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Flemish language
(Encyclopedia)Flemish language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Generally regarded as the Belgian variant of Dutch (see...Javanese language
(Encyclopedia)Javanese language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Navajo, language
(Encyclopedia)Navajo or Navaho, language belonging to the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic family, or stock, of North America (including Mexico). See Native American languages. ...Norwegian language
(Encyclopedia)Norwegian language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 4 million people in Norway and anothe...Malagasy language
(Encyclopedia)Malagasy language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Malay language
(Encyclopedia)Malay language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...manual language
(Encyclopedia)manual language: see sign language. ...Maori language
(Encyclopedia)Maori language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Assyrian language
(Encyclopedia)Assyrian language, East Semitic dialect that evolved from Akkadian after 1950 b.c. The term Assyrian is sometimes incorrectly used for the Akkadian language as a whole because the first inscriptions i...Khalka language
(Encyclopedia)Khalka language: see Mongolian languages. ...Browse by Subject
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