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12 hours ago · The Javanese people of Indonesia are the largest Austronesian ethnic group. Austronesian peoples include the following groupings by name and geographic location (incomplete): Formosan: Taiwan (e.g., Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Paiwan, collectively known as Taiwanese indigenous peoples) Malayo-Polynesian:
12 hours ago · Hangul is the official writing system throughout both North and South Korea. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
12 hours ago · Africa. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9] With nearly 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population.
12 hours ago · [b] which the English word "genie" is derived from. The origin of the word jinn remains uncertain. [ 3 ] (p22) Some scholars relate the Arabic term jinn to the Latin genius – a guardian spirit of people and places in Roman religion – as a result of syncretism during the reign of the Roman empire under Tiberius and Augustus ; [ 9 ] however, this derivation is also disputed.
12 hours ago · Manchu (Manchu: ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ. ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ, Romanization: manju gisun) is a critically endangered East Asian Tungusic language native to the historical region of Manchuria in Northeast China. [6] As the traditional native language of the Manchus, it was one of the official languages of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) of China, although ...
12 hours ago · A Dutch speaker. Dutch (endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language [ 4 ] and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which ...
12 hours ago · October 27, 1974 (Sunday) A crowd of 20,000 people attended a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in support of Puerto Rican independence. Juan Mari Brás, secretary-general of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, was the principal speaker at the rally; other speakers included Angela Davis and Jane Fonda.
