1. Language Families
... latter is the official language of Ethiopia, spoken by Coptic Christians and Hebrew is basically the language of the Old Testament. Semitic languages take this name from Shem, the second son of Noah. Shem's brother Ham gave his name to the Hamitic languages, which seem to be distantly related to the Semitic. Semitic and Hamitic are grouped together by linguistic in ... are: Quechua, Aymana, Guarani, Yucalan, Guatemala, and the Nahuatl and Aztec languages spoken in Peru, Bolivia, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico. In the United States and Canada there are not Native American languag...
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