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- CSE definition "Czech Sign Language is a sign language used in the Czech Republic. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ISE definition "Italian Sign Language is a sign language used in Italia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- PKS definition "Pakistan Sign Language is a sign language used in Pakistan. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SYY definition "Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language is a village sign language used by the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in Israel. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ZEM definition "Zeem is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. It belongs to the endangered Western Chadic sub-branch whose speakers are shifting to Hausa. Together with Tulai and Cha'ari, it forms the Nuclear Zeemic group." language.
- LTZ definition "Luxembourgish is a Germanic language which belongs to the West Moselle Franconian subgroup of German dialects. Luxembourgish is spoken mainly in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg." language.
- GSM definition "Guatemalan Sign Language is a sign language used in Guatemala. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SPA definition "L’espagnol fait partie de la famille des langues romanes. Il est parlé en Espagne et en Amérique du Nord et du Sud.L’espagnol est la deuxième langue après le mandarin en termes de nombre de locuteurs natifs dans le monde entier. Depuis les dernières décennies du XXe siècle, l’étude de l’espagnol comme langue étrangère a augmenté de façon significative." language.
- PRL definition "Peruvian Sign Language is a sign language used in Peru. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ROM definition "Romani (also Romany or Gypsy) is a Balkanised neo-Indo-European language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch. It is spoken principally in Europe by Romani people.The alphabets used in the different varieties of the Romany generally correspond to those countries where the corresponding Roma communities live. The alphabets of use are the Latin, the Cyrillic, the Arabic and the Greek alphabets." language.
- ASQ definition "Austrian Sign Language is a sign language used in Austria. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- DEH definition "Dehwari is a southwestern Persian language spoken by 19 000 Dehwar people in Balochistan, Pakistan as of 2018. Dehwari was introduced to the Brahui in the seventeenth century and Brahui has heavily influenced Dehwari. Dehwari is a member of the Western Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family." language.
- TAR definition "Central Tarahumara is a Southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico. Together with Lowland Tarahumara (tac), Southeastern Tarahumara (tcu), Northern Tarahumara (thh) and Southwestern Tarahumara (twr), it forms the Tarahumaran group. The native name of Tarahumara language is Rarámuri or Ralámuli ra'ícha." language.
- JPN definition "Japanese is an East Asian language spoken primarily in Japan. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, whose relation to other language groups is debated. Japanese has no genetic relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana and katakana. Latin script is used in a limited way, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals, alongside traditional Chinese numerals." language.
- NEP definition "Nepali or Nepalese is an Indo-Aryan language. It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Hong Kong and United Kingdom. Nepali developed in proximity to a number of Indo-Aryan languages, most notably Pahari and Magahi, and shows Sanskrit influences. Nepali language shares important lexical similarity with the Bengali language.The language is written by devanagari." language.
- SWB definition "Comorian is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of Comoros." language.
- CSF definition "Cuba Sign Language is a sign language used in Cuba. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- JUS definition "Jumla Sign Language is a sign language used in Jumla village in Nepal. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MOL definition "Moldavian or Moldovan is a name of the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova. The identity between the mother tongues of the Moldovans and Romanians has been officially acknowledged since the reintroduction of the Latin script in 1989; the 1991 Declaration of Independence of Moldova thereupon called the official language ‘Romanian’. Nevertheless, the 1994 Constitution only provided official status to ‘Moldovan’. In the early 2000s the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted a law defining ‘Moldovan’ and ‘Romanian’ as designations for the same language (glottonyms). The breakaway region of Transnistria continues to recognise ‘Moldovan’ as one of its official languages." language.
- KIR definition "Kyrgyz is a Turkic language spoken in Kyrgyzstan as well as China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Russia. Kyrgyz is a member of the Kyrgyz–Kipchak subgroup of the Kypchak languages, and modern-day language convergence has resulted in a mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz and Kazakh.In 1940 a Cyrillic alphabet eventually became common and has remained so to this day, though some Kyrgyz still use the Arabic alphabet. There was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make a transition to the Latin alphabet, but the plan has not been implemented yet." language.
- BZS definition "Brazilian Sign Language is a sign language used in Brazil. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SWA definition "Les langues swahilies (souahélies) sont un groupe de langues bantoues de l’Afrique de l’Est. Elles possèdent des caractéristiques communes et surtout un vocabulaire commun qui permet à un de leurs locuteurs de se faire plus ou moins comprendre des divers locuteurs de ce groupe de langues; on ne peut parler d’intercompréhension pour toutes ces formes tant la variété linguistique est grande. La plus utilisée et populaire de ces langues est le kiswahili, une version standardisée." language.
- THH definition "Northern Tarahumara is a Southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico. Together with Lowland Tarahumara (tac), Central Tarahumara (tar), Southeastern Tarahumara (tcu) and Southwestern Tarahumara (twr), it forms the Tarahumaran group. The native name of Tarahumara language is Rarámuri or Ralámuli ra'ícha." language.
- FAS definition "Le persan est la langue parlée en Iran (Perse), en Afghanistan et au Tadjikistan en tant que langue officielle, ainsi qu’au Bahreïn (minorité iranophone) et en Ouzbékistan (minorité tadjike). Il appartient au groupe indo-iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes.De nos jours, les langues persanes s’écrivent surtout au moyen de l’alphabet arabo-persan, variante de l’alphabet arabe. Au Tadjikistan et en Ouzbékistan, la langue tadjike s’écrit en caractères cyrilliques." language.
- PSL definition "Puerto Rican Sign Language is a sign language used in Puerto Rico. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CES definition "Le tchèque est une langue du sous-groupe occidental des langues slaves, parlée principalement en République tchèque.Le tchèque est une des langues les plus flexionnelles dans le monde." language.
- TAM definition "Le tamoul ou tamil est la langue des Tamouls, parlée dans l’Asie du Sud-Est. Le tamoul appartient à la famille des langues dravidiennes. C’est une des plus anciennes langues toujours parlées, restée quasi inchangée depuis environ 2 000 ans.Il s’écrit au moyen d’un alphasyllabaire dérivé du grantha." language.
- JOS definition "Jordanian Sign Language is a sign language used in Jordania. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SNA definition "Shona is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga) or specifically Standard Shona, a variety codified in the mid-20th century. Using the broader term, the language is spoken by over 14 000 000 people. The larger group of historically related languages – called Shona or Shonic languages – also includes Ndau (Eastern Shona) spoken in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique, and Kalanga (Western Shona) spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe." language.
- BOS definition "Le bosnien, parfois appelé «bosniaque», est une langue indo-européenne de la branche des langues slaves, groupe méridional de ces langues; il a pour base le dialecte chtokavien de l’entité linguistique appelée «langue serbo-croate».Le bosnien est écrit avec l’alphabet latin mais aussi avec l’alphabet cyrillique." language.
- 0E0 definition "Montenegrin is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian used by Montenegrins. It is based on the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian.Montenegrin uses more the Latin alphabet than the Cyrillic. In both alphabets there are two additional letters." language.
- CNR definition "Montenegrin is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian used by Montenegrins. It is based on the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian.Montenegrin uses more the Latin alphabet than the Cyrillic. In both alphabets there are two additional letters." language.
- BQY definition "Bengkala Sign Language is a sign language used in Bengkala and Kata Kolok villages in Bali. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- EST definition "Estonian belongs (with Finnish) to the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugrian languages from the Uralic family. It is the official language of Estonia.Estonian represents a transitional form from an agglutinating language to a fusional language." language.
- TAC definition "Lowland Tarahumara is a Southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken in northern Mexico. Together with Central Tarahumara (tar), Southeastern Tarahumara (tcu), Northern Tarahumara (thh) and Southwestern Tarahumara (twr), it forms the Tarahumaran group. The native name of Tarahumara language is Rarámuri or Ralámuli ra'ícha." language.
- NOB definition "Bokmål is an official written standard for the Norwegian language." language.
- DSE definition "Dutch Sign Language is a sign language used in Netherlands. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- BOF definition "Bolon is a Manding language of Burkina Faso. There are two dialects, White/Southern and Black/Northern; White Bolon is partially intelligible with Jula. Manding languages are a sub-branch of Mande languages that are part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family. However, as the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families and reject the Niger-Congo hypothesis." language.
- ISR definition "Israeli Sign Language is a sign language used in Israel. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- NMQ definition "Nambya is a Bantu language spoken by the Nambya people. It is spoken in northwestern Zimbabwe, particularly in the town of Hwange with a few speakers in northeastern Botswana. It is either classified as a dialect of Kalanga or as a closely related language. The Zimbabwean constitution recognises Nambya and Kalanga as separate indigenous languages. Nambya is one of Zimbabwe‘s 16 official languages." language.
- NDE definition "North Ndebele is the language spoken by the Zimbabwe Ndebele, also known as Matabele, in the Matabeleland region around the city of Bulawayo. It's a Bantu language of the Nguni group, closely related to Zulu. The Ndebele people of Zimbabwe are descendants of the followers of the Zulu military leader Mzilikazi, who left his home region in the early 19th century. North Ndebele is one of Zimbabwe‘s 16 official languages." language.
- MNP definition "Min Bei Chinese or Northern Min is a group of Min varieties spoken in Nanping prefecture of northwestern Fujian. Early classifications of varieties of Chinese, divided Min into Northern and Southern subgroups. Later on, it was argued that the primary split was between inland and coastal groups. In a reclassification that has been followed by most dialectologists since, Northern Min was restricted to inland dialects of Nanping prefecture, and the coastal dialects were classified as Eastern Min." language.
- KAL definition "Le groenlandais (kalaallisut) est une langue eskimo-aléoute parlée par un petit groupe de personnes inuites, en général bilingues danois-groenlandais, au Groenland. Il est très proche des langues inuites au Canada.Le groenlandais est une langue polysynthétique qui permet la création de longs mots en enchaînant les racines et les suffixes. Les noms et les verbes ont également une morphologie dérivationnelle complexe." language.
- ELL definition "Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to the southern Balkans, the Aegean Islands, western Asia Minor and Cyprus. It has the longest continuous recorded history of any European language.Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history.Greek roots are often used to coin new words for other languages; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of international scientific vocabulary." language.
- CZH definition "Huizhou Chinese is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken over a small area in and around the historical region of Huizhou, plus in southern Anhui and in neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Its classification is disputed, with some linguists classifying it as Wu Chinese, others as Gan, and still others setting it apart as a primary branch of Chinese." language.
- DOQ definition "Dominican Sign Language is a sign language used in Dominican Republic. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- EWE definition "Ewe belongs to the Gbe branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken in southeastern Ghana." language.
- UKL definition "Ukrainian Sign Language is a sign language used in Ukraine. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ESN definition "Salvadoran Sign Language is a sign language used in El Salvador. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- TET definition "Tetum is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of East Timor." language.
- CLS definition "Classical Sanskrit is a refined and standardized grammatical form that emerged in the mid-1st millennium BCE and was codified in the most comprehensive of ancient grammars, the Aṣṭādhyāyī ('Eight chapters') of Pāṇini." language.
- TVL definition "Tuvaluan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Tuvalu." language.
- JSL definition "Japanese Sign Language is a sign language used in Japan. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ZUL definition "Le zoulou est une langue appartenant au groupe nguni des langues bantoues (qui comprend également le xhosa et le ndébélé). C’est l’une des langues les plus répandues en Afrique.Le zoulou, comme toutes les langues indigènes d’Afrique du Sud, était une langue orale jusqu’à l’arrivée de missionnaires européens, qui l’ont transcrit en utilisant l’alphabet latin." language.
- KOR definition "Le coréen est une langue utilisée en Corée du Nord et en Corée du Sud. La classification du coréen est encore controversée. La plupart des linguistes le considèrent comme un isolat, tandis que d’autres le regroupent dans une hypothétique famille altaïque.L’alphabet qui sert à écrire le coréen est le hangeul; les hanja (sinogrammes employés dans cette langue) sont également utilisés, une assez grande partie du lexique étant d’origine chinoise." language.
- MKD definition "Le macédonien est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe méridional des langues slaves, parlée principalement en Macédoine du Nord." language.
- HDS definition "Honduras Sign Language is a sign language used in Honduras. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CMN definition "Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese language (a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family), spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Since the 14th century, Mandarin has served as a lingua franca for government officials and the courts, which is why it is also known as Guānhuà, meaning officials' speech. All varieties of Mandarin Chinese are tonal and largely analytic. When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers (nearly a billion) than any other language." language.
- EUS definition "Le basque (euskara) est une langue non indo-européenne d’origine incertaine et la seule langue vivante de l’Europe qui n’a pas de parents linguistiques connus. Il s’agit de la langue parlée par le peuple basque, qui est indigène et habite principalement au Pays basque, région couvrant une zone dans le nord-ouest de l’Espagne et le sud-ouest de la France." language.
- SCO definition "Le scots est une langue germanique parlée en Écosse et dans le nord de l’Irlande.Il est reconnu par le Royaume-Uni comme langue régionale de l’Écosse, selon la charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires." language.
- AFG definition "Afghan Sign Language is a sign language used in Afghanistan. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ISL definition "L’islandais est une langue indo-européenne appartenant à la branche nord germanique des langues germaniques. La grande majorité des locuteurs islandais vivent en Islande. La plupart des Islandais n’ont pas de noms de famille mais des patronymes. Les prénoms sont suivis par la forme au génitif du prénom du père (ou de la mère), complétée par «son» (fils de …) ou «dóttir» (fille de …), par exemple les enfants de Jón s’appellent ainsi Jónsson et Jónsdóttir." language.
- PRZ definition "Providencia Sign Language is a village sign language of Providence Island in the Western Caribbean. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MLT definition "Maltese is a Semitic language, historically a dialect of Arabic, spoken in Malta. About half of the vocabulary is derived from standard Italian and Sicilian; English words also make up an important part of the Maltese vocabulary.It is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script in its standard form." language.
- MZP definition "Movima is an indigenous language isolate. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- TRN definition "Trinitario is an Arawakan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- KAT definition "Le géorgien (kartuli) est la plus parlée des langues caucasiennes. C’est la langue officielle de la Géorgie.Le géorgien a son propre système d’écriture unique, l’alphabet géorgien.Le géorgien est la langue littéraire pour tous les sous-groupes régionaux de Géorgiens, y compris ceux qui parlent d’autres langues kartvéliennes." language.
- MAH definition "Marshallese is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of the Marshall Islands." language.
- HUN definition "Hungarian (Magyar), like Finnish and Estonian, belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. It is the official language of Hungary and is also spoken by communities of Hungarian people in neighbouring countries.In Hungarian, surnames precede Christian names." language.
- KIR definition "Le kirghiz ou kirghize est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues turques de la famille des langues altaïques. Il est parlé en Asie centrale, principalement au Kirghizstan (où il est la langue nationale), au Tadjikistan, au Xinjiang et en Afghanistan.On l’écrit au moyen de l’alphabet cyrillique, auquel trois lettres sont ajoutées, mais le kirghiz est parfois écrit en utilisant l’alphabet arabe, lui aussi complété. Le kirghiz est très proche du kazakh. Il est habituellement classé avec celui-ci ainsi que le tatar et le karakalpak au sein du groupe des langues kiptchak (ou branche turque occidentale)." language.
- UKR definition "L’ukrainien fait partie des langues slaves et partage de nombreuses caractéristiques grammaticales et lexicales avec d’autres langues de cette branche, le russe et le biélorusse. Il est parlé principalement en Ukraine.L’ukrainien s’écrit avec l’alphabet cyrillique." language.
- SKQ definition "Sininkere (Silinkere) is a language that belongs to the Soninke group of the Mande languages. It is a dialect of Soninke spoken in Burkina Faso. It is part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family." language.
- RUN definition "Kirundi is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of Burundi." language.
- LTC definition "Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions. Most scholars now believe that it records a compromise between northern and southern reading and poetic traditions from the late Northern and Southern dynasties period. This composite system contains important information for the reconstruction of the preceding system of Old Chinese phonology. Linguists sometimes refer to the system of the Qieyun as Early Middle Chinese and the variant revealed by the rime tables as Late Middle Chinese." language.
- RAR definition "Rarotongan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of the Cook Islands." language.
- PUQ definition "Puquina is an indigenous language isolate. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- JAD definition "Jahanka is a Manding language of Guinea-Bissau and Guinea. It is partially intelligible with Mandinka. Manding languages are a sub-branch of Mande languages that are part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family. However, as the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families and reject the Niger-Congo hypothesis." language.
- WLN definition "Le wallon est une langue romane, une langue d’oïl autochtone dans la plus grande partie de la Wallonie, la partie sud de Belgique parlant français.De nombreuses associations travaillent à garder la langue vivante. Au niveau du gouvernement, le wallon est officiellement reconnu comme une langue autochtone régionale." language.
- SCO definition "Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster.It is a recognised regional language of the United Kingdom, protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages." language.
- ZXX definition "Cela pourrait être un élément d’un DVD sans aucun contenu linguistique spécifique (par exemple: seulement de la musique; nous ne pouvons pas savoir si la langue du DVD est en anglais ou en français; etc.)." language.
- AED definition "Argentine Sign Language is a sign language used in Argentina. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- AZE definition "Azerbaijani or Azeri is a member of the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, spoken primarily in the Caucasus region. Azerbaijani and Turkish closely resemble each other.Azeri was written in the Arabic-Persian script, a modified Latin script and with a form of the Cyrillic alphabet. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Latin writing was introduced." language.
- URD definition "L’ourdou ou urdu est une langue appartenant au groupe indo-iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes.En Inde, il est connu sous le nom de «hindi» et s’écrit en caractères sanskrits, mais ses locuteurs musulmans le nomment «ourdou» et l’écrivent en caractères arabes, comme au Pakistan." language.
- TGK definition "Tajik is a variety of modern Persian spoken in Central Asia. Most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan (where it is the official language) and Uzbekistan. In Afghanistan the dialect is less influenced by Turkic languages and is called Dari. The standard language is based on the north-western dialects of Tajik. Tajik also retains numerous archaic elements in its vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar that have been lost elsewhere in the Persophone world, in part due to its relative isolation in the mountains of Central Asia.In Tajikistan and other countries of the former Soviet Union, Tajik Persian is currently written in Cyrillic script while the Perso-Arabic script is used in Iran and Afghanistan. The language is part of the Persian group within the southwestern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- WUU definition "Wu is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province and the part of Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu." language.
- SLV definition "Le slovène est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe méridional des langues slaves, parlée principalement en Slovénie.L’une des caractéristiques du slovène est qu’il a conservé l’usage grammatical du duel (qui représente exactement deux unités) en plus du singulier et du pluriel." language.
- SQI definition "Albanian (shqip) forms a separate branch of the Indo-European family. It is the official language of Albania and also spoken in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Italy and Greece.Albanian is divided into two major dialects: Gheg (spoken in north) and Tosk (spoken in south)." language.
- FSL definition "French Sign Language is a sign language used in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- TAM definition "Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken in South-East Asia.Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world; ‘the only language of contemporary India which is recognisably continuous with a classical past.’Tamil was written using a script called the vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava script. The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels, 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam. The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters." language.
- ISG definition "Irish Sign Language is a sign language used in Ireland and in Northern Ireland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- HMO definition "Hiri Motu is a simplified version of the Austronesian language Motu. It is one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea." language.
- ASF definition "Australian Sign Language is a sign language used in Australia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- NZS definition "New Zealand Sign Language is a sign language used in New Zealand. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CSP definition "Southern Ping Chinese is a member of a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in southern Guangxi, around the city of Nanning. Pinghua is a trade language 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." language.
- MVW definition "Machinga is a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Together with Makonde (kde), Matambwe (wtb) and Ndonde Hamba (njd), it forms the Makonde group. Noun class systems are a defining feature of Bantu languages and the basis for the identification of the whole Atlantic–Congo language family to which Machinga belongs as part of Volta-Congo primary branch." language.
- ASE definition "American Sign Language is a sign language used in the United States and most of anglophone Canada. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- KUR definition "Le kurde est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe iranien des langues indo-européennes, parlée par le peuple kurde en Iran, en Iraq, en Turquie et en Syrie. Le terme «langues kurdes» est également utilisé à la place de «langue kurde», parce que les dialectes ne sont pas mutuellement intelligibles sans bilinguisme acquis et les langues parlées par les Kurdes ne forment pas un groupe linguistique.Le principal dialecte du Nord, Kurmanjo, est écrit avec l’alphabet latin, tandis que d’autres utilisent l’alphabet arabe." language.
- SIN definition "Le cingalais est une langue appartenant au groupe indo-aryen de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Il est parlé à Sri Lanka.L’alphabet cingalais compte environ 50 lettres dont quelques-unes sont rarement utilisées dans l’écriture moderne." language.
- MZG definition "Monastic Sign Language is a sign language used by Christian monks, mainly in Europe. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- POR definition "Le portugais est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe ibéro-roman des langues romanes. Il est parlé au Portugal, au Brésil, au Mozambique, en Angola, au Cap-Vert, en Guinée-Bissau, à Sao Tomé-et-Principe, à Macao (Chine), en Guinée équatoriale et au Timor-Oriental.Le portugais est la langue la plus parlée de l’hémisphère Sud." language.