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Kinyarwanda

Kinyarwanda

Kinyarwanda, also called Rwanda or Ruanda, is a Bantoid language that belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken ... more »

Norwegian

Norwegian

Norwegian belongs to the East Scandinavian group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is closely ... more »

Sinhalese

Sinhalese

Sinhala (Sinhalese) belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the majority language of Sri Lanka where it is spoken ... more »

Language Careers

Language Careers

The list of careers in which knowledge of a foreign language in the U.S. is either an asset or ... more »

Indigenous Languages of Australia

Indigenous Languages of Australia

Aboriginal languages are spoken by the native people of Australia and Torres Strait Islands which are located between North Queensland and Papua New Guinea. ... more »

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Brahui
Brahui (براہوی ) or Brahvi (براوِ), also known as Birahui, Brahuidi, Brahuigi, and Kur Galli, belongs to the Northern branch of the Dravidian language family. It is spoken by the Brahui people in Pakistan, mostly in the south central regions of Quetta and Kalat, the Sindh province, and in the eastern half of Balochistan. It is also spoken in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkmenistan. The more »
Chechen
Chechen (Нохчийн мотт / Noxchiin mott) is the largest member of the North Caucasian language group. It is spoken in geographically diverse regions of the world ranging from Russia and Western Europe to the Middle East. According to the Russian census of 2002 (cited in Minority Languages of Russia on the Internet), there are 1.3 million speakers of more »
Slovenian
Slovenian (also called Slovene or Slovenščina) belongs to the Western subgroup of the South Slavic branch of Slavic languages. Like all Slavic languages, Slovenian has its roots in Proto-Slavic, the ancestral language from which all Slavic languages had evolved. The earliest known examples of a written Slovenian dialect in the Latin script date back to about more »
Lingala
Lingala is a Bantu language that belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Republic of the Congo. There are also Lingala speakers in Angola and in the Central African Republic. It is thought that Lingala originated from Bobangi (Bangi), a language that has historically functioned as a trade more »