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Language selection

Wolof


ISO code [wol] There are approximately 12,208,000 speakers of Wolof residing in Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia, although the Gambian dialect of Wolof [wof] is different from the standard variety of Wolof [wol]. Speakers of wolof are generally L1 wolof and L2 french speakers as is the language of education and government in the countries it is spoken. [wol] and [wof] use historically different orthographies, the former in Arabic script and the latter in the Latin orthography. However, both have been adapted into Latin orthography since the 1970's.


Hakka


ISO code [hak] 36,600,000 in East and Northeast China, Taiwan, and Cambodia has educational status as the language of a recognised nationality: Han L1 Hakka speakers are almost always L2 Mandarin speakers orthography: Han script, simplified Han script

Balinese


ISO code [ban] 3,300,000 in Indonesia, concentrated in Java, Bali, and Nusa Tenggara generally L1 bali monolingual speakers, L2 by LW [bqy] speakers orthography: balinese and javaese script, latin script

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