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Italian

Italian

Italian belongs to the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Like the other Romance languages, it is a descendant of Vulgar Latin spoken by ... more »

Spanish

Spanish

Spanish (español, castellano) belongs to the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Like all Romance languages, Spanish developed from Vulgar Latin in an ... more »

Belarusan

Belarusan

Belarusan (Бeлapycкaя мoвa), also known as Belarusian, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, and White Ruthenian, belongs to the East Slavic ... more »

Mayan Language Family

Mayan Language Family

The Mayan language family is a group of 69 related languages spoken by some 6 million people in Central ... more »

Khmer

Khmer

Khmer, also known as Cambodian, belongs to the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family. It is the second most widely spoken ... more »

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Hungarian
 Hungarian (Magyar) belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. It is the largest of the Uralic languages in terms of the number of speakers and the only one spoken in central Europe. Its closest relatives are Khanty and Mansi, minority languages of Russia, spoken 2,000 miles away, east of the Ural mountains in northwestern Siberia. It is estimated that Hungarian has been separated more »
Uralic Language Family
The Uralic language family stretches from Northern to Central Europe to Siberia. It consists of 39 languages spoken by some 25 million people. It is believed that they originated from a common ancestor, *Proto-Uralic, spoken by early-Uralic people who lived some 7,000 years ago in the area of the Ural Mountains, the Russian range that separates Europe more »
Caucasian Language Families
The Ibero-Caucasian language family is one of the several language families spoken in the Caucasus Mountains, a narrow land bridge between the Black and the Caspian seas, home to one of the highest concentrations of languages in the world. Besides languages from other language families (Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian) brought by settlers and invaders over the past three millennia, there are 39 indigenous languages more »
Javanese
Javanese is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. Its closest relatives areMalay, Sunda, Madura, and Bali. With over 75 million speakers, It is the second most spoken Austronesian language after Indonesian, and the fourtheenth most widely spoken language in the world. Javanese is considered to be one of the world’s classical languages, with a literary tradition that more »