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Romance language

language spoken in East Asia

West Slavic language

Romance language

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, generally range from 150 million to 200 million. Most native speakers reside in Tanzania and Kenya.

West Slavic language spoken in Slovakia

Kartvelian language

Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan

language of Kurds

Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta

Turkic language spoken by Tatars

official language of Nepal

Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for 15 million speakers in Karnataka. It is the official and administrative language of Karnataka. It also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.

Indo-Aryan language

Austronesian language

Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar

Northeast Caucasian language spoken mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people

Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries

Serbo-Croatian, also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a Western South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

Kra–Dai language of Southeast Asia

language spoken in Indonesia

language spoken in Haiti

language of the Samoan Islands

Kinyarwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in Uganda, where the dialect is known as Ikinyakore, Rufumbira, or Urufumbira. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native population of Rwanda and is mutually intelligible with Kirundi, the national language of neighbouring Burundi.

Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea

Sino-Tibetan language of central-eastern Nepal

Kirundi (), also known as Rundi, is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi. It is mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda, and the two form parts of the Rwanda-Rundi dialect continuum spoken in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Kenya.

language spoken by the Ingush people

western African language spoken in Mali, with SVO structure and two lexical tones

Sinitic language

Cushitic language

Northwest Caucasian language

Niger–Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo

Lingala (or Ngala, Lingala: ) is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree as a trade language because of emigration in neighbouring Angola or Central African Republic. Lingala has 20 million native speakers and about another 20 million second-language speakers, for an approximate total of 40 million speakers. A significant portion of both Congolese diasporas speaks Lingala in their countries of immigration like Belgium, France or the Unite

primary branch of Chinese originating in Southern China

language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with another language

Bantu language spoken in Angola, Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa

language of Akan lands in Ghana

Burushaski (; , ) is a language isolate, spoken by the Burusho people, who predominantly reside in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. There are also a few hundred speakers of this language in northern Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Northern Ryukyuan language

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divergent variety of Central Plains Mandarin spoken in Central Asia

thumb|right|A Mooré speaker speaking Mooré and Dioula, recorded in Taiwan. Video 1 min:23 sec, 2018.Mooré is a Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of four official languages of Burkina Faso. It is the language of the Mossi people, spoken by approximately 6.46 million people in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Niger, Mali, Togo, and Senegal as a native language, but with many more L2 speakers. Mooré is spoken as a first or second language by over 50% of the Burkinabé population and is the main language in the capital city of Ouagadougou. It is closely related to Frafra, and l

Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali

branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages of China

languages of a geographic region

semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa

one of the two languages of the Armenian language branch

Mande language spoken in West Africa

Bantu language spoken in DR Congo

set of varieties of the English language native to Canada

variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia around the coasts of the Persian Gulf

Sino-Tibetan language of eastern Nepal and India

Kokborok (or Tripuri) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. Its name comes from kók meaning "verbal" or "language" and borok meaning "people" or "human". It is one of the ancient languages of Northeast India.

Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Sherpa community

continuum of mutually-intelligible varieties of Arabic

Austronesian language of Greater Jakarta, Indonesia

The Afro-Asiatic language of the Red Sea Hills

Gur/Mabia language spoken in Ghana

thumb|A woman from the Achham district of Nepal discusses cooking mutton and fish in the Achhami dialect. Doteli, or Dotyali (Doteli-Devanagari: ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 495,000 people, most of whom live in Nepal. It is a dialect of Khas, which is an ancient form of the modern Nepali language, and is written in the Devanagari script. It has official status in Nepal as per Part 1, Section 6 of the Constitution of Nepal 2072 (2015). There are four main dialects of Doteli, namely Baitadeli, Achhami, Bajhangi Nepali, Darchuli and Doteli. The mutual intelligibility between these