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Abenaki
Various Native American peoples formerly inhabiting northern
New England and southeast Canada, with present-day populations in
Maine and southern Quebec.
Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.
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Aboriginal
There are more than 200 Australian Indigenous languages. Less than
20 languages are strong, and even these are endangered:
the others have been destroyed, live in the memories of the
elderly, or are being revived by their communities. This site
has annotated links to 224 resources for about 70 languages.
About 33% of these resources are produced or published by Indigenous
people.
Aboriginal English, Anjumarla, Arabana, Arrernte,
Awabakal, Ayapathu, Bardi, Bundjalung, Bunuba, Darug, Dyirbal,
Ganai/Kurnai Garawa, Gooniyandi, Gumbaynggir, Gunggari, Guugu
Yimithirr, Jagera/Yuragubul, Jaru, Jingulu, Jiwarli, Kala Lagaw Ya,
Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay, Kaurna Koko-Bera, Kayardild, Kriol, Kukatja,
Kuku Yalanji, Kutthung, Luritja/Pintupi, Marriammu, Martuthunira,
Mawng, Meriam Mir, Murrinh-Patha Narrungga, Ngadjon, Ngalakan,
Ngarrindjeri, Ngiyampaa, Nhirrpi, NoongarNyangumarta, Paakantyi,
Pakanh, PalawaKani, Pitjantjatjara Pitta Pitta, Tiwi, Tjapukai, Uw
Oykangand, Wagiman, Wambaya, Wangkatha, Wardaman, Warlmanpa,
Warlpiri, Warrungu, Warumungu Wemba Wemba, Wiradjuri, Yaegl,
Yandrruwandha, Yanyuwa, Yindjibarndi, Yolngu, Yorta Yorta, Yugambeh,
Yukulta see
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Afrikaans
A language that developed from 17th-century Dutch and is an
official language of South Africa. Also called Taal
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Ainu
WordLists Ainu:
http://www.raccoonbend.com/languages/AinuEnglishWordList.pdf
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Aklanon
Aklan Province, northern Panay. Austronesian,
Malayo-Polynesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Meso Philippine,
Central Philippine, Bisayan, West, Aklan. 66% intelligibility, 68%
lexical similarity with Hiligaynon. 69.7% literate. Bible portions
1990-1993. Work in progress.
http://www.christusrex.org/www3/ethno/Phil.html
What kind of language do they speak in Aklan?
How is it different from Tagalog spoken in Manila? This small
glossary page may help you to take a look at the language in Boracay
and Aklan
http://www.sinfonia.or.jp/~infortec/hotspots/boracay/infoakl.htm
Samples:
http://www.sinfonia.or.jp/~infortec/hotspots/boracay/infoakl.htm
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Albanian
Al路ba路ni路an
ADJECTIVE:
Of or
relating to Albania or its people, language, or culture.
The Indo-European language of the Albanians.
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Algerian
Ar路a路bic
ADJECTIVE:
Of or relating
to Arabia, the Arabs, their language, or their culture
NOUN: A Semitic language consisting of numerous
dialects that is the principal language of Arabia, Jordan, Syria,
Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and parts of northern Africa
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Amharic
A Semitic language that is the official language of Ethiopia.
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Apache
A Native American people inhabiting the southwest United
States and northern Mexico. Various Apache tribes offered strong
resistance to encroachment on their territory in the latter half of
the 19th century. Present-day Apache populations are located in
Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
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Arabic
A Semitic language consisting of numerous
dialects that is the principal language of Arabia, Jordan, Syria,
Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and parts of northern Africa
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Aramaic
A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but
widely used by non-Aramean peoples throughout southwest Asia. Also
called Aramean ,
Chaldean
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Armenian
The Indo-European language of the Armenians.
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Avestan
The eastern dialect of Old Iranian, in which the Avesta is
written.
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Ayapathu
Aboriginal language Ayapathu,
spoken in central Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland, Australia.
Ayapathu Wordlist (if not works, go
here)
Ayapathu English Dictionary Definition:
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http://www.dnathan.com/VL/eMUlg_A.htm
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Aymara
Aymaran language of the Aymara. South American
Indian people inhabiting parts of highland Bolivia and Peru.
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Azeri
The Azerbaijani language. Traditionally Shiite Muslim people of
Azerbaijan and adjacent areas of Armenia and northern Iran; an
Azerbaijani.
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Balinese (malay)
The Indonesian language of Bali.
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Bamwe
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Bantu
A group of over 400 closely related
languages spoken in central, east-central, and southern Africa,
belonging to the South Central subgroup of the Niger-Congo language
family and including Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Zulu, and Xhosa.
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Basa (bantu)
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Basque
The language of the Basques.
Western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain.
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Belarusan
Spoken in: Belarus, Poland, and 14 other countries .
Belarusian language . language of the Belarusian people. It is one
of the three East Slavonic languages and is spoken in Belarus and
abroad. It shares some vocabulary with the languages of the
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Indonesian
Indinesian -Bahasa Indonesia- is the
official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a standardized dialect
of the Malay language that was officially defined with the
declaration of Indonesian independence in 1945, and the two
languages remain quite similar. The language is spoken fluently as a
second language by most Indonesians, who use a regional language
(examples are Minangkabau and Javanese) at home and in their local
community. Most formal education, as well as nearly all national
media and other communication, are in Indonesian. In East Timor,
Indonesian is recognized by the constitution as one of the two
working languages (the other is English). The Indonesian name for
the language is Bahasa Indonesia (literally language of Indonesia);
this name is sometimes used in English as well. The language is
sometimes called "Bahasa" by English-speakers, though this simply
means "language" in Indonesian.
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Japanese
Japanese 日本語, Nihongo is a language
spoken by over 127 million people, mainly in Japan, but also by
Japanese emigrant communities around the world. It is considered an
agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of
honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese
society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate
the relative status of speaker and listener. The sound inventory of
Japanese is relatively small, and it has a lexically distinct
pitch-accent system. Its recorded history goes back to the 8th
century, when the three major works of Old Japanese were compiled.
The Japanese language is written with a combination of three
different types of glyphs: Chinese characters (called kanji), and
two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet
(called rōmaji) is also often used in modern Japanese, especially
for things such as company names, advertising, and when inputting
Japanese into a computer. Western style Arabic numerals are
generally used for numbers, but traditional Chinese/Japanese
numberings are also commonplace. Japanese vocabulary has been
heavily influenced by loans from other languages. A vast number of
words were borrowed from Chinese, or created on Chinese models, over
a period of at least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th century,
Japanese has borrowed a considerable number of words from Western
languages, primarily English.
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Swahili
(also called Kiswahili; see below for a
discussion of the nomenclature) is a Bantu language widely spoken in
East Africa. Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people who
inhabit a 1500 km stretch of the East African coast from southern
Somalia to northern Mozambique. It is spoken by over 50 million
people[1], of whom there are approximately five million
first-language speakers and thirty to fifty million second-language
speakers. Swahili has become a lingua franca for East Africa and
surrounding areas.
The name 'Kiswahili' comes from the plural of the Arabic word sahel
ساحل: sawahil سواحل meaning "boundary" or "coast" (used as an
adjective to mean "coastal dwellers" or, by adding 'ki', "coastal
language"). Sahel is also the word used for the border zone of the
Sahara. The incorporation of the final "i" is likely to be the nisba
in Arabic (of the coast سواحلي), although some state it is for
phonetic reasons.
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Swedish
svenska is a North Germanic language
(also called Scandinavian languages) spoken predominantly in Sweden
and in parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the 脜and
islands, by more than nine million people. It is mutually
intelligible with two of the other Scandinavian languages, Danish
and Norwegian. Standard Swedish is the national language that
evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and
was well-established by the beginning of the 20th century. While
distinct regional varieties descended from the older rural dialects
still exist, the spoken and written language is uniform and
standardized, with a 99% literacy rate among adults. Some of the
genuine dialects differ considerably from the standard language in
grammar and vocabulary and are not always mutually intelligible with
Standard Swedish. These dialects are confined to rural areas and are
usually spoken by small numbers of people with low social mobility.
Though not facing imminent extinction, such dialects have been in
decline during the past century, despite the fact that they are well
researched and their use is often encouraged by local authorities.
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Tibetan
The Tibetan language is spoken primarily
by the Tibetan people who live across a wide area of eastern Central
Asia bordering South Asia, as well as by large number of Tibetan
refugees all over the world. Several forms of Tibetan are also
spoken by various peoples of northern Pakistan and India in areas
like Baltistan and Kashmir. Its classical written form is a major
regional literary language, particularly in its use as in Buddhist
writings.
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Turkmen
Turkish
Turkmen language, the national language
of Turkmenistan.
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Yiddish
Yiddish (Yid. ייִדיש, yidish, = n. &
adj. "Jewish") is a nonterritorial Germanic language spoken
throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet. It
originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the
10th century in central and eastern Europe, and spread via
emigration to other continents. In the earliest surviving references
to it, the language is called לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashkenaz = n.
"language of the Ashkenazi") and טײַטש (taytsh, a variant of
tiutsch, the contemporary name for the language otherwise spoken in
the region, now called Middle High German; compare the modern
Deutsch). In common usage, the language is called מאַמע־לשון
(mame-loshn = n. "mother tongue"), distinguishing it from biblical
Hebrew and Aramaic which are collectively termed לשון־קודש
(loshn-koydesh = n. "holy tongue"). The term Yiddish did not become
the most frequently used designation in the literature of the
language until the 18th century.
The word yidish means Jewish both as a noun and as an adjective.
Anglophone members of the Ashkenazi community also use the words
Yiddish and Jewish synonymously, in both senses. The two terms thus
interchangeably designate not only the language, but also other
attributes of Ashkenazi culture. (For example, in general English
language discussion of Yiddish culture reference is frequently made
to such things as Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music.)
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Zulu
South African English and isiZulu:
amaZulu) are an African ethnic group of about 11 million people who
live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Small
numbers also live in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their
language, isiZulu, is a Bantu language; more specifically, part of
the Nguni subgroup. The Zulu Kingdom played a major role in South
African History during the 19th and 20th centuries. Under apartheid,
Zulu people were classed as second-class citizens and severely
discriminated against. Today, they are the most numerous ethnic
group in the country, and have equal rights along with all other
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