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Russian (ру́сский язы́к russkij jazyk pronounced [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is a Slavic language spoken primarily in the Russian Federation Belarus Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language […]

Quechuan /ˈkɛtʃwən/ also known as runa simi (people’s language) is a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes derived from a common ancestral language. It is the […]

Punjabi /pʌnˈdʒɑːbi/ (Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Paṃjābī; Shahmukhi: پنجابی Paṉjābī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 130 million native speakers worldwide making it the 9th most widely spoken language (2013) in the […]

Standard Chinese also known as Mandarin and Putonghua is a standardized variety of Chinese. It is the sole official language of both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic […]

Prakrit (also transliterated as Pracrit) (Sanskrit: prākṛta प्राकृत Shauraseni:pāuda पाउद Maharashtri:pāua पाउअ) is the name for any of several Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular languages derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages […]

Portuguese (português or in full língua portuguesa) is a Romance language and the sole official language of Portugal Brazil Mozambique Angola Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. It […]

The Pomeranian language (German: Pomoranische Sprache) is a group of dialects from the Lechitic cluster of the West Slavic languages. In medieval contexts it refers to the dialects spoken by […]

Polish (język polski polszczyzna) is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages used throughout Poland (being that country’s official language) and by Polish minorities in other countries.

The language Occidental later Interlingue is a planned international auxiliary language created by the Balto-German naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922. The vocabulary is based […]

Old English (Ænglisc Anglisc Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what […]