WebThe Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.They are known for their general lack of labial consonants.The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking.. As of 2020, all surviving Iroquoian languages are severely or critically endangered, with only a few elderly speakers …

WebLanguage and culture. Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka; Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages; Dravidian University, a university situated in Andhra Pradesh; South Indian culture, modern Dravidian culture; Geography. Dravida Nadu, a …

WebTop languages by population Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition). The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first language speakers in the 2022 edition of Ethnologue, a language reference published by SIL International. Entries identified by Ethnologue as macrolanguages (such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese, …

WebTamil (Dravidian; has three gendered pronouns, but no grammatical gender) Wichita ; Yurok ; Noun classifiers. Some languages without noun class may have noun classifiers instead. This is common in East Asian languages. American Sign Language; Bengali (Indo-European) Burmese

WebThe Harappan language is the unknown language or languages of the Bronze Age (c. 2nd millennium BC) Harappan civilization (Indus Valley civilization, or IVC). The language being unattested in any readable contemporary source, hypotheses regarding its nature are reduced to purported loanwords and substratum influence, notably the substratum in …

Web22 May 2022 – Northern Dravidian languages ... there are too many African languages without a Wikipedia page. My native language is English, but can manage comfortably in some others, incl. French and German. Van Gulik Specializing in Sino-Tibetan, linguistic classification all over, and Classical languages. Good working knowledge of Mandarin.

WebHistory. The official languages of British India were English, Urdu and later Hindi, with English being used for purposes at the central level. The origins of official Hindi usage traces back to 1900, when MacDonnell issued an order, which allowed the “permissive — but not exclusive — use” of Devanagari for Hindustani in the courts of North-Western Provinces.

WebMost TNG languages are spoken by only a few thousand people, with only seven (Melpa, Kuman, Enga, Huli, Western Dani, Makasae, and Ekari) being spoken by more than 100,000.The most populous language outside of mainland New Guinea is Makasae of East Timor, with 100,000 speakers throughout the eastern part of the country. Enga is the …

WebThe Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, and Hubei provinces; the speakers of these languages are …

WebThe United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English), which is the de facto national language.It is also the only language spoken at home by the great majority of the U.S. population (approximately 78.5%). Many other languages are also spoken at home, …

WebThe Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.. Linguistic comparison allows the classification of these languages into several different language families, with little or no discernible …

WebSome Jewish languages have multiple registers; for example, both Yiddish and Judezmo have three linguistic registers: colloquial, written, and scholarly-liturgical. Some Jewish languages show the effects of the history of language shift among the speakers, including Hebrew-Aramaic influence. Yiddish exemplifies such a language.

WebKoreanic is a small language family consisting of the Korean and Jeju languages. The latter is often described as a dialect of Korean, but is distinct enough to be considered a separate language. Alexander Vovin suggests that the Yukchin dialect of the far northeast should be similarly distinguished. Korean has been richly documented since the introduction of the …

WebThe evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout ... Population genetics research in the 2000s suggests that the very earliest predecessors of the Dravidian languages may have been spoken in south-west Iran between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago before spreading to …