Pangasinan/Pangasinese is the official regional language, on the west side of the island of Luzon in the Philippines and is spoken by about 1.5 million people mainly in the province of Pangasinan. Pangasinan is an agglutinative language. There are also Pangasinan speakers in other parts of the Philippines, mainly in the province of Benguet, and in some areas of Zambales, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya and Ifugao, as well as by immigrant communities in the USA. It has a total population of the province of 2,434,086.
The Pampango/ Kapampangan or Pampangan language is one of the key languages of the Philippines and is spoken in the region of Pampanga. The language was spelled Capampañgan and is also called Pampango, and in the Kapampangan language: Amanung Sisuan, meaning the mother language. Kapampangan is also understood in some barangays of Bulacan and Nueva Ecija and by the Aitas or Aeta of Zambales. The southern half of the province of Tarlac and the northern portion of the province of Bataan also speak this language.
Pāli is the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism, which were written in Sri Lanka during the 1st century BC. It is spelled in number of ways like: Pali, Pāli, Paḷi, Pāḷi. Pali is a written language, but it has no unique script. Pāli has been written in a variety of scripts, including Brahmi, Devanāgarī and also using a version of the Latin alphabets.
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Palauan/Belauan is a member of the Austronesian language family, and is one of only two indigenous languages in Micronesia that is not part of the Oceanic branch of that family, the other being Chamorro. spoken in Palau, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands by about 14,000 people and also belongs to Sunda-Sulawesi branch. Palauan is one of the official languages of Palau, along with English. A Latin-based alphabet for Palauan was devised by the Palau Orthography Committee and linguists from the University of Hawaii.
Pahlavi language/ Pehlevi language is the part Indo-European family of languages and a subfamily of Indo-Iranian. It has the characteristics of a distinct language, but is not one. Pahlavi is the form of the Persian language that followed Old Persian and preceded Modern Persian. It is also called Middle Persian, it was used during the Sassanid, or Sassanian, rule of Persia (3d to 7th cent. A.D.) . It is defined as a system of writing applied to a specific language group, but with significant features alien to that language group.
Oriya, officially spelled Odia is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Oriya is the principal and regional language of Odisha. It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Odisha and in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.
The Nyoro language is a local language of the Nyoro people of Uganda. It is basically belongs to the Niger–Congo family, Benue–Congo subgroup, Bantu branch (Nyoro–Ganda group). There are approximately 700,000 native speakers. In regards to the dialects they have two dialects: Orunyoro (Nyoro proper) and Rutagwenda.
Minangkabau is an Austronesian language. It is mainly spoken in the regions of Indonesia and in some parts of Malaysia. There are around 8.5 million speakers of Minangkabau language. Minangkabau is written with the Latin alphabet but it is written with a version of the Arabic alphabet.
Micmac, also known as Mikmaq, is an Algonquian language. It is spoken mainly in Canada and the USA. There are around 8,000 speakers of Micmac language majorly in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Some of the speakers in Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Maine. Micmac was originally written with a ‘hieroglyphic’ system.