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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.

Claim: Telugu is the fastest growing language in the US. Verdict: Yes it is, according to a study by an American think tank. The number of speakers of Telugu, a south Indian language, has grown by ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...