Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to Quechuan languages: Runa SimiQuech·uan (kĕch′wən) n. A group of languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the Andes highlands from southern Colombia to northern Chile. adj. Of or relating to the Quechua or their language ...
nounthe language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas Synonyms Kechuan Quechuan language Kechua Quechua Related Words American-Indian language Amerind Amerindian language American Indian Indian adjof or relating to the Quechua or their language Synonyms Kechuan Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex...
The Innu used to be called “Montagnais” (as were the Athabaskan-speaking group now known as the Chipewyan, incidentally) and, confusingly, in earlier linguistic work “Montagnais” was also used to refer to all members of the CINA continuum spoken in Quebec and Labrador, on the basis of ...
Canada | Arabic, Najdi Spoken language | code-ars | 21,617 | NO recording Canada | Comox language | code-coo | ? | NO recording Canada | Cree, Moose language | code-crm | ? | NO recording Canada | Cree, Northern East language | code-crl | 5,899 | NO recording Canada | Cree, ...
Languages spoken by fewer than one million people, such as Welsh or Maltese, will be deemed lingua non gratae by 2014. Languages with fewer than 25 million speakers (for example, Greek or Hmong) will be LNG in 2021, and below 50 million (say Romanian or Kurdish) in 2028. For languages...
It is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France, Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick as well as other Francophone regions, Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels), western Switzerland (cantons of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel,...
For many of the languages spoken in Russia, it looks like there is a strong influence from Russian prosody. I assume many of these speakers speak mostly Russian in their everyday lifes; for the smaller languages, some may even not be native speakers but revivalists. There’s also some code...
Associating words from each language you learn with places where they are spoken will help you to avoid getting your languages mixed up. For example, if you're learning French and Spanish, imagine a map of Europe and place the French words in France and the Spanish words in Spain. Alternati...
As more and more people speak the global languages of English,Chinese,Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing.In fact,half of the 6,000—7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century,according to the United Nations Educational,Scientific...
and then set up an exchange with a native speaker—someone who has spoken that language their whole life. You only have to learn a little for your first conversation, but if you use it immediately, you’ll see what’s missing and can add on from there. You can’t study in isolation ...