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| x Japanese Language |
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Japan | Hida dialect | Altaic languages |
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [nihoŋɡo] ( listen)) is a language spoken by over 120 million people in Japan and in Japanese immigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, which has a number of proposed...
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| Tokyo dialect | Japonic languages | ||||
| x Cantonese |
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China | Taishan dialect | Chinese language |
Yue, commonly known as Cantonese, is a primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China.
The issue of whether Yue is a language in its own right or a dialect of a single Chinese language depends on conceptions of what a language is. Like the other...
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| x Spanish Language |
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Spain | Andalusian Spanish | Romance languages |
Spanish (español) is a Romance language named for its origins as the native tongue of a large proportion of the inhabitants of Spain. It is also named Castilian (castellano listen (help·info)) after the Spanish region of Castile where it originated...
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| Mexican Spanish | Indo-European languages | ||||
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| x Tamil Language |
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India | Madurai Tamil | Dravidian languages |
Tamil (தமிழ், tamiḻ, [t̪ɐmɨɻ] , alternative spelling: Thamizh) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of...
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| x Russian Language |
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Russia | East Slavic languages |
Russian (русский язык, russkiy yazyk, pronounced [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania,...
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India | Indo-European languages |
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी; meaning "Standard Hindi"), High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardised and sanskritised register of the Hindi-Urdu language based...
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| x Czech Language |
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Czech Republic | Indo-European languages |
Czech ( /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. The language was known as Bohemian in...
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| x Greek Language |
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Greece | Romeyka | Indo-European languages |
Greek (ελληνικά IPA [eliniˈka] or ελληνική γλώσσα, IPA [eliniˈci ˈɣlosa]) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans Western Asia Minor and the Aegean, it has the longest documented history of...
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| x Afrikaans Language | South Africa | Germanic languages |
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe. It originates from 17th century Dutch dialects spoken by the mainly-Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it...
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| x Persian Language |
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Davani dialect | Indo-Iranian languages |
Persian (پارسی IPA: [fɒːɾˈsiː]) is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence. The Persian...
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| x Xhosa Language |
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South Africa | Niger-Congo languages |
Xhosa (English pronunciation: /ˈkoʊsə/, Xhosa: isiXhosa [isikǁʰóːsa]) 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,...
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| x Bengali Language |
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Bangladesh | Indo-European languages |
Bengali (বাংলা Bangla [ˈbaŋla] ( listen)) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of...
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| x Standard Mandarin |
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China | Luoyang dialect | Sino-Tibetan languages |
Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin, Putonghua and Modern Standard Mandarin, is a standardized variety of Chinese and the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan), and is...
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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. It is the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guiné-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe. Portuguese has co-official status (alongside the...
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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 approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with...
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| Svealand Swedish | Germanic languages | ||||
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| x Arabic Language |
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Saudi Arabia | Juba Arabic language | Semitic languages |
Arabic (العربية al-ʿarabīyyah or عربي/عربى ʿarabī) is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century CE. This includes both the literary language (Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic, used in most written...
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| Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Language | Sacred language | ||||
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Northwestern Iranian |
Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages.
The Kurdish language itself has about 16 million speakers today....
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Serbia | South Slavic languages |
Serbian (Serbian Cyrillic: српски , Latin: srpski, pronounced [sr̩̂pskiː]) is a form of Serbo-Croatian spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Greece, Slovakia and Czech...
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| x Montenegrin language |
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Montenegro | Indo-European languages |
Montenegrin (Crnogorski jezik, Црногорски језик) is a name used for the Serbo-Croatian language as spoken by Montenegrins; it also refers to an incipient standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian used as the official language of...
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Norway | Germanic languages |
Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the 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 language |
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India | Dravidian languages |
Telugu (తెలుగు telugu, IPA: [t̪eluɡu]) is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra,...
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India | Sacred language |
Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ/پنجابی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region (north western India and eastern Pakistan). In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language. Punjabi can be subdivided into two varieties...
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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 Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority...
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| x Malayalam Language |
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India | Dravidian languages |
Malayalam (pronounced /mələˈjɑːləm/; മലയാളം, malayāḷam , IPA: [mɐləjaːɭəm]), is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Kerala. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala...
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| x Filipino language | Austronesian languages |
Filipino is the Official and National language of the Philippines which are composed of 8 different Major languages in the country such as Cebuano or Binisaya, Kapampangan, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Ilocano, and Maranao. Though...
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Philippines | Austronesian languages |
Tagalog (English pronunciation: /təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/; Tagalog pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first...
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Malta | Żejtun Dialect | Afro-Asiatic languages |
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 descended from...
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| x Thai Language |
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Thailand | Tai-Kadai languages |
Thai (ภาษาไทย Phasa Thai [pʰāːsǎː tʰāj] ( listen)), more precisely Central Thai or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai...
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Netherlands | Limburgish language | Germanic languages |
Dutch ( Nederlands (help·info)) is a West Germanic language and the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands, and about sixty percent of the populations of Belgium and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union...
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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 (Yukatek Maya in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala), called Màaya t'àan (lit. "Maya speech") by its speakers, is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. To native...
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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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| x Inuktitut |
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Eskimo-Aleut languages |
Inuktitut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inuktitut fonts)) or Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Inuit language 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...
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| x Danish Language |
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Denmark | Indo-European languages |
Danish (dansk, pronounced [danˀsɡ̊] ( listen); dansk sprog, [ˈdanˀsɡ̊ ˈsb̥ʁɔʊ̯ˀ]) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the...
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Dari (Persian: دری, Darī, pronounced [dæˈɾi]) or Fārsī-ye Darī (Persian: فارسی دری, [fɒːɾsije dæˈɾi]) in historical terms refers to the Persian court language of the Sassanids. In contemporary usage, the term refers to the dialects of modern...
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| x Min Nan | China | Penang Hokkien | Min |
The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnán Yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/Bân-lâm-gú; literally "Southern Fujian language"), are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian,...
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| x Romani language |
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Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy (Romani: romani ćhib) is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own.
According to...
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Vatican City | Ecclesiastical Latin | Italic languages |
Latin ( /ˈlætɪn/; Latin: lingua latīna; IPA: [laˈtiːna]) is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. It originated in the...
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| x Yiddish Language |
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Germanic languages |
Yiddish (ייִדיש yidish or אידיש idish, literally "Jewish") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages....
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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 | Cambodia | Austro-Asiatic languages |
Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ, IPA: [pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]; or more formally, ខេមរភាសា, IPA: [kʰeɛmaʔraʔ pʰiːəsaː]), or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. It is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language ...
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| x Klingon language |
The Klingon language ( in pIqaD script, transliterated tlhIngan Hol, pronounced /ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn xol/) is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe.
Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to be "alien", it...
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| x Lakota Language | United States of America | 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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Tanzania | Niger-Congo languages |
Swahili or Kiswahili (known in Swahili itself as Kiswahili) is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro...
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India | Indo-European languages |
Marathi (IPA: [ˈməraʈiː]; मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and...
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| x Ukrainian Language |
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Ukraine | East Slavic languages |
Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва / ukrayins'ka mova, [ukrɑˈjɪɲsʲkɑ ˈmɔwɑ], formerly Ruthenian - ру́ська, руси́нська мо́ва / rus'ka, rusyns'ka mova) is a member of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of...
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Republic of Macedonia | Indo-European languages |
Macedonian (македонски јазик, makedonski jazik, pronounced [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik] ( listen)) is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian...
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| x Waorani Language | Ecuador | Language isolate |
The Huaorani (Waorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Ssabela ; autonym: Wao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is a language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon...
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Lithuania | Samogitian language | 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 2.9 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 300,000 abroad....
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Vietnam | Austro-Asiatic languages |
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of Vietnamese people (Kinh), and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language or a first language by many ethnic...
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Taiwanese Hokkien (臺灣福建話 or 臺灣閩南語), commonly known as Taiwanese (Tâi-oân-oē 臺灣話 or Tâi-gí 台語), is the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan as spoken by about 70% of the population of Taiwan. The largest linguistic group in Taiwan, in which Hokkien is...
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| x Bosnian language |
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Montenegro | Indo-European languages |
Bosnian language (bosanski/босански [bɔ̌sanskiː]) is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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 the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the...
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Shanghainese (上海閒話 [z̥ɑ̃̀héɦɛ̀ɦʊ̀] in Shanghainese), or the Shanghai language (simplified Chinese: 上海话 or 沪语; traditional Chinese: 上海話 or 滬語), is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai and the surrounding region. It is classified as...
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| x Albanian language |
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Republic of Kosovo | Albanian, Tosk Language | Indo-European languages |
Albanian (gjuha shqipe, pronounced [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ], or shqip Albanian pronunciation: [ʃcip]) is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which...
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| Albania | Albanian, Gheg Language | ||||
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China | Qingtian dialect | Sino-Tibetan languages |
The Chinese language (汉语/漢語 Hànyǔ; 华语/華語 Huáyǔ; 中文 Zhōngwén) is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it...
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| x Kannada Language |
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India | Dakshina Kannada Kannada | Dravidian languages |
Kannada ([ˈkʌnːəɖa]) or Canarese, is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas (Kannadigaru) and number roughly 38 million, is one of the 40 most spoken languages in the...
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| Bidar Kannada | |||||
| x Slovenian language |
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Slovenia | Resian dialect | Indo-European languages |
Slovene or Slovenian (slovenski jezik or slovenščina, not to be confused with slovenčina, the native name of Slovak) is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the...
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Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Croats and Serbs differ in religion...
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Waneci Language | Indo-Iranian languages |
Pashto (پښتو, Pax̌to, IPA: [paʂˈto, paçˈto, puxˈto]; also spelled Pukhto or Pushto), also known as Afghani (Persian: افغانی) and Pathani (Urdu: پٹھانی, Hindi: पठानी Paṭhānī), is the native language of the Pashtun people of South Central Asia....
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