Languages

Salar (Salırça) Salar is a Turkic language spoken by about 60,000 people in China, mainly in Qinghai and Gansu provinces, and also in Xinjiang. The Salar people arrived in China…

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…

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,…

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…

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…