Northern Sotho. Sepedi is one of South Africa???s twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family, specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken mainly in Limpopo Province, and to a lesser extent in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageSouth Africa
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Zulu. Zulu, also known by its endonym isiZulu, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken in, and indigenous to, Southern Africa with about 13.56 million native speakers, who primarily inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The word "KwaZulu-Natal" translates into English as "Home of the Zulu Nation is Natal". Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa, and it is understood by over 50% of its population. It became one of South Africa's 12 official languages in 1994.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageLesothoMozambiqueSouth Africa
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Somali. Somali is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. Somali is spoken primarily in Greater Somalia, and the Somali diaspora as a mother tongue. It is an official language in Somalia and Ethiopia, and serves as a national language in Djibouti. It is also a recognised minority language in Kenya. The language is officially written with the Latin alphabet, although the Arabic script and several Somali scripts like Osmanya, Kaddare and the Borama script are informally used.
modern_languagenatural_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageDjiboutiEthiopiaKenyaSomaliaSomaliland
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Krio. The Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is the lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 96 percent of the country's population, and it unites the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social interaction with each other. Krio is the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, and has also heavily influenced Sierra Leonean English. The language is native to the Sierra Leone Creole people, or Krios, a community of about 104,311 descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, United States and the British Empire, and is spoken as a second language by millions of other Sierra Leoneans belonging to the country's indigenous tribes. English is Sierra Leone's official language, and Krio, despite its common use throughout the country, has no official status.
modern_languagenatural_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageSierra Leone
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Badyara. Badyara is an Eastern Senegal-Guinea language of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. Variants of the name are Badara, Badian, Badjara, Badyarank??; there are also Jaad, Bigola, Gola, Kanjad [ka-njad(??)]), Pajade, Pajadinka.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageGuineaGuinea-BissauSenegal
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Seychellois Creole. Seychellois Creole, also known as Kreol, Seselwa Creole French, and Seselwa Creole is the French-based creole language spoken by the Seychelles Creole people of the Seychelles. It is one of the national languages of the Seychelles.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageSeychelles
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Wolof. Wolof is a Niger???Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger???Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of its family, Wolof is not a tonal language.
modern_languagenatural_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageMauritaniaSenegalThe Gambia
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Balanta. Balanta is a group of two closely related Bak languages of West Africa spoken by the Balanta people.
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Russian. Russian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russian people. Russian was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet Union. It has remained an official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Israel.
modern_languagenatural_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageAzerbaijanBelarusCanadaEstoniaGeorgiaGermanyIsraelKazakhstanKyrgyzstanLatviaLithuaniaMoldovaMongoliaRussiaTajikistanUkraineUnited StatesUzbekistan
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Kinyarwanda. Kinyarwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in Uganda, where the dialect is known as Ikinyakore, Rufumbira, or Urufumbira. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native population of Rwanda and is mutually intelligible with Kirundi, the national language of neighbouring Burundi.
modern_languagenatural_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageDemocratic Republic of the CongoRwandaUganda
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German. German is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognised national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovakia (Krahule), Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageAustriaBelgiumCzech RepublicDenmarkFranceGermanyItalyLiechtensteinLuxembourgPolandRussiaSwitzerland
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Kalanga. Kalanga, or TjiKalanga, is a Bantu language spoken by the Kalanga people in Botswana and Zimbabwe which belongs to the Shonic (Shona-Nyai) branch of the Bantu languages, within the Niger-Congo languages. It has an extensive phoneme inventory, which includes palatalised, velarised, aspirated and breathy-voiced consonants, as well as whistled sibilants.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageBotswanaZimbabwe
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Azerbaijani. Azerbaijani or Azeri is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who are native to the Azerbaijan region of Iran, as well as the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Iranian Azerbaijanis speak South Azerbaijani, while the ones in the Republic speak North Azerbaijani; but it is unclear whether these two varieties form one language, as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) considers Northern and Southern Azerbaijani to be distinct languages.
modern_languagenatural_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageAfghanistanArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaGermanyIranIraqKazakhstanKyrgyzstanRussiaSyriaTurkeyTurkmenistanUkraineUnited StatesUzbekistan
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Hausa. Hausa is a Chadic language spoken primarily by the Hausa people in Niger and in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo and the southern parts of Chad. It is also spoken by a significant minority in Ivory Coast and a small number of speakers in Sudan.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageBeninBurkina FasoCameroonChadGhanaNigerNigeriaTogo
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Marshallese. Marshallese, also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands. The language of the Marshallese people, it is spoken by nearly all of the country's population of 59,000, making it the principal language. There are also roughly 27,000 Marshallese citizens residing in the United States, nearly all of whom speak Marshallese, as well as residents in other countries such as Nauru and Kiribati.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageMarshall IslandsNauruUnited States
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Standard Moroccan Tamazight. Standard Moroccan Amazigh, also known as Standard Moroccan Tamazight or Standard Moroccan Berber, is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh languages in Morocco. It has been an official language of Morocco since 2011.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageMorocco
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Adyghe. Adyghe, also known as West Circassian, is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians. Native to Circassia in the Caucasus, it is one of the two official languages of Adygea, the other being Russian. It is spoken in Russia, but mainly in Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Israel, where Circassians settled after the Circassian genocide by the Russian Empire. Adyghe literary language is mainly based on the Chemguy dialect, which was chosen for its grammatical and phonological simplicity, though there was significant input from Shapsug and Bzhedug dialects.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageJordanRussiaSyriaTurkey
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Buryat. Buryat or Buriat, known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian, is a variety of the Mongolic languages spoken by the Buryats and Bargas that is classified either as a language or major dialect group of Mongolian.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageMongoliaPeople's Republic of ChinaRussia
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Abaza. Abaza is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by Abazins in Russia. The language has gone through several different orthographies based primarily on Latin and Cyrillic letters. Its consonant-to-vowel ratio is remarkably high; making it quite similar to many other languages from the same parent chain. The language evolved in popularity in the mid to late 1800s, but has become an endangered language.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageRussiaTurkey
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Hassaniya Arabic. Hassaniya Arabic is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken by Mauritanian Arabs, Malian Arabs and the Sahrawis. It was spoken by the Beni ???ass??n Bedouin tribes of Yemeni origin who extended their authority over most of Mauritania and Western Sahara between the 15th and 17th centuries. Hassaniya Arabic was the language spoken in the pre-modern region around Chinguetti.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageAlgeriaMaliMauritaniaMorocco
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Tamasheq. Tamashek or Tamasheq is a variety of Tuareg, a Berber macro-language widely spoken by nomadic tribes across North and West Africa in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Tamasheq is one of the three main varieties of Tuareg, the others being Tamajaq and Tamahaq.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageAlgeriaBurkina FasoMaliNiger
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Kassonke. language
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageMali
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Minyanka. Minyanka is a northern Senufo language spoken by about 750,000 people in southeastern Mali. It is closely related to Supyire. Minyanka is one of the national languages of Mali.
modern_languagexxx_gdb_LanguageMali
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Dogon. The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger???Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, and most, like Dogul, have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three. Their basic word order is subject???object???verb.
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