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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 ...
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
Thus, historical languages contrast with dead languages (languages which have become extinct, or undergone language death). Also, historical languages contrast with reconstructed languages (that is, the proto-languages) of theoretical linguistics. One of the approaches to defining and using the concept of historical languages is implemented in ...
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.
Bethell, John T. Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-674-37733-8; Bunting, Bainbridge. Harvard: An Architectural History (1985). 350 pp. Carpenter, Kenneth E. The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Description of an Exhibition (1986). 216 pp.
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 world.
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