Bambara

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Bambara (Bamanankan) Bambara is a Mande language with about 3 million speakers in Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ghana. It is spoken principally…

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Baluchi

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Baluchi (بلوچى) Baluchi is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by about seven million people. Most Baluchi speakers live in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, but there as also speakers in India, the…

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Balkar

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Karachay-Balkar (малкъар/балкъар) Karachay-Balkar is a Turkic language spoken by about 240,000 people mainly in Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia, and also in Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. The name Balkar is…

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Balinese

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Balinese    Origin The Balinese alphabet or Carakan descended ultimately from the from Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava and Old Kawi scripts. The oldest known…

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Bagoyin

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Bagoyin    Created by Joseph Barretto, bagoyin is a writing system based on the Tagalog script. Bagoyin comes from bagong baybayin, or "new script". Bagoyin came about after a mental…

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