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  2. Lists of languages - Wikipedia

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    by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages. chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts; by number of speakers:

  3. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered writing systems, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages.

  4. Historical language - Wikipedia

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    List of languages by first written accounts, consisting of the approximate dates for the first written accounts known for various languages. List of extinct languages, a list of languages that no longer have any native speakers, are no longer in current use, and no spoken descendant(s). Proto-language, hypothetical, or reconstructed, languages ...

  5. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...

  6. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum .

  7. List of ancestor languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.

  8. Category:Lists of languages - Wikipedia

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    List of languages by number of native speakers in India; List of Indo-European languages; List of languages by number of native speakers in Indonesia; List of languages by total number of speakers in Indonesia; List of languages used on the Internet

  9. List of language names - Wikipedia

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    British Sign Language – Sign Language, Breetish Sign Leid, Iaith Arwyddion Prydain, Cànan Soidhnidh Bhreatainn, Teanga Chomharthaíochta na Breataine Signed in: the United Kingdom; Buginese – ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ Spoken in: South Sulawesi, Republic of Indonesia; Buhid – ᝊᝓᝑᝒᝇ. Spoken in: Mindoro, Philippines