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Apr 5, 2024 · Extremaduran Spanish. You might guess that Extremadura is located in the extreme west of Spain and closely related to a dialect called Leonese. However, the Extremaduran Spanish dialect should not be confused with the Extremaduran language. Some features of Extremaduran Spanish include:
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 term Indo-Hittite is used by scholars who believe that Hittite and the other Anatolian languages are not just one branch of Indo-European but rather a branch coordinate with all the rest put together; thus, Indo-Hittite has been used for a family ...
2 days ago · Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed ...
5 days ago · The time range for the evolution of language or its anatomical prerequisites extends, at least in principle, from the phylogenetic divergence of Homo (2.3 to 2.4 million years ago) from Pan (5 to 6 million years ago) to the emergence of full behavioral modernity some 50,000–150,000 years ago.
21 hours ago · Portuguese is spoken by approximately 200 million people in South America, 30 million in Africa, 15 million in Europe, 5 million in North America and 0.33 million in Asia and Oceania. It is the native language of the vast majority of the people in Portugal, [41] Brazil [42] and São Tomé and Príncipe (95%). [43]
- Native: 230 million (2012–2020), L2: 25 million (2018–2020), Total: 260 million
2 days ago · List Languages with at least 50 million first-language speakers, millions (according to: Ethnologue) Afroasiatic languages Berber languages Chadic languages Cushitic languages Semitic languages Koreanic languages Japonic languages Mongolic languages Tungusic languages Turkic languages Amerind languages (various families) Australian Aboriginal languages (various families) Austroasiatic ...
21 hours 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 ...