Enets is a Samoyedic language spoken by the Enets people along the lower Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Krai Russia. There are two distinct dialects Forest Enets and Tundra Enets which […]
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Nenets languages
Nenets (in former work also Yurak) is a pair of closely related languages spoken in northern Russia by the Nenets people. They are often treated as being two dialects of […]
Hmong language
Hmong (RPA: Hmoob) or Mong (RPA: Moob) known as First Vernacular Chuanqiandian Miao in China (Chinese: 川黔滇苗语第一土语; pinyin: Chuānqiándiān miáo yǔ dì yī tǔyǔ) is a dialect continuum of the […]
Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish (Southern Kurdish: کوردیی خوارگ) also called Kermānšāni is one of the Northwestern Iranian languages and is predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran it is […]
Turoyo language
Turoyo or Surayt is a variety of Aramaic traditionally spoken in eastern Turkey and north-eastern Syria by Assyrians/Syriacs. Turoyo is not mutually intelligible with Western Neo-Aramaic having been separated for […]
Japanese writing system
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of three scripts:Kanji adopted Chinese charactersKana a pair of syllabaries consisting of:Hiragana used along with kanji for native or naturalised Japanese words […]
Mandinka language
The Mandinka language (Mandi’nka kango) or Manding is a Mandé language spoken by the Mandinka people of Mali Senegal the Gambia Guinea Ivory Coast Burkina Faso Sierra Leone Liberia and […]
Tumbuka language
The Tumbuka language is a Bantu language which is spoken in parts of Malawi Zambia and Tanzania.The language of the Tumbuka people is called chiTumbuka — the chi- marker in […]
Antillean Creole French
Antillean Creole is a creole language with a vocabulary based on French. It is spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles. Its grammar and vocabulary include elements of Carib and African […]
Wangkumara language
Wangkumara or Wanggumara is an Australian Aboriginal language of the widespread Pama–Nyungan family. It is sometimes classified as a dialect of the Ngura language. In 1981 it was still spoken […]