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Catalan language
(Encyclopedia)Catalan language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 8 million people in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and...pidgin
(Encyclopedia)pidgin pĭjˈən [key], a lingua franca that is not the mother tongue of anyone using it and that has a simplified grammar and a restricted, often polyglot vocabulary. The earliest documented pidgin i...Khoisan
(Encyclopedia)Khoisan: see African languages. ...Hittite
(Encyclopedia)Hittite: see Anatolian languages. ...Romanic
(Encyclopedia)Romanic: see Romance languages.Slavonic
(Encyclopedia)Slavonic: see Slavic languages.Khalka language
(Encyclopedia)Khalka language: see Mongolian languages. ...Niger-Kordofanian
(Encyclopedia)Niger-Kordofanian: see African languages. ...Nilo-Saharan
(Encyclopedia)Nilo-Saharan: see African languages. ...Xhosa language
(Encyclopedia)Xhosa language: see Bantu languages. ...Browse by Subject
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