User:Gkawaki1/Language selection

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Maithili

• ISO 639-3: mai
• Maithili is mainly spoken in India and Nepal, and the number of native speakers is about thirty millions. [1]
• Maithili was historically written in Tirhuta script, but since the 20th century the language is mostly written in Devanagari. [2]
• Resource
  • A Wikipedia article written in Maithili [3]

Santali

• ISO 639-3: sat
• Santali is a language that belongs to a subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, and is mainly spoken in Indian states such as Assam. The number of speakers is more than seven millions. [4]
• Latin script had been used to write Santali, but Ol Chiki script was introduced in 1930's to account for phonemes that may not be addressed with Latin script. [5]
• Resource:
  • A blog post on some Santali sentences and the translation in English [6]

Mandinka

• ISO 639-3: mnk
• Mandinka is mainly spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea. The language belongs to Mande languages. The number of speakers is around one million. [7]
• Latin script is formally used to write the language. [8]
• Resource:
  • Intermediate Mandinka<=>English dictionary [9],,,