Matches in NKOD SPARQL for { ?s <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#definition> ?o ?g. }
- JUS definition "Jumla Sign Language is a sign language used in Jumla village in Nepal. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MOL definition "Moldavian or Moldovan is a name of the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova. The identity between the mother tongues of the Moldovans and Romanians has been officially acknowledged since the reintroduction of the Latin script in 1989; the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Moldova thereupon called the official language ‘Romanian’. Nevertheless, the 1994 Constitution only provided official status to ‘Moldovan’. In the early 2000s the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted a law defining ‘Moldovan’ and ‘Romanian’ as designations for the same language (glottonyms). The breakaway region of Transnistria continues to recognise ‘Moldovan’ as one of its official languages." language.
- KIR definition "Kyrgyz is a Turkic language spoken in Kyrgyzstan as well as China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Russia. Kyrgyz is a member of the Kyrgyz–Kipchak subgroup of the Kypchak languages, and modern-day language convergence has resulted in a mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz and Kazakh.In 1940 a Cyrillic alphabet eventually became common and has remained so to this day, though some Kyrgyz still use the Arabic alphabet. There was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make a transition to the Latin alphabet, but the plan has not been implemented yet." language.
- BZS definition "Brazilian Sign Language is a sign language used in Brazil. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SWA definition "Les langues swahilies (souahélies) sont un groupe de langues bantoues de l’Afrique de l’Est. Elles possèdent des caractéristiques communes et surtout un vocabulaire commun qui permet à un de leurs locuteurs de se faire plus ou moins comprendre des divers locuteurs de ce groupe de langues; on ne peut parler d’intercompréhension pour toutes ces formes tant la variété linguistique est grande. La plus utilisée et populaire de ces langues est le kiswahili, une version standardisée." language.
- THH definition "Northern Tarahumara is a Southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico. Together with Lowland Tarahumara (tac), Central Tarahumara (tar), Southeastern Tarahumara (tcu) and Southwestern Tarahumara (twr), it forms the Tarahumaran group. The native name of Tarahumara language is Rarámuri or Ralámuli ra'ícha." language.
- FAS definition "Le persan est la langue parlée en Iran (Perse), en Afghanistan et au Tadjikistan en tant que langue officielle, ainsi qu’au Bahreïn (minorité iranophone) et en Ouzbékistan (minorité tadjike). Il appartient au groupe indo-iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes.De nos jours, les langues persanes s’écrivent surtout au moyen de l’alphabet arabo-persan, variante de l’alphabet arabe. Au Tadjikistan et en Ouzbékistan, la langue tadjike s’écrit en caractères cyrilliques." language.
- PSL definition "Puerto Rican Sign Language is a sign language used in Puerto Rico. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CES definition "Le tchèque est une langue du sous-groupe occidental des langues slaves, parlée principalement en République tchèque.Le tchèque est une des langues les plus flexionnelles dans le monde." language.
- TAM definition "Le tamoul ou tamil est la langue des Tamouls, parlée dans l’Asie du Sud-Est. Le tamoul appartient à la famille des langues dravidiennes. C’est une des plus anciennes langues toujours parlées, restée quasi inchangée depuis environ 2 000 ans.Il s’écrit au moyen d’un alphasyllabaire dérivé du grantha." language.
- JOS definition "Jordanian Sign Language is a sign language used in Jordania. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SNA definition "Shona is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga) or specifically Standard Shona, a variety codified in the mid-20th century. Using the broader term, the language is spoken by over 14 000 000 people. The larger group of historically related languages – called Shona or Shonic languages – also includes Ndau (Eastern Shona) spoken in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique, and Kalanga (Western Shona) spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe." language.
- BOS definition "Le bosnien, parfois appelé «bosniaque», est une langue indo-européenne de la branche des langues slaves, groupe méridional de ces langues; il a pour base le dialecte chtokavien de l’entité linguistique appelée «langue serbo-croate».Le bosnien est écrit avec l’alphabet latin mais aussi avec l’alphabet cyrillique." language.
- 0E0 definition "Montenegrin is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian used by Montenegrins. It is based on the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian.Montenegrin uses more the Latin alphabet than the Cyrillic. In both alphabets there are two additional letters." language.
- CNR definition "Montenegrin is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian used by Montenegrins. It is based on the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian.Montenegrin uses more the Latin alphabet than the Cyrillic. In both alphabets there are two additional letters." language.
- BQY definition "Bengkala Sign Language is a sign language used in Bengkala and Kata Kolok villages in Bali. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- EST definition "Estonian belongs (with Finnish) to the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugrian languages from the Uralic family. It is the official language of Estonia.Estonian represents a transitional form from an agglutinating language to a fusional language." language.
- TAC definition "Lowland Tarahumara is a Southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico. Together with Central Tarahumara (tar), Southeastern Tarahumara (tcu), Northern Tarahumara (thh) and Southwestern Tarahumara (twr), it forms the Tarahumaran group. The native name of Tarahumara language is Rarámuri or Ralámuli ra'ícha." language.
- NOB definition "Bokmål is an official written standard for the Norwegian language." language.
- DSE definition "Dutch Sign Language is a sign language used in Netherlands. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- BOF definition "Bolon is a Manding language of Burkina Faso. There are two dialects, White/Southern and Black/Northern; White Bolon is partially intelligible with Jula. Manding languages are a sub-branch of Mande languages that are part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family. However, as the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families and reject the Niger-Congo hypothesis." language.
- ISR definition "Israeli Sign Language is a sign language used in Israel. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- NMQ definition "Nambya is a Bantu language spoken by the Nambya people. It is spoken in northwestern Zimbabwe, particularly in the town of Hwange with a few speakers in northeastern Botswana. It is either classified as a dialect of Kalanga or as a closely related language. The Zimbabwean constitution recognises Nambya and Kalanga as separate indigenous languages. Nambya is one of Zimbabwe‘s 16 official languages." language.
- NDE definition "North Ndebele is the language spoken by the Zimbabwe Ndebele, also known as Matabele, in the Matabeleland region around the city of Bulawayo. It's a Bantu language of the Nguni group, closely related to Zulu. The Ndebele people of Zimbabwe are descendants of the followers of the Zulu military leader Mzilikazi, who left his home region in the early 19th century. North Ndebele is one of Zimbabwe‘s 16 official languages." language.
- MNP definition "Min Bei Chinese or Northern Min is a group of Min varieties spoken in Nanping prefecture of northwestern Fujian. Early classifications of varieties of Chinese, divided Min into Northern and Southern subgroups. Later on, it was argued that the primary split was between inland and coastal groups. In a reclassification that has been followed by most dialectologists since, Northern Min was restricted to inland dialects of Nanping prefecture, and the coastal dialects were classified as Eastern Min." language.
- KAL definition "Le groenlandais (kalaallisut) est une langue eskimo-aléoute parlée par un petit groupe de personnes inuites, en général bilingues danois-groenlandais, au Groenland. Il est très proche des langues inuites au Canada.Le groenlandais est une langue polysynthétique qui permet la création de longs mots en enchaînant les racines et les suffixes. Les noms et les verbes ont également une morphologie dérivationnelle complexe." language.
- ELL definition "Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to the southern Balkans, the Aegean Islands, western Asia Minor and Cyprus. It has the longest continuous recorded history of any European language.Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history.Greek roots are often used to coin new words for other languages; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of international scientific vocabulary." language.
- CZH definition "Huizhou Chinese is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken over a small area in and around the historical region of Huizhou, plus in southern Anhui and in neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Its classification is disputed, with some linguists classifying it as Wu Chinese, others as Gan, and still others setting it apart as a primary branch of Chinese." language.
- DOQ definition "Dominican Sign Language is a sign language used in Dominican Republic. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- EWE definition "Ewe belongs to the Gbe branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken in southeastern Ghana." language.
- UKL definition "Ukrainian Sign Language is a sign language used in Ukraine. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ESN definition "Salvadoran Sign Language is a sign language used in El Salvador. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- TET definition "Tetum is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of East Timor." language.
- CLS definition "Classical Sanskrit is a refined and standardized grammatical form that emerged in the mid-1st millennium BCE and was codified in the most comprehensive of ancient grammars, the Aṣṭādhyāyī ('Eight chapters') of Pāṇini." language.
- TVL definition "Tuvaluan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Tuvalu." language.
- JSL definition "Japanese Sign Language is a sign language used in Japan. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ZUL definition "Le zoulou est une langue appartenant au groupe nguni des langues bantoues (qui comprend également le xhosa et le ndébélé). C’est l’une des langues les plus répandues en Afrique.Le zoulou, comme toutes les langues indigènes d’Afrique du Sud, était une langue orale jusqu’à l’arrivée de missionnaires européens, qui l’ont transcrit en utilisant l’alphabet latin." language.
- KOR definition "Le coréen est une langue utilisée en Corée du Nord et en Corée du Sud. La classification du coréen est encore controversée. La plupart des linguistes le considèrent comme un isolat, tandis que d’autres le regroupent dans une hypothétique famille altaïque.L’alphabet qui sert à écrire le coréen est le hangeul; les hanja (sinogrammes employés dans cette langue) sont également utilisés, une assez grande partie du lexique étant d’origine chinoise." language.
- MKD definition "Le macédonien est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe méridional des langues slaves, parlée principalement en Macédoine du Nord." language.
- HDS definition "Honduras Sign Language is a sign language used in Honduras. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CMN definition "Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese language (a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family), spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Since the 14th century, Mandarin has served as a lingua franca for government officials and the courts, which is why it is also known as Guānhuà, meaning officials' speech. All varieties of Mandarin Chinese are tonal and largely analytic. When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers (nearly a billion) than any other language." language.
- EUS definition "Le basque (euskara) est une langue non indo-européenne d’origine incertaine et la seule langue vivante de l’Europe qui n’a pas de parents linguistiques connus. Il s’agit de la langue parlée par le peuple basque, qui est indigène et habite principalement au Pays basque, région couvrant une zone dans le nord-ouest de l’Espagne et le sud-ouest de la France." language.
- SCO definition "Le scots est une langue germanique parlée en Écosse et dans le nord de l’Irlande.Il est reconnu par le Royaume-Uni comme langue régionale de l’Écosse, selon la charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires." language.
- AFG definition "Afghan Sign Language is a sign language used in Afghanistan. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ISL definition "L’islandais est une langue indo-européenne appartenant à la branche nord germanique des langues germaniques. La grande majorité des locuteurs islandais vivent en Islande. La plupart des Islandais n’ont pas de noms de famille mais des patronymes. Les prénoms sont suivis par la forme au génitif du prénom du père (ou de la mère), complétée par «son» (fils de …) ou «dóttir» (fille de …), par exemple les enfants de Jón s’appellent ainsi Jónsson et Jónsdóttir." language.
- PRZ definition "Providencia Sign Language is a village sign language of Providence Island in the Western Caribbean. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MLT definition "Maltese is a Semitic language, historically a dialect of Arabic, spoken in Malta. About half of the vocabulary is derived from standard Italian and Sicilian; English words also make up an important part of the Maltese vocabulary.It is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script in its standard form." language.
- MZP definition "Movima is an indigenous language isolate. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- TRN definition "Trinitario is an Arawakan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- KAT definition "Le géorgien (kartuli) est la plus parlée des langues caucasiennes. C’est la langue officielle de la Géorgie.Le géorgien a son propre système d’écriture unique, l’alphabet géorgien.Le géorgien est la langue littéraire pour tous les sous-groupes régionaux de Géorgiens, y compris ceux qui parlent d’autres langues kartvéliennes." language.
- MAH definition "Marshallese is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of the Marshall Islands." language.
- HUN definition "Hungarian (Magyar), like Finnish and Estonian, belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. It is the official language of Hungary and is also spoken by communities of Hungarian people in neighbouring countries.In Hungarian, surnames precede Christian names." language.
- KIR definition "Le kirghiz ou kirghize est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues turques de la famille des langues altaïques. Il est parlé en Asie centrale, principalement au Kirghizstan (où il est la langue nationale), au Tadjikistan, au Xinjiang et en Afghanistan.On l’écrit au moyen de l’alphabet cyrillique, auquel trois lettres sont ajoutées, mais le kirghiz est parfois écrit en utilisant l’alphabet arabe, lui aussi complété. Le kirghiz est très proche du kazakh. Il est habituellement classé avec celui-ci ainsi que le tatar et le karakalpak au sein du groupe des langues kiptchak (ou branche turque occidentale)." language.
- UKR definition "L’ukrainien fait partie des langues slaves et partage de nombreuses caractéristiques grammaticales et lexicales avec d’autres langues de cette branche, le russe et le biélorusse. Il est parlé principalement en Ukraine.L’ukrainien s’écrit avec l’alphabet cyrillique." language.
- SKQ definition "Sininkere (Silinkere) is a language that belongs to the Soninke group of the Mande languages. It is a dialect of Soninke spoken in Burkina Faso. It is part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family." language.
- RUN definition "Kirundi is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of Burundi." language.
- LTC definition "Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions. Most scholars now believe that it records a compromise between northern and southern reading and poetic traditions from the late Northern and Southern dynasties period. This composite system contains important information for the reconstruction of the preceding system of Old Chinese phonology. Linguists sometimes refer to the system of the Qieyun as Early Middle Chinese and the variant revealed by the rime tables as Late Middle Chinese." language.
- RAR definition "Rarotongan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of the Cook Islands." language.
- PUQ definition "Puquina is an indigenous language isolate. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- JAD definition "Jahanka is a Manding language of Guinea-Bissau and Guinea. It is partially intelligible with Mandinka. Manding languages are a sub-branch of Mande languages that are part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family. However, as the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families and reject the Niger-Congo hypothesis." language.
- WLN definition "Le wallon est une langue romane, une langue d’oïl autochtone dans la plus grande partie de la Wallonie, la partie sud de Belgique parlant français.De nombreuses associations travaillent à garder la langue vivante. Au niveau du gouvernement, le wallon est officiellement reconnu comme une langue autochtone régionale." language.
- SCO definition "Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster.It is a recognised regional language of the United Kingdom, protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages." language.
- ZXX definition "Cela pourrait être un élément d’un DVD sans aucun contenu linguistique spécifique (par exemple: seulement de la musique; nous ne pouvons pas savoir si la langue du DVD est en anglais ou en français; etc.)." language.
- AED definition "Argentine Sign Language is a sign language used in Argentina. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- AZE definition "Azerbaijani or Azeri is a member of the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, spoken primarily in the Caucasus region. Azerbaijani and Turkish closely resemble each other.Azeri was written in the Arabic-Persian script, a modified Latin script and with a form of the Cyrillic alphabet. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Latin writing was introduced." language.
- URD definition "L’ourdou ou urdu est une langue appartenant au groupe indo-iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes.En Inde, il est connu sous le nom de «hindi» et s’écrit en caractères sanskrits, mais ses locuteurs musulmans le nomment «ourdou» et l’écrivent en caractères arabes, comme au Pakistan." language.
- TGK definition "Tajik is a variety of modern Persian spoken in Central Asia. Most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan (where it is the official language) and Uzbekistan. In Afghanistan the dialect is less influenced by Turkic languages and is called Dari. The standard language is based on the north-western dialects of Tajik. Tajik also retains numerous archaic elements in its vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar that have been lost elsewhere in the Persophone world, in part due to its relative isolation in the mountains of Central Asia.In Tajikistan and other countries of the former Soviet Union, Tajik Persian is currently written in Cyrillic script while the Perso-Arabic script is used in Iran and Afghanistan. The language is part of the Persian group within the southwestern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- WUU definition "Wu is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province and the part of Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu." language.
- SLV definition "Le slovène est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe méridional des langues slaves, parlée principalement en Slovénie.L’une des caractéristiques du slovène est qu’il a conservé l’usage grammatical du duel (qui représente exactement deux unités) en plus du singulier et du pluriel." language.
- SQI definition "Albanian (shqip) forms a separate branch of the Indo-European family. It is the official language of Albania and also spoken in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Italy and Greece.Albanian is divided into two major dialects: Gheg (spoken in north) and Tosk (spoken in south)." language.
- FSL definition "French Sign Language is a sign language used in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- TAM definition "Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken in South-East Asia.Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world; ‘the only language of contemporary India which is recognisably continuous with a classical past.’Tamil was written using a script called the vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava script. The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels, 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam. The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters." language.
- ISG definition "Irish Sign Language is a sign language used in Ireland and in Northern Ireland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- HMO definition "Hiri Motu is a simplified version of the Austronesian language Motu. It is one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea." language.
- ASF definition "Australian Sign Language is a sign language used in Australia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- NZS definition "New Zealand Sign Language is a sign language used in New Zealand. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CSP definition "Southern Ping Chinese is a member of a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in southern Guangxi, around the city of Nanning. Pinghua is a trade language spoken as a second language by speakers of Zhuang languages. Some speakers are officially classified as Zhuang, and many are genetically distinct from most other Han Chinese." language.
- ASE definition "American Sign Language is a sign language used in the United States and most of anglophone Canada. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- KUR definition "Le kurde est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe iranien des langues indo-européennes, parlée par le peuple kurde en Iran, en Iraq, en Turquie et en Syrie. Le terme «langues kurdes» est également utilisé à la place de «langue kurde», parce que les dialectes ne sont pas mutuellement intelligibles sans bilinguisme acquis et les langues parlées par les Kurdes ne forment pas un groupe linguistique.Le principal dialecte du Nord, Kurmanjo, est écrit avec l’alphabet latin, tandis que d’autres utilisent l’alphabet arabe." language.
- SIN definition "Le cingalais est une langue appartenant au groupe indo-aryen de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Il est parlé à Sri Lanka.L’alphabet cingalais compte environ 50 lettres dont quelques-unes sont rarement utilisées dans l’écriture moderne." language.
- MZG definition "Monastic Sign Language is a sign language used by Christian monks, mainly in Europe. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- POR definition "Le portugais est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe ibéro-roman des langues romanes. Il est parlé au Portugal, au Brésil, au Mozambique, en Angola, au Cap-Vert, en Guinée-Bissau, à Sao Tomé-et-Principe, à Macao (Chine), en Guinée équatoriale et au Timor-Oriental.Le portugais est la langue la plus parlée de l’hémisphère Sud." language.
- LUH definition "Leizhou Chinese is a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Leizhou city, Xuwen County, Mazhang District, most parts of Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse Xiashan District." language.
- SZL definition "Silesian or Upper Silesian is a West Slavic ethnolect of the Lechitic group spoken by a small percentage of people in Upper Silesia. Its vocabulary was significantly influenced by Central German due to the existence of numerous Silesian German speakers in the area prior to World War II and after. Some regard it as one of the four major dialects of Polish, while others classify it as a separate regional language, distinct from Polish." language.
- HYE definition "L’arménien (hayeren) constitue une branche indépendante de la famille indo-européenne. Il est parlé dans la République d’Arménie (où il est la langue officielle), dans le Haut-Karabakh, dans le nord-ouest de l’Iran et dans la diaspora arménienne.L’arménien a son propre système d’écriture unique, l’alphabet arménien, inventé par Mesrop Maštoc’ au Ve siècle." language.
- KUI definition "Kuikúro-Kalapálo is a Cariban language spoken by the Kuikuro and Kalapalo peoples in seven villages along the Culuene River in Brazil. Kuikúro-Kalapálo speak the same language but are ethnically distinct. A related Matipuhy language is spoken by the Matipu. Together, Kuikúro, Kalapálo and Matipuhy form the Nuclear Kuikuroan branch." language.
- HBS definition "Serbo-Croatian, also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), or Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties. The term Serbo-Croatian was widely used in former Yougoslavia.To write Serbo-Croatian, Cyrillic and Latin scripts were equally used and easily interchangeable." language.
- UKS definition "Urubú-Kaapor Sign Language is a village sign language used by Ka’apor people in Brazilia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- INL definition "Indonesian Sign Language is a sign language used in Indonesia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- YID definition "Yiddish is a Germanic language, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews in central and east Europe.Yiddish is traditionally written in a fully vocalised variety of Hebrew script. A transliteration into the Latin alphabet is quite often used." language.
- UND definition "Undetermined is provided for those situations in which a language or languages must be indicated but the language cannot be identified." language.
- PSO definition "Polish Sign Language is a sign language used in Poland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MOL definition "Le moldave est, selon l’article 13 de sa Constitution, la langue officielle de la République de Moldavie. C’est une dénomination politique; du point de vue strictement linguistique et en termes de sociolinguistique, le roumain et le moldave sont une seule et même langue, dont les anciens dialectes et les formes actuelles présentent assez de traits structurels communs scientifiquement établis pour constituer une langue unitaire. Les locuteurs se comprennent spontanément et complètement sans traducteur ni dictionnaire. Les différences entre parler savant (langue littéraire moderne) et parlers populaires sont les mêmes en Moldavie et en Roumanie. Le nom scientifique de cette langue, adopté par tous les linguistes, est «daco-roumain» ou «daco-roman»." language.
- PSD definition "Plains Indian Sign Language is a trade language (or international auxiliary language) that was once the lingua franca across central Canada, central and western United States and northern Mexico, used among the various Plains Nations. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SIN definition "Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.Sinhala has its own writing system, the Sinhala alphabet, which is a member of the Brahmic family of scripts, and a descendant of the ancient Indian Brahmi script." language.
- ZLM definition "Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. The Standard Malay has various official names; in Singapore and Brunei this individual language is called Bahasa Melayu (Malay). Malay is written using the Arabic or the Latin script." language.
- ZHO definition "Les langues chinoises ou langues sinitiques, souvent désignées dans leur ensemble sous le nom de «chinois» (zhōngwén), appartiennent à la famille des langues sino-tibétaines.Dans leur caractère le plus universel, on considère la langue écrite, transcendant la prononciation des divers parlers. La langue parlée dans son caractère le plus général est le plus souvent appelée «hanyu», même si d’autres groupes ethniques ont progressivement adopté cette langue." language.
- CSL definition "Chinese Sign Language is a sign language used in China. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- KHM definition "Le khmer est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues môn-khmères de la famille des langues austro-asiatiques. Langue des populations khmères, il est principalement parlé au Cambodge et dans les régions limitrophes de Thaïlande par les Khmers Surin (du Nord) et au Viêt Nam par les Khmers Krom, ce qui s’explique par l’histoire de ces pays.C’est une langue non tonale, contrairement au vietnamien, l’autre grande langue môn-khmère.Le système d’écriture du khmer est alphasyllabique." language.
- MZY definition "Mozambican Sign Language is a sign language used in Mozambique. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.