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Sri Lanka
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Language family
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Indo-European
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Indo-Iranian
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Indo-Aryan
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Insular Indo-Aryan
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Writing system
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Sinhala abugida
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Brahmi
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Sri Lanka
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Regulated by
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ISO 639-1
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ISO 639-2
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ISO 639-3
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Indic text
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ISO 15919
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[ˈsiŋhələ]
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Sinhalese
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Sri Lanka
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Indo-Aryan branch
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Indo-European languages
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Tamil
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Sinhala alphabet
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Brahmi script
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Maldives
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Dhivehi
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Sanskrit
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Middle Indic
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Sinhabahu
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Vanga
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lion
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Vijaya
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Lankā
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citation needed
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5th century BCE
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Sri Lanka
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Indo-Aryan language
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Vijaya
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Mahavamsa
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Kalinga
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Magadha
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Prakrits
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aspiration
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stops
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vowels
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borrowings
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sandhi
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elision
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compound
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consonant clusters
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geminate
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doublets
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Pali
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Tamil loanwords
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Dravidian languages
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left-branching syntax
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verbal adjective
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conjunction
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Portuguese
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Dutch
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English
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Southern province
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Galle
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Matara
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Hambantota
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standard language
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Veddah
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diglossia
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literary language
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spoken language
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literary texts
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Sinhala slang
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colloquialism
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inflected
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verb
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Middle
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Old English
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Great Britain
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foreign language
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slang
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citation needed
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citation needed
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prenasalized stops
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homorganic
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nasal
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voiced
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stop
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moraic weight
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Labial
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Dental
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Alveolar
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Retroflex
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Palatal
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Velar
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Glottal
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Nasal
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Stop
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Fricative
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Rhotic
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Approximant
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Front
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Central
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Back
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Close
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Mid
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Open
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animacy
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nominative
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accusative
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genitive
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dative
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ablative
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case endings
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grammaticalization
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unstressed
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NOM
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ACC
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INSTR
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DAT
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ABL
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GEN
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LOC
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VOC
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long consonant
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singulative
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Subject Object Verb
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word order
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conjunctions
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non-finite clauses
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participles
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verbal adjectives
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branching
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Adposition
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copula
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deictic
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stems
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demonstrative pronouns
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Pro-drop language
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subject
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Geiger, Wilhelm
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ISBN 3-515-04447-7
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ISBN 81-206-1174-8
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Elu
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Sinhala slang
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Wikipedia
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Wiktionary
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d
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Indo-Iranian languages
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Indic (Indo-Aryan)
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Middle
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Sanskrit
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Vedic
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Classical
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Mitanni superstrate
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Middle
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Abahatta
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Apabhramsha
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Dramatic Prakrits
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Magadhi
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Maharashtri
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Sauraseni
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Elu
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Gāndhārī
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Jain
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Paisaci
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Pāli
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Prakrit
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Modern
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Central
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Hindi
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Awadhi
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Bagheli
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Bambaiya Hindi
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Brij Bhasha
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Bundeli
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Chhattisgarhi
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Fiji Hindi
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Haryanvi
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Kannauji
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Sansiboli
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Sadhukaddi
(early form)
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Urdu
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Dakhni
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Rekhta
(early form)
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Dhanwar
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Bengali
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Chittagonian
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Sylheti
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Angika
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Assamese
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Bhojpuri
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Bishnupriya Manipuri
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Chakma
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Halbi
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Hajong
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Kayort
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Kharia Thar
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Magahi
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Maithili
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Majhi
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Mal Paharia
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Nahari
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Oriya
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Rajbangsi
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Rohingya
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Sadri
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Northern
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Garhwali
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Kumaoni
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Nepali
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Palpa
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Potwari
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Punjabi
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Saraiki
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Majhi
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Aer
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Derawali
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Dogri
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Hindko
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Kangri
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Kutchi
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Sindhi
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Dhivehi
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Konkani
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Mahal
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Marathi
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Bhil
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Bhili
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Gamit
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Rajasthani
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Bagri
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Goaria
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Gojri
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Jaipuri
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Malvi
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Marwari
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Mewari
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Dhatki
(sociolect)
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Domari
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Gujarati
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Parkari Koli
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Khandeshi
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Nahali
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Romani
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Saurashtra
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Iranian
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Median
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Old Persian
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Avestan
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Old Scythian
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Parthian
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Middle Persian
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Bactrian
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Khwarezmian
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Ossetic
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Jassic
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Saka (Sacian)
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Scythian
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Sogdian
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Kurdish
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Kermanshahi
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Kurmanji
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Soranî
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Persian
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Aimaq
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Bukhori
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Dari
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Dehwari
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Dzhidi
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Hazaragi
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Iranian Persian
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Judeo-Shirazi
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Khuzestani
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Larestani
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Tajik
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Old Azari
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Baluchi
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Bashkardi
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Caspian
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Central Iran
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Dari (Zoroastrian)
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Fars
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Gilaki
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Gorani
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Harzani
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Juhuri
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Kumzari
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Laki
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Luri
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Bakhtiari Lori
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Mazandarani
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Gorgani
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Ormuri
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Sangiseri
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Parachi
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Semnani
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Taleshi
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Tajik
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Tat
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Tati
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Zazaki
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Pamir
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Ishkashimi
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Munji
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Roshani (Roshni)
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Shughni
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Sarikoli
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Wakhi
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Yazgulami
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Yidgha
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Bartangi
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Ishkashmi
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Munji
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Ossetic
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Pashto
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Vanji
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Waziri
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Yaghnobi
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Tangshewi
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Dardic
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Dameli
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Domaaki
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Gawar-Bati
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Kalami
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Kalash
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Kashmiri
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Khowar
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Kohistani
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Nangalami
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Palula
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Pashayi
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Shina
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Shumashti
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Torwali
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Ushoji
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Nuristani
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Kamkata-viri
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Kamviri
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Kata-vari
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Mumviri
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Askunu
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Kalasha-ala
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Kamkata-viri
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Tregami language
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Vasi-vari
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extinct languages
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