Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

* The rhyme structure is AABB ; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme, including the use of phrases in Latin, French and other non-English Languages

Languages are generally arbitrary and specify the meaning to be assigned to particular symbol sequences, the allowed range of values, methods to be used for synchronization, etc.

Languages using duodecimal number systems are uncommon.

Languages in the Nigerian Middle Belt such as Janji, Gbiri-Niragu ( Kahugu ), the Nimbia dialect of Gwandara ; the Chepang_language of Nepal and the Mahl language of Minicoy Island in India are known to use duodecimal numerals.

Languages spoken in Estonia are largely reflective of the ethnic groups composing the country, and thus have changed with historical trends affecting the ethnic makeup of the country.

Languages that are official within regions, provinces or federal units within a State ( for example Catalan in Spain ) are not classified as official languages of the State and may therefore benefit from the Charter.

Languages of South and East Asia, such as the Dravidian and Austronesian languages, typically do not have such voiced fricatives as and, which are very familiar to European speakers.

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

Languages having cases often exhibit free word order, since thematic roles are not dependent on position in a sentence.

Languages having the latter properties ( i. e., languages that are not stress-timed ) are a few minor languages spoken in Africa, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Hungarian.

Many salient observations on Irrealism in Art are found in Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art.

Today custom ICs and the field-programmable gate array are typically designed with Hardware Description Languages ( HDL ) such as Verilog or VHDL.

Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.

Languages may be classified as synthetic or analytic in their word formation, depending on the preferred way of expressing notions that are not inflectional: either by using word formation ( synthetic ), or by using syntactic phrases ( analytic ).

Languages: Dutch, English and Papiamento are official languages.

Languages with little inflectional morphology, such as English are particularly prone to such ambiguity.

According to the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages, four of the six major dialects of Occitan ( Provençal, Auvergnat, Limousin and Languedocien ) are considered " severely endangered ", while the remaining two ( Gascon and Vivaro-Alpine ) are considered " definitely endangered " (" severely endangered " essentially means that only elderly people still speak the language fluently, while " definitely endangered " means that adults speak the language but are not passing it on to their children ).

Languages are often described as having timing set primarily by accents, syllables, or moras, depending on how rhythm is established, though a language can be influenced by multiple approaches.

Languages do not generally allow words or syllables to be built of any arbitrary sequences of phonemes ; there are phonotactic restrictions on which sequences of phonemes are possible and in which environments certain phonemes can occur.

Languages written in the Latin alphabet run from left to right, unlike languages written in the Arabic alphabet.

Category: Languages written in Devanagari

The Dīwānu l-Luġat al-Turk ( Dictionary of Languages of the Turks ) was written by a prominent Karakhanid historian Mahmud al-Kashgari who may have lived for some time in Kashgar at the Karakhanid court.

In Tagalog, Visayan, and other Philippine Languages, it is also written as " ny " for most terms.

Other books he has written include Eiffel: The Language ( a description of the Eiffel language ), Object Success ( a discussion of object technology for managers ), Reusable Software ( a discussion of reuse issues and solutions ), Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages and Touch of Class.

There are many important literary works written in Kawi, most notably Empu Tantular's epic poem, " Kakawin Sutasoma " ( E. M. Uhlenbeck, 1964: " A Critical Survey of Studies on the Languages of Java and Madura ", The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff ), from which is taken the National motto of Indonesia: " Bhinneka Tunggal Ika ".

The 1999 Report written for the government by Bernard Cerquiglini identified 75 languages that would qualify for recognition under the government's proposed ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

In Linguarum Duodecim Characteribus Differentium Alphabetum Introductio ( An Introduction to the Alphabetic Characters of Twelve Different Languages ), published in 1538, Postel became the first scholar to recognize the inscriptions on Judean coins from the period of the Great Jewish Revolt as Hebrew written in the ancient " Samaritan " characters.

Category: Languages written in Latin script

Category: Languages written in Latin script

Category: Languages written in Latin script

Category: Languages written in Tibetan script

Category: Languages written in Latin script

Category: Languages written in Latin script

Category: Languages written in Latin script

The 1999 report written for the French government by Bernard Cerquiglini identified 75 languages ( just eight in continental France proper ) that would qualify for recognition under the government's proposed ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ( currently only signed but not ratified ).

Languages spoken include Mishmi, a Sino-Tibetan tongue with approximately 25000 speakers, written in both the Tibetan and Latin scripts.

His other books included Languages for War and Peace ( 1943 ), A Dictionary of Linguistics ( written with Frank Gaynor, 1954 ), All About Language ( 1954 ), Invitation to Linguistics: A Basic Introduction to the Science of Language ( 1965 ), and Weasel Words: Saying What You Don't Mean ( 1978 ).

Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austro-Asiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu ; and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.

Languages spoken include Adi, a Sino-Tibetan tongue with approximately 140 000 speakers, written in both the Tibetan and Latin scripts ; and Galo, an endangered language with 30 000 speakers, also in the Sino-Tibetan language family.

Languages used in the district include Apatani, Nyishi language, both a Tibeto-Burman language written in the Latin script.

Languages spoken include Adi, a Sino-Tibetan tongue with approximately 140 000 speakers, written in both the Tibetan and Latin scripts ; and Galo, an endangered language with 30 000 speakers, also in the Sino-Tibetan language family.

Languages Bhojpuri with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in the Devanagari scripts.