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(Encyclopedia) Hausa language, member of the Chadic group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages. ...

(Encyclopedia) Welsh language, member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages. ...

(Encyclopedia)  CEE Portuguese language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, c...

(Encyclopedia) Masora or Massorah məsōˈrə [key] [Heb.,=tradition], collection of critical annotations made by Hebrew scholars, called the Masoretes, to establish the text of the Old Testament. A principal proble...

(Encyclopedia) Finnish language, also called Suomi, member of the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages. These languages form a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Ura...

(Encyclopedia) Navajo or Navaho, language belonging to the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic family, or stock, of North America (including Mexico). See Native American languages. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hungarian language, also called Magyar, member of the Ugric group of the Finno-Ugric languages. These languages form a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see U...

(Encyclopedia) Afroasiatic languages hămˈĭtō-səmĭtˈĭk [key], family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people in N Africa; much of the Sahara; parts of E, central, and W Africa; and W Asia (especia...

(Encyclopedia) C: see programming language.

(Encyclopedia) ALGOL: see programming language. ...