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... languages of the Pho ( Pwo ) and Sgaw , which have about 2,000,000 speakers . Taungthu ( Pa - o ) is close to Pho , and Palaychi to Sgaw . There are several minor groups . Chinese , or Sinitic , languages . Chinese as the name of a language ...
... languages of the Pho ( Pwo ) and Sgaw , which have about 2,000,000 speakers . Taungthu ( Pa - o ) is close to Pho , and Palaychi to Sgaw . There are several minor groups . Chinese , or Sinitic , languages . Chinese as the name of a language ...
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... languages , with the view of recovering for each major language group the original common form , such as Proto - Mandarin for the Northern languages , Proto - Wu and others for the languages south of Yangtze . Because data are still ...
... languages , with the view of recovering for each major language group the original common form , such as Proto - Mandarin for the Northern languages , Proto - Wu and others for the languages south of Yangtze . Because data are still ...
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... language ) led to a break in between the connection between the South and the East Slavic groups around the 11th - 12th centuries . The history of the Balkan Slavs was closely connected with Byzantium , in contrast to that of the ...
... language ) led to a break in between the connection between the South and the East Slavic groups around the 11th - 12th centuries . The history of the Balkan Slavs was closely connected with Byzantium , in contrast to that of the ...
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