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2 days ago · The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian ), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [2] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...
1 day ago · The Indo-Aryan migrations [note 1] were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages. These are the predominant languages of today's Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, North India, Eastern Pakistan, and Sri Lanka . Indo-Aryan migration into the region, from Central Asia ...
1 day ago · Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [11] [12] [13] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [14] [15] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India.
19 hours ago · The Mexican peso ( symbol: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 16th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". [3] The current ISO 4217 code for the peso is MXN; the "N" refers to the "new peso".
3 days ago · Rapa Nui or Rapanui ( English: / ˌræpəˈnuːi /, [3] Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i] ), also known as Pascuan ( / ˈpæskjuən /) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui .
2 days ago · Latin ( lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium (now known as Lazio ), the lower Tiber area around Rome. [1] Through the expansion of the Roman ...
3 days ago · Adyghe ( / ˈædɪɡeɪ / or / ˌɑːdɪˈɡeɪ /; [3] [a] also known as West Circassian) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians. [4] It is spoken mainly in Russia, as well as in Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Israel, where Circassians settled after the Circassian genocide ( c. 1864 –1870) by the Russian ...
