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111Uralic languages — Family of more than 30 languages spoken by some 25 million people in central and northern Eurasia. A primary division is between the Finno Ugric languages, which account for most of the languages and speakers, and the Samoyedic languages. The… …
112Turkic languages — Family of more than 20 Altaic languages spoken by some 135 million people from the Balkans to central Siberia. The traditional division of Turkic is into four groups. The southeastern or Uighur group comprises Uighur, spoken mainly in Xinjiang,… …
113Indo-Aryan languages — Indo Aryan Indic Geographic distribution: South Asia Linguistic classification: Indo European Indo Iranian Indo Aryan …
114List of Germanic languages — The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is a part of the Indo European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.… …
115Germanic languages — Branch of the Indo European language family, comprising languages descended from Proto Germanic. These are divided into West Germanic, including English, German, Frisian, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Yiddish; North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish,… …
116Scandinavian languages — Introduction also called North Germanic languages group of Germanic languages consisting of modern standard Danish (Danish language), Swedish (Swedish language), Norwegian (Norwegian language) (Dano Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic… …
117North Germanic languages — North Germanic Scandinavian Geographic distribution: Northern Europe Linguistic classification: Indo European Germanic North Germanic …
118Iranian languages — This article is about the Iranian languages. For languages spoken in Iran, see Languages of Iran. For the official language of Iran, see Persian language. Iranian Geographic distribution: Southwest Asia, Central Asia, and western South Asia… …
119Dravidian languages — Family of 23 languages indigenous to and spoken principally in South Asia by more than 210 million people. The four major Dravidian languages of southern India Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam have independent scripts and long documented… …
120Tibeto-Burman languages — Introduction language group within the Sino Tibetan family (Sino Tibetan languages). At the end of the 20th century, Tibeto Burman languages were spoken by approximately 57 million people; countries that had more than 1 million Tibeto… …
