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  1. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle ), the other half – known as Polynesian outliers – are spoken in other parts of the Pacific: from Micronesia to atolls scattered in ...

  2. Polynesian languages, group of about 30 languages belonging to the Eastern, or Oceanic, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family and most closely related to the languages of Micronesia and Melanesia. Spoken by fewer than 1,000,000 persons spread across a large section of the Pacific Ocean, the Polynesian languages show a ...

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  3. Contents. French Polynesia. France. French Polynesia ( / ˌpɒlɪˈniːʒə / ⓘ POL-in-EE-zhə; French: Polynésie française [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls [5] stretching over more than ...

  4. Languages of Europe. A color-coded map of languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.

    Name
    Iso-639
    Classification
    Speakers In Europe(native)
    abq
    Northwest Caucasian, Abazgi
    49,800
    ady
    Northwest Caucasian, Circassian
    117,500
    agx
    Northeast Caucasian, Lezgic
    29,300
    akv
    Northeast Caucasian, Avar–Andic
    210
  5. Mar 29, 2015 · Currently, the most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total population of 740 million, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language; within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Slavic, Germanic, and Romance, with more than 200 million speakers each, between them accounting for close to ...

  6. Mar 18, 2015 · Detailed map of the languages spoken in Europe; Dialects and indigenous minority languages in Europe; The lexical distance among the languages of Europe; Critically and severely endangered languages

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  8. Mar 21, 2015 · Europe is home to 24 official languages, while about 200 languages are used over the continent. That might not look like many, opposed to Africa, where you can find almost 2 thousand tongues. 94% of Europeans speak a language descended from Proto-Indo-European. The maps below show the 10 most spoken languages In Europe.

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