Human Language
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A human language is any language spoken by people, whether naturally as a "mother tongue" or otherwise. For comparison, non-human languages would include computer languages, the languages of other animals, etc.
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| Japanese |
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Book Subject | Japan |
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages. There may exist relationships with other languages, but they have still remained undemonstrated. It is an...
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| Italian |
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Field Of Study | Italy |
Italian (, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken as a first language by about 63 million people, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official language. It is also the official language of San Marino. It is the...
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| Cantonese |
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Cantonese or Yue (粵語) is a major Chinese dialect group or language, a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Colloquially, it is also known as 廣東話 (Mandarin: Guǎngdōng Huà, Cantonese transcription: gwong2 dung1 waa6). The exact number of...
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| Mandarin |
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Language Dialect | China |
Mandarin ( or ), is a category of related Chinese dialect spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin language has more speakers than any other...
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Field Of Study | Spain |
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Spanish or Castilian (castellano) is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken to Africa,...
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| Tamil |
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India | Madurai Tamil |
Tamil ( ; ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius, Vietnam and Réunion...
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| French |
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Field Of Study | France | Acadian French |
French (français, ) is today spoken around the world by 65 to 130 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 600 million people as a second or third language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the...
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| Russian |
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Broadcast Genre | Russia |
Russian ( , transliteration: , ) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is...
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| Hindi |
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Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , IAST: , IPA: ) is the name given to an Indo-Aryan language, or a dialect continuum of languages, spoken in northern and central India (the "Hindi belt").
Native speakers of Hindi dialects between them account for 41% of the...
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| Urdu |
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Urdu (, , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It developed under Persian and to a lesser degree Arabic and Turkic influence on apabhramsha...
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| Czech |
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Czech (; čeština in Czech) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak and, to a lesser...
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| Greek language |
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Broadcast Genre | Greece |
Greek ( or simply — "Hellenic") is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people, mainly in Greece and Cyprus but also by minority and emigrant communities in numerous other countries.
Greek has been written in the Greek...
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| Afrikaans | South Africa |
Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia...
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| Persian language |
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Persian (local names: فارسی or پارسی ; see Nomenclature) is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Persian and its varieties have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. According to CIA World...
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| Xhosa language |
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South Africa |
Xhosa ( , isiXhosa) is one of the official language of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence...
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| Bengali |
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Bangladesh |
Bengali or Bangla (IPA: বাংলা) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages.
Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises...
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| German |
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Field Of Study | Germany | Swiss German |
The German language (, ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is closely related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers and...
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| Standard Mandarin |
Standard Mandarin, also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore.
The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on the...
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| Portuguese |
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Broadcast Genre | Portugal |
Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal from the Latin spoken by romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the...
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| Polish |
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Poland | Mazovian |
Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. It is the West Slavic language having the greatest number of speakers . Polish is spoken in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and has a regular orthography. The language...
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| Swedish language |
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Language in fiction | Sweden |
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by more than ten million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands. It is to a considerable extent mutually intelligible with Norwegian and...
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| Arabic language |
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Broadcast Genre | Saudi Arabia | Arabic, Algerian Spoken |
Arabic ( or just ), in terms of the number of speakers, is the largest living member of the Semitic language family. Classified as Central Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic and has its roots in a Proto-Semitic common ancestor....
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| Kurdish language |
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The Kurdish language (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a term used for the language spoken by Kurds. It is mainly concentrated in the parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Kurdish belongs to the northwestern sub-group of the Iranian languages, which...
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| Serbian language |
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Serbian (; ) is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbs in Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora. Standard Serbian is based on Shtokavian dialect, like Croatian and Bosnian, with which it is...
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| Montenegrin language |
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Montenegrin language (Crnogorski jezik, Црногорски језик) is the name given to the Ijekavian-Shtokavian dialect spoken in Montenegro. Generally, it is recognized as a variant of the Serbo-Croatian language, but some Montenegrins refer to their...
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| Norwegian language |
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Norway |
Norwegian (Norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants (see Danish...
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| Telugu | India |
Telugu may refer to:
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| Punjabi language |
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Punjabi ( in Gurmukhi script, in Shahmukhi script, in transliteration) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region (now split between India and Pakistan) and their diaspora. Speakers include adherents of the...
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| Finnish language |
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Broadcast Genre | Finland | Rauma dialect |
Finnish (, or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In...
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| Malayalam language |
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Malayalam ( ) is a Dravidian language used predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and it is used by around 36 million people . Malayalam is also widely used in the union territories...
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