List of articles in "Language" category - Page 795

Vedic Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language. It is the spoken ancestor of liturgical Sanskrit and an early descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian. It is closely related to Avestan the oldest preserved […]

Ashanti Asante or Asante Twi is one of three literary dialects of the Akan language of southern Ghana and the prestige dialect of that language. It is spoken in and […]

Taa /ˈtɑː/ also known as ǃXoon (!Khong !Xóõ) /ˈkoʊ/ or Tsasi is a Khoisan language known for its large number of phonemes perhaps the largest in the world. Most speakers […]

Papiamento /pæpjəˈmɛntoʊ/ or Papiamentu is the most widely spoken language on the Caribbean ABC islands having official status on the islands of Aruba and Curaçao. The language is also recognized […]

Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey in the Channel Islands off the coast of France. It has been in decline over the past century as […]

Baoulé (Bawule) is a Central Tano language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire.The Baoulé are an Akan people of the central region of Côte d’Ivoire. Baoulé-speaking areas include Bouaké Yamoussoukro Bouaflé Béoumi […]

Taishanese (Toisanese; simplified Chinese: 台山话; traditional Chinese: 臺山話; Taishanese: [hɔi˨san˧wa˧˨˥]) is a dialect of Yue Chinese. The dialect is closely related to Cantonese.Taishanese is spoken in the southern part of […]

The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language Ethnologue lists 14 partially mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec. The languages are […]

Yoruba /ˈjɒrʊbə/ (natively èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in West Africa.The number of speakers of Yoruba was estimated at around 20 million in the 1990s. The native tongue […]

Cherokee (in Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ Tsalagi Gawonihisdi) is the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people. It is the only Southern Iroquoian language that remains spoken. Cherokee is a polysynthetic […]