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151,236 groups in alt.*
Group ▾ Description Threads Posts
alt.languages.hindi 211 437
alt.languages.hungarian 168 242
alt.languages.icelandic 156 197
alt.languages.igbo 103 123
alt.language.sign.vampire 1 1
alt.languages.ingush 38 58
alt.languages.interlingua Discussiones in Interlingua e super 975 1,163
alt.languages.iras` 1 1
alt.languages.irish 458 1,565
alt.languages.italian 331 608
alt.languages.japanese 405 954
alt.languages.javanese 4 23
alt.languages.jinyu 116 129
alt.languages.jutish 109 122
alt.languages.kadar 34 47
alt.languages.kannada 117 133
alt.languages.kiribati 39 57
alt.languages.kombio 103 121
alt.languages.lakota 126 145
alt.languages.laro 113 126
alt.languages.latin 445 868
alt.languages.latvian 148 194
alt.languages.lithuanian 134 167
alt.languages.luxembourgeois 124 185
alt.languages.maca 41 53
alt.languages.macedonia 2 2
alt.languages.macedonian 148 7,931
alt.languages.magahi 108 126
alt.languages.malay 154 288
alt.languages.malayalam 141 330
alt.languages.maltese 112 127
alt.languages.mandarin 298 439
alt.languages.manx 125 141
alt.languages.marathi 120 163
alt.languages.marwari 37 52
alt.languages.moksha 118 136
alt.languages.n 3 3
alt.languages.napali 113 139
alt.languages.noir the noir language is spoken here 2 11
alt.languages.norwegian 201 404
alt.languages.nowegian 181 198
alt.languages.oriya 34 52
alt.language.spain 2 2
alt.language.spanish Discussion of the Spanish language. Translations 3,469 18,299
alt.language.spanish. 6 6
alt.language.spanish.icq 447 1,353
alt.language.spanish.soc.culture.catalan 4 4
alt.languages.panjabi 114 144
alt.languages.pl 2 2
alt.languages.polari 120 144
alt.languages.polish Surveying Polish... 1,818 16,954
alt.languages.portuguese 702 3,363
alt.languages.provencal 158 185
alt.languages.romanian 132 230
alt.languages.russian Éradication de la langue russe. 455 1,262
alt.languages.saami 35 47
alt.languages.saxon 118 130
alt.languages.scots 132 310
alt.languages.s`elta 1 1
alt.languages.serbo-croatian 163 264
alt.languages.shelta 105 125
alt.languages.sindhi 119 135
alt.languages.slovak 591 748
alt.languages.sloveni 1 1
alt.languages.slovenian 128 153
alt.languages.spanish 12,442 13,024
alt.languages.swedish 191 307
alt.languages.tamil 252 464
alt.languages.tas.hroat.diseases 1 1
alt.languages.tatar 109 138
alt.languages.telugu 406 427
alt.languages.tewa 110 129
alt.languages.thai 215 360
alt.languages.toba 39 52
alt.languages.tsalagi the tsalgi language is spoken here 132 221
alt.languages.turkish 167 253
alt.languages.ukrainian 162 252
alt.languages.urdu 126 288
alt.languages.vene 1 1
alt.languages.venetian 168 196
alt.language.swedish 2 2
alt.languages.welsh 180 301
alt.languages.westbulgarian 1 1
alt.languages.wu 108 125
alt.languages.xiang 37 49
alt.languages.yakut 33 45
alt.languages.yiddish 298 368
alt.languages.yue 112 132
alt.languages.zulu 120 137
alt.languages.zuni 118 130
alt.language.tanji 102 153
alt.language.telugu 820 846
alt.language.telugu.literature 223 654
alt.language.translation.market 22 30
alt.language.ur 2 2
alt.language.urdu 6 225
alt.language.urdu.p 4 4
alt.language.urdu.poet 1 1
alt.language.urdu-poetry 3 3
alt.language.urdu.poetry Poetry in the Indic Urdu language. 6,238 41,401
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