Hunsrik (Riograndenser Hunsrückisch) Overview Hunsrik (also written Hunsrík, Hunsrickisch; Portuguese: hunsriqueano or hunsriqueano riograndense) is a West Germanic variety spoken mainly in southern Brazil and in small border areas of Argentina and Paraguay. It is traditionally derived from the Hunsrückisch (Hunsrück) dialect group of Central (Middle) German and today exists as a distinct, contact-influenced language […]
The Hindi language
Hindi Language Hindi (हिन्दी, Hindī) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and serves as a lingua franca across much of northern and central India. Along with English, Hindi is one of the two official languages of the Government of India […]
The Hawaiian language
Hawaiian language (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) Overview.Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, historically the indigenous language of the Hawaiian Islands and the Hawaiian people. It is written with a Latin alphabet adapted in the 1820s and uses two important diacritics: the ʻokina (a glottal stop written as ʻ) and the kahakō […]
The Hausa Language
Hausa Language Hausa is a major Chadic language belonging to the Afroasiatic language family, and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch. It functions as both a native language and a lingua franca across much of West Africa, particularly in Nigeria and Niger, and has significant communities of speakers in Ghana, Cameroon, […]
The Guarani language
The Guaraní Language Guaraní (autonym: Avañeʼẽ, also spelled Avañe’ẽ or Ñeʼẽ guasu in various dialects) is a Native American language of the Tupían stock, best known for its wide use in Paraguay where it is one of the country’s official languages. It is remarkable in the Americas for surviving as a commonly used language across […]
The German Language
German Language German (Deutsch, [ˈdɔʏtʃ]) is a West Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is one of the world’s major languages, spoken as a native tongue by more than 95 million people and as a second language by tens of millions more. German serves as an official or co-official language in Germany, […]
The Greek language
Greek Language Classification and Related Languages Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Unlike other branches, which typically contain several distinct languages (such as Romance or Germanic), Greek is represented today by a single living language: Modern Greek. Within Indo-European, it is not directly grouped with any other extant language, though it […]
The Georgian language
Georgian Language Classification and Related Languages Georgian (ქართული, kartuli) is the official language of Georgia, a country situated in the South Caucasus. It belongs to the Kartvelian (or South Caucasian) language family, which is considered a small and independent family, unrelated to Indo-European, Turkic, Semitic, or other major groups. Within Kartvelian, Georgian forms the largest […]