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Tuvan
Tuvan is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-centeral Siberia and is the first language to be recorded for a Talking Dictionary.
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Ho
Spoken in India by around one million people, traditional script in Ho cannot yet be typed on computers. Although its use is not considered to be in serious decline, the language is under-documented and therefore little known to the outside world.
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Siletz Dee-Ni
Siletz Dee-Ni is an Oregon Athabaskan language, very similar to Navajo, spoken by Siletz tribes once local to northern California through southwest Washington.
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Matukar Panau
Prior to 2009, Matukar Panau had been neither written nor recorded. This Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea has only 600 speakers who live in just two small villages.
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Chamacoco
A Zamucoan language spoken in the Paraguayan Chaco, Chamacoco is used by a traditionally hunter-gather society that has now turned to agriculture.
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Remo
Remo is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken by the Bonda people of India that is increasing endangered and, unti recently, undocumented.
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Muniche
Muniche is an extinct language with no fluent speakers still living in the Peruvian amazon; however, a small corpus of legacy recordings have been collected for a Talking Dictionary.
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Sora
Though a comparably larger (300,000 speakers) tribal language, Sora is a threatened minority language of eastern India.
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Comparative Celtic Lexicon
Comparative Celtic Lexicon allows users to see and hear 288 cognates across the six modern Celtic languages: Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Brenton, Manx, and Cornish.
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