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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Languages |
 | | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence | | | Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language | | | Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood) |
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http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2098.html
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| | 2005 Population Figures for Cantonment, India |
| | Avoiding all overheated language and gratuitous violence or gore... | | | This is the accessible text file for GAO report number GAO-03-723... | | | ...violators answered him in harsh language, he retaliated... |
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http://travel.synabu.com/cities/C/Cantonment,_India.html
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| | Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The world’s languages have been grouped into families of languages that are believed to have common ancestors. | | | This, however, may not be a scientific question, but is perhaps more one of definition. | | | For instance, there are dialects of German very similar to Dutch which are not mutually intelligible with other dialects of (what Germans call) German. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
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| | Encyclopedia topic: Lingala language |
| | Many Lingala books, papers, even the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (additional info and facts about Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and more recently, internet forums, newsletters, and a major websites such as Google's Lingala do not use Lingala specific characters (ɛ and ɔ). | | | The diphtongs formed with a nasal followed by a voiceless plosive are allophonic (additional info and facts about allophonic) to the voiceless plosives alone in some variations of Lingala. | | | After 1880 the language became known as Bangala and around 1900 it was replaced by term Lingala. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/lingala_language.htm
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| | French Colonies - Congo (formerly Middle Congo) |
| | French is the official language; Lingala and Kituba, two patois dialects intelligible to most groups, are used widely as trade languages. | | | Despite being one of Congo's official languages, French is spoken by less than 2% of the population. | | | The people of Congo-Brazzaville belong to several ethnic groups, each with its own language. |
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http://www.discoverfrance.net/Colonies/Congo.shtml
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