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Irish
language native to Ireland
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Yiddish
thumb|The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from [[Fürth (by Nürnberg), Bavaria]]
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Romansh
Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden)
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Māori
Polynesian language spoken in New Zealand
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Sardinian
Romance language indigenous to the island of Sardinia
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Aragonese
Romance language
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Romani
language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
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Udmurt
Uralic language
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Lombard
Gallo-Italic language spoken in the Italian region of Lombardy
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Piedmontese
Romance language spoken mainly in Italy
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Friulian
Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy
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Ladin
Rhaeto-Romance language of northeast Italy
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Buryat
variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian
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Aromanian
Eastern Romance language of the Southern Balkans
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Ligurian
Gallo-Romance language (for the ancient extinct language use Q36104)
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Moksha
language part of the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic languages and the majority language in the western part of Mordovia
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Võro
dialect of the South Estonian [Võro-Seto] language
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Abaza
language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian Karachay–Cherkess Republic by the Abazins
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Kalmyk
register of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia
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Arpitan language
Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a Gallo-Romance language that originated and is spoken in eastern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy.
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Nogai
Turkic language
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Mingrelian
Kartvelian language, also named “Megrelian” or “Iverian” (“iveriuli ena” in Georgian), spoken in North-Western Georgia
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Saterland Frisian
last living dialect of the East Frisian language
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Svan
Kartvelian language
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Laz
South Caucasian language in the Kartvelian family, close to Mingrelian, spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea
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Tuvaluan
Polynesian language spoken in Tuvalu
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Niuean
Polynesian language of Niue
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Pontic Greek
Greek dialect
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Aghul
Lezgic language spoken by the Aghuls in southern Dagestan (Russia) and in Azerbaijan
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Emilian–Romagnol
Emilian–Romagnol () is a linguistic continuum that is part of the Gallo-Italic languages spoken in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. It is divided into two main varieties, Emilian and Romagnol.
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Gascon
Occitan dialect spoken in southwestern France, and Catalonia, Spain
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Asturleonese
West Iberian dialect continuum
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Norfuk
dialect of Pitcairn-Norfolk
Siberian Tatar
Turkic language spoken in Western Siberia
Arbëresh
Albanian dialect spoken in Italy
Sassarese
Romance (transitional) language variety, closely related to Sardinian and especially Corsican
Cimbrian
endangered Germanic language of Italy
Daur
Mongolic language primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group
Akhvakh
language
Alabama
language spoken by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe
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Judeo-Persian
thumb|Seven Priests sounding horns at Wall of Jericho. From an illustrated manuscript of Emrani's Fath-nameh. Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term, Judeo-Persian refers to a number of Judeo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire, including Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews.
Keresan
language isolate of New Mexico, United States
Tuamotuan
Polynesian language native to French Polynesia
Nukuoro
language
Algherese
dialect
Judeo-Tat
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (, , ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. It belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words Juhuri and Juhuro translate as "Jewish" and "Jews".
Judeo-Moroccan
Judeo-Arabic variety of Morocco
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Gallurese
Gallurese () is a Romance dialect of the Italo-Dalmatian family spoken in the region of Gallura, northeastern Sardinia. Gallurese is variously described as a distinct southern dialect of Corsican or transitional language of the dialect continuum between Corsican and Sardinian. "Gallurese International Day" () takes place each year in Palau (Sardinia) with the participation of orators from other areas, including Corsica.
Bonan
language
Mòcheno
Upper German variety of Italy
Otomi
language family
Logudorese
dialect of the Sardinian language
Vedda
language of the Vedda people
Aikanã
definitely endangered language isolate spoken by about 200 Aikanã people in Rondônia, Brazil
Campidanese Sardinian
dialect of the Sardinian language
Cofán
language of the Cofán people
Hiw
language
Mortlockese
Chuukic language
Aché
language
Savosavo
language