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write the name of every language in the whole world and from which country it has originated.the person who tells all the info. gets 10 points!!

2006-07-29 02:14:51 · 11 answers · asked by ♀guardian of angels♀ 3 in Entertainment & Music Polls & Surveys

don't u think this is the toughest question u have ever faced??

2006-07-29 02:20:22 · update #1

11 answers

Sorry, but not worth the time for just 10 points. Thanks for the 2 though!

2006-07-29 02:18:44 · answer #1 · answered by Paige 5 · 0 1

2 point

2006-07-29 09:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

sorry, i am not desperately in need of your 10 points.your question is not difficult it is stupid. you don't have to ask anybody. you can go to a particular site mentioned above & find out for yourself. & get that points yourself.

2006-07-29 09:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i dont thnk u will hve anyone to give 10 pts for ur answer

2006-07-29 09:18:53 · answer #4 · answered by wwwshailja 2 · 0 0

sorry dude, there's not enough space in the answer box, and besides there are so many "lost" or "dead" languages that nobody knows about.

2006-07-29 09:18:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Dear follow this link and become an expert in languages
http://www.123world.com/languages/
http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html

All....THE....BEST

2006-07-29 09:21:36 · answer #6 · answered by RAM 3 · 0 0

Why bother? Just visit this site: http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp

2006-07-29 09:26:25 · answer #7 · answered by XF 2 · 0 0

http://www.123world.com/languages/

Theres too many to write on here so heres the web page

2006-07-29 09:21:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You're kidding, right?

2006-07-29 09:21:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Afrikaans
The language Afrikaans has its roots in seventeenth century Dutch but it has been influenced by many languages including: English, Malay, German, Portuguese, French and some African languages.


Arabic
This site will enable you to initiate yourselves with written Arabic language. It comprises several lessons which contain texts, sounds and explanations. Each Arab word is accompanied by its translation in english, its transcription and its pronunciation.


Arkian
Arkian is language of Ark Maramia. The language has been influenced by many traditions: long history of Vitga, the native pre-Hiberan languages and the diverse cultural backgrounds in different regions.


Assyrian
Assyrian is the root language of Hebrew, Arabic, and the alphabet for Greek, Farsi (Persian), Georgian, Turkish (uighur script) which also begat the Mongolean script. So, if you master this language, then you will be speaking one of the oldest, rarest languages in the world.


Asturian
This site offers loads of news and information about this romance language spoken on the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.


Alurian




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Basque Language-Euskara
Euskara appears to have always been spoken by a rather small community, never beyond 600.000 or 700.000 individuals in its known history. In the Middle Ages, the geographical area where Euskara was the main language covered all the Basque Provinces in their entirety, except for the western tip of Biscay and the southernmost tip of Navarre and Alava.


Bengali
The vast majority of the people of Bangladesh speak Bengali (Bangla). Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language and evolved from Sanskrit. The language plays an extremely important role in the hearts and minds of Bangladeshis.


Berber
There are many cross connections between the Berber people living in North Africa and the ancient stories of the Libyan Amazons! First of all, the Libyan Amazons were located in that part of Africa where the Berber peoples lived and still live. The Berbers are supposed to be aborigines.


Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri is a dialect of Hindi, the official language of India, which is spoken as mother tongue mainly in western part of the state of Bihar and eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and some adjoining area of Nepal (the land locked country and the only Hindu Nation of the world). Bhojpuri is spoken on all the six continents.


Brazilian Portugese
Portuguese (portugu黌) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. With more than 200 million native speakers, Portuguese is one of the few languages spoken in such widely-distributed parts of the world, and is the fifth or sixth most-spoken first language in the world. Since Brazil has about 51% of South America's population, Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in South America.


Buhi
Buhi is an Austronesian language used in the Philippines particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon.


Bulgarian
Bulgarian is the native tongue of some 9 million people, most of whom live in Bulgaria, where it is the official language. It is also spoken to some extent in bordering and nearby countries.



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Catalan
Catalan (Catal・ Valenci・ is a Romance language spoken by as many as approximately 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of Catalan speakers are in Spain.


Chichewa
Chichewa/Chinyanja is a language of the Bantu family widely spoken in south-central Africa. This site provides information on this language and places where further information can be found.


Chinese
The Chinese language is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Although Chinese is often regarded as a single language, regional variations in dialect, grammar and vocabulary are comparable to those of Romance languages. However, all of the spoken varieties of Chinese share a common formal written language, Vernacular Chinese, written using a nearly identical set of Chinese characters.


Church Slavonic
The Church Slavonic language is the liturgical language of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church and other Slavic Orthodox Churches. Historically, this language is derived from the Old Church Slavonic language by adapting pronunciation and orthography and replacing some old and obscure words and expressions by their vernacular counterparts (for example from the Old Russian language).



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Degaspregos
One of the more interesting, or at least more exotic aspects of Degaspregos is its system of evidentiary. Evidentiary is a system within a language which tells the hearer how the speaker came about the knowledge that he is trying to communicate.


Dongxiang
The Dongxiang language belongs to the Mongol branch of the Altaic languages. The spoken language does not make a distinction between short and long vowels.


Dutch
Dutch is not only the language of 16 million people in the Netherlands, but also of 6 million people in Flanders, Belgium.


English
The English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002.


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Farsi
Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. It is the language of Iran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountain region.


French
French is spoken by about 124 million people in the world. It is thus one of the most spoken languages of the world. Speakers are from France (60 million), Qu饕ec, Belgium, Switzerland, Ha・i, French Guiana, Monaco, Africa, Southwest Asia and French Polynesia.



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German
German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union.


Greek
The Greek language is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. Ancient Greek in its various forms was the language both of classical Greek civilization and of the origins of Christianity, and was a first or second language over a large part of the Roman Empire.


Gujarati
Gujarati is the official language of Gujarat state, on the west coast of India, with an area of 196,024 square kilometers. Within the Republic of India, Gujarat borders with Rajasthan, Madhyapradesh, and Maharashtra; it also borders with Pakistan to the northwest. The languages spoken in the areas contiguous to the Gujarat within India are Marwari, Hindi, and Marathi.



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Hausa
Hausa is spoken by an estimated 22 million native speakers, plus an additional 17 million second language speakers (information from Ethnologue). The largest native speaking population is in northern Nigeria, where Hausa is the native language of the majority of the population and a universal lingua franca regardless of a speaker's first language.


Hawaiian
Hawaiian is the ancestral language of the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands, the Hawaiians, a Polynesian people. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the State of Hawai'i. It is notable for having a small phoneme inventory like many of its Polynesian cousins.


Hindi
Hindi is a direct descendant of Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha. It has been influenced and enriched by Dravidian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Portugese and English. It is a very expressive language. In poetry and songs, it can convey emotions using simple and gentle words. It can also be used for exact and rational reasoning.


Hmong
The Hmong language branches into two dialects: White Hmong and Blue (or Green) Hmong. The colors in these names represent the colors used in the traditional women's costumes of the different groups, reflecting somewhat different cultural heritages and residential distributions in distinct regions of China.



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Irish
Irish (Gaeilge) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland and in small communities in Canada and Argentina. Irish is constitutionally recognised as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland, and has recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland, under the Good Friday Agreement alongside the varieties of Lowland Scots spoken in Northern Ireland.


Italian
Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of who live in Italy. Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North.



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Jameld
Jameld is a constructed language, a language which has been designed - in this case for personal amusement and enlightenment, and to explore the possibilities and workings of language within a familiar environment (viz. as an imaginary member of the Germanic language family, related to Dutch, Frisian and German).


Japanese
Japanese is believed to be linked to the Altaic language family, which includes Turkish, Mongolian and other languages, but also shows similarities to Austronesian languages like Polynesian.


Kankonian
Kankonian offers one of the larger lexicons on the Web, with a dictionary of over 5,500 words. This extraterrestrial language is vaguely reminescent of the tongues of the Middle East, but it is based directly on no human language, with the vocabulary designed according to the author's sense of the most natural set of sounds for each idea.


Konkani
Due to the tumultuous events, the Konkani community (called the Konkanis) has fragmented and spread throughout the west coast of India. Their language, Konkani had to suffer the same indignation. The Marathi community called it a dialect of Marathi and did not recognize it. The Konkani language did not receive the respect or status it deserved and it resulted in lack of literature or patronage of the language.



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Lakhota
This is a Native American owned and operated site for Natives and Non-Natives interested in the Lakhota Language and Culture. Lakota is a language spoken by the Native American Lakota people. It is part of the Siouan language family.


Loglan
Loglan was originally developed in the 1950s, and an early version was described in the Scientific American for June 1960. Since then, Loglan (a logical language) has continued to develop and expand. One aim in its development was to make the grammar free from ambiguity, and that aim has been achieved.



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Malat (now Minyeva)
Minyeva is a systematic conlang (constructed language). Some of Minyeva's design is based on the philosophies of Rick Morneau's monograph. Other ideas are taken from logical languages like Lojban. Bits and pieces are inspired from other conlangs and even natlangs (natural languages). A good chunk of it is just inspiration


Marathi
Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. It is spoken in Maharashtra state by about 70 million people. Like many other Indian languages, Marathi is derived from Sanskrit and is believed to have separated from the other languages in its group about a thousand years ago. Other names for the language are Maharashtri, Maharathi, Malhatee and Marthi.



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Nepali
The national language of Nepal is known as "Nepali". According to the most recent official census, conducted by His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMG) in 2001, Nepal is home to around 20 million speakers of Nepali. Nepali is the mother tongue for 11 million people, and a lingua franca for many more.



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Occitan
Occitan, or langue d'oc is characterized by its richness, variability, and by the intelligibility of its dialects is spoken by 2 to 10 million people in France, Italy, and Spain 8. An estimated 7 million people in France understand the language.



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Portugues
Portuguese is predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. With more than 200 million native speakers, Portuguese is one of the few languages spoken in such widely-distributed parts of the world, and is the fifth or sixth most-spoken first language in the world. Since Brazil has about 51% of South America's population, Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in South America.


Punjabi
Punjabi is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. It is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian subfamily. Also, as an adjective, the word Punjabi qualifies anything or anyone that is related to either Punjab or the Punjabi language, such as the speakers of Punjabi, inhabitants of Punjab or the Punjabi cuisine of the region.


Quechua
Quechua ("qheshwa") is an indigenous language of the Andean region, spoken today by approximately 13 million people in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Northern Chile, Argentina, and Southern Colombia. It was the official language of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca Empire.



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Russian
Russian is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, including English, French, and Irish.



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Sanskrit
The Sanskrit language is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a classical language, but also an official language of India. It has a similar position in India to that of Latin and Greek in Europe, and is a central part of Hindu/Vedic traditions.


Sinhalese
Sinhala is the language spoken by the Sinhalese, the majority of the people living in Sri Lanka. It belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, with strong kinship to Bengali, Pali, Sanskrit and related languages. It has also absorbed many words from Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken in south India and the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. The Sinhala script has evolved from the Brahmi script of ancient north India.


Slovene
Slovenian or Slovene language is one of the Slavic languages. It is spoken by approximately two million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in Slovenia. It is one of the few languages to have preserved the dual grammatical number from Indo-European. Its grammar is reputedly extremely complex and the large number of named dialects compared to the number of speakers indicates a large amount of variation in the language.


Spanish
Spanish is spoken on a very large part of the world- right from Spain in Europe to the Phillipines, many countries in Africa, Southern USA, Mexico and nearly all of South America.



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Tamil
It is surprising that a language as old as Tamil has survived for such a long time and is still in everyday use. It survives in two distinct forms: the spoken form and the written form. Perhaps because of its age, it has an unusually diverse literature


Telugu
Telugu is spoken in India in the Andhra, and Pradesh region, and in Malaysia. Over 50 million people speak Telugu, which is in the Dravidian language family.


Tengwar
Tengwar is written in a number of different ways known as "modes". For example there is a Quenya mode, a Sindarin mode and even an English mode. The phonetic values of the consonants (tengwa) and the ways vowels are indicated vary from mode to mode.


Turkish
The Turks were one of the many linguistic and ethnic groups within the Ottoman Empire. Members of the military, civil and religious elite conducted their business in Ottoman Turkish dialect, a mixture of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.



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Urdu
Urdu is a very popular language of the subcontinent - India, second only in the number of speakers to Hindi. It is the national language of Pakistan and an official language of UP in India. It is the language of poetry and of literature.



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Vague
Vague language is not totally accurate or clear. Although some people think this is "bad" English, all native English speakers use vague language when they are unable or unwilling to give accurate information, or they think it is either unnecessary or socially inappropriate to do so.




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Yiddish
Yiddish language is a member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Although it is not a national language, Yiddish is spoken by about 4 million Jews all over the world, especially in Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Romania, and the U.S.


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2006-07-29 09:48:32 · answer #10 · answered by truefallacies 3 · 0 0

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