Tonal languages Tonal languages Amuzgo is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in the eastern Guerrero and western Oaxaca states of Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amuzgo"
Bambara, also known as Bamanankan in the language itself, is a language spoken in Mali by as many as six million people (including second language users). The differences between Bambara and Dioula are minimal. Dioula is a language spoken or understood, by fewer numbers of people, in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia. The Bambara language is primarily spoken by members of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 270,000 people, but serves also as an interethnic language of Mali. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bambara language"
The Burmese language ( , or bama sa) is the official language of Myanmar (known until 1989 as Burma). Although the government recognizes the language as Myanmar, most continue to refer to it as Burmese. Burmese is a member of the Tibeto-Burman languages, which is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. It is spoken by 32 million as a first language, and as a second language by minorities in Burma (10 million people), such as the Chinese, Indian, Karen, Mon, and Shan. The language utilizes the Burmese script, which derives from the Mon script and ultimately from the Brahmi script. The script has a rather round shape and is called sa-loun (round letters). Burmese is a tonal language, with four main tones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burmese language"
Cantonese ( Traditional Chinese: 粵語; Simplified Chinese: 粤语, Cantonese: Yuet6yue5; Mandarin pinyin: Yueyu, lit. "Yụet (Guangdong) language") is one of the major dialect groups or languages of the Chinese language or language family. It is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese of Cantonese origin worldwide. The name is derived from Canton, a former romanized Western name for Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cantonese (linguistics)"
The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ, 华语/華語, Huáyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén) forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinese language"
The Dong language (own name: leec Gaeml) is a Tai-Kadai (or Zhuang-Dong) language spoken by the Dong people of China. It has been traditionally written in Chinese characters. A new spelling based on the Latin alphabet was developed in 1958, but it is not used very much, due to a lack of printed material and trained teachers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dong language"
Ewe is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and Togo by approximately three million people (Capo 1991). Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, stretching from eastern Ghana to Western Nigeria. Other Gbe languages Fon and Aja. Like other Gbe languages, Ewe is a tonal language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ewe language"
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Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 24 million people, and as a second language by about 15 million more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hausa language"
Isan (also Isaan or Esarn) is the language of the Isan region of Thailand. It is a tonal language of the Tai family, and is closely related to Lao, but has also been much influenced by Thai: the three are substantially mutually comprehensible. Phonology and the rules for determining tones vary in each dialect, but are generally similar to Lao. The Khorat dialect blends features of Isan and Thai. The vocabulary is largely the same as in Lao, except for the use of Thai loan words and neologisms. It was previously written using the Lao script, with Tua Tham used for religious inscriptions. Since the introduction of Thai language schooling in the 1920s it has been written in the Thai script. ...more on Wikipedia about "Isan language"
Lao (ພາສາລາວ phaasaa laao) is the official language of Laos. It is a tonal language of the Tai family, and is so closely related to the Isan language of the northeast region of Thailand that the two are often classed as one language. The writing system of Lao is an abugida (a writing system composed of signs denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel) and is closely related to the writing system used in Thai. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lao language"
Limburgish, or Limburgian or Limburgic ( Dutch: Limburgs, German: Limburgisch, French: Limbourgeois) is a group of Franconian varieties, spoken in the Limburg and Rhineland regions, near the common Dutch/Belgian/German border. The area in which it is spoken roughly fits within a wide circle from Venlo to Cologne to Aachen to Maastricht to Hasselt and back to Venlo . Limburgish is recognised as a regional language (Dutch: streektaal) in the Netherlands and as such it receives moderate protection under chapter 2 of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Limburgish language"
Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo- Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo- Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. It has over 10 million speakers. It is classed C.36D under the Guthrie system for classifying Bantu languages and C.40 under the SIL system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lingala language"
Mandarin, or Guanhua ( ), or Beifanghua ( ) is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. When taken as an independent language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin dialects have more speakers than any other language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mandarin (linguistics)"
The Mazatecan languages are a closely related group of highly tonal languages. They are classified, linguistically, as a division of the Popolocan subfamily of the Oto-Manguean language family. They are spoken mostly in northern Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. They are called Mazatec in English, Mazateco in Spanish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mazatecan languages"
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The Mazateco language is the native language of the Mazatec peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico. The language is a member of the Popoloca-Mazateco family, which also includes Ixcateca and Chuchon. The language can be whistled as well as spoken. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mazateco"
Punjabi (also Panjabi; in Gurmukhī, Panjābī in Shāhmukhī) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. It is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian subfamily. It is an agglutinative and tonal language where words are ordered ' Subject Object Verb'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Punjabi language"
The predominant system for transcribing Cantonese in IPA is a broad IPA transcription system devised by S. L. Wong, frequently referred to in Chinese phonological studies by names which can be translated “the S. L. Wong system” ( Chinese: 黃錫凌式) or simply “the broad transcription” (寬式). This broad phonemic transcription system was created by S. L. Wong for use in A Chinese syllabary pronounced according to the dialect of Canton (粵音韻彙), considered by many to be an authoritative Cantonese dictionary. Its analysis of Cantonese phonemes is related to the theories of Y. R. Chao. ...more on Wikipedia about "S. L. Wong (Cantonese)"
Saramaccan ( autonym: Saamáka) is a creole language spoken by about 24,000 people near the Saramaccan and upper Suriname Rivers in Suriname (formerly also known as Dutch Guyana), and 2,000 in French Guiana. The speakers are mostly descendants of fugitive slaves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saramaccan language"
The Shan language is related to the Thai language and is commonly called Tai Shan. It is spoken in Northeast Myanmar and in pockets in Thailand. It has 5 tones and is a part of the Thai languages group, which span from Northern Myanmar on the west through Southern China on the north, and Laos on the east. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shan language"
Southern Thai (or Pak Dtai) is spoken by about 5 million people, mainly in Southern Thailand. It's part of the Tai family of languages. Mostly found in the 14 southern provinces, from Chumpon to Narathiwat, the language contains many words of Malay origin, in part because many of the speakers are Malay, or Pattani Malay, and because of its proximity to Malay-speaking regions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Southern Thai language"
Spoken Chinese compromises many regional variants. Although the English word dialect is often used to translate the Chinese term 方言 fangyan (lit. regional speech), the differences between the major spoken variations of Chinese are such that they are mutually unintelligible. Whether these variants should be identified as languages or dialects is a contentious issue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spoken Chinese"
Standard Cantonese is a variant of Cantonese and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese. It is spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau in southern China. Standard Cantonese is the de facto official Chinese spoken language of Hong Kong and Macau, and the lingua franca of Guangdong province and some neighbouring areas. It is also spoken by many overseas Chinese, especially those of Cantonese descent, in Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, United States, Australia, Europe and elsewhere. Traditionally, Cantonese was the lingua franca of overseas Chinese communities in the Western world, although that situation has changed with the increasing importance of Mandarin in the Chinese-speaking world as well as immigration from other provinces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Standard Cantonese"
Standard Mandarin is the official Chinese spoken language used by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China ( Taiwan), Malaysia and Singapore. ...more on Wikipedia about "Standard Mandarin"
Taiwanese ( Chinese: 台語, 台灣話 or 福佬話; Taiwanese Pe̍h-oē-jī: Tâi-oân-oē or Hō-ló-oē; Hanyu Pinyin: Táiyǔ or Táiwānhuà) is spoken by about 70% of the Taiwanese population. The sub-ethnic group in Taiwan for which Taiwanese is considered a native language is known as Holo (Hō-ló) or Hoklo (the correspondence between language and ethnicity is not absolute, however, as some Holo speak Taiwanese poorly while some non-Holo speak Taiwanese fluently). Pe̍h-oē-jī (POJ) is a popular orthography for this language, and Min-nan in general (see below). ...more on Wikipedia about "Taiwanese (linguistics)"
The Thai language (ภาษาไทย, phasa thai, meaning "the language of Thais"), is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai language family. The Tai-Kadai languages are thought to have originated in what is now southern China, and some linguists have proposed links to the Austroasiatic, Austronesian, or Sino-Tibetan language families. It is a tonal and analytic language. The combination of tonality, a complex orthography, relational markers and a distinctive phonology can make Thai difficult to learn for those who do not already speak a related language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thai language" It's time to think about http://www.shortopedia.com.
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