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Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie. 1885: Motu: grammar by W.G. Lawes: 1886: Guugu Yimidhirr: notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language ...
Spoken in: the Spanish autonomous communities of Cantabria and Asturias; Cantonese – 廣東話 Official language in: Hong Kong Special Administration Region, People's Republic of China, Macau Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China; Cape Verdean Creole – kabuverdianu, kriolu ...
by name: List of language names (native names) by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic) by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
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. [221] Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and producer. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, English, German, and Russian. [222]
Names by language (51 C, 21 P) Names by person (2 C, 9 P) ... Pages in category "Human names" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum . [ 1 ]
For the record: 5:38 p.m. Jan. 31, 2023: An earlier version of this article said Mexico’s official languages were Spanish and Nahuatl.However, an official language is not established in the ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...