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A list of 17 words was recorded in 1576 by Christopher Hall, an assistant to Martin Frobisher. [192] [193] 1806: Tswana: Heinrich Lictenstein – Upon the Language of the Beetjuana: The first complete Bible translation was published in 1857 by Robert Moffat. 1819: Cherokee: Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary: 1820: Maori: grammar by Thomas Kendall ...
Ziad Fazah (1954–), Liberian-born Lebanese language teacher, now living in Brazil. He is famous for claiming to speak more than fifty languages, and for a time was listed in The Guinness Book of Records. It is unclear how many languages he can in fact speak. [218] Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and producer.
A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
10 languages. العربية ... Pages in category "Lists of European people" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect ...
Only two people remembered the language in 1961. after 1961: Xocó: unclassified: Sergipe, Alagoas, Brazil: Only a few people remembered the language in 1961 It is not clear if this is a single language. 1961: Northeastern Pomo: Pomoan(Hokan?) California, United States: 1960: Oriel dialect, Irish: Indo-European: Ireland: with the death of Annie ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]
From the later 20th century, 'Europe' has come to be widely used as a synonym for the European Union even though there are millions of people living on the European continent in non-EU member states. The prefix pan implies that the identity applies throughout Europe, and especially in an EU context, and 'pan-European' is often contrasted with ...
Mac/Mc, meaning Son, and Ó, meaning Little (or Descendant), are used by sons born into the family. In the case of a daughter being born into the family she would use Ní/Nic, for example Ó Muireadhaigh becomes Ní Mhuireadhaigh. A woman who marries into the family and takes her husband's name uses Uí/Mic- e.g. Uí Mhuireadhaigh. [36] [37]