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| x Witotoan languages |
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Bora Language |
Bora–Witóto (also Bora–Huitoto, Bora–Uitoto, or, ambiguously, Witotoan) is a proposal to unite the Bora and Witotoan language families of northeastern Peru (Loreto Region), southwestern Colombia (Amazonas Department), and western Brazil (Amazonas...
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| Muinane Language | |||||
| Huitoto, Nüpode Language | |||||
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| Ocaina Language | |||||
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| x Jivaroan languages |
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Achuar-Shiwiar Language |
Jivaroan (also Hívaro, Jívaro, Jibaroana, Jibaro) is a small language family, or perhaps a language isolate, of northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.
Jivaroan consists of 4 languages:
This language family is spoken in Amazonas, Cajamarca, Loreto, and...
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| Aguaruna Language | |||||
| Huambisa Language | |||||
| Shuar Language | |||||
| x Bayono-Awbono languages | Bayono Language |
The Bayono–Awbono languages are a pair of Papuan languages, Bayono and Awbono, each spoken by a hundred people in the southeast of Papua province, Indonesia. The Awbono are monolingual.
The languages have only recently been recognized as a unit, and...
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| x North Germanic languages |
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Icelandic Language |
The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct...
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| x Constructed language | Volapük |
A planned or constructed language—known colloquially as a conlang—is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary has been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally. There are many possible reasons...
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| Esperanto Language | |||||
| Lojban | |||||
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| Khuzdul | |||||
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| x Malekula Coastal languages |
The family of Malekula Coastal languages is a subgroup of the Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands languages. It consists of almost 80 languages.
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| x Erromanga languages |
The family of Erromanga languages is a subgroup of the South Vanuatu languages. It consists of 4 languages. They are from the island of Erromango, in the Tafea province of Vanuatu.
Holy scriptures were printed in this language in 1864.
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| x Epi languages |
The half dozen Epi languages are a group of Vanuatu.
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| x Central-Eastern Oceanic languages |
The over 200 Central-Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian languages.
Traditional classifications have posited a Remote Oceanic branch within this family, but this was abandoned in Lynch et al...
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| x Malekula Interior languages |
The two dozen Malekula languages are a group or groups of the North Vanuatu languages.
The Malekula languages have been divided into interior and coastal groups. However, this classification is not well supported. According to a 2008 analysis of the...
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| x East Semitic languages |
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Mesopotamia | Akkadian language |
The East Semitic languages are one of six fairly uncontroversial divisions of the Semitic languages, the others being Northwest Semitic, Arabian, Old South Arabian (also known as Sayhadic), Modern South Arabian, and Ethiopic. The East Semitic group...
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| Eblaite language | |||||
| x Bantu languages |
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Bemba language |
The Bantu languages, technically the Narrow Bantu languages, constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language...
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| Phuthi language | |||||
| x Western Hindi languages |
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Hindustani language |
Hindi, in the broad sense, is a dialect continuum within the Indo-Aryan language family in the northern plains of India, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati and Marathi; on the east by Maithili and Bengali; and on the...
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| x Gonga languages | Shekkacho Language |
The Gonga or Kefoid languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Ethiopia. These days, the Kafacho (southwestern Ethiopia), Shekkacho (Southwestern Ethiopia), Boro Shinasha (Northwestern Ethiopia), Anfillo (Western Ethiopia) mainly...
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| x Nguni |
The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa by the Nguni people. Nguni languages include Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, Hlubi, Phuthi and Ndebele (both Southern Transvaal Ndebele and Northern Ndebele). The appellation "Nguni"...
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| x Tsimshianic languages |
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Gitsenimx |
The Tsimshianic languages are a family of languages spoken in northwestern British Columbia and in southern Alaska on Annette Island and Ketchikan. About 2,170 people of the ethnic Tsimshian population in Canada still speak the Tsimshian languages;...
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| x Cree language |
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Cree, Plains Language |
Cree (Nēhiyawēwin / ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ; also known as Cree–Montagnais, Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is an Algonquian language spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories and Alberta to Labrador, making it the aboriginal...
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| x Beboid languages | Cameroon | Eastern Beboid |
The Beboid languages constitute a branch, or branches, of Southern Bantoid, and are spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two languages (Bukwen and Mashi) are spoken over the border in Nigeria. The Eastern Beboid languages may be most...
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| x Border languages |
The Border or Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal. They are named after the Indonesia – Papua New Guinea border, which they span.
Laycock classified Morwap as an...
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| x Nimboran languages |
The Nimboran languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed (*genam "I" and...
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| x Piawi languages |
The Piawi languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, which had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal.
Piawi consists of only two languages:
Davies and Comrie 1985 noted some...
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| x Yawa languages |
The Yawa languages, or Yapen, are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often considered to be divergent dialects of a single language (and thus a language isolate). They are spoken on central...
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| x Ndu languages |
The Ndu languages are the best known family of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Ndu is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group. The languages were first identified as a related family by Kirschbaum in 1922....
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| x Nakh languages |
The Nakh languages are a small family of languages spoken chiefly by the Nakh peoples, in Russia (Chechnya and Ingushetia), in Georgia, and in the Chechen diaspora (mainly in Europe, Middle East and Central Asia).
The Nakh languages were...
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| x Malibu languages |
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The Malibu languages are a poorly attested group of extinct languages once spoken along the Magdalena River in Colombia. Material exists only for two of the numerous languages mentioned in the literature: Malibú and Mocana.
The Malibu languages have...
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| x Serbo-Croatian |
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Torlakian |
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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| x Numic languages |
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Ute language |
Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. It includes seven languages spoken by Native American peoples traditionally living in the Great Basin, Colorado River basin, and southern Great Plains. The word Numic comes from the cognate word...
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| x Sahaptian languages | Klickitat language |
Sahaptian (also Sahaptianic, Sahaptin, Shahaptian) is a sub-grouping of two languages of the Plateau Penutian family spoken by Native American peoples in the Columbia Plateau region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the northwestern United States....
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| x War Language |
War (also spelled Waar), War-Jaintia or Amwi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 12,000 people in India.
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| x Paniai Lakes languages |
The Paniai Lakes languages, also known as the Wissel Lakes languages, are a small family of closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the highlands of Irian Jaya in the Paniai Lakes region of West Papua. Foley (2003) considers their Trans...
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| x Mombum languages | Koneraw Language |
The Mombum languages are a pair of Trans–New Guinea languages, Koneraw and Mombum, spoken just off the southern coast of New Guinea.
Mombum was first classified as a branch isolate of the Central and South New Guinea languages in Stephen Wurm's 1975...
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| x Madang languages |
The Madang or Madang–Adelbert Range languages are the largest family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. William Foley concurs that it is "highly likely" that the Madang languages are part of TNG. The family is...
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| x Min |
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Min Nan |
Mǐn or Miin (simplified Chinese: 闽语; traditional Chinese: 閩語; pinyin: Mǐn yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân gú; BUC: Mìng ngṳ̄) is the name of a broad group of Chinese languages spoken by 60 million people in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as...
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| x Chinese language |
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China | Min | Cantonese |
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 Tarahumara language |
The Tarahumara language (native name Rarámuri/Ralámuli ra'ícha, "people language") is a Mexican indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000 Tarahumara (Rarámuri/Ralámuli) people in the state of Chihuahua, according...
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| x Harakmbut languages |
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Amarakaeri Language |
Harákmbut or Harákmbet is a small language family in Peru spoken by the Harakmbut people.
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| Huachipaeri Language | |||||
| x Quechua |
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Quechua (endonym: Runa Simi) is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from a common ancestral language. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous...
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| x Utian languages |
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Mutsun language |
Utian (also Miwok–Costanoan, previously Mutsun) is a family of indigenous languages spoken in the central and north portion of California, United States. The Miwok and Ohlone peoples both spoke languages of the Utian language family. It has recently...
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| x Sami languages |
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Ter Sami |
Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. Sami is frequently and erroneously believed to be a single...
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| x Formosan languages |
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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...
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| x Chatino language | Zapotecan languages |
Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, or actually small family of languages, which is classified under the Zapotecan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. It is natively spoken by approximately 40,000 Chatino people, whose...
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| x Tiwa languages |
Tiwa (Spanish Tigua, also E-nagh-magh) is a group of two, possibly three, related Tanoan languages spoken by the Tiwa Pueblo, and possibly Piro Pueblo, groups in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Southern Tiwa is spoken in Isleta Pueblo, Sandia Pueblo,...
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| x Occitan language |
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Gascon language |
Occitan (English pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪˌtæn/, Occitan: [uksiˈta] or [utsiˈta]), known also as Lenga d'òc (Occitan: [ˈleŋɡɔ ˈðɔ(k)]; French: Langue d'oc), is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's...
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| x Arabic Language |
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Bedawi Arabic |
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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| x Polynesian languages |
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Hawaiian language |
The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia as well as on a patchwork of "Outliers" from south central Micronesia, to small islands off the northeast of the larger islands of the Southeast Solomon Islands and...
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| Samoan Language | |||||
| Tongan Language | |||||
| Māori language | |||||
| Tahitian Language | |||||
| x Northwest Semitic languages |
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Middle East | Canaanite languages | Aramaic language |
The Northwest Semitic languages form a medium-level division of the Semitic language family. The languages of this group are spoken by approximately eight million people today. The group is generally divided into three branches: Ugaritic (extinct),...
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| x Old South Arabian |
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Yemen | Hadramautic language |
Old South Arabian (or Epigraphic South Arabian, or Sayhadic) is the term used to describe four extinct, closely related languages spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. There were a number of other Sayhadic languages (e.g....
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| Minaean language | |||||
| Qatabanian language | |||||
| Sabaean language | |||||
| x Modern South Arabian languages | Yemen | Shehri language |
The Modern South Arabian or Eastern South Semitic, Eastern South Arabian languages are spoken mainly by minority populations in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Oman, which, together with the modern Ethiopian Semitic languages, form the South...
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| Oman | Soqotri Language | ||||
| Bathari language | |||||
| Harsusi language | |||||
| Mehri language | |||||
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| x Japonic languages |
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Japan | Okinawan languages | Japanese Language |
The Japonic languages are a language family that includes the Japanese spoken on the main islands of Japan and the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is widely accepted by linguists, and the term "Japonic languages" was...
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| x Ryukyuan languages |
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Okinawan languages | Miyako Language |
The Ryukyuan languages (previously spelled Luchuan) are spoken in the Ryukyu Islands, and make up a subgroup of the Japonic languages. The Ryukyuan languages and Japanese diverged "not long before the first written evidences of Japanese appeared,...
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| Yaeyama Language | |||||
| Yonaguni Language | |||||
| Okinawan language | |||||
| Kunigami language | |||||
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| x Yolngu Matha |
Yolŋu Matha is a cover term for the languages of the Yolngu (Yolŋu), the Indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia. (Yolŋu = people, Matha = tongue, language).
Yolngu languages have a fortis–lenis contrast in plosive...
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| x Tuu languages |
The Tuu or Taa–ǃKwi (Taa–ǃUi, ǃUi–Taa, Kwi) languages are a language family consisting of two language clusters spoken in Botswana and South Africa. The relationship between the two clusters is not doubted, but is not close. The name Tuu comes from...
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| x Khoe languages | Namibia | Nama Language |
The Khoe languages are the largest of the non-Bantu language families indigenous to southern Africa. They are often considered to be a branch of a suspected Khoisan language family, and are known as Central Khoisan in that scenario. The nearest...
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| x Juu languages |
!Kung (English pronunciation: /ˈkʊŋ/) or !Xun, also called Ju, is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the !Kung people. Together with the ǂHoan language, it forms the proposed Kx'a language family. !Kung...
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| x Gbaya languages |
The Gbaya languages, or Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a group of perhaps a dozen Ubangian languages spoken mainly in the Central African Republic, and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon....
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| x Manding languages |
The Manding languages are a fairly mutually intelligible group of dialects or languages in West Africa, belonging to the Mande languages. Their best-known members are Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali; Mandinka, the main language of...
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| x Bozo languages |
Bozo (sometimes Boso, 'house of bamboo') is spoken by the Bozo, the principal fishing people of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali. According to the 2000 census, the Bozo people number about 132,100. The Bozo dialect cluster is often considered to be one...
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| x Tima language |
Tima, also known as Domorik or Lomorik, is a Kordofanian language spoken by the Tima people of Sudan.
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| x Tagoi language |
The Tagoi language is a Kordofanian language, closely related to Tegali, spoken near the town of Rashad in southern Kordofan in Sudan, about 12 N, 31 E. Unlike Tegali, it has a complex noun class system, which appears to have been borrowed from more...
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