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Provençal language
(Encyclopedia)Provençal language prôväNsälˈ [key]: see Occitan. ...Portuguese language
(Encyclopedia)CEE Portuguese language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, c...Pilipino language
(Encyclopedia)Pilipino language, form of Tagalog used in the Philippines. See Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Pehlevi language
(Encyclopedia)Pehlevi language: see Pahlavi language. ...Persian language
(Encyclopedia)Persian language, member of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian languages). The official language of Iran, it has about 38 millio...Buddhist literature
(Encyclopedia)Buddhist literature. During his lifetime the Buddha taught not in Vedic Sanskrit, which had become unintelligible to the people, but in his own NE Indian dialect; he also encouraged his monks to propa...Dalai Lama
(Encyclopedia)Dalai Lama däˈlī läˈmə [key] [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of one of the main leaders of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesh...Southeast Asian languages
(Encyclopedia)Southeast Asian languages, family of languages, sometimes also called Austroasiatic, spoken in SE Asia by about 80 million people. According to one school of thought, it has three subfamilies: the Mon...ALGOL, computer language
(Encyclopedia)ALGOL: see programming language. ...language of signs
(Encyclopedia)language of signs: see sign language. ...Browse by Subject
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