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Arawak (Arowak Aruák) is the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family. The term is often used to cover the closely related Taíno language of the Caribbean islands. The ethnonym […]

Meänkieli (lit. our language) is the name used for their own dialect/language by the speakers of distinct Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along the valley of […]

The Svan language (Svan: ლუშნუ ნინ lušnu nin; Georgian: სვანური ენა svanuri ena) is a Kartvelian language spoken in the western Georgian region of Svaneti primarily by the Svan people. […]

Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Liturgical or Church Latin) is the Latin used by the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in all periods for ecclesiastical purposes. Having developed as a […]

The Moksha language (Moksha: мокшень кяль) is a member of the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic languages with around 200000 native speakers. Moksha is the majority language in the western […]

Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen. Greenberg proposed that all of the indigenous languages of the […]

Mingrelian or Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა margaluri nina) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Samegrelo and Abkhazia) primarily by Mingrelians. The language was also called Iverian (Georgian […]

The Laz language (ლაზური ნენა lazuri nena; Georgian: ლაზური ენა lazuri ena or ჭანური ენა č’anuri ena also chanuri ena; Turkish: Lazca) is a Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz […]

Uripiv or more precisely Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is a language spoken on Vanuatu. Uripiv is spoken today by about 9000 people. Literacy rate of Uripiv speakers in their own language is 10–30%. […]

Swiss French (French: suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandie. Swiss French is distinct from Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) the closely related […]