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(Encyclopedia)CEE Latin language, member of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Latin was first encountered in ancient times as the language of Latium, the region of central Italy in w...Armenian language
(Encyclopedia)Armenian language, member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European). There is evidence that in ancient times a distinct subfamily of Indo-European l...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...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. ...Khalka language
(Encyclopedia)Khalka language: see Mongolian languages. ...Hausa language
(Encyclopedia)Hausa language, member of the Chadic group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages. ...French language
(Encyclopedia)CEE French language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). It is spoken as a first language by more than 70 million p...Browse by Subject
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