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| x Kurdish 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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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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| x Dari |
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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 Taiwanese |
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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 Shanghainese |
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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 Serbo-Croatian |
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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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| x Acadian French |
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Acadian French (French: Français acadien), is a regionalized dialect of Canadian French. It is spoken by the francophone population of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by small minorities in areas in the Gaspé region of eastern Quebec, by...
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The Pennsylvania German language (usually referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch, or simply as Dutch, in American English; usually referred to in Pennsylvania German as Deitsch, Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch) is a variety of West...
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| x Spanglish |
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Spanglish refers to the blend (at different degrees) of Spanish and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live. The Hispanic population of the...
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| x Torlakian |
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Serbia | Serbo-Croatian |
Torlakian or Torlak (Serbian pronunciation: [tɔ̌rlaːk]) is a name given to the group of South Slavic dialects of southeastern Serbia (southern Kosovo – Prizren), northeastern Republic of Macedonia (Kratovo–Kumanovo), western Bulgaria (Belogradchik...
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| x Australian English |
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Australian English (AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia. Despite being given no official status in the Constitution, English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first...
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| x Sardinian language |
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Sardinian (Sardinian: sardu, limba / lingua sarda, Italian: sardo, lingua sarda) is a Romance language spoken and written on most of the island of Sardinia (Italy). It is considered the most conservative of the Romance languages in terms of...
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| x Inuit language |
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The Inuit language is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador. The related Yupik languages are spoken in western and southern Alaska and Russian Far East, particularly the Diomede Islands...
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| x Brazilian Portuguese | Brazil | Romance languages |
Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt-BR) is the group of dialects of the Portuguese language written and spoken by virtually all of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian...
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| x Tzotzil language |
Tzotzil (native name: Bats'i k'op; [ɓatsʼi kʼopʰ]) is a Maya language spoken by the indigenous Tzotzil Maya people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. According to an INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática) 2005 census, there...
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| x Vlach language |
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Vlach (rumînjeašće/vlaški) is uncodified Eastern Romance language of the Vlachs of Serbia. It consists of two main dialects.
Serbian statistics list Vlach as minority language in Serbia and it's recognized by the Serbian Law. In the 2002 census, 40...
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Classical Arabic (CA), also known as Qur'anic or Koranic Arabic, is the form of the Arabic language used in literary texts from Umayyad and Abbasid times (7th to 9th centuries). It is based on the Medieval dialects of Arab tribes. Modern Standard...
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Balochi is a Northwestern Iranian language. It is the principal language of the Baloch of Balochistan It is also spoken as a second language by some Brahui. It is designated as one of nine official languages of Pakistan.
The Balochi vowel system has...
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| x Stadsfries language/Dutch |
And the link to the article itself: Stadsfries language
Stadsfries or Stadfries (endonym Stadsfrys, Stedsk in Frisian, Liwwarders in Leeuwardenese) is the collective name for the urban dialects spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland, Leeuwarden...
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The Philistine language (English pronunciation: /ˈfɪləstiːn, -staɪn, fɨˈlɪstɨn, -tiːn/) is the extinct language of the Philistines, spoken— and rarely inscribed— along the coastal strip of southwestern Canaan. Very little is known about the language...
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| x Wastek language |
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The Wastek (Huastec) language is a Mayan language of Mexico, spoken by the Huastecs living in rural areas of San Luis Potosí and northern Veracruz. Though relatively isolated from them, it is related to the Mayan languages spoken further south and...
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| x Mocho' language |
Mocho’ or Mototzintlec is a language belonging to the western branch of Mayan languages spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The two dialects of Mocho' are spoken in two different villages: the Tuzantec dialect in Tuzantán and the Motozintlec...
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The Tamyen (also spelled as Tamien, Thamien) are one of eight linguistic divisions of the Ohlone (Coastanoan) people groups of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. The Tamyen lived throughout the Santa Clara Valley. The use of the name...
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| x Northern Qiang language |
Northern Qiang is a Qiangic language of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken by approximately 130,000 people in north-central Sichuan Province, China.
Unlike its close relative Southern Qiang, Northern Qiang is not a tonal language.
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| x Yorta Yorta language |
Yorta Yorta (Yotayota) is a dialect cluster, or perhaps a group of closely related languages, once spoken by Yorta Yorta people, Indigenous Australians from the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in present-day northeast Victoria. Dixon...
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| x Slovio |
Slovio (from the Slavic slovo "word") is a constructed language begun in 1999 by Mark Hučko. Hučko claims that the language should be relatively easy for non-Slavs to learn as well, as an alternative to tongues such as Esperanto which are based more...
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| x Pashayi language |
Pashayi - also known as Pashai - is a language (or a group of languages) spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar, and Nangarhar Provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan.
It belongs to the Indo-European language family,...
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| x Mundolinco |
Mundolinco is a constructed language created by the Dutch author J. Braakman in 1888. It is notable for apparently being the first Esperantido, i.e. the first Esperanto derivative.
Major changes from Esperanto include combining the adjective and...
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| x Mandalorian language |
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Mandalorian (Mando￢ﾀﾙa) is a fictional language spoken by the Mandalorian of Star Wars. It is currently being developed into a working language by Karen Traviss.
Portions exist in the Republic Commando video game and its spin-off books, ''Republic...
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| x Mixtecan languages |
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The Mixtecan languages constitute a branch of the Otomanguean language family of Mexico. They include the Trique (or Triqui) languages, spoken by about 24,500 people; Cuicatec, spoken by about 15,000 people; and the large expanse of Mixtec languages...
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| x Rushani language |
Rushani is a dialect of Shughni language, a Pamir language.
Rushani is notable for having a transitive case – a so-called double-oblique clause structure – in the past tense. That is, in the past tense, the agent and object of a transitive verb are...
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| x Wè language |
Guéré (Gere), also called Wè (Wee), is a Kru language spoken by over 300,000 people in the Dix-Huit Montagnes and Moyen-Cavally regions of Ivory Coast.
The phonology of Guere (here the Zagna dialect of Central Guere / Southern Wè) is briefly...
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| x Lummi |
The Lummi language (Xwlemi Chosen, IPA: [xʷləmi tʃɔsən]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of northwest Washington, in the United States. Although traditionally referred to as a language, it...
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| x Javindo |
Javindo, also known by the pejorative name Krontjong, was a Dutch-based creole language spoken on Java, Indonesia. The name Javindo is a portmanteau of Java and Indo, the Dutch word for a person of mixed Indonesian and Dutch descent. This contact...
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| x Älvdalsmål |
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Elfdalian or Övdalian (Övdalsk or Övdalską in Elfdalian, Älvdalska or Älvdalsmål in Swedish) is a linguistic variety of the Scandinavian language branch spoken in the old parish of Övdaln, which is located in the south-eastern part of Älvdalen...
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| x 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 the Romance languages French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan....
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| x Tocharian languages |
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Tocharian or Tokharian (pronounced /təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑriən/) is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, formerly spoken in oases on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (now part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China)....
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| x Guarijio language |
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Huarijio (properly spelled Huarijío in Spanish, also spelled Guarijío, Varihío, and Warihío) is an Uto-Aztecan language of the states of Chihuahua and Sonora in northwestern Mexico. It is spoken by around 5,000 people, most of whom are monolinguals....
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| x Q'anjob'al language |
Q'anjob'al (also Kanjobal) is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico. According to 1998 estimates compiled by SIL International in Ethnologue, there were approximately 77,700 native speakers, primarily in the Huehuetenango...
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| x Occidental language |
The language Occidental, later Interlingue, is a planned language created by the Balto-German naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922.
Occidental is devised so that many of its derived word forms reflect the similar forms...
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| x Maninka language |
Maninka, or more precisely Eastern Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande branch of the Niger–Congo languages. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké people and is...
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| x Komi language |
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The Komi language (in Komi: коми кыв, transliteration: komi kyv [komi kɨv]) is a Finno-Permic language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia. Komi is one of the two members of the Permic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric...
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| x Ahtna language |
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Ahtna or Ahtena is the Na-Dené language of the Ahtna ethnic group of the Copper River area of Alaska. The language is also known as Copper River or Mednovskiy. There are 80 speakers out of a population of 500, and the language is facing extinction...
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| x Wangkumara |
Wangkumara or Wanggumara is an Australian Aboriginal language of the widespread Pama–Nyungan family, which is sometimes classified as a dialect of Ngura. In 1981 it was still spoken by 4 members of the Wangkumara people around Cooper Creek, the...
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| x Doukhobor Russian |
The Doukhobors are a Christian sect who in 1899 established a number of commune-style settlements in Western Canada. They have brought with them a Southern Russian dialect of their communities of origin, which over the following decades underwent...
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| x Virgin Islands Creole |
Virgin Islands Creole, or Virgin Islands Creole English, is an English-based creole spoken in the Virgin Islands and the nearby SSS islands of Saba, Saint Martin and Sint Eustatius, where it has been known as Netherlands Antilles Creole English.
The...
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| x Kituba |
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Kituba is a widely used lingua franca in Central Africa. It is a creole language based on Kikongo, a family of closely related Bantu languages. It is an official language in Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa.
It is not entirely accurate to call...
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| x Inupiaq language |
The Inupiat language, also known as Inupiatun, Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, Inyupiaq, Inyupiat, Inyupeat, Inyupik, and Inupik, is a group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska. The Iñupiaq language is a member of the...
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| x Middle Korean |
Middle Korean corresponds to the age from 10th century to 16th century, or from the era of Goryeo to the middle of Joseon.
The language standard of this period is based on the dialect of Gaeseong because the new Goryeo Dynasty moved its capital city...
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| x Darkinjung language |
Darkinjung (many other spellings; see below) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Darkinjung people. It was spoken adjacent to Dharuk, Wiradhuri and Awabakal.
The name of the language has various spellings:...
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| x Mam language |
Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480,000 speakers as of 2002, spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu. There are also thousands of Mam speakers in...
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| x New Swedish |
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Modern Swedish (Swedish: nysvenska) is the linguistic term used for the Swedish language from the Bible translation of 1526 to the development of a common national language around 1880. The period can further be divided into Early Modern Swedish ...
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| x Tz'utujil language |
Tz'utujil (or Tz'utujiil) is a Mayan language spoken by the Tz'utujil people in the region to the south of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. Tz'utujil is closely related to its larger neighbors, Kaqchikel and K'iche'. Today approximately 84,000 speak Tz...
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| x Paraguayan Guaraní |
Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní (English pronunciation: /ɡwɑrəˈniː/; endonym avañe'ẽ [aʋãɲẽˈʔẽ] 'Ava language'), is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí–Guaraní subfamily of the...
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| x Toki Pona |
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Toki Pona is a constructed language, first published online in mid-2001. It was designed by translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa of Toronto.
Toki Pona is a minimal language. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are...
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| x Slovincian |
Slovincian is the language formerly spoken by the Slovincians (German: Slowinzen, Lebakaschuben), a Slavic people living between lakes Gardno (Gardersee) and Łebsko (Lebasee) near Słupsk (Stolp) in Pomerania.
Slovincian is classified either as a...
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| x Kwaza language |
Kwaza (also written Kwazá or Koaiá) is an endangered, unclassified language spoken by the Kwaza people of Brazil. As of 2005 there were only 25 known speakers, living in close proximity with neighbouring speakers of the Aikanã and Nambikwaran...
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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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