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  1. The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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    The spoken languages of nationalities that are a part of China belong to at least nine families: 1. The Sino-Tibetan family: 19 official ethnicities (including the Han and Tibetans) 2. The Tai–Kadai family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Bouyei, the Dai, the Dong, and the Hlai (Li people); 9 official ethnicities. 3. The Hmong–Mien fami...

    The following languages traditionally had written forms that do not involve Chinese characters (hanzi): 1. The Dai people 1.1. Tai Lü language – Tai Lü alphabet 1.2. Tai Nüa language – Tai Nüa alphabet 2. The Daur people – Daur language – Manchu alphabet 3. The Hmong people – Hmongic languages – Hmong writing(Pollard script, Pahawh Hmong, Nyiakeng ...

    One decade before the demise of the Qing dynasty in 1912, Mandarin was promoted in the planning for China's first public schoolsystem. Mandarin has been promoted as the commonly spoken language for the country since 1956, based phonologically on the dialect of Beijing. The North Chinese language group is set up as the standard grammatically and lex...

    English has been the most widely-taught foreign language in China, as it is a required subject for students attending university. Other languages that have gained some degree of prevalence or interest are Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. During the 1950s and 1960s, Russian had some social status among elites in mainland China as ...

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  3. Mar 27, 2024 · Indo-European languages, family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The 10 main branches of the family are Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Germanic, Armenian, Tocharian, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian.

  4. May 5, 2014 · The Indo-European languages are a family of related languages that today are widely spoken in the Americas, Europe, and also Western and Southern Asia. Just as languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese...

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  5. The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers, and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia, spanning from the Indian ...

  6. History. Distribution. Classification. Typology. Vocabulary. Proposed external relationships. Notes. References. External links. Sino-Tibetan languages. Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] .

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