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    Kawaimina (a syllabic abbreviation of the names) is a cluster of four languages and dialects of East Timor: Kairui, Midiki, Waimaha, and Naueti, spoken...
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    Constitution of East Timor, as do other indigenous languages, including: Bekais, Bunak, Galoli, Habun, Idalaka, Kawaimina, Kemak, Lovaia, Makalero, Makasae, Mambai...
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    Naueti languages. These four varieties' level of mutual intelligibility has led some to categorize them as dialects of a single language: Kawaimina. Kairui...
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    official Austronesian languages). By the number of languages they include, Austronesian and Niger–Congo are the two largest language families in the world...
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  • various other Malayic languages. According to Ethnologue 16, several of the Malayic varieties they currently list as separate languages, including the Orang...
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    official languages, alongside English. Tagalog is closely related to other Philippine languages, such as the Bikol languages, the Bisayan languages, Ilocano...
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  • Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct...
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  • The Timoric languages are a group of Austronesian languages (belonging to the Central–Eastern subgroup) spoken on the islands of Timor, neighboring Wetar...
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    voiceless and glottalized /m n l r s w/. There is also vowel harmony. Kawaimina Waimoa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Naueti, Midiki, Meto, Helong, etc...
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    The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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    Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the...
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    Borneo languages Central Sarawak languages Kayan–Murik languages Land Dayak languages Malayo–Chamic Chamic languages Malayic languages Rejang language Sundanese...
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    The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. Ross et...
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    approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well...
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  • Guinea. The Timor–Alor–Pantar languages have been in considerable contact with these Austronesian languages: Kawaimina languages (Kairui, Waima’a, Midiki,...
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    between language families. Distribution of Austroasiatic languages Distribution of Austronesian languages Distribution of Kra–Dai languages Distribution...
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    The family of Southeast Solomonic languages forms a branch of the Oceanic languages. It consists of some 26 languages covering the Eastern Solomon Islands...
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  • The Malakula languages are a group of Central Vanuatu languages spoken on Malakula Island in central Vanuatu. Unlike some earlier classifications, linguist...
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  • The Ngero–Vitiaz languages form a linkage of Austronesian languages in northern Papua New Guinea. They are spoken, from west to east, in Madang Province...
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    of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Indonesian vocabulary has been influenced by various regional languages such as Javanese, Sundanese...
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  • The Espiritu Santo languages (alternatively Santo languages) are a group of North Vanuatu languages spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in northern Vanuatu...
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  • The Meso-Melanesian languages are a linkage of Oceanic languages spoken in the large Melanesian islands of New Ireland and the Solomon Islands east of...
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  • Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are divided into...
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  • The Land Dayak languages are a group of dozen or so languages spoken by the Bidayuh Land Dayaks of Borneo, and by some, also spoken by the Rejang people...
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  • The Tongic languages are a small group of the Polynesian languages. The group consists of at least two languages, Tongan and Niuean, and possibly a third...
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    possibility that Greater North Borneo languages are closely related to many other western Indonesian languages, including Javanese. Blust's suggestion...
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    The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well-established group of languages spoken by the Sama-Bajau peoples (sea gypsies) of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia...
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    Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...
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  • Miji languages), Midzu, Puroik, Siangic, and Kho-Bwa The two Andamanese language families: Great Andamanese and Ongan Language isolates and languages with...
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  • August 2016. "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". unesco.org. Retrieved 2017-11-20. "Languages Spoken in Hawaii". Exclusive Hawaii Rehab...
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