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- CDO definition "Eastern Min or Min Dong is a branch of the Min group of the Chinese languages of China. The prestige form and most commonly cited representative form is the Fuzhou dialect, the speech of the capital of Fujian." language.
- VSI definition "Moldova Sign Language is a sign language used in Moldova. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CKB definition "Central Kurdish (Sorani) is a Kurdish dialect spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Kurdistan Province of western Iran. The language is written in an adapted form of the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet. The language is part of the Kurdish group within the northwestern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- COR definition "Le cornique est une langue celtique insulaire du groupe brittonique, parlée en Cornouailles (au Royaume-Uni).Il est reconnu par le Royaume-Uni comme langue régionale de l’Écosse, selon la charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires." language.
- GLV definition "Manx is a Celtic language. It is one of the official languages of the Isle of Man." language.
- SGN definition "Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions. Sign languages have been developed for communities of deaf people but are also used by people with speaking disability." language.
- AZE definition "L’azéri ou azerbaïdjanais est une langue appartenant au groupe oghuz des langues turques, parlée principalement dans la région du Caucase. L’azéri et le turc sont assez similaires.L’azéri a été écrit dans l’alphabet arabo-persan, un alphabet latin modifié et avec une forme de l’alphabet cyrillique. Après la chute de l’Union soviétique, l’écriture latine est introduite." language.
- RON definition "Romanian is a Romance language spoken principally in Romania and Moldova. Much of the total Romanian vocabulary is derived from Latin.Romanian has four varieties: Daco-Romanian, Istro-Romanian, Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian." language.
- CDS definition "Chadian Sign Language is a sign language used in Chad. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- FAO definition "Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken in the Faroe Islands.Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern Icelandic and Old Norse." language.
- SWL definition "Swedish Sign Language is a sign language used in Sweden. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- EUS definition "Basque (euskara) is a non Indo-European language of uncertain origin; the only living language of Europe that has no known linguistic relatives. It is spoken by the Basque people, indigenous to and mainly inhabiting the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in north-eastern Spain and south-western France." language.
- CSC definition "Catalan Sign Language is a sign language used in Catalonia and Valencia communities in Spain. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MZC definition "Madagascar Sign Language is a sign language used in Madagascar. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- PUS definition "Pashto, also known historically as Afghani and Pathani, is the native language of the Pashtun people of south-central Asia. Pashto is a member of the Eastern Iranian languages group.Pashto employs the Pashto alphabet, a modified form of the Persian alphabet, which in part is derived from the Arabic alphabet. It has extra letters for Pashto-specific sounds." language.
- CES definition "Czech is a member of the Western subgroup of the Slavic languages, spoken mainly in the Czech Republic.Czech is a fusional language and one of the most highly inflected tongues in the world." language.
- SAG definition "Sango is a Ngbandi-based creole language. It is one of the official languages of the Central African Republic." language.
- YID definition "Le yiddish est une langue germanique, la langue historique des Juifs ashkénazes d’Europe centrale et orientale.Il est traditionnellement écrit dans une variante entièrement vocalisée de l’écriture hébraïque. Une transcription en alphabet latin est très souvent utilisée." language.
- HAF definition "Haiphong Sign Language is a sign language used in Haiphong city in Viet Nam. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- YUQ definition "Yuqui is a Tupian indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- KON definition "Kikongo is a Bantu language." language.
- BOD definition "Le tibétain est une langue parlée par plusieurs millions de locuteurs dans l’ancien Tibet, c’est-à-dire la Région autonome du Tibet, les zones à population tibétaine du Qinghai (Amdo), du Gansu, du Sichuan et du Yunnan (Kham) en République populaire de Chine, et dans certaines régions des pays environnants, de l’Himalaya et de l’Asie centrale, comme le Ladakh et le Sikkim en Inde, le Baltistan pakistanais, le Bhoutan et le nord du Népal. Le tibétain est une langue appartenant à la famille des langues tibéto-birmanes. Il se subdivise en un grand nombre de dialectes.L’écriture Phagspa, alphasyllabaire, fut créée comme écriture unifiée pour toutes les langues de l’Empire mongol. Le lama Phagspa la dériva de son écriture natale, l’écriture tibétaine." language.
- MIS definition "Languages without code." language.
- MIS definition "Langues sans codes" language.
- LIN definition "Lingala is a Bantu language." language.
- LUA definition "Luba-Lulua is a Bantu language." language.
- CAT definition "Catalan is a member of the Romance family of languages. It is spoken in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain and adjoining parts of France and it is the official language of Andorra. Catalan has a co-official status in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian). It is also the language of the city of Alghero on the Italian island Sardinia." language.
- TUK definition "Turkmen or Turkoman is spoken in Asia. Turkmen is a member of the East Oghuz branch of the Turkic family of languages; its closest relatives being Anatolian Turkish and Azerbaijani, with which it shares a relatively high degree of mutual intelligibility.Officially, Turkmen currently is rendered in the ‘Täze Elipbiý’, or ‘New Alphabet’, which is based on the Latin alphabet. However, the old ‘Soviet’ Cyrillic alphabet is still in wide use." language.
- HAB definition "Hanoi Sign Language is a sign language used in Hanoi city in Viet Nam. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MUL definition "More than one language." language.
- VSL definition "Venezuelan Sign Language is a sign language used in Venezuela. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- DSL definition "Danish Sign Language is a sign language used in Denmark. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MYA definition "Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language. It is the official language of Myanmar. The Burmese alphabet is a Brahmic script, an abugida writing system." language.
- GRN definition "Guarani is a Tupian indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia and Paraguay." language.
- NNO definition "Nynorsk is an official written standard for the Norwegian language." language.
- NAN definition "Minnan or Southern Min is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian, most of Taiwan, Eastern Guangdong, Hainan and Southern Zhejiang." language.
- ROH definition "Le romanche fait partie du groupe de dialectes rhéto-romans parlés principalement dans le canton des Grisons (sud-est de la Suisse).Le romanche a une forte fragmentation dialectale. Presque chaque village a sa propre langue vernaculaire, et on dénombre cinq dialectes régionaux différents ayant chacun sa forme écrite standardisée." language.
- CYM definition "Le gallois est une langue du sous-groupe brittonique des langues celtiques, parlée principalement au pays de Galles. Il a le statut de langue officielle au pays de Galles.Le gallois littéraire moderne standard est une forme conservatrice de la langue: cela le rend plus difficile à apprendre, mais ceux qui savent le lire peuvent également lire les premiers classiques." language.
- LDD definition "Luri is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language of Bauchi State in Nigeria. It is part of the Barawa cluster, which is in turn part of the West Chadic branch. Its closest living related languages are Pesse, Zul, Buli and Dir-Nyamzak-Mbarimi. Together, they form the Polci-Luri group." language.
- ADY definition "Adyghe is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians. It is spoken mainly in Russia, as well as in Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Israel, where Circassians settled after the Circassian genocide (c. 1864–1870) by the Russian Empire. It is closely related to the Kabardian (East Circassian) language, and some consider both as dialects of the Circassian language. Adyghe as other Northwest Caucasian languages possesses highly complex sets of consonant distinctions paired with a lack of vowel distinctions." language.
- MUL definition "Plus d’une langue" language.
- PHV definition "Pahlavani is an extinct variety of Persian that was spoken in Afghanistan. Pahlavani is a member of the Western Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family." language.
- UND definition "«Indéterminé»: pour les situations dans lesquelles une ou plusieurs langues doivent être signalées mais la langue ne peut pas être identifiée." language.
- KAZ definition "Kazakh is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak (or North-Western Turkic) branch. Kazakh is primarily a Central Asian language and is spoken in Europe in the region between the lower Volga and the frontier of Kazakhstan.Today, Kazakh is written in Cyrillic in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, while the Kazakh-speakers in China use an Arabic-derived alphabet similar to that used to write Uyghur." language.
- CNP definition "Northern Ping is a member of a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in Guilin in northern Guangxi and in Hunan. Pinghua is a trade language, and many of its speakers are genetically distinct from most other Han Chinese." language.
- KCK definition "Kalanga is a Bantu language spoken by the Kalanga people in Botswana and Zimbabwe with an extensive phoneme inventory. Kalanga is recognised as an official language by the Zimbabwean Constitution of 2013 and is taught in schools in areas where its speakers predominate. The Kalanga language is closely related to the Nambya, TshiVenda and KheLobedu languages of Zimbabwe and South Africa." language.
- KMR definition "Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a group of Kurdish dialects predominantly spoken in southeast Turkey, northwest Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria. Northern Kurdish uses the Latin script. It is part of the Kurdish group within the northwestern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- CAS definition "Chimane is a Moseten indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- SRP definition "Le serbe est la variante standard de la langue serbo-croate, parlée principalement en Serbie, en Bosnie-Herzégovine et au Monténégro. Sa norme est basée sur le dialecte chtokavien du serbo-croate.Le serbe utilise les alphabets cyrillique et latin." language.
- CHA definition "Chamorro is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands." language.
- CSR definition "Costa Rican Sign Language is a sign language used in Costa Rica. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- VEN definition "Venda is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of South Africa." language.
- JCS definition "Jamaican Country Sign Language is a sign language used in a village in Jamaica. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- PCP definition "Pacahuara is a Panoan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- AFR definition "Afrikaans is a West Germanic language. It is one of the official languages of South Africa." language.
- HPS definition "Hawai‘i Pidgin Sign Language is an indigenous sign language used in Hawaii. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SDH definition "Southern Kurdish (Pehlewani) is a Kurdish dialect predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. Native speakers use various different alphabets to write Southern Kurdish, the most common ones are extensions of the standard Kurdish alphabets (Latin or Perso-Arabic script). This language is part of the Kurdish group within the northwestern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- AMH definition "Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. The Amharic script is an abugida." language.
- IND definition "L’indonésien (bahasa Indonesia, littéralement «langue de l’Indonésie») est la langue officielle de la République d’Indonésie. C’est aussi l’une des langues d’usage dans la République démocratique du Timor-Oriental. L’indonésien est l’une des formes du malais (bahasa Melayu). Pour une majorité d’Indonésiens, ce n’est pas leur langue maternelle. Ils ne l’apprennent à l’école que vers l’âge de 5 ans." language.
- CAL definition "Carolinian is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of the Northern Mariana Islands." language.
- REY definition "Reyesano is a Tacanan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- LAV definition "Latvian is one of the two living members of the Baltic languages, the other being Lithuanian. It is the official language of Latvia.Latvian is more innovative, especially in morphology than Lithuanian." language.
- BFI definition "British Sign Language is a sign language used in the United Kingdom. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MNK definition "Mandinka (Mandingo) is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people in Senegal, the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. Mandinka is written by Latin or Arabic scripts. Mande languages 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.
- LKI definition "Laki is a vernacular that consists of two dialects; Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki. Laki has a disputed identity and is considered to be a dialect of Kurdish or of Luri, or a transitional dialect between them. It is considered a Kurdish dialect by most linguists and is spoken chiefly in the area between Khorramabad and Kermanshah in Iran by about 680 000 native speakers. Laki is part of the Kurdish group within the northwestern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- WOL definition "Wolof belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is the native language of the Wolof people and is spoken in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania." language.
- PIH definition "Pitcairn-Norfolk is an English-based creole language. It is one of the official languages of Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island." language.
- MPD definition "Machinere is an Arawakan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- RKM definition "Marka, also called Dafing, is a Manding language of West Africa, spoken in northwest Burkina Faso. 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.
- COS definition "Le corse est une langue italo-dalmate romane, membre du groupe centre-sud des dialectes de l’Italie, parlée et écrite sur l’île de Corse (France) et au nord de la Sardaigne (Italie).L’Unesco classe le corse comme une langue définitivement en voie de disparition." language.
- MFS definition "Mexican Sign Language is a sign language used in Mexico. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- GUG definition "Guarani is a Tupian indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay." language.
- THA definition "Thai, or more precisely Siamese or Central Thai, is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai also has a complex orthography and relational markers. Thai is mutually intelligible with Lao.The Thais adopted and modified the Khmer script to create their own writing system. It is an abugida script." language.
- BRG definition "Baure is an Arawakan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- TSS definition "Taiwan Sign Language is a sign language used in Taiwan. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- UGN definition "Ugandan Sign Language is a sign language used in Uganda. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MRI definition "Māori is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of New Zealand." language.
- SDL definition "Saudi Arabian Sign Language is a sign language used in Saudi Arabia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- GDH definition "Gajirrabeng is an Aboriginal Australian language spoken by Gajirrawoong people, most of whom now live in the Northern Territory in north-eastern Western Australia. It has been classified as one of two Mirriwongic languages, the other being Miriwoong. More recent work has established it as a member of the Jarrakan group." language.
- BQN definition "Bulgarian Sign Language is a sign language used in Bulgaria. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- RUS definition "Le russe est une langue slave orientale et est proche de l’ukrainien et du biélorusse. Le russe est une langue officielle ou non mais parlée dans certains pays qui étaient auparavant des républiques de l’Union soviétique.C’est la langue de l’Eurasie la plus étendue géographiquement et la langue slave la plus parlée.Le russe est écrit avec l’alphabet cyrillique." language.
- HCA definition "Andaman Creole Hindi is a trade language of the Andaman Islands, spoken as a native language especially in Port Blair and villages to the south. It is described as a creolization of Hindustani, Bengali, and Malayalam." language.
- MLQ definition "Western Maninkakan (Maninka, Malinke) is a Manding language spoken by the Malinke of eastern Senegal. Western and Eastern Maninka are 90% mutually intelligible, though distinct from the Mandinka of southern Senegal, which is a national language there. 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.
- HRV definition "Le croate est la variante standard de la langue serbo-croate utilisée par les Croates, principalement en Croatie et en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Sa norme est basée sur le dialecte chtokavien du serbo-croate.Le croate utilise exclusivement l’alphabet latin." language.
- FSS definition "Finland-Swedish Sign Language is a sign language used in Swedish community in Finland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- HSB definition "Le haut-sorabe est une langue parlée en Allemagne, dans la province historique de Lusace, aujourd’hui en Saxe. Il appartient à la famille occidentale des langues slaves." language.
- ICL definition "Icelandic Sign Language is a sign language used in Iceland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- TSQ definition "Thai Sign Language is a sign language used in Thailand. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- DAN definition "Le danois est une langue germanique du Nord, parlée principalement au Danemark, et est la deuxième langue dans les Îles Féroé et au Groenland. Le danois est en grande partie mutuellement intelligible avec le norvégien et le suédois.Il possède un inventaire de voyelles relativement vaste et se distingue par ses nombreux sons pharyngalisés." language.
- OCI definition "L’occitan est le nom générique pour les idiomes romans originaires principalement du sud de la France. Il y a polémique sur l’unité de la langue, certains pensant que l’occitan est une macrolangue. Il n’y a pas de langue écrite standard intitulée «occitan», et l’occitan n’a pas de statut officiel en France, qui abrite la majeure partie de l’Occitanie." language.
- SEH definition "Sena is a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique (Malawian Sena), Malawi (Barwe) and Mozambique (Mozambiquean Sena). Sena is one of the Nyasa languages. Sena is one of Zimbabwe‘s 16 official languages. In Mozambique, it is one of the main vernaculars." language.
- NOR definition "Norwegian belongs to the Northern branch of Germanic languages. It is spoken primarily in Norway. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants.There are two official forms of written Norwegian: Bokmål (literally ‘book tongue’) and Nynorsk (literally ‘new Norwegian’)." language.
- 0D0 definition "Le valencien est un dialecte catalan parlé dans la Communauté de Valence en Espagne.L’Académie valencienne de la langue considère simplement le catalan et le valencien comme deux noms pour la même langue." language.
- XUL definition "Ngunnawal is an extinct Aboriginal language spoken in the Canberra region in Australia now undergoing revitalisation. It belongs to the large Pama-Nyungan family, specifically the Southeastern branch. Together with Gundungurra, it constitutes the Yuin subbranch." language.
- SMO definition "Samoan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Samoa and American Samoa." language.
- SME definition "Northern or North Sami (davvisámegiella) is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages which belong to the Finno-Ugrian branch of the Uralic languages. It is spoken in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland.Orthography of Northern Sami has experienced numerous changes." language.
- PES definition "Iranian Persian or Western Farsi is an Indo-European language, more specifically an Indo-Iranian language and the variety of the Persian language spoken in Iran. It is written using a modified variant of the Arabic alphabet." language.
- SLA definition "Les langues slaves sont des langues indo-européennes, du groupe balto-slave. Elles forment un groupe de langues important dont les locuteurs se trouvent majoritairement en Europe centrale, dans les Balkans, en Europe de l’Est, en Sibérie, en Extrême-Orient russe et en Asie centrale.Les langues slaves sont généralement divisées sur la base des principes géographique et généalogique en trois branches principales: orientale (qui utilise l’alphabet cyrillique), occidentale (qui utilise l’alphabet latin) et méridionale (qui utilise l’alphabet cyrillique ou latin).Les langues slaves forment une famille relativement homogène et conservatrice en comparaison aux autres familles de langues indo-européennes. La plupart des langues slaves ont une riche morphologie fusionnelle." language.
- MLG definition "Le malgache ou malagasy est la langue nationale de Madagascar. C’est depuis toujours une langue normalisée, principalement dérivée du dialecte parlé sur les hauts plateaux centraux. Elle est la plus occidentale des langues malayo-polynésiennes et donc des langues austronésiennes. Plus précisément, elle appartient au rameau dit «Grand Barito». Dans cette région, la langue dominante est aujourd’hui le malais, qui appartient à un autre rameau malayo-polynésien. Le malgache est également utilisé à Mayotte sous le nom de «kibushi» ou «bushi»." language.
- HSH definition "Hungarian Sign Language is a sign language used in Hungary. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.