Samaritan

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Samaritan alphabet Origins The Samaritan alphabet was derived from the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. According to the Bible, the Samaritans came originally from Mesopotamia, then moved to Palestine at the beginning of…

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Samoan

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Samoan (Gagana Samoa) Samoan is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Western Samoa and American Samoa by about 420,000 people. There are also speakers of Samoan in Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii,…

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Sango

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Sango (Yângâ tî Sängö) Sango or Sangho is spoken mainly in the Central African Republic (Ködörö tî Bêafrîka). There are also speakers of Sango in Chad and Congo-Kinshassa. There are…

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Santali

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Santali alphabet (Ol Cemet'/Ol Chiki)    Origin The Santali alphabet, which is also known as Ol Cemet', Ol Ciki or simply Ol, was created in the 1920s by Pandit Raghunath…

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Saraiki

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Saraiki (ਸਰਾਇਕੀ / सराइकी / سرائيكى) Saraiki is a member of the Lahnda branch of Indo-Aryan languages and spoken by about 14 million people mainly in the central Pakistan provinces…

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