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Common terms and phrasesadpositions Africa Aikhenvald Arabic Australia Basque bilingual borrowed British Chinese Chomsky claimed common consonants countries creole dialect dictionary Dixon Dutch English Esperanto Ethnologue European languages example extinct Finnish foreign language forms French gender German grammar grammaticalisation Hebrew India Indo-European Indo-European languages instance island Italian Japanese Klingon known Korean large number Larry Trask Latin least less lexical Linguist List Malagasy Mandarin means Michif million Mithun monolingual morphemes mother tongue multilingual nasal native speakers Navajo normally noun classes nouns number of languages official language Papua New Guinea person phonemes Piraha plural population Portuguese pronouns reported Russian script Semantics sentence sign language Solresol sound Sources not mentioned South Spanish speak speech Swedish syllable tactile sign tense Tok Pisin tones translation Turkish verb vowels West Papua western words world's languages writing system Yup'ik Bibliographic information
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