian language |
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Bosnian (Bosanski, Cyrillic script: босански, [ˈbɔsanskiː]) is a South Slavic language spoken primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region of Sandžak in Serbia and Montenegro, although it is also spoken in various places throughout the...
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| x Tibetan language |
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The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern...
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| x Shanghainese |
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Shanghainese (上海閒話 [z̥ɑ̃̀héɦɛ̀ɦʊ̀] in Shanghainese), or the Shanghai dialect, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai, and the surrounding region. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Shanghainese,...
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| x Albanian language |
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Albanian (Gjuha shqipe pronounced [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ] or shqip pronounced [ˈʃcip]) is a unique Indo-European language spoken by nearly 6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian...
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| x Chinese language |
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China | Qingtian dialect | Sino-Tibetan languages |
Chinese or the Sinitic language(s) (汉语/漢語, pinyin: Hànyǔ; 华语/華語, Huáyǔ; or 中文, Zhōngwén) is a language family consisting of languages mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China,...
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| x Kannada Language |
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India | Dakshina Kannada Kannada | Dravidian languages |
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ Kannaḍa) is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas (ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು Kannadigaru), number roughly 35 million, making it the 27th...
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