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Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages (1969 bytes)
1: '''Subclass PB: Modern languages. Celtic languages''' is a classification used by the [[Library of C...
9: <td colspan="4">Modern languages; [[Celtic language]]s</td>

Bété languages (654 bytes)
1: The '''B&eacute;t&eacute; languages''' are spoken in south-eastern [[Côte d'Ivoire]]....
11: They belong to the [[Kru languages|Kru language]] family.
14: ...bid=2869 Ethnologue listing of B&eacute;t&eacute; Languages]
17: [[Category:Kru languages]]
18: [[Category:Languages of Côte d'Ivoire]]

Little languages (259 bytes)
1: ...named by [[Jon Bentley]]. Some examples of little languages are tbl and grap for the [[troff]] environment.

Araucanian languages (643 bytes)
1: The '''Araucanian languages''' are an indigenous [[language family]] of centr...
3: Two Araucanian languages are still spoken. The most widely spoken is [[Map...

Algic languages (814 bytes)
1: The '''Algic languages''' are an [[indigenous]] [[language family]] of [...
3: Most Algic languages are part of the [[Algonquian]] subfamily, which w...
5: ...r Algic languages are the [[Yurok]] and [[Wiyot]] languages of northwestern [[California]]. The last known W...
7: ===Algic languages===
8: * [[Algonquian languages]]

Arawakan languages (3746 bytes)
1: The '''Arawakan languages''' are an indigenous [[language family]] of [[Sou...
6: ...ompound name to include [[Arawak]] with the "nu-" languages. But the compound name was too clumsy and was soo...
8: The Arawakan languages are spoken over a large swath of territory, from ...
11: ...osest relative among the better attested Arawakan languages seems to be the [[Goajiro]] language spoken in [[...
13: ...ather it resembles, although not too closely, the languages of the [[Llanos de Orinoco]] such as [[Achagua]]....

Hokan languages (2334 bytes)
1: ... [[North America]] by [[Native American]]s. Hokan languages were mostly spoken in what is now [[California]],...
3: ...stal groups. Some linguists include the [[Chumash languages]] here; others classify them in a separate family...
5: Most Hokan languages are now extinct.
7: ===Hokan languages (28)===
8: * Esselen-Yuman languages (10)

Ryukyuan languages (3813 bytes)
1: ...sus among Ryukyuanists that there are 6 different languages.
10: ...nd as a native language, while the other Ryukyuan languages, although they are losing ground, are slipping on...
12: ..., [[Palauan language|Palauan]], and other various languages were considered dialects of [[Japanese language|J...
14: ...s]], nobody would question the status of Ryukyuan languages as [[independent]] from Japanese.
16: ...lly similar to [[Tokyo]] Japanese. Other Ryukyuan languages such as Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are even fu...

Carib languages (1234 bytes)
1: ...rn branch (21 languages) and a southern branch (8 languages).
3: ... until the 1920's, is classified as an [[Arawakan languages|Arawakan language]], as is [[Garífuna]], a langua...
5: '''Northern Carib languages'''
28: '''Southern Carib languages'''
38: [[Category:Native American languages]]

Yukaghir languages (879 bytes)
1: ...ribution of Yukaghir, Finnic, Ugric and Samoyedic languages]]
2: ... '''Yukaghir languages''' are a family of related languages spoken in [[Russia]] by the [[Yukaghir]], a [[Sib...
9: ...been suggested that it is related to the [[Uralic languages]]. The entire family is regarded as endangered.
11: ''See also:'' [[Paleosiberian languages]].
13: [[Category:Languages of Russia]]

Andamanese languages (8154 bytes)
2: ...arily speakers of [[Hindi]]; the South Andamanese languages survive mainly because of their greater isolation...
6: ...the "aka-" at the beginning of so many Andamanese languages' names is actually the prefix for objects related...
8: ... almost identical throughout the Great Andamanese languages; Aka-Bea will serve as a representative example (...
46: ...udging from the available sources, the Andamanese languages have only two [[cardinal number]]s: [[one]] and [...
48: ==The languages and their classification==

Amerind languages (814 bytes)
1: ...d [[language family]], and instead classify these languages into many smaller families.
13: [[Category:Proposed languages]]

Languages of the Philippines (9251 bytes)
1: ... and sometimes trilingual--speaking both official languages in addition to their regional tongue.
4: ==Native Languages ==
6: ...panish missionaries preached the natives in local languages.
8: ...buano language|Cebuano]], a subgroup of [[Visayan languages|Visayan]], in a close second place. Since [[1939]...
10: Languages including other minor languages:

Languages of the Caucasus (12376 bytes)
1: ...e [[Caspian Sea]]. Linguistic studies allow those languages to be classified into several language families, ...
7: * '''[[South Caucasian languages|South Caucasian]]''', also called the '''Georgian...
9: * '''[[Northwest Caucasian languages|Northwest Caucasian]]''', also called '''Abkhaz-A...
11: * '''[[North Central Caucasian languages|North Central Caucasian]]''' or '''Nakh''' family...
13: ...d connections between this family and the extinct languages [[Hurrian language|Hurrian]] and [[Urartian langu...

Penutian languages (1738 bytes)
1: ...]], [[Oregon]], and [[California]]. Many Penutian languages are endangered, with few remaining speakers.
3: ==Penutian languages==
5: * [[Chinookan languages]]
8: * [[Maiduan languages]]
13: * [[Oregon Penutian languages]]

Tai languages (4526 bytes)
1: ...s include the most widely spoken of the Tai-Kadai languages, including [[Thai language|Thai]], the national l...
5: ===Tai languages===
6: * Central Tai languages (6)
13: * Northwestern Tai languages (1)
15: * Northern Tai languages (4)

Phoenician languages (3751 bytes)
6: |family=[[Afro-Asiatic languages]]<br>
7: &nbsp;[[Semitic languages]]<br>
8: &nbsp;&nbsp;[[Caananite languages]]<br>
15: ..., etc. - and occasional glosses in books in other languages; Roman authors such as [[Sallust]] allude to book...
31: [[Category:Canaanite languages]]

Languages of Gabon (3305 bytes)
5: ...e peoples come in contact may learn several Bantu languages.
7: ...bonese government sponsored research on the Bantu languages starting in the [[1970s]], and may possibly use s...
9: ...bout 25-30% of the speakers. The remainder of the languages are single-digit percentages, and some have only ...
11: == Languages ==
56: ...w_country.asp?name=Gabon Ethnologue.com report on languages of Gabon]

Sko languages (442 bytes)
1: The "Sko Phylum" is a group of languages spoken mainly along the coast of [[Sandaun Provin...

Alarodian languages (2986 bytes)
1: ...ngush]]), as well as the extinct [[Hurro-Urartian languages]].
5: ... However the genetic relationships between these languages is not clear.
7: Further research on this group of languages was later published by [[K. Ostir]] (1921, 1922),...
11: ...d [[Laz language|Laz]]) into an [[Ibero-Caucasian languages|Ibero-Caucasian language family]]. However, there...
15: * [[Languages of the Caucasus]]

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