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The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Koinē Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized: Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the ...
This is a list of notable people with a knowledge of six or more languages. ... He was reputed to know seventy languages. [3] Frederick II (1194–1250), King of ...
List of ISO 639-3 codes – three-letter codes, intended to "cover all known natural languages" List of ISO 639-5 codes – three-letter codes for language families and groups IETF language tag – depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms
Other languages had an indigenous system but borrowed a second set of numerals anyway. An example is Japanese, which uses either native or Chinese-derived numerals depending on what is being counted. In many languages, such as Chinese, numerals require the use of numeral classifiers. Many sign languages, such as ASL, incorporate numerals.
Filipino Sign Language – Sign Language Official language in: the Philippines; Finnish – Suomi Official language in: Finland and the Russian autonomous republic of Karelia; recognised as a minority language in Sweden; Flemish – Vlaams Spoken in: the Belgian region of Flanders; Fon – Fon gbè, Fɔngbè Spoken by: the Beninois/Nigerian Fon ...
Indonesians speak about 746 different languages. [187] Javanese has the most users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million). However, the sole official (or so-called "unity language") is Indonesian which has only 30 million L1 speakers (compared to Indonesia 260 million population). The role of Indonesian is important to glue together ...
The list therefore includes languages with barely a few individual speakers as well as 530 unclassified mother tongues and more than 100 idioms that are non-native to India, including linguistically unspecific demonyms such as "African", "Canadian" or "Belgian". [49] 1991 Census. The 1991 census recognises 1,576 classified mother tongues. [50]