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Egyptian Arabic. Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian, or simply as Masry or Masri, is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and originated in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt. The estimated 111??million Egyptians speak a continuum of dialects, among which Cairene is the most prominent. It is also understood across most of the Arabic-speaking countries due to broad Egyptian influence in the region, including through Egyptian cinema and Egyptian music. These factors help make it the most widely spoken and by far the most widely studied variety of Arabic.

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Cantonese. Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. Although Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety in linguistics, the term is often used more broadly to describe the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including varieties such as Taishanese, which have limited mutual intelligibility with Cantonese.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Brunei Malaysia People's Republic of China

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Cook Islands Maori. Cook Islands M??ori is an Eastern Polynesian language that is an official language of the Cook Islands. It is closely related to, but distinct from, New Zealand M??ori. Cook Islands M??ori is called just M??ori when there is no need to distinguish it from New Zealand M??ori. It is also known as M??ori K??ki ????irani, or as Rarotongan. Many Cook Islanders also call it Te Reo Ipukarea, which translates as 'the language of the ancestral homeland'.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Cook Islands

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written Chinese language. Written Chinese is a writing system that transcribes the varieties of Chinese language using logograms ??? known as characters ??? and other symbols such as punctuations. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken syllable in length, but generally correspond to morphemes in the language, which may either be independent words, or part of a polysyllabic word. Most characters are constructed from smaller components known as radicals or pianpang that may reflect the character's meaning or pronunciation. Literacy requires the memorization of thousands of characters; college-educated Chinese speakers know approximately 4,000 characters. This has led in part to the modern adoption of complementary phonetic transcription systems such as Pinyin and Bopomofo to transliterate the pronunciation of each character.

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Punjabi. Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native speakers.

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Betawi. Betawi, also known as Batavian, Jakartanese, Betawi Malay, Batavian Malay, or Jakarta Malay, is the spoken language of the Betawi people in and around Jakarta, Indonesia. The name "Betawi" stems from Batavia, the official name of Jakarta during the era of the Dutch East Indies. A precise number of speakers is difficult to determine due to the vague use of the name.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Indonesia

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Greenlandic. Greenlandic, also known by its endonym Kalaallisut, is an Inuit language belonging to the Eskimoan branch of the Eskaleut language family. It is primarily spoken by the Greenlandic people native to Greenland, with about 57,000 native speakers as of 2025, making it the largest Eskaleut language by number of speakers. Written in the Latin script, it is the sole official language of Greenland, and a recognized minority language in Denmark.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Kingdom of Denmark

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Tagalog. Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized and codified form, Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one of the nation's two official languages, alongside English.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Philippines

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Thai. Thai, or Central Thai, is a Tai language of the Kra???Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai, Mon, Lao Wiang, and Phuan people in Central Thailand and the vast majority of Thai Chinese enclaves throughout the country. It is the sole official language of Thailand.

language2 modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Cambodia Malaysia Myanmar Thailand

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Seediq. Seediq, also known as Sediq and Truku, is an Atayalic language spoken in the mountains of Northern Taiwan by the Seediq and Taroko people.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Tsou. Tsou is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tsou people of Taiwan. Tsou-speakers are located in the west-central mountains southeast of the Alishan area in southern Taiwan.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Atayal. The Atayal language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Atayal people of Taiwan. Squliq and C??uli?? (Ts??ole??) are two major dialects. Matu??uwal and Pa??kuali??, two subdialects of C??uli??, are unique among Atayal dialects in having male and female register distinctions in their vocabulary.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Paiwan. Paiwan is a native language of southern Taiwan. It is spoken as a first language by the ethnic Paiwan, a Taiwanese indigenous people, and historically as a second language by most people in southern Taiwan. Paiwan is a Formosan language of the Austronesian language family. It is also one of the national languages of Taiwan.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Yami. The Yami language, also known as Tao, is a Malayo-Polynesian and Philippine language spoken by the Tao people of Orchid Island, 46 kilometers southeast of Taiwan. It is a member of the Ivatan dialect continuum.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Taiwanese Hokkien. Taiwanese Hokkien, or Taiwanese, also known as Taigi, Taiwanese Taigi, Taiwanese Southern Min, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan. It is spoken by a significant portion of those Taiwanese people who are descended from Hoklo immigrants of southern Fujian. It is one of the national languages of Taiwan.

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Amis. Amis is a Formosan language of the Amis, an indigenous people living along the east coast of Taiwan. Amis is the largest of the Formosan languages. It is spoken between Hualien in the north and Taitung in the south, with another population of speakers in the Hengchun Peninsula near the southern end of the island. The northern varieties are considered tobe separate languages.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Kanakanavu. Kanakanavu is a Southern Tsouic language spoken by the Kanakanavu people, an indigenous people of Taiwan. It is a Tsouic language of the Austronesian family.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Rukai. Rukai is a Formosan language spoken by the Rukai people in Taiwan. It is a member of the Austronesian language family. The Rukai language comprises six dialects, which are Budai, Labuan, Maga, Mantauran, Tanan and Tona. The number of speakers of the six Rukai dialects is estimated to be about 10,000. Some of them are monolingual. There are varying degrees of mutual intelligibility among the Rukai dialects. Rukai is notable for its distinct grammatical voice system among the Formosan languages.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Urdu. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also an official Eighth Schedule language in India, the status and cultural heritage of which are recognised by the Constitution of India ??? alongside having official status in several Indian states.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Canada Fiji India Norway Pakistan United Kingdom United States

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Korean. Korean is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea. In the south, the language is known as Hangugeo and in the north, it is known as Chos??n??. Since the turn of the 21st century, Korean popular culture has spread around the world through globalization and cultural exports. Korean uses the Hangul alphabet.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Canada Japan Malaysia North Korea People's Republic of China Russia South Korea United States

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Sakizaya. Sakizaya is a Formosan language closely related to Amis. One of the large family of Austronesian languages, it is spoken by the Sakizaya people, who are concentrated on the eastern Pacific coast of Taiwan. Since 2007 they have been recognized by the Taiwan government as one of the sixteen distinct indigenous groups on the island.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Taiwan

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Mongolian. Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East, Central and North Asia. Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia and a recognized language of Xinjiang and Qinghai.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Mongolia People's Republic of China

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Nepali. Nepali is the official and most-widely spoken language of Nepal, where it also serves as a lingua franca. It is an Indo-Aryan language, belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch within the Indo-European language family, native to the Himalayan region of South Asia.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Bhutan India Myanmar Nepal

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Maldivian. Dhivehi, also known by its exonym Maldivian, is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, primarily spoken by the Maldivian people native to the South Asian archipelagic state of the Maldives; as well as the neighbouring Minicoy Island within Lakshadweep, a union territory of India.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language India Maldives

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