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Urheimat - Language Families Predominantly Found in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania - Other Groups
... The only language isolates or language families predominantly spoken in Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania that do not belong to one of the language families above are the indigenous languages of ... No linguists have found a linguistic family connection between indigenous Papuan and Australian aboriginal languages and those of Asia, Africa, the Americas or any other part of the world ... Indeed, no linguistic connection has been established between the indigenous languages of Melanesia and the indigenous languages of the Aboriginal Australians ...
List Of Multilingual Countries And Regions - Africa
... Fula, Kanuri, Ngumba, Yeni, Bamum, Bakweri language and fluency in the German, Portuguese and Spanish languages ... African Republic French (official) + Sango and 50 other tribal languages ... Chad Arabic French (official) + more than 100 tribal languages ...
Nahuatl - History - Modern Period
1.49% Throughout the modern period the situation of indigenous languages has grown increasingly precarious in Mexico, and the numbers of speakers of virtually all indigenous languages have dwindled ... speakers has actually risen over the past century, indigenous populations have become increasingly marginalized in Mexican society ... some linguists are warning of impending language death ...
Language Survey - References: Sample Survey Reports
... A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign Language ... Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics 2 Icelandic Danish Sign Languages Backstrom, Peter C ... Radloff (eds.), Languages of northern areas, 57-74 ...
Languages Of Burma - Indigenous Languages
... Aside from Burmese, other major languages spoken include Shan (spoken by 3,200,000), Karen dialects (spoken by 2,600,000), Kachin (spoken by 900,000), Chin dialects (spok ... There are two living Indo-European languages spoken by ethnic minorities in Burma Rohingya, spoken by about one million, and Bishnupriya, with a smaller number ... Usage of minority languages is discouraged and is used at home ...

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