List of articles in "Language" category - Page 806

Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá Pirahán) or Múra-Pirahã is the indigenous language of the isolated Pirahã people of Amazonas Brazil. The Pirahã live along the Maici River a tributary of the […]

Eskimo–Aleut or Eskaleut is a language family native to Alaska the Canadian Arctic Nunavik Nunatsiavut Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula on the eastern tip of Siberia. It is also known […]

The Ugaritic language a Northwest Semitic language discovered by French archaeologists in 1929 is known almost only in the form of writings found in the ruined city of Ugarit (modern […]

Judæo-Persian or Jidi (/ˈdʒiːdiː/; also spelled Dzhidi or Djudi) refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judæo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew […]

The Cheyenne language (Tsėhesenėstsestotse or in easier spelling Tsisinstsistots) is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma in the United States. It […]

Dyirbal /ˈdʒɜrbəl/ (also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by about 5 speakers of the Dyirbal tribe.[citation needed] It is a member of the small Dyirbalic […]

Northern Thai (Thai: ภาษาถิ่นพายัพ; RTGS: Phasa Thin Phayap) Lanna (Thai: ล้านนา) or Kham Mueang (Northern Thai: ᨣᩴᩤᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ [kam˧.mɯːəŋ˧] Thai: คำเมือง [kʰam˧ mɯːəŋ˧]) is the language of the Khon Mueang people […]

Abkhaz /æpˈhɑːz/ (sometimes spelled Abxaz; Аҧсуа бызшәа) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people. It is the official language of Abkhazia where around 100000 people speak […]

Chagatai (جغتای Jaġatāy) is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia and remained the shared literary language there until the early 20th century. It was […]

Westphalian or Westfalish (Wäästfaalisch) is one of the major dialect groups of West Low German. Its most salient feature is its diphthongization (rising diphthongs). For example speakers say ieten ([ɪɛtn̩]) […]