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Number of languages. According to Glottolog, there are 109 languages spoken in Ethiopia, while Ethnologue lists 90 individual languages spoken in the country. [2] [3] Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo language, spoken by the Oromo, and Somali, spoken by the ...
Esperanto ( / ˌɛspəˈrɑːntoʊ /, /- æntoʊ /) [7] [8] is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or "the international language" ( la Lingvo Internacia ). Zamenhof first described the ...
Since the adoption of the 2013 Constitution, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, namely Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, and Xhosa. [3] [4] [5] Zimbabwe holds the Guinness World Record for the country with the largest number of official languages.
Simlish is a constructed language devised by game designer Will Wright for the Sims game series developed by Electronic Arts. During the development of SimCopter (1996), Wright sought to avoid real-world languages, believing that players would grow to show disdain for repetitive dialogue. For the release of The Sims, Maxis recorded hundreds of ...
Notes from Underground ( pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpólʹya; also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) [a] is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first ...
The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs [1] which was used in central Mexico by the Nahua people in the Epiclassic and Post-classic periods. [2] It was originally thought that its use was reserved for elites, however, the ...
Died. 24 May 1896. (1896-05-24) (aged 86) Saint-Cassin, French Third Republic. Political party. Historical Right. Luigi Federico Menabrea (4 September 1809 – 24 May 1896), later made 1st Count Menabrea and 1st Marquess of Valdora, was an Italian statesman, general, diplomat, and mathematician who served as the seventh prime minister of Italy ...
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Chamorro ( English: / tʃəˈmɒroʊ /; [2] Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam) [3]) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about 32,200 in the Northern Mariana Islands and elsewhere. [4]