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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Andorra!
29Mar By Chloe HarmonNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Andorra!

A tiny principality nestled in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, Andorra is perhaps best known for its luxury ski resorts. The languages of Andorra, however, are not something it's famous for... though should be. Indeed, the languages of Andorra clearly reflect the isolated, but pan-European nature of the country, in a way unlike any other country in Europe, even remote, isolated ones! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Andorra Catalan Foreign Languages of Andorra Spanish French Occitan Galician Italian Aragonese English Arabic What do you think about the languages of Andorra? Do you speak any? Tell me in the comments!
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22Mar By Gareth SeagullNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Belize

Known primarily for its coral reefs, punta music and extensive September Celebrations, Belize is one of those countries you seldom think about. But beneath all that, the country boasts impressive linguistic diversity with the languages of Belize being among the most diverse in the world! Indeed, the former Spanish and later British colony has certainly impacted the languages spoken in the tiny Caribbean nation, both with the foreign languages spoken there and how native languages have evolved there... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Belize English Indigenous Languages of Belize Belizean Creole (Kriol) Q'eqchi' Maya Mopan Maya Garifuna Foreign Languages of Belize Spanish German Hindi Chinese ...
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Cape Verde!
15Mar By Henry AusbergerNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Cape Verde!

A country off the coast of Africa, Cape Verde is one of those tiny island nations we rarely think about, except when featured in popular media as a tourist destination. But little did you know, the languages of Cape Verde are a microcosm resulting from centuries of Portuguese rule... Indeed, prior to discovery of the archipelago in the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited. Over the last six centuries, steady streams of migration from various parts of the world have seen the languages of Cape Verde evolve in a rather unique manner from a linguistic point of view. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Cape Verde Portuguese Cape Verde Creole Santiago Creole Fogo São Nicolau Brava Sal Boa Vista São V...
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Ecuador!
15Feb By Henry AusbergerNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Ecuador!

The home of the alpaca and Galapagos Islands, Ecuador is probably one of those countries you never think about. You've probably never thought about the languages of Ecuador either... Yet despite not being known for its linguistic diversity and having lost many of its indigenous languages to time, Ecuador is home to dozens of languages from all across the world. Not bad for a country roughly the same size as Nevada! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Ecuador Spanish Indigenous Languages of Ecuador Quechua Shuar Pasto Awa Sequoia Waorani Siona Embera Colorado Cofan Zaparo Foreign Languages of Ecuador English Portuguese French Chinese
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Uganda!
8Feb By Gareth SeagullNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Uganda!

Known as the "Pearl of Africa" Uganda is known for many things - its wildlife, geography, Idi Amin - but the languages of Uganda are not one of them. Even so, they're quite impressive. The point where Africa's four main language groups converge, Uganda has dozens of regional languages that are spoken to varying degrees, whilst having two co-official languages! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Uganda English Swahili Regional Languages of Uganda Nkore Soga Luganda Tooro Karamojong Bari Teso Nyoro Kiga Pokot Elgon Luo Alur Adhola  Kuman Ik Soo Ndo Ma'di Lugbara Aringa
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Yemen!
1Feb By Chloe HarmonNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Yemen!

In recent years, Yemen has made the news for its particularly brutal civil war, which has seen various ethnolinguistic groups take up arms against one another and the expulsion or fleeing of most foreigners. Even before then, the Southern Arabian nation of a little less than 30 million wasn't known for its linguistic diversity, even by Middle Eastern standards. So what are the languages of Yemen truly like? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Yemen Arabic Regional Languages of Yemen Razihi Soqotri Mehri Bathari Hobyot Foreign Languages of Yemen English Russian Cham
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Grenada!
25Jan By David Ratón GonzalesNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Grenada!

Most famous for its 1983 invasion by the US, the tiny Caribbean island nation of Grenada isn't known for its linguistic diversity. Yet for a country of a little more than 110,000, the languages of Grenada are more diverse than you'd think! A former French colony later captured by the British, the presence of these two colonial empires dramatically changed the languages spoken on the island, sadly exterminating the indigenous languages of the island but replacing them with creoles and European languages, not to mention others... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Grenada English Regional Languages of Grenada Grenadian Creole English Patois French Indigenous Languages of Grenada (Extinct) Carib Igneri Othe...
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Star Wars
18Jan By Gareth SeagullNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Star Wars

A franchise that began in 1977, Star Wars has grown immensely since then, into almost every form of media available. But one thing that has remained fairly constant are the languages of Star Wars, which are both intricate and numerous. Indeed, you could fill dozens of articles about fictional languages in popular media just on those used in the Star War universe. Interestingly, however, unlike other franchises (think J. R. R. Tolkein's Hobit trilogy, the Star Trek or Game of Thrones franchises) who wholly make up their own languages, Star Wars borrow heavily from or blatantly use less well known or endangered languages like Quechua and Haya for their in-universe language! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Galactic Basic Mando'a Tusken ...
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11Jan By George SanghviNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Latvia!

A post-Soviet state, trying to reposition itself as a tech and business hub, the languages of Latvia have been changed forever, as foreign entrepreneurs flock to the country. Not to mention the country's own natural linguistic diversity... With over a dozen major European languages spoken inside its borders by people from every inhabited continent, Latvia is also home to a few indigenous languages, which have varying levels of recognition from the Latvian government. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Latvia Latvian Minority Languages of Latvia Belarussian Ukrainian Russian Polish Hungarian Estonian Lithuanian Latgalian Foreign Languages of Latvia English German Spanish French
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Lebanon!
4Jan By George SanghviNo Comments
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Lebanon!

Famous for its longstanding hostility with its neighbor Israel, and more recent civil war that saw more than a million flee the country, Lebanon isn't famous for its linguistic diversity. Yet the languages of Lebanon may in fact be the most interesting thing about the country! A former French colony that later became a hub for American oil interests, most people in Lebanon speak a mix of Arabic, French and English, whilst others speak various languages from other parts of the world... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Lebanon Arabic Dialects of Arabic Spoken in Lebanon Lebanese Arabic Cypriote Maronite Arabic Syrian Arabic Palestinian Arabic Iraqi Arabic Foreign Languages of Lebanon English French ...
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