The Indonesian language Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia, literally “the language of Indonesia”) is the standardized form of Malay used as the official and national language of the Republic of Indonesia. It functions as a lingua franca across an archipelago of hundreds of local languages and dialects, and as the language of government, education, media and wider […]
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Ilocano (Iloko, Ilóko, Ilokáno) Ilocano (also written Iloko or Ilóko) is an Austronesian language spoken in the northern Philippines and by diaspora communities abroad. It is one of the country’s major regional languages and serves both as a mother tongue and a regional lingua franca across much of northern Luzon and parts of central and
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Igbo Language The Igbo language (Asụsụ Igbo) is the principal language of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, one of the world’s largest language families, and is further classified under the Atlantic–Congo branch, within the Volta–Niger subgroup. Igbo is closely related to other Volta–Niger languages such as Yoruba,
Icelandic Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in Iceland. It retains many conservative morphological and lexical features inherited from Old Norse and is noted for a rich literary tradition that begins in the medieval period with the Icelandic sagas. Classification Icelandic belongs to the Indo-European → Germanic →
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The Hungarian Language Hungarian (Magyar) is a member of the Uralic language family, belonging specifically to the Finno-Ugric branch, and more narrowly to the Ugric subgroup. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the few non-Indo-European languages spoken widely in Central Europe. With approximately 13–15 million speakers worldwide, Hungarian is by far
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Hunsrik (Riograndenser Hunsrückisch) Overview Hunsrik (also written Hunsrík, Hunsrickisch; Portuguese: hunsriqueano or hunsriqueano riograndense) is a West Germanic variety spoken mainly in southern Brazil and in small border areas of Argentina and Paraguay. It is traditionally derived from the Hunsrückisch (Hunsrück) dialect group of Central (Middle) German and today exists as a distinct, contact-influenced language
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Hawaiian language (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) Overview.Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, historically the indigenous language of the Hawaiian Islands and the Hawaiian people. It is written with a Latin alphabet adapted in the 1820s and uses two important diacritics: the ʻokina (a glottal stop written as ʻ) and the kahakō
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The Guaraní Language Guaraní (autonym: Avañeʼẽ, also spelled Avañe’ẽ or Ñeʼẽ guasu in various dialects) is a Native American language of the Tupían stock, best known for its wide use in Paraguay where it is one of the country’s official languages. It is remarkable in the Americas for surviving as a commonly used language across
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German Language German (Deutsch, [ˈdɔʏtʃ]) is a West Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is one of the world’s major languages, spoken as a native tongue by more than 95 million people and as a second language by tens of millions more. German serves as an official or co-official language in Germany,
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Greek Language Classification and Related Languages Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Unlike other branches, which typically contain several distinct languages (such as Romance or Germanic), Greek is represented today by a single living language: Modern Greek. Within Indo-European, it is not directly grouped with any other extant language, though it
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