Sidamo is an Afro-Asiatic language, belonging to the Cushitic division, part of the Highland East Cushitic crowd. It is spoken in parts of southern Ethiopia. Sidamo can otherwise be referred to as Sidaama, Sidaamu Afoo, Sidaminya, or Sidámo ’Afó. Sidaamu Afoo is the ethnic autonym for the language, while Sidaminya is its given name in Amharic. Sidamo has over 100,000 L2 speakers. Sidamo used an Ethiopic script up until 1993, from which point forward it has used a Latin script. The languages within this Sidamo grouping contain alike, alternating phonological features.
Shona or Bantu language, inhabitant to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the name is also used to recognize people who speak one of the Shona language dialects: Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Ndau and Korekore. Shona is a most important language of Zimbabwe, along with Ndebele and the official business language, English. Shona is spoken by a large proportion of the people in Zimbabwe. Other countries where Shona language is spoken are Zambia and Botswana and Mozambique. Shona consist of the Karanga, Zezuru, and Korekore dialects and is spoken by appox 10.8 million people.
Shan or Tai-Yai/ Tai-Long, is a language of Tai and is spoken by about 3.3 million people in the Shan States of Burma which is the northeast of the country, and also in parts of northern Thailand and in the Xishuangbanna (Sipsongpanna) Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan region in southwestern China. The number of Shan speakers is not known in part because that of the Shan population is unfamiliar. Estimates of Shan people range from four million to 30 million, though the factual number is somewhere around six million, with about half speaking the Shan language. Shan is a tonal language.
Serer, occasionally called Serer-Sine “Serer proper” is a language of the Senegambian branch of Niger–Congo which is spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in the Gambia. It is one of the standard languages of Senegal. Serer is one of the Senegambian languages and is the most important language of the Serer people. The numbers of native speakers are appox 1.16 million. Not all Serer people speak Serer, about 200,000 speak Cangin languages as well.
Serbo-Croat also known as Serbo-Croatian and less frequently Bosnian/Croatian/Serbo-Croat (BCS), is a South Slavic language and the one of the most important language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro. It has four frequently intelligible typical varieties and is a pluricentric language. The total number of persons who affirmed their native language as either 'Bosnian', 'Croatian', 'Serbo-Croat ', 'Montenegrin', or 'Serbo-Croatian' in countries of the region is about 16 million.
Selkup language is a part of the Selkups languages, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language people. It is spoken by about 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The total number of native speakers are approximately 1,570 (1994). The allocation of population and speakers are 1,020 (2010 census), Central Selkup: 200 speakers, Northern Selkup: 1,000 to 1,500 speakers, Southern Selkup: less than 100 speakers (Salminen 2007). The Ethnic population is about 4,250.
Sardinian is the part Romance language with about 1.2 million speakers in Sardinia. It is written on most of the island of Sardinia (Italy). The Sardinian language is one of the most important elements of Sardinian cultural legacy, and there is activity committed to studying the language and acknowledging its meaning. It is measured the most traditional of the Romance languages in terms of phonology and is renowned for its Paleo sardinian substratum. Sardinian has been an official language on the island, mutually with other languages spoken there.
Sanskrit is the traditional language of Indian and the most important language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It is also one of the 22 representative languages of India. The name Sanskrit means “refined”, “consecrated” and “sanctified”. It has always been regarded as the ‘high’ language and used mostly for religious and scientific conversation. Sanskrit holds an important place in Indo-European studies.
Sango or Sangho is spoken mainly in the Central African Republic. There number of speakers are Sango in Chad and Congo-Kinshassa. It had approximately 1,600,000 to 5,000,000 second-language speakers as of the early 1970s, but only about 404,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns. It is also spoken as a trade language in southern Chad. There are about 400,000 native speakers and appox 5 million second language speakers.
Sandawe are found in the Dodoma area of Tanzania and is a language spoken by about 60,000 people. Language is used strongly among both adults and children and generally people are monolingual in these areas or divisions. Sandawe had usually been classified as a member of the Khoisan family since Albert Drexel in the 1920s. Sandawe is also at present (since 2002) studied by Sander Steeman of Leiden University with number of speakers as 5,000 (2009) which estimates from 30,000 to 90,000 natives
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