Shan or Tai-Yai/ Tai-Long, is a language of Tai and is spoken by about 3.3 million people in the Shan States of Burma which is the northeast of the country, and also in parts of northern Thailand and in the Xishuangbanna (Sipsongpanna) Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan region in southwestern China. The number of Shan speakers is not known in part because that of the Shan population is unfamiliar.
Serer, occasionally called Serer-Sine “Serer proper” is a language of the Senegambian branch of Niger–Congo which is spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in the Gambia. It is one of the standard languages of Senegal. Serer is one of the Senegambian languages and is the most important language of the Serer people. The numbers of native speakers are appox 1.16 million. Not all Serer people speak Serer, about 200,000 speak Cangin languages as well.
Serbo-Croat also known as Serbo-Croatian and less frequently Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), is a South Slavic language and the one of the most important language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro. It has four frequently intelligible typical varieties and is a pluricentric language. The total number of persons who affirmed their native language as either ‘Bosnian’, ‘Croatian’, ‘Serbian’, ‘Montenegrin’, or ‘Serbo-Croatian’ in countries of the region is about 16 million.
Serbian language is used by Serbs. It is an official language in Serbia and one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Serbian language belongs to the Slavic language family, a subfamily of the Indo-European language of families. Serbian is spoken by more than 12 million people, thus ranking around the 63rd position in the world. Serbian is based on the Stokavian dialect.
Selkup language is a part of the Selkups languages, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language people. It is spoken by about 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The total number of native speakers are approximately 1,570 (1994). The allocation of population and speakers are 1,020 (2010 census), Central Selkup: 200 speakers, Northern Selkup: 1,000 to 1,500 speakers, Southern Selkup: less than 100 speakers (Salminen 2007). The Ethnic population is about 4,250.
Sardinian is the part Romance language with about 1.2 million speakers in Sardinia. It is written on most of the island of Sardinia (Italy). The Sardinian language is one of the most important elements of Sardinian cultural legacy, and there is activity committed to studying the language and acknowledging its meaning. It is measured the most traditional of the Romance languages in terms of phonology and is renowned for its Paleosardinian substratum. Sardinian has been an official language on the island, mutually with other languages spoken there.
Sanskrit is the traditional language of Indian and the most important language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It is also one of the 22 representative languages of India. The name Sanskrit means “refined”, “consecrated” and “sanctified”. It has always been regarded as the ‘high’ language and used mostly for religious and scientific conversation. Sanskrit holds an important place in Indo-European studies.
Sandawe are found in the Dodoma area of Tanzania and is a language spoken by about 60,000 people. Language is used strongly among both adults and children and generally people are monolingual in these areas or divisions. Sandawe had usually been classified as a member of the Khoisan family since Albert Drexel in the 1920s. Sandawe is also at present (since 2002) studied by Sander Steeman of Leiden University with number of speakers as 5,000 (2009) which estimates from 30,000 to 90,000 natives.
Samoan is the Polynesian language of the Samoan Islands with about 246000 population ranging from the independent country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa. With many Samoan people living in other countries, the total number of speakers worldwide is to be estimated as 370,000. It is an official language alongside English in both the countries. The language is distinguished for the phonological differences between formal and informal speech. There were 38,525 speakers of Samoan in Australia, and 39,992 people of Samoan heritage.
Russian is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, and to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages. It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.