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4 days ago · Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, which includes languages such as Uzbek. Like many other Turkic languages, Uyghur displays vowel harmony and agglutination, lacks noun classes or grammatical gender, and is a left-branching language with subject–object–verb word order.
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 ...
6 days ago · A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
1 day ago · A survey estimated 13% of the population speak Kurdish or Zaza as a first language. Other minority languages include Arabic, Caucasian languages , and Gagauz . [425] The linguistic rights of the officially recognized minorities are de jure recognized and protected for Armenian , Bulgarian , Greek , Hebrew , [e] [409] [412] [413] [414] and Syriac .
2 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 ...
May 24, 2024 · Ossetian is the sole survivor of the branch of Iranian languages known as Scythian. The Scythian group included numerous tribes, known in ancient sources as the Scythians, the Massagetae, the Saka, the Sarmatians, the Alans, and the Roxolani. The more easterly Khwarazm and Sogdians were also closely affiliated in linguistic terms.
2 days ago · The main Iranian contributor to Brahui vocabulary, Balochi, is a western Iranian language like Kurdish, and arrived in the area from the west only around 1000 CE. Sound changes shared with Kurukh and Malto also suggest that Brahui was originally spoken near them in central India. Dravidian influence on Sanskrit
