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The Romanian language (or limba română, pronounced [ˈlimba roˈmɜːnə] in Romanian) is a Romance language, branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family. The modern Romanian language has 6 main dialects: Oltenesc, Muntenesc, Banatean, Moldovenesc, Maramuresean and Ardelenesc. The oldest document in Romanian is Neacșu’s letter (1521) written with Cyrillic letters (which remained in use up until the late 19th century).
Writing system: Latin (Romanian alphabet)
Official language in: Romania, Moldova, Vojvodina, European Union
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Punjabi (or ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, written in Gurmukhi style and pronounced as [pʌnˈdʒɑːbi]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 130 million native speakers worldwide which makes it the 9th most widely spoken language in the world. It is one of the very few languages today to be written in two quite different and mutually unintelligible scripts – In India, Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhi script (left to right), while the Urdu script, also named Shahmukhi script (right to left), is used for writing Punjabi in Pakistan.
Writing system: Gurmukhi (Brahmic), Shahmukhi (Perso-Arabic)
Official language in: India, Pakistan
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Portuguese (or língua portuguesa, pronounced [‘liŋua portugu’eza] is a Romance language, whose roots trace back to the Latin spoken by Romanized Celts in the regions of Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal, over two thousand years ago. The earliest records of this form of the language date as far back as the 9th Century. Portuguese is currently ranked the sixth most spoken language in the world, with a total of 210 million native speakers.
Writing system: Latin (Portuguese alphabet)
Official language in: Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe
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The Polish language (or język polski, pronounced [‘jezik ‘polski] in Polish) belongs to the West Slavic group of languages and is the most widely spoken of this group. It has undergone major development and its modern form differs significantly from the Old Polish. Poland is linguistically homogeneous European country – nearly 97% of its citizens declare Polish as their mother tongue. The Polish language and culture have established a global presence, producing more than 20 Nobel Prize laureates in the realms of literature, medicine, and more.
Writing system: Latin (Polish alphabet)
Official language in: Poland, European Union
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Norwegian (or norsk, pronounced [‘norsk] in Norwegian) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway. The languages of Iceland and Norway were practically identical up until the 14th century, when they started to deviate from each other. As established by law and governmental policy, there are two official forms of written Norwegian – Bokmål (literally “book tongue”) and Nynorsk (literally “new Norwegian”). Norwegians are educated in both Bokmål and Nynorsk. A 2005 poll indicates that 86.3% of the local people use primarily Bokmål as their daily written language.
Writing system: Latin (Norwegian alphabet)
Official language in: Norway, Nordic Council
The Mongolian language (or Монгол хэл, pronounced [‘mongol ‘hæl]) is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family spoken in East-Central Asia. Although the Khalkha dialect which is written in Cyrillic is predominant in the country, in Inner Mongolia the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian vertical script, derived from Uighur around 1204 by the Tangut man named Tata-tonga.
Writing system: Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script, Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet
Official language in: Mongolia, China
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Marathi (or मराठी, pronounced [məˈɾaʈʰi]) is an Indo-Aryan language which is the official language of Maharashtra state of India and is one of the 23 official languages of India. Written Marathi first appeared during the 11th century in the form of inscriptions on stones and copper plates. The Marathi Devanagari alphabet is an abugida (signs only for consonants) script which is recognizable by the horizontal line that runs along the top of full letters. The rise of the Marathi literature began in the 12th century when the language was adopted as a court language by the Yadava kings.
Writing system: Devanagari script (Marathi alphabet)
Official language in: India
Malaysian (or بهاس مليسيا, Bahasa Malaysia, pronounced [baˈhasə malajˈsiə]) is the official language of Malaysia and the Malacca dialect of the major language Malay. The Malaysian language is normally written using a Latin alphabet called Rumi, though an Arabic alphabet called Jawi also exists. It’s largely believed that the Malay homeland is western Borneo, although the oldest inscriptions known in Malay, Kedukan Bukit Inscription, dating from the end of the 7th century AD, were found on the banks of the River Tatang, South Sumatra.
Writing system: Latin (Rumi), Arabic (Jawi)
Official language in: Malaysia
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The Macedonian language (or македонски јазик/makedonski jazik, pronounced [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik] in Macedonian) is a South Slavic language, spoken as a first language by two million people, principally in the Republic of Macedonia and the Macedonian diaspora. Macedonian dialects form a continuum with Bulgarian dialects; they in turn form a broader continuum with Serbo-Croatian through the transitional Torlakian dialects. The modern Macedonian language has no relation to the Ancient Macedonian language.
Writing system: Cyrillic (Macedonian alphabet)
Official language in: Republic of Macedonia
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The Lithuanian language (or ietuvių kalba, pronounced [le’tu’vju ‘ka’ləba in Lithuanian] is considered as the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining many features of the Proto-Indo-European language which are now almost entirely lost in other linguistic extensions of that group. Jonas Jablonskis (1860–1930) made significant contributions to the formation of the standard Lithuanian language, formulating its essential principles and contributing to its further development.
Writing system: Latin (Lithuanian alphabet)
Official language in: Lithuania, European Union
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