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2 days ago · The Austronesian languages ( / ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən /) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples ). [1] They are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the world population ).
- One of the world's primary language families
4 days ago · In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
May 3, 2024 · dialect, a variety of a language that signals where a person comes from. The notion is usually interpreted geographically (regional dialect), but it also has some application in relation to a person’s social background (class dialect) or occupation (occupational dialect). The word dialect comes from the Ancient Greek dialektos “discourse ...
May 2, 2024 · Multilingual education based on mother tongue (s) is still an exception in many countries and regions of the world. Globally 40 per cent of the population does not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand. At the same time linguistic diversity is increasingly threatened as more and more languages disappear.
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May 10, 2024 · Aristotle defined language as an activity that links sound and meaning, and requires therefore the coordination of two distinct systems: a phonetic system that receives and produces sounds (the sensory-motor component of language) and a cognitive system that gives...
3 days ago · An impressive new map highlights the linguistic diversity of New York City. ... linguistically diverse urban area in the world” and challenges the latest Census data’s official count at fewer ...
May 17, 2024 · There are more than 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa. Portuguese, French and Spanish also have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as linguae francae. There are also numerous regional Romance languages and dialects.
