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Primary Language

Primary language names the main language a social group actually speaks. Wikipedia describes the Khasi as "an Austroasiatic ethnic group" who "are among the few Austroasiatic-speaking peoples in South Asia," a distinct linguistic identity within their wider region. This dimension groups social groups that share the same primary language.

Primary Language

Adyghe and Kabardian, the two Circassian languages.

Primary Language
1 entry

Ainu (a language isolate, critically endangered)

Primary Language
1 entry

Amharic

Primary Language
1 entry

Arabic

Primary Language
1 entry

Arabic (Bedouin dialects)

Primary Language
1 entry

Aymara

Primary Language
1 entry

Balochi, a Western Iranian language.

Primary Language
1 entry

Bengali (Bangla), an Indo-Aryan language

Primary Language
1 entry

Catalan (a Romance language)

Primary Language
1 entry

Fijian

Primary Language
1 entry

Frisian languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Fula (Fulfulde/Pulaar)

Primary Language
1 entry

Gikuyu, a Bantu language.

Primary Language
1 entry

Guarani, distinguishing them from the related Tupi peoples

Primary Language
1 entry

Gujarati

Primary Language
1 entry

Hakka Chinese

Primary Language
1 entry

Hausa

Primary Language
1 entry

Hmong (Hmong Daw and Mong Leng dialect groups, among others)

Primary Language
1 entry

Hutterite German (Hutterisch) and English

Primary Language
1 entry

Igbo

Primary Language
1 entry

IsiXhosa

Primary Language
1 entry

Japanese

Primary Language
1 entry

Javanese

Primary Language
1 entry

Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino)

Primary Language
1 entry

Karen languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani and other dialects)

Primary Language
1 entry

Kurmanji (Kurdish)

Primary Language
1 entry

Lakota and English

Primary Language
1 entry

Levantine Arabic, Turkish

Primary Language
1 entry

Maa (Maasai)

Primary Language
1 entry

Manchu (native), Mandarin Chinese (dominant)

Primary Language
1 entry

Māori (Te Reo Māori)

Primary Language
1 entry

Mapudungun

Primary Language
1 entry

Mongolian and other Mongolic languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Nahuatl, Nahuat and Spanish

Primary Language
1 entry

Navajo (Diné bizaad)

Primary Language
1 entry

Neo-Aramaic (Syriac) dialects

Primary Language
1 entry

Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin), an Algonquian language

Primary Language
1 entry

Oromo (Afaan Oromoo)

Primary Language
1 entry

Pashto

Primary Language
1 entry

Pennsylvania German (Pennsylvania Dutch) and English

Primary Language
1 entry

Punjabi (several Punjabi dialects)

Primary Language
1 entry

Rajasthani, Hindi and other regional North Indian languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Regional Indian and South Asian languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Regional Indian languages

Primary Language
3 entries

Russian and Ukrainian

Primary Language
1 entry

Samoan

Primary Language
1 entry

Sinhala

Primary Language
1 entry

Somali

Primary Language
1 entry

Sorbian languages (Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian)

Primary Language
1 entry

Tamasheq (Tuareg, a Berber language)

Primary Language
1 entry

Tamil, a Dravidian language

Primary Language
1 entry

Tibetan

Primary Language
1 entry

Tongan

Primary Language
1 entry

Twi (an Akan language)

Primary Language
1 entry

Uyghur (a Turkic language)

Primary Language
1 entry

Yoruba

Primary Language
1 entry

Zapotec languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Zhuang languages

Primary Language
1 entry

Zulu (isiZulu)

Primary Language
1 entry
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