Kayah/ Kayah Li belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and is spoken by about 590,000 people in the Kayah and Karen states of Burma (Myanmar) and is also a member of Karen branch. The language and people who speak it are known as Western Kayah, Karenni, Karennyi, Red Karen, Yang Daeng or Karieng Daeng. The name Kayah is a new name invented by the Burmese to tear them off from other Karen. Eastern Kayah is reported to have been spoken by 260,000 people in Burma and 100,000 in Thailand in 2000, and Western Kayah by 210,000 in Burma in 1987.
Kannada or Kanarese is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 38 million, is one of the 40 most spoken languages in the world. It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka.
The Kadazan language is widely spoken at the West Coast of Sabah by the Kadazan people. It is the primary language spoken by the Kadazan ethnic group. There are around 60,000 native speakers of Kadazan language. The use of the Kadazan language has been declining.
Javanese belongs to the Austronesian family of languages. It is spoken by the Javanese people in the Java Island, in Indonesia. There are around 75,500,000 speakers of this language. It is related to Indonesian and other Malay languages.
Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan as their national language. It is a member of the Japonic language family, whose relation to other language groups, particularly to Korean and the suggested Altaic language family, is debated. The Japanese language is spoken by the approximately 127 million inhabitants of Japan, and by the Japanese living in Hawaii and on the North and South American mainlands.
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe and by expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardised Italian and other regional languages.
Irish is a Celtic language and is spoken mainly in Ireland. As of 1996, there were around 353,000 people who can speak Irish language. It was first written in Ogham inscription. The main concentrations of Irish speakers are in the Gaeltachtaí, Ireland.
Igbo is the native language of the Igbo people in the southeastern Nigeria. There are around 24 million speakers of Igbo language. It is written in the Latin script. There are various Igbo dialects and some of them are not mutually comprehensible. The standard written form of Igbo language is based on the Owerri and Umuahia dialects
Hmong is a spoken in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, USA, and French Guiana and belong to Hmong-Mien language group which is spoken by about 2.6 million people. There are two major varieties of Hmong first, White Hmong (Hmoob Dawb) and second Green/Blue Hmong (Moob Leeg/Hmoob Ntsuab), which are named after the traditional colors worn by women of the unlike groups. Today, Hmong write their language with the Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA), a version of the Latin alphabet.
Hiligaynon, also known as Ilonggo, is an Austronesian language. It is mainly spoken in some regions of Philippines. There are around 7,000,000 native speakers of Hiligaynon language in and outside Philippines and also, there are around 4,000,000 speakers who can speak the language proficiently. Hiligaynon was written based on the Spanish orthography.
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