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Malay language
(Encyclopedia)Malay language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...manual language
(Encyclopedia)manual language: see sign language. ...Maori language
(Encyclopedia)Maori language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Malagasy language
(Encyclopedia)Malagasy language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Irish language
(Encyclopedia)Irish language, also called Irish Gaelic and Erse, member of the Goidelic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Celtic languages). The history of Irish as a liter...Indonesian language
(Encyclopedia)Indonesian language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Italian language
(Encyclopedia) CEE Italian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of...Icelandic language
(Encyclopedia)Icelandic language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Spoken chiefly in Iceland, where it is the official languag...international language
(Encyclopedia)international language, sometimes called universal language, a language intended to be used by people of different linguistic backgrounds to facilitate communication among them and to reduce the misun...Latin language
(Encyclopedia) CEE Latin language, member of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Latin was first encountered in ancient times as the language of Latium, the region of central Italy in w...Browse by Subject
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