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Occitan dialect

languages of the Rukai people, an indigenous people of Taiwan

Sinitic language

dialect of Beijing Mandarin spoken in the capital of the PRC

Min Chinese dialect in Fujian

creole language spoken on Réunion

Siouan language spoken by the Sioux in the United States and Canada

French-based creole from French Guiana

Romagnol ( or ; ) is a Romance language spoken in the historical region of Romagna, consisting mainly of the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The name is derived from the Lombard name for the region, Romagna. Romagnol is classified as endangered because older generations have "neglected to pass on the dialect as a native tongue to the next generation".

dialect of Italiot Greek

Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan

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variety of Italiot Greek spoken by the Griko people in Calabria

Western Sumatran language of Kerinci people originating from Kerinci region in Sumatra

Yevanic, also known as Judaeo-Greek, Romaniyot, Romaniote, and Yevanitika, is a Greek dialect formerly used by the Romaniotes and by the Constantinopolitan Karaites (in whose case the language is called Karaitika or Karaeo-Greek). The Romaniotes are a group of Greek Jews whose presence in the Levant is documented since the Byzantine period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Jewish Koine spoken primarily by Hellenistic Jews throughout the region, and includes Hebrew and Aramaic elements. It was mutually intelligible with the Greek dialects of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used th

language used liturgically by the Samaritans

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Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people in the United States

Arvanitika (; Arvanitika: , ; Greek: , ), also known as Arvanitic, is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population group in Greece. Arvanitika was brought to Southern Greece during the late Middle Ages by Albanian settlers who moved south from their homeland in present-day Albania in several waves. The dialect preserves elements of medieval Albanian, while also being significantly influenced by the Greek language. Arvanitika is today endangered, as its speakers have been shifting to the use of Greek and most younger members of the community no longer speak it.

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dialect of the French language spoken in Belgium

Pamir language spoken in the Upper Lutkuh Valley (Tehsil Lotkuh) of Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa west of Garam Chashma in Pakistan

Italo-Dalmatian variety mainly spoken in the central Italy

ancient Celtic language of Britain, ancestor to Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Cumbric

French-based creole in Louisiana

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language spoken by the Kalasha of the Waigal Valley in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province

Frainc-Comtou () is a Romance language of the ''langues d'oïl'' language family spoken in the Franche-Comté region of France and in the Canton of Jura and Bernese Jura in Switzerland.

lingua franca of Guinea Bissau

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.

member of the Pamir subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken by native speakers along the Yazgulyam River, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Pijin (Solomonese Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the three varieties are sometimes considered to be dialects of a single Melanesian Pidgin language. It is also related to Torres Strait Creole of Torres Strait, though more distantly.

Chinese language

dialect of Malay spoken in Pattani, Kelantan, and Besut

Galician–Asturian, also known as Eonavian or Eonaviego, (autonym: ; ; ) is a set of Romance dialects or falas whose linguistic dominion extends into the zone of Asturias between the Eo River and Navia River (or more specifically the Eo and the Frejulfe River). The dialects have been variously classified as the northeastern varieties of Galician, as a linguistic group of its own, or as a dialect of transition between Galician and Asturian, an opinion upheld by José Luis García Arias, the former president of the Academy of the Asturian Language (ALLA).

Portuguese-based creole spoken originally in Macau

dialect of Occitan

English-based creole spoken in Hawai'i

language spoken by the Wasi people in the Prasun Valley in Afghanistan

French variety of Maritime eastern Canada

variety of Arabic spoken by the Ṣa‘īdi people south of Cairo, Egypt to the border of Sudan

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Dardic language in the Indo-Aryan family, also called Gawri, Bashkarik, Kalam Kohistani, or Kalami, spoken in Kalam valley, Pakistan

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Pinghua is a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in parts of Guangxi, with some speakers in Hunan. Pinghua is a trade language in some areas of Guangxi, spoken as a second language by speakers of Zhuang languages. Some speakers are officially classified as Zhuang, and many are genetically distinct from most other Han Chinese. The northern subgroup is centered on Guilin and the southern subgroup around Nanning. The Southern dialect has several notable features such as having four distinct checked tones, and using various loanwords from the Zhuang languages, such as the final particle wei fo

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Scottish Gaelic dialects of eastern Canada

creole language spoken by the Gullah people in US

Malayic variety spoken in southern Sumatra

extinct Formosan language of northern Taiwan

spoken by up to 500,000 speakers (the Ibanag people) in the Philippines, in the northeastern provinces of Isabela and Cagayan

Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Botswana

Saharan language of eastern Niger and northern Chad

Portuguese-based creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe

dialect of High Alemannic German

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Fanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although it is used as a second language only, the number of speakers was estimated as "several hundred thousand" in 1975. By the time independence came–or in the case of South Africa, universal suffrage–English had become sufficiently widely spoken and understood

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