Kreye is a Macro-Gê language that is spoken by about 30 individuals in Maranhão and Pará, Brazil. It is considered an endangered language. Maranhão is one of the states of Brazil in the north-eastern region. ... Flag of Pará See other Brazilian States Capital Belém Largest City Belém Area 1. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Macro-Ge, also spelled Macro-Gê, Macro-Je, and Macro-Jê, is a medium sized language stock proposed for South America, centered around the Gê-Kaingang language family. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Macro-Ge, also spelled Macro-Gê, Macro-Je, and Macro-Jê, is a medium sized language stock proposed for South America, centered around the Gê-Kaingang language family. ... Maranhão is one of the states of Brazil in the north-eastern region. ... Flag of Pará See other Brazilian States Capital Belém Largest City Belém Area 1. ... An endangered language is a language with so few surviving speakers that it is in danger of falling out of use. ...

External links

• Kreye language at Ethnologue