The Tungusic languages / t ʊ ŋ ˈ ɡ ʊ s ɪ k / (also known as Manchu-Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples.Many Tungusic languages are endangered. There are approximately 75,000 native speakers of the dozen living languages of the Tungusic language family.

Die chinesischen oder sinitischen Sprachen (chinesisch 漢語 / 汉语, Pinyin Hànyǔ) bilden einen der beiden Primärzweige der sinotibetischen Sprachfamilie, der andere Primärzweig sind die tibetobirmanischen Sprachen.Chinesische Sprachen werden heute von ca. 1,3 Milliarden Menschen gesprochen, von denen die meisten in der Volksrepublik China und in Taiwan leben.

The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to Benin in the west; from Libya to the …

The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of 50 or so Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh.Most speakers of these languages are known as Mizo in Mizoram and Manipur.Also, as Kukī in Assamese and Bengali and as Chin in …

The southernmost group is the Karen languages, spoken by three million people on both sides of the Burma–Thailand border.They differ from all other Tibeto-Burman languages (except Bai) in having a subject–verb–object word order, attributed to contact with Tai–Kadai and Austroasiatic languages.. The most widely spoken Tibeto-Burman language is Burmese, the national …

Southern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; lit. 'Southern Fujian language'), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: [mìn.nǎn]) or Banlam (Southern Min pronunciation: ), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of ...

Thai, or Central Thai (historically Siamese; Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai people and a vast majority of Thai Chinese.It is the sole official language of Thailand.. Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is derived from or ...

Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztekan / ˈ juː t oʊ. æ z ˈ t ɛ k ən / or (rarely in English) Uto-Nahuatl is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages.Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico.The name of the language family was created to show that it includes both the Ute language of Utah and the …

There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and Bhutanese Sign Language. Dzongkha, the national language, is the only native language of Bhutan with a literary tradition, though Lepcha and Nepali are literary languages in other countries. Other non-Bhutanese minority …

Mayan languages are the descendants of a proto-language called Proto-Mayan or, in Kʼicheʼ Maya, Nabʼee Mayaʼ Tzij ("the old Maya Language"). The Proto-Mayan language is believed to have been spoken in the Cuchumatanes highlands of central Guatemala in an area corresponding roughly to where Qʼanjobalan is spoken today. The earliest proposal which identified the …

The Kartvelian languages (/ k ɑːr t ˈ v ɛ l i ə n,-ˈ v i l-/; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia.There are approximately 5.2 million Kartvelian speakers worldwide, with large groups in ...

The Chinese language is the group of languages used by Chinese people in China and elsewhere. It forms part of a language family called the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Chinese includes many regional language varieties, the …

Basque is geographically surrounded by Romance languages but is a language isolate unrelated to them, and indeed, to any other language in the world. It is the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of Prehistoric Europe. Consequently, the prehistory of the Basque language may not be reconstructible by means of the traditional comparative method …

Thailand is home to 71 living languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family, and the national language being Thai. Lao is spoken along the borders with the Lao PDR, Karen languages are spoken along the border with Myanmar, Khmer is spoken near Cambodia and Malay is spoken in the south near Malaysia. Sixty-two 'domestic' …