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Silesian or Upper Silesian (Silesian: ślōnskŏ gŏdka ślůnsko godka Czech: Slezština Polish: język śląski/Polish: etnolekt śląski) is a West Slavic lect related to Polish and Czech.

Lingua Franca Nova (abbreviated LFN; aka elefen) is an auxiliary constructed language originally created by C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University Pennsylvania. Its vocabulary is based on the Romance languages […]

Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480000 speakers (in 2002) spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango Huehuetenango San Marcos and Retalhuleu. There […]

The Mapuche language Mapudungun (from mapu ‘earth land’ and dungun ‘speak speech’) is a language isolate spoken in south-central Chile by approximately 144000 people and west central Argentina by approximately […]

The Huilliche language (also known as Veliche and Huiliche) is an Araucanian language spoken (as of 1982) by about 2000 ethnic Huilliche people in Chile. It is spoken in an […]

The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific island of New Guinea and neighbouring islands that are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic […]

Cebuano referred to by most of its speakers as Binisaya (or Visayan in English) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the […]

Istriot is a Romance language spoken by part of the population in south-western corner of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia particularly in the towns of Rovinj and Vodnjan.

Hittite (natively nešili [in the language] of Neša) also known as Nesite and Neshite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites an Indo-European people who created an empire […]

Campidanese Sardinian (Sardinian: Sardu Campidanesu Italian: Sardo Campidanese) is a standardised variety of the Sardinian language primarily spoken in the Province of Cagliari Italy. Traditionally the name Campidano refers to […]