| Bonggi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Malaysia |
| Region | Sabah |
| Ethnicity | 1,400 (1990) [1] |
Native speakers | [1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bdg |
| Glottolog | bong1289 |
  Bonggi Location of Banggi Island, where Banggi is spoken.  Bonggi Bonggi (Malaysia) | |
| Coordinates: 7°15′0″N117°10′0″E / 7.25000°N 117.16667°E | |
Bonggi (Banggi) is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Bonggi people of Banggi Island, off the northern tip of Sabah, Malaysia.
At the ends of words, k, p, and t are not released. [2]
Some Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear. In this list, an attempt has been made to organize terms by their original form and give translations and synonyms in other languages along with the definition.
The Slovene alphabet is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene. The standard language uses a Latin alphabet which is a slight modification of the Croatian Gaj's Latin alphabet, consisting of 25 lower- and upper-case letters:
The Nauruan or Nauru language is an Austronesian language, spoken natively in the island country of Nauru. Its relationship to the other Micronesian languages is not well understood.
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Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic, is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts. It was used from c. 600 to c. 900. The main contemporary texts are dated c. 700–850; by 900 the language had already transitioned into early Middle Irish. Some Old Irish texts date from the 10th century, although these are presumably copies of texts written at an earlier time. Old Irish is thus forebear to Modern Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic.
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This article describes the phonology of the Occitan language.
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