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3.35 Languages

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African languages

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NT1 Bambara
NT1 Bantu languages
    NT2 Lingala
    NT2 Swahili
    UF Kiswahili
NT1 Ewe
NT1 Fulfulde
NT1 Hamitic languages
    NT2 Berber
    NT2 Somali
NT1 Hausa
NT1 Yoruba
Amerindian languages
Used For
UF Central American Indian languages, North American Indian languages, South American Indian languages
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NT1 Aymara
NT1 Guarani
NT1 Quechua
Asian languages
Used For
UF Oriental languages
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NT1 Caucasian languages
    NT2 Basque
    NT2 Georgian
NT1 Eurasian and North Asian languages
    NT2 Altaic languages
    UF Turkic languages
        NT3 Azerbaijani
        NT3 Kazakh
        NT3 Kirghiz
        NT3 Mongolian
        NT3 Tungus
        NT3 Turkish
        NT3 Turkmen
        NT3 Uzbek
    NT2 Eskimo languages
    NT2 Japanese
    NT2 Korean
    NT2 Uralic languages
        NT3 Estonian
        NT3 Finnish
        NT3 Hungarian
        NT3 Lappic
        NT3 Samoyedic languages
NT1 South and Southeast Asian languages
    NT2 Burmese
    NT2 Chinese
    NT2 Dravidian languages
        NT3 Kannada
        NT3 Tamil
        NT3 Telegu
    NT2 Khmer
    UF Cambodian
    NT2 Tai languages
        NT3 Lao
        NT3 Thai
    NT2 Tibetan
    NT2 Vietnamese
Austronesian and Oceanic languages
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NT1 Malayo-Polynesian languages
    NT2 Hawaiian
    NT2 Indonesian
    NT2 Javanese
    NT2 Malagasy
    NT2 Malay language
    NT2 Tagalog
    NT2 Tahitian
NT1 Maori
NT1 Melanesian
NT1 Micronesian
NT1 Papuan languages
NT1 Tasmanian languages
Indo-european languages
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NT1 Albanian
NT1 Baltic languages
    NT2 Latvian
    NT2 Lithuanian
NT1 Celtic languages
    NT2 Breton
    NT2 Gaelic
    UF Irish, Scottish Gaelic
        NT3 Irish Gaelic
    NT2 Welsh
NT1 Germanic languages
    NT2 Afrikaans
    NT2 Danish
    NT2 Dutch
    NT2 English
    NT2 Flemish
    NT2 German
    NT2 Icelandic
    NT2 Norwegian
    NT2 Swedish
    NT2 Yiddish
NT1 Greek (classical)
NT1 Greek (modern)
NT1 Indic languages
    NT2 Bengali
    NT2 Hindustani
        NT3 Gujarati
        NT3 Hindi
        NT3 Urdu
    NT2 Marathi
    NT2 Nepali
    NT2 Oriya
    NT2 Panjabi
    NT2 Romany language
    NT2 Sanskrit
    NT2 Sindhi
    NT2 Sinhala
NT1 Iranian languages
    NT2 Armenian
    NT2 Kurdish
    NT2 Pashto
    NT2 Persian
    NT2 Tadjik
NT1 Latin
NT1 Romance languages
    NT2 Catalan
    NT2 French
    NT2 Italian
    NT2 Portuguese
    NT2 Romanian
    NT2 Spanish
NT1 Slavic languages
    NT2 Bosnian
    NT2 Bulgarian
    NT2 Byelorussian
    NT2 Croatian
    NT2 Czech
    NT2 Macedonian
    NT2 Polish
    NT2 Russian
    NT2 Serbian
    NT2 Serbocroatian
    NT2 Slovak
    NT2 Slovene
    NT2 Ukrainian
Semitic languages
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NT1 Amharic
NT1 Arabic
NT1 Hebrew

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