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  2. Yahgan language - Wikipedia

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    Yahgan or Yagán (also spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta) is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yahgan people.

  3. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    A Mandarin Chinese and Miao mixed language Maojia: 猫家话: 貓家話: A Qo-Xiong Miao and Chinese dialects mixed language Shaozhou Tuhua: 韶州土话: 韶州土話: A group of distinctive Chinese dialects in South China, including Yuebei Tuhua and Xiangnan Tuhua. It incorporates several Chinese dialects, as well as Yao languages. Tangwang ...

  4. Languages of China - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Education describes the move as a natural extension of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese Language (Chinese: 通用语言文字法) of 2000. [13] In 2024, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping called for wider use of Mandarin by ethnic minorities and in ...

  5. Rushani language - Wikipedia

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    Rushani is one of the Pamir languages spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Rushani is relatively closer to all Northern Pamiri languages sub-group whether it is Shughni, Yazgulami, Sarikuli or Oroshori sharing many grammatical and vocabulary similarity with all of them especially with Shughni and thus some linguists consider it a dialect of Shughni.

  6. Yahgan people - Wikipedia

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    The Yahgan language, also known as Yámana, is considered a language isolate. [4] Cristina Calderón (1928–2022), who was born on Navarino Island, Chile, was known as the last full-blooded Yahgan and last native speaker of the Yahgan language. [5] It is now regarded as an extinct language. Most Yahgan now speak Spanish. [citation needed]

  7. Yamana - Wikipedia

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    Yamana may refer to: ... Yahgan language This page was last edited on 8 March 2023, at 09:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.

  9. Bible translations into the languages of China - Wikipedia

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    The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian and Uyghur. The other languages of China are mainly tribal languages, mainly spoken in Yunnan in Southwest China. [1]