Flemish is West Germanic language which is strongly related to Dutch and generally regarded as the Belgian alternative of Dutch. Flemish is spoken by approx 5.5 million people in Belgium and by a few thousand people in France. It is spoken by about 55% of the population of Belgium. Although linguists choose the term ‘Netherlandic’, Dutch and Flemish remain common terms due to political and cultural meaning. Also, Flemish speech has similar wordings from French language.
Dida is one of the language of Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa and is part of the Kru languages. Dida is of the Kru family spoken in Ivory Coast and divides into two groups, Yocoboué Dida (101,600 speakers in 1993) and Lakota Dida (93,800 speakers in 1993), each is dialectically diverse. Yocoboué (Yokubwe) consists of the Lozoua (Lozwa) and Divo dialects (7,100 and 94,500 speakers), and Lakota the Lakota (Lákota), Abou (Abu), and Vata dialects.
Spoken in the Dhundari region of northern Rajasthan state of India, Dhundari is an Indo- Aryan language. It is believed that the name Dhundari has primarily two origins. The first opinion is that name Dhundari is derived from Dhundh or Dhundhakriti Mountain which is situated in Jaipur, secondly, it is believed that the Dhundari is named after a river situated in this region. According to the census report of 1991, there are 9,65,008 Dhundari speakers in India.
The name Dayak is used for the languages of the Dayak people who speaks languages of Borneo separately from varieties of Malay and language of Chinese, Indian, and European origin. They belong to two dissimilar branches of the Austronesian language family according to recent (2008) classifications, the various groups of Bornean and Sabahan languages (including Land Dayak), and the Ibanic languages of the Malayic branch, distinguished as Malayan Dayak (Sea Dayak).
Dari language is the section of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages beside Pashto which is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi (Persian) which is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, and has many Arabic and Persian similar words. The grammar of Dari does not differ extremely from Farsi, but the stress tone of voice is less well-known in Dari than in Farsi.
For about 100,000 Damara people live in Namibia and they share a common language with the Nama but have no similarity. The Damara have perplexed anthropologists as they are a group of Bantu origin who speak a Khoisan. The Damara are an ethnic group of central and southern Namibia who are divided into different tribes. Traditionally the Damara community consists of a number of subdivisions, called haoti. Among 80 000, they represented 8.2% of Namibia’s population and was founded in 1970 as Damaraland and geographically bordered by the Odendaal Report.
Cook Islands Maori is widely spoken version of Maori and sometimes called Rarotongan after the capital island .The total number of speakers are about 42,700 that includes inhabitant of Atiu, Aitutaki, Mitiaro, Mauke and Mangaia where they speak in their own accent and words. Most Cook Islanders call it Te reo Ipukarea which means “the language of the Ancestral Homeland”. Cook Islands Māori became an official language of the Cook Islands in 2003 which is directly related to Tahitian and New Zealand Māori.
Chinese is the most spoken language of the world in terms of the number of native speakers in the world with around 935 million native speakers. Chinese is official language of China, Taiwan, Singapore, Wa State and Brunei. Besides, it’s recognized as minority language in United States, Malaysia and Philippines. It is also one of the official languages of United Nations. Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are the scripts in which Chinese language can be written and Mandarin, Taiwanese and Cantonese are the spoken forms of the language.
Cantonese is predominantly spoken in Chinese communities instead of Mandarin. The total number of Cantonese speakers is estimated to be 62 million people. Cantonese is widely spoken in Singapore, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia & Canada. Cantonese is mainly considered as an oral language. Cantonese is unique among the major Chinese languages due to the fact that it has well-preserved more characteristics of Ancient Chinese than others forms of Chinese.
Bosnian is a standardized South Slavic language and it is spoken by the Bosniaks. It is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with Croatian and Serbian. It is spoken by an about 2.7 million people. The modern Bosnian language primarily made use of a Latin alphabet script. It is very similar to spoken Serbian and Croatian.
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