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The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (Spanish: Atlas Lingüístico de la península ibérica; ALPI) is a project aimed at creating a linguistic atlas of the Iberian Romance languages. It was conceived by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), directed by his student, Tomás Navarro Tomás , and notable in part for its long and troubled ...
Costa Rica's official and predominant language is Spanish.The variety spoken there, Costa Rican Spanish, is a form of Central American Spanish. Costa Rica is a linguistically diverse country and home to at least five living local indigenous languages spoken by the descendants of pre-Columbian peoples: Maléku, Cabécar, Bribri, Guaymí, and Buglere.
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world.. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers.
Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use.
The Sociedat de Lingüistica Aragonesa - the Society of Aragonese Linguistics (or Sociedad de Lingüística Aragonesa in Spanish) is a society dedicated to the promotion of the Aragonese language. It was founded in 2004 to provide an alternative to the Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa [ Wikidata ] (Council of the Aragonese Language).
Native languages of Oceania fall into three major geographic groups: . The large Austronesian language family, with such languages as Malay (), Tagalog (), and Polynesian languages such as Māori and Hawaiian
Lino Figueroa, a Pemon, author of Makunaima, demonstrating the Pemon Language. The Pemon language (or Pemón in Spanish) is an indigenous language of the Cariban family spoken by some 30,000 Pemon people, in Venezuela's Southeast, particularly in the Canaima National Park, in the Roraima State of Brazil and in Guyana.
Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, and its role in making and maintaining cultural practices and societal structures. [1]