Linguistic typology uses many criteria to compile statistics about world language families. Humans conclusively did not evolve in North or South America, meaning everyone here arrived from elsewhere.

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2. The Sabellic languages. These languages, which form an as yet unquestioned subgroup, are a. Oscan, the language of the Samnites of central and southern Italy, who also expanded into Campania and ...

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"Some of my family members, the little ones ... land war in Europe since World War Two. English is the world's most spoken language with about 1.5 billion speakers, followed by Mandarin Chinese ...