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Kurdish

(Encyclopedia)Kurdish, language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ...

Tsin

(Encyclopedia)Tsin or Chin both: jhĭn [key], dynasty of China that ruled from 265 to 420, after the period of the Three Kingdoms. It was divided into two phases: the Western Tsin (265–317) and the Eastern Tsin (...

Bangkok

(Encyclopedia)Bangkok băngˈkŏkˌ [key], Thai Krung Thep, city (2021 est. pop. 10,539,000), capital of Th...

Cornish

(Encyclopedia)Cornish, language belonging to the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages. See P. B. Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (19...

Faliscan

(Encyclopedia)Faliscan fəlĭsˈkən [key], extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages. ...

Umbrian

(Encyclopedia)Umbrian ŭmˈbrēən [key], extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages. ...

Oscan

(Encyclopedia)Oscan ŏsˈkən [key], extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages. ...

Hamitic languages

(Encyclopedia)Hamitic languages, subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) ...

Brythonic

(Encyclopedia)Brythonic brĭthŏnˈĭk [key], group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages. ...

Marathi

(Encyclopedia)Marathi məräˈtē [key], language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian. ...