List of articles in "Language" category - Page 13

Waitaká (Guaitacá Goyatacá Goytacaz) is an extinct and unclassified language of Brazil (Campbell & Grondona 2012) on the São Mateo River and near Cabo de São Tomé in the state […]

Murato is the unattested but presumed language of the Uros of Lake Poopo in Bolivia (Adelaar 2004). The Murato have shifted to Aymara but preserve some Uru vocabulary.

Uru of Ch’imu is an extinct language of the Uros an Amerindian people. Speakers lives on reed islands in Puno Bay in western Lake Titicaca in Peru.Ch’imu Uru was discovered […]

Maridi Arabic was a possible Arabic pidgin apparently spoken in the upper Nile valley around 1000 CE. If legitimate it would be the oldest record of a pidgin. It is […]

Pretoria Sotho is the urban lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane metropolitan area in South Africa. Despite its name it is based on the Kgatla dialect of Tswana though […]

Khorezmian was a literary Turkic language of the Medieval Golden Horde of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It was a preliminary stage of the Chagatay language which would remain an […]

Sumayela Ndebele or Northern Transvaal Ndebele is a Bantu language of South Africa. It is located to the northeast of Southern Ndebele.

Nhlangwini (Hlangwane) is a Bantu language of South Africa. It is located along the border between Xhosa and Zulu but is more closely related to Swazi.

Buya (Ibuya) is a poorly known Congolese Bantu language of uncertain affiliation. (It is not listed in Maho (2009)’s update of Guthrie’s classification though it has been included in language […]