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Nepali

Nepali is the main official language of Nepal, and is also spoken in adjacent areas of northeast India and Bhutan. It is an eastern Pahari (Northern Indo-Aryan) language. Nepali is written in the Devanagari script, which is also used for Hindi and Marathi. Vowels IPA Lexx Rom Base Vowel Vowel

Gujarati

Gujarati is the main and official language of the state of Gujarat in western India. It is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Hindi, written in the Gujarati script, which is an Indic-based abugida-style script that originated as a modified Nagari script. IPA Lexx Rom Base Vowel Vowel Mark ɐ

Assamese

Assamese is the main official language of the state of Assam in Northeast India. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan related to Bengali and Odia. Main Vowels IPA Lexx Rom Base Vowel Vowel Mark ɔ ô অ - o o অ' -' a a আ া i i ই ি i i ঈ

Bengali

Bengali is the language of the Bengal region, which is comprised of India's West Bengal state as well as the nation of Bangladesh. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language closely related to Odia and Assamese. The name for the Bengali language in the Bengali language itself is Bangla, so this

Urdu

Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, and one of the official languages of India. Along with Hindi, it is a standardized version of Hindustani, the traditional language of the Delhi region. Besides the difference in writing system (with standard Urdu using Arabic script and standard Hindi using Devanagari script)

Hindi

Hindi is the main language of North India, and the official language of the central government of India. Hindi and Urdu are both standardized versions of Hindustani, the language of the Delhi region. Besides differing in writing system, with Hindi typically using the Devanagari script and Urdu using the Arabic

Burmese

Burmese is the main language of Myanmar (also known as Burma). In terms of nomenclature, within the Burmese language, Myanmar is the formal name of the country used for all official purposes, while Burma is the colloquial name of the country, which also used to be the official name of

Khmer

Khmer (Cambodian) is the official language of Cambodia. It forms its own Khmeric branch in the Austroasiatic language family, making it (somewhat distantly) related to Vietnamese, Mon, Khmu, Wa, Palaung, Khasi, Santali, Mundari, and other languages. Within Cambodia, Central Khmer is the basis for the standard language. Northern Khmer is

Zhuang

Zhuang is one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups of China, and Zhuang is recognized with official status at the provincial level in Guangxi. Linguistically part of the Tai branch of Tai-Kadai, Zhuang is actually refers to a cluster of languages, with the northern ones being closer to Bouyei

Shan

The Shan language is spoken in Shan State, Myanmar. It is related to Thai, Lao, Lanna, Zhuang, and other Tai languages, in fact, the word for Shan in the Shan language itself is Tai (တႆး /taj˥/), which is an ethnonym used by many Tai peoples, coming from the same root

Lanna (Chiang Mai)

Lanna is the Tai language of northern Thailand, the former kingdom of Lanna. It is also known as Kam Mueang (the language of the people of the Mueang 'cities'), or simply Northern Thai. There are various dialects and accents of the Lanna language, among which that of Chiang Mai is

Lao (Vientiane)

Lao is the main language of Laos, and is also spoken across the border in northeastern Thailand, where it is known as Isan. There are a couple varieties of Lao-Isan, of which the Vientiane dialect is the most commonly viewed as a prestige accent, so the Lexx Rom tones will

Thai (TH)

Standard Thai is based on Central Thai, also known as Siamese Thai as it is the language of the core region of the kingdom of Siam. It is closely related to Lanna (Kham Mueang or Northern Thai), Isan-Lao (Northeastern Thai), and Thai Tai (Southern Thai). The Thai script is based

Taiwanese (TW)

Taiwanese refers to the cluster of Taiwanese Hokkien (Minnan) accents found on the island of Taiwan, which, while descended from dialects of Xiamen, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, have undergone a significant degree of convergence towards each other, even though a couple of locations still lean towards either Quanzhou or Zhangzhou in

Korean (SK)

Korean is the main language of the Korean peninsula, with the standard language being based on that of the Seoul metropolitan area. Consonants in Initial Position Hangul Lexx Rom Revised McCune IPA ㄱ k g k k(ʰ) ㄲ kk kk kk k˭ ㄴ n n n n ㄷ t

Hokkien-Taiwanese

Hokkien-Taiwanese refers to the Minnan language of southern Fujian. Due to the inconsistent usage of Chinese language terms to refer to both entire linguistic clades as well as the main language of the clade, Minnan in the broader sense is also used to refer to the entire Southern Min Chinese

Jiangnanese (Shanghai)

Shanghainese is the most spoken variety of Jiangnanese, and it served as the lingua franca koine among Jiangnanese speakers during the 19th and 20th centuries before the promotion of Standard Mandarin. The phonology of Shanghainese is overall quite streamlined compared to its predecessor Suzhounese, and the amount of influence from

Jiangnanese

Jiangnanese (江南話) is the language of the Jiangnan region of China, the area south of the Yangtze River Delta along the central coast, including much of Zhejiang province, southern Jiangsu, and Shanghai municipality. Jiangnan literally means 'south of the Yangtze River'. This area is the core area of the Wu

Chaoshanese (Shantou)

Chaoshanese is the Southern Min language of the Chaoshan region in eastern Guangdong province. The name for this region comes from its two most prominent cities, Chaozhou and Shantou. Also known as Teochew among the Southeast Asian Chinese diaspora, this language has long been one of the most commonly spoken

Cantonese (HK)

Cantonese is a major regional language of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, as well as Hong Kong and Macau. As a broad term, Cantonese is often used to refer to the entire Yue Chinese branch (the formal name for Cantonese is 粵語 literally meaning 'the Yue language'), though as a narrow

Hakka (Meixian)

Hakka is a Sinitic language from the tri-province border region between southern Jiangxi, northern Guangdong, and western Fujian. Due to subsequent migrations, there are also Hakka speakers scattered around various other provinces and regions of South China, even as far west as Sichuan, and Hakka Chinese make up a prominent

Wenzhounese (Lucheng)

Wenzhounese (溫州話、甌語) is a Wu Chinese language spoken predominately in Wenzhou prefecture in Zhejiang Province off China’s eastern coast, but also by a large diaspora of Chinese immigrants across Europe, North America, and other countries. Within Wenzhou prefecture, there are also other Sinitic languages besides Wenzhounese spoken, but

Eastern Fujianese (Fuzhou)

The government seat for the Fuzhou prefecture as well as the whole of Fujian province lies in the Fuzhou metropolitan district, and the speech here represents the prestige accent for the Eastern Fujianese language, also known as Mindong (閩東語) or Eastern Min. The specific variety spoken in Fuzhou is also

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Lexx Rom refers to the main Roman script transcription system used on Lexxify Hub for a particular language. The systems are designed to be relatively consistent across a respective linguistic macro-region, such as Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, or East Asia, with a goal of minimizing clashing between systems