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Arabic
Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply '''' ().
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Hebrew
Northwest Semitic language
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Irish
language native to Ireland
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Welsh
Brittonic language spoken natively in Wales
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Breton
Celtic language spoken in France
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Scottish Gaelic
Goidelic Celtic language of Scotland
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Tagalog
Austronesian language; native language of the Tagalog ethnic group
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Hawaiian
Polynesian language
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Cornish
Brythonic Celtic language indigenous to Cornwall
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Manx
Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man
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Nahuatl
Nahuatl ( ; hispanicized from Nawatl ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller populations in the United States. Nahuatl has been spoken in central Mexico since at least the seventh century AD. It was the language of the Mexica, who dominated what is now central Mexico during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history. During the centuries preceding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Azt
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Egyptian
extinct language spoken in ancient Egypt
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Cebuano
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by Cebuanos and other ethnic groups
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Samoan
language of the Samoan Islands
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Tongan
Polynesian language
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Chamorro
Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana Islands
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Ge'ez
thumb|Ezana stone, written in Geʽez explaining his conquests and accomplishments Geez ( or ; , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now known as Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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Mazanderani
Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran, Golestan, Gilan, Semnan, Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin provinces
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Rapa Nui
Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island
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Niuean
Polynesian language of Niue
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Kapampangan
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
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Hiligaynon
Hiligaynon language spoken in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines
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Pangasinan
Austronesian language spoken in the province of Pangasinan by Pangasinense people
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Modern Standard Arabic
the standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech
Tupi–Guarani
language family of South America
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Neo-Aramaic dialect
Central Atlas Tamazight
Amazigh language of the Afro-Asiatic language family
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Classical Arabic
form of the Arabic language used in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts
Maasai
Eastern Nilotic language
Hadza
language isolate spoken along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania
Zenaga
moribund Amazigh (Berber) language of Mauritania and Senegal
Zapotec
group of indigenous Mesoamerican languages
verb–subject–object
one in which the most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in “Ate Sam oranges” (Sam ate oranges); the 3rd-most common word order among the world's languages, after SVO and SOV
Mam
Mayan language
Ixil
language
Jakaltek
Mayan language of Mexico and Guatemala spoken by the Jakaltek people
Kuot
language
Turkana
African language, spoken by the Turkana people
Coastal Kadazan
language
Cora
language
Chatino
language family
Squamish
Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of southwestern British Columbia
Trique
language family
Munichi
extinct language
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Murle
language
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Dusun
language spoken in Malaysia
Didinga
language
Majang
language
Tennet
language
Mixtecan
branch of the Oto-Manguean linguistic family
Eskayan
artificial auxiliary language of the Eskaya clan of Bohol
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Upper Chinook
Chinookan language
Nandi–Markweta
dialect cluster
Kathlamet
language
Chakobsa
a fictional language used by the Fremen people of the Dune universe
Tenetehara
language
Old Tagalog
earliest form of Tagalog spoken during the pre-colonial times in what is now Central and Southern Luzon