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- BJM definition "Bajelani is an Indo-Iranian language and considered a dialect of Gorani of the Northwestern Iranian language group with about 59 000 speakers, predominately around Mosul, near Khanaqin and near the Khosar valley." language.
- AIQ definition "Aimaq or Aimaqi is the dominant eastern Persian ethnolect spoken by the Aimaq people in central northwest Afghanistan (west of the Hazarajat) and eastern Iran. Aimaq is a member of the Western Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family." language.
- BOG definition "Bamako Sign Language is a sign language used in Bamako region in Mali. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- HEB definition "L’hébreu est une langue sémitique du Nord-Ouest de la famille des langues afro-asiatiques, utilisée depuis les temps bibliques par les Juifs. Il a été relancé en tant que langue parlée et littéraire au XIXe siècle. L’hébreu moderne est une des deux langues officielles d’Israël (l’autre étant l’arabe), tandis que l’hébreu classique est utilisé pour la prière ou l’étude au sein des communautés juives dans le monde d’aujourd’hui.L’hébreu a toujours utilisé un alphabet hébreu." language.
- NOR definition "Le norvégien appartient à la branche nord des langues germaniques. Il est parlé principalement en Norvège. Avec le suédois et le danois, le norvégien forme un continuum de variantes locales et régionales plus ou moins mutuellement intelligibles.Il existe deux formes officielles du norvégien écrit: le bokmål (littéralement «langue du livre») et le nynorsk (littéralement «nouveau norvégien»)." language.
- NLD definition "Le néerlandais est une langue germanique occidentale, dont le plus proche parent est l’allemand. Elle est parlée aux Pays-Bas, en Belgique (par environ 60 % de la population), au Suriname et dans les pays insulaires des Caraïbes (Aruba, Curaçao et Sint-Maarten). La version du néerlandais parlé en Afrique du Sud a été normalisée comme l’afrikaans." language.
- RIR definition "Ribun is a Dayak language of Borneo. It is closely related to the Jangkang (djo), Kembayan (xem), Semandang (sdm) and Sanggau (scg) languages. Ribun belongs to the Malayo-Polyneasian primary branch of the Austronesian language family. Two main morphological characteristics of the Malayo-Polynesian languages are a system of affixation and reduplication to form new words." language.
- VLS definition "Flemish (Vlaams) or Belgian Dutch is the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium.Differences between Flemish and Dutch are minimal. Using Flemish for the official language in Flanders is misleading: the only official language in Flanders is standard Dutch." language.
- HSN definition "Xiang or Hsiang also known as Hunanese, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages, spoken mainly in Hunan province but also in northern Guangxi and parts of neighboring Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces." language.
- CPX definition "Pu-Xian Min is a Chinese language that forms a branch of Min Chinese. Pu-Xian is a transitional variety of Coastal Min." language.
- MON definition "Le mongol est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues mongoles. Il est parlé en Mongolie et en Chine (notamment en Mongolie-Intérieure), ainsi qu’en Russie (notamment en Bouriatie et en Kalmoukie).Le mongol est un ensemble de langues et de dialectes qui utilisent de nombreuses formes d’écritures. Différentes écritures ont été créées spécifiquement pour cette langue, mais d’autres ont également été utilisées pour retranscrire les langues mongoles, telles que les caractères chinois han, l’alphabet latin et l’alphabet cyrillique légèrement modifié." language.
- XMS definition "Moroccan Sign Language is a sign language used in Morocco. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ZGH definition "Standard Moroccan Tamazight is a Berber language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Morocco. It is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh languages in Morocco. It has been an official language of Morocco since 2011." language.
- TNA definition "Tacana is a Tacanan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- PEO definition "Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Empire, is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire)." language.
- DZO definition "Dzongkha is a Sino-Tibetan language. It is the official language of Bhutan." language.
- YOR definition "Yoruba is an Atlantic-Congo language that belongs to the Volta Niger group spoken in West Africa, most prominently in Southwestern Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. Yoruba was – and still partially is – written in the Ajami script, a form of Arabic script but the language is mainly written in two special versions of the Latin alphabet, the Nigerian and the Beninese forms. It is part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family." language.
- GLG definition "Le galicien (galego) est une langue indo-européenne de la branche ibéro-romane occidentale, très proche du portugais. Il est principalement parlé dans la région autonome de Galice, située dans le nord-ouest de l’Espagne." language.
- SLK definition "Le slovaque est une langue appartenant au sous-groupe des langues slaves occidentales, principalement parlée en Slovaquie, où elle est protégée par une loi linguistique.Le slovaque est très proche du tchèque." language.
- KUR definition "Kurdish is a member of the Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Kurdish people in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. The term ‘Kurdish languages’ is also used instead of ‘Kurdish language’ because the dialects are not mutually intelligible without acquired bilingualism and the languages spoken by Kurds do not form a linguistic group. The principal Northern dialect, Kurmanji is written in the Latin alphabet while others use the Arabic script." language.
- KIN definition "Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of Rwanda." language.
- ZSL definition "Zambian Sign Language is a sign language used in Zambia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- KGI definition "Selangor Sign Language is a sign language used in Malaysia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- LAT definition "Latin is an extinct Indo-European language which was spoken in the ancient city of Rome and its empire. Modern Romance languages are continuations of dialectal forms (vulgar Latin) of the language.Additionally many students, scholars, and some members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and it is still taught in some educational institutions around the world. Latin is still used in the creation of new words in modern languages of many different families, and largely in biological taxonomy." language.
- SWE definition "Le suédois est une langue germanique septentrionale, parlée principalement en Suède et dans certaines parties de la Finlande. Il est en grande partie mutuellement intelligible avec le norvégien et le danois.Le suédois utilise deux genres: le neutrum et l’utrum qui rassemble les anciens genres masculin et féminin." language.
- MTP definition "Wichí Lhamtés Nocten is a Matacoan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- VSN definition "Vedic Sanskrit is the most ancient known precursor to Sanskrit, a language in the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature compiled over the period of the mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE." language.
- GSS definition "Greek Sign Language is a sign language used in Greece. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- LIT definition "Lithuanian is one of the two living members of the Baltic languages, the other being Latvian. It is the official language of Lithuania.The Lithuanian language is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining many features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other Indo-European languages." language.
- MSA definition "Malaysian, or Standard Malay, is the official language of Malaysia and a standardised register of the Malacca dialect of Malay. It is a compulsory subject in primary and secondary school. The Malaysian name for the language is Bahasa Malaysia (literally ‘the language of Malaysia’).The Malaysian language is normally written using a Latin alphabet called Rumi, though an Arabic alphabet called Jawi also exists." language.
- LSG definition "Lyons Sign Language is a sign language used in Lyon region in France. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SWE definition "Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken mainly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish.Swedish uses two genders: neutrum and utrum which unifies the old masculin and femenin." language.
- CAO definition "Chacobo is a Tacanan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- ASP definition "Algerian Sign Language is a sign language used in Algeria. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ZXX definition "It could be a feature for a DVD without any specific linguistic content (e.g. only music, we cannot say that the language of the DVD is English or French, etc.)." language.
- LLS definition "Lithuanian Sign Language is a sign language used in Lithunia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- YAA definition "Yaminava is a Panoan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- SPA definition "Spanish is a member of the Romance language family. It is spoken in Spain and in the continents of North and South America.Spanish is second after Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide. From the last decades of the 20th century, the study of Spanish as a foreign language has grown significantly." language.
- XHO definition "Xhosa is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of South Africa." language.
- ESO definition "Estonian Sign Language is a sign language used in Estonia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CSQ definition "Croatia Sign Language is a sign language used in Croatia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- IND definition "Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. It is a standardised register of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Most Indonesians also speak one of more than 700 indigenous languages. Most formal education, and nearly all national media and other forms of communication, are conducted in Indonesian. The Indonesian name for the language is Bahasa Indonesia (literally ‘the language of Indonesia’)." language.
- NSI definition "Nigerian Sign Language is a sign language used in Nigeria. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ARA definition "Parlée d’abord par les Arabes, cette langue sémitique qui se déploie géographiquement sur plusieurs continents s’étend sociologiquement à des peuples non arabes et est aujourd’hui la langue officielle de plusieurs organismes internationaux. L’arabe est aussi une des six langues officielles de l’Organisation des Nations unies.La diglossie est un caractère de la langue arabe, qui permet de distinguer l’arabe vernaculaire de l’arabe littéraire. Le niveau de langue littéraire comprend l’arabe classique (pré-coranique, coranique et post-coranique) et l’arabe standard moderne. Le niveau de langue vernaculaire comprend toutes les variantes des dialectes arabes régionaux.L’arabe utilise l’écriture arabe." language.
- FSE definition "Finnish Sign Language is a sign language used in Finland. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ARA definition "Arabic is a name for what are traditionally considered the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century. This includes both the literary language and varieties of Arabic spoken in a wide arc of territory, stretching across the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa. Arabic belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The literary language is called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic, which is a pluricentric, fusional language. It is currently the only official form of Arabic, used in most written documents as well as in formal spoken occasions, such as lectures and news broadcasts.Arabic is written using the Arabic script." language.
- ROM definition "Le romani est une langue néo-indo-européenne balkanisée appartenant à la branche indo-aryenne. Il est parlé principalement en Europe par les Roms.Les alphabets utilisés dans les différentes variantes du romani correspondent généralement à ceux des pays où vivent les communautés roms concernées. Les alphabets utilisés sont le latin, le cyrillique, l’arabe et le grec." language.
- PAU definition "Palauan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Palau." language.
- POL definition "Le polonais fait partie de la branche léchitique des langues slaves de l’Ouest. Il est parlé principalement en Pologne. Le polonais est la deuxième langue slave la plus utilisée après le russe." language.
- VSV definition "Valencian Sign Language is a sign language used in the Valencian community, in Spain. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- ADS definition "Adamorobe Sign Language is a sign language used in Adamorobe village in Ghana. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SSW definition "Swazi is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of South Africa." language.
- INS definition "Indian Sign Language is a sign language used in India. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- DEU definition "German is a West Germanic language, most closely related to Dutch and Yiddish. German is a pluricentric language, with multiple countries having their own standardised variants as well as many dialects. There is also one variant referred to as Standard German." language.
- TZM definition "Central Atlas Tamazight is a Berber language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Central Morocco as well as by smaller emigrant communities in France and elsewhere. It is one of the most-spoken Berber languages. It is officially written in the Tifinagh script for instruction in Moroccan schools while descriptive linguistic literature commonly uses the Latin alphabet, and the Arabic alphabet has also been used." language.
- ITE definition "Itene is a Chapacuran indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- ESE definition "Ese Ejja is a Tacanan indigenous language. It is one of the official languages of Bolivia." language.
- LZH definition "Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BC. For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary Chinese, which was used for almost all formal writing in China until the early 20th century. Each written character corresponds to a single spoken syllable, and almost always to a single independent word. As a result, the characteristic style of the language is comparatively terse." language.
- ITA definition "L’italien est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues romanes, parlée principalement en Europe du Sud. Parmi les langues romanes, l’italien est très proche du latin en termes de vocabulaire. La langue italienne adoptée par l’État après l’unification de l’Italie est fondée sur le dialecte de la Toscane.De nombreux locuteurs italiens sont bilingues et parlent aussi bien l’italien standard que les autres variantes régionales." language.
- GSE definition "Ghanaian Sign Language is a sign language used in Ghana. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- BEN definition "Le bengali ou bangla est une langue indo-iranienne (sous-branche indo-aryenne) de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Originaire de la région du Bengale à l’est du sous-continent indien, le bengali est la langue nationale du Bangladesh et la langue officielle dans certains États indiens. Le bengali, par sa grande diversité de variantes régionales, forme un continuum linguistique.Le 21 février 1952, plusieurs personnes furent tuées lors de manifestations pour le bengali. Pour cette raison, en 1999, l’Unesco a décidé de commémorer tous les 21 février comme la Journée internationale de la langue maternelle." language.
- FIN definition "Finnish belongs (with Estonian) to the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugrian languages from the Uralic family. Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish).Finnish is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages." language.
- GLA definition "Scottish Gaelic, sometimes also called Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to Scotland.Gaelic is an official language in Scotland and it is a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom, protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages." language.
- RUS definition "Russian is an East Slavic language with a close relation to Ukrainian and Belarusian. It is an official or unofficial but widely spoken language in some countries that were once constituent republics of the Soviet Union.Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.Russian is written by Cyrillic alphabet." language.
- TON definition "Tongan is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Tonga." language.
- TGK definition "Le tadjik ou tadjike est une langue appartenant au groupe iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Cette langue est proche du persan et du dari. Le tadjik est parlé en Asie centrale, principalement au Tadjikistan (dont il est la langue officielle), et par des minorités linguistiques en Afghanistan, en Iran, en Ouzbékistan et dans le Xinjiang, région autonome de Chine.Au Tadjikistan et en Ouzbékistan, la langue s’écrit au moyen d’un alphabet cyrillique augmenté de signes diacritiques. En revanche, dans les autres pays, elle est transcrite au moyen de l’alphabet perso-arabe. La langue fait partie du groupe persan dans la branche sud-ouest des langues indo-iraniennes." language.
- TZA definition "Tanzanian Sign Language is a sign language used in Tanzania. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- KVK definition "Korean Sign Language is a sign language used in South Korea. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MSA definition "Le malais ou malaisien (bahasa Malaysia, littéralement «langue de la Malaisie») est l’appellation officielle de la langue nationale de la Malaisie. Il exprime une volonté politique de fédérer les diverses communautés du pays grâce à une langue partagée par tous les citoyens. Le malaisien est une des formes du malais, appelé également «malais standard». Il est enseigné dans toutes les écoles du pays et sert d’outil de communication interethnique.Le malais moderne et l’indonésien s’écrivent avec l’alphabet latin, tandis que le malais classique utilise l’alphabet arabe." language.
- THA definition "Le thaï ou siamois ou Thai-An est une langue du groupe taï de la famille des langues taï-kadaï.Le thaï utilise un alphasyllabaire particulier (alphabet thaï) dérivé de l’alphabet khmer issu de l’alphabet pâli, adapté pour pouvoir transcrire le système tonal de la langue." language.
- POR definition "Portuguese is a member of the Ibero-Romance subgroup of the Romance languages. It is spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Macau (China), Equatorial Guinea and East Timor.Portuguese is the major language of the southern hemisphere." language.
- TUK definition "Le turkmène est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues turques, parlée en Asie centrale, principalement au Turkménistan.Le turkmène a été écrit avec un alphabet arabe adapté, puis un alphabet latin jusqu’en 1940. L’État soviétique force alors l’adoption d’une variante de l’alphabet cyrillique pour l’écriture du turkmène. Depuis 1997, l’alphabet officiel est une variante de l’alphabet latin avec quelques diacritiques, proche de celui du turc." language.
- BAM definition "Bambara, also known as Bamana, is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken natively by 4.2 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users. Bambara is a variety of a group of closely related languages called Manding, whose native speakers trace their cultural history to the medieval Mali Empire. It has a subject–object–verb clause structure and two lexical tones. 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.
- TPI definition "Tok Pisin is an English-based creole language. It is one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea." language.
- MIN definition "Minangkabau is an Austronesian language spoken by the Minangkabau of West Sumatra. The language is also a lingua franca along the western coastal region of the province of North Sumatra, and is even used in parts of Aceh, where the language is called Aneuk Jamee. It is also spoken in some parts of Malaysia.There are great grammatical similarities between the Minangkabau language and Malay." language.
- MLT definition "Le maltais est une langue sémitique, historiquement un dialecte de l’arabe, parlé à Malte. Environ la moitié du vocabulaire est dérivé de l’italien standard et de Sicile; les mots anglais constituent également une partie importante du vocabulaire maltais.Il est la seule langue sémitique écrite en alphabet latin dans sa forme standard." language.
- URD definition "Urdu is a standardised register of the Hindustani language. Urdu is historically associated with the Muslims of the region of Hindustan.Urdu is written right-to-left in an extension of the Persian alphabet, which is itself an extension of the Arabic alphabet. Urdu is associated with the Nastaʿlīq style of Persian calligraphy." language.
- HNM definition "Hainanese is a group of Min Chinese varieties spoken in the far southern Chinese island province of Hainan and regional Overseas Chinese communities such as in Singapore and Thailand." language.
- SOM definition "Le somali est une langue parlée dans la Corne de l’Afrique. Il appartient à la branche couchitique de la famille chamito-sémitique (également dite afro-asiatique).Différents systèmes d’écriture ont été utilisés pour transcrire le somali. L’alphabet latin somali est aujourd’hui le système d’écriture du somali le plus répandu." language.
- CMN definition "Le mandarin, est une catégorie des langues chinoises parlée dans le nord et le sud-ouest de la Chine continentale. Envisagée comme une langue, c’est celle qui compte le plus grand nombre de locuteurs dans le monde." language.
- SQI definition "L’albanais (shqip) forme une branche distincte de la famille indo-européenne. C’est la langue officielle de l’Albanie et il est également parlé au Kosovo, en Macédoine du Nord, en Italie et en Grèce. À la suite de la diaspora moderne, on rencontre aussi des albanophones dans d’autres parties du monde.L’albanais se subdivise en deux dialectes principaux: le Gheg (parlé au nord) et le Tosk (parlé au sud)." language.
- HAU definition "Hausa is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people, mainly within the northern half of Nigeria and the southern half of Niger, and with significant minorities in Chad, Benin and Cameroon. Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Hausa’s modern official orthography is a Latin-based alphabet called boko. Hausa has also been written in Ajami, an Arabic alphabet." language.
- HSL definition "Hausa Sign Language is a sign language used in Kano city in Nigeria. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SOM definition "Somali is an Afro-Asiatic language, belonging to that family’s Cushitic branch. It is spoken as a mother tongue by ethnic Somalis.A number of writing systems have been used for transcribing the language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet, officially adopted in 1972, is the most widely used." language.
- LBS definition "Libyan Sign Language is a sign language used in Libya. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- NEP definition "Le népalais est une langue de la famille indo-iranienne, parlée au Népal, en Inde et au Bhoutan. C’est la plus orientale des langues pahari, un groupe de langues et de dialectes parlés au pied de l’Himalaya depuis l’est du Népal jusqu’aux États indiens de l’Uttaranchal et de l’Himachal Pradesh.Le népalais s’écrit en devanagari." language.
- JPR definition "Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in 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. The language is part of the Persian group of the southwestern family of the Indo-Iranian languages." language.
- TUR definition "Turkish is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages in south-eastern Europe and western Asia. It is closely related to Azeri and Turkmen.In 1928, as one of Atatürk’s Reforms, the Arabic script was replaced with a Latin alphabet." language.
- SVK definition "Slovakian Sign Language is a sign language used in Slovakia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- CJY definition "Jinyu is a group of Chinese linguistic varieties spoken in northern China, including most of Shanxi province, much of central Inner Mongolia, and adjoining areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces. The status of Jin is disputed among linguists; some prefer to include it within Mandarin, but others set it apart as a closely related but separate sister group." language.
- EMK definition "Maninka (also known as Malinke), or more precisely Eastern Maninkakan, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké people in Guinea, where it is spoken by 3.1 million people and is the main language in the Upper Guinea region, and in Mali, where the closely related Bambara is a national language, as well as in Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, where it has no official status. It was the language of court and government during the Mali Empire. Mande languages 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.
- SLF definition "Swiss-Italian Sign Language is a sign language used in Switzerland by the Italian-speaking community. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- SOT definition "Southern Sotho is a Bantu language. It is one of the official languages of South Africa." language.
- ECS definition "Ecuadorian Sign Language is a sign language used in Ecuador. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- WLN definition "Walloon is a Romance language, a langue d’oïl dialect indigenous to the greater part of Wallonia, the French-speaking south part of Belgium.Numerous associations are working to keep the language alive. On a government level, Walloon is officially recognised as a regional indigenous language." language.
- FIJ definition "Fijian is a Malayo-Polynesian language. It is one of the official languages of Fiji." language.
- UZB definition "L’ouzbek est une langue appartenant au groupe des langues turques de la famille des langues altaïques. Il est surtout utilisé en Asie centrale, principalement en Ouzbékistan.L’alphabet ouzbek fut perso-arabe, latin, cyrillique et, à partir de 1992, à nouveau latin mais remanié. De nos jours, l’écriture en ouzbek cyrillique reste encore très largement employée. Les Ouzbeks de Chine utilisent un alphabet arabe modifié." language.
- JPN definition "Le japonais est la langue du Japon, parlée par le peuple japonais. Le japonais appartient à la famille isolée des langues japoniques. La langue japonaise utilise conjointement deux ensembles de caractères distincts: les kanjis, écriture logographique d’origine chinoise, et les kanas, système moraïque dérivé des kanjis. Les kanas se divisent eux-mêmes en deux groupes, les hiraganas et les katakanas. Les katakanas sont employés pour l’écriture de mots d’origine étrangère au Japon, et les hiraganas, pour noter la plupart des mots et affixes grammaticaux." language.
- LST definition "Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language is a sign language used in Trinidad and Tobago. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.
- MSR definition "Mongolian Sign Language is a sign language used in Mongolia. Sign languages are languages which mainly use signs made with the hands, the arms or the body and facial expressions." language.