Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan

Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-80202-6
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

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1 One of the fifteen languages of the Constitution of India.

2 Here considered a group of dialects.

3 See Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Min and Hakka. The “national language” (Guoyu) or “common speech” (Putonghua) is a standardized form of Mandarin as spoken in the area of Peking.

4 Hindi and Urdu are essentially the same language, Hindustani. As the official language of India, it is written in the Devanagari script and called Hindi. As the official language of Pakistan, it is written in a modified Arabic script and called Urdu.

5 Thai includes Central, Southwestern, Northern and Northeastern Thai. The distinction between Northeastern Thai and Lao is political rather than linguistic.

6 Yiddish is usually considered a variant of German, though it has its own standard grammar, dictionaries, and a highly developed literature, and is written in Hebrew characters. Speakers number about 3 million.

7 A group of Thai-like dialects with about 9 million speakers.

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