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Ido
A reformed version of Esperanto created in 1907 to address perceived flaws — the most significant Esperanto offshoot, with a small but persistent community.
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Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 3-letter Languages
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Lao
A Tai-Kadai language and the official tongue of Laos — closely related to Thai and written in a similar Brahmic script, with about 30 million speakers including northeast Thailand.
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N|uu
A critically endangered Tuu (formerly "Khoisan") language of South Africa — famous for having the world's largest known phoneme inventory.
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Twi
The most widely spoken member of the Akan dialect continuum in Ghana — particularly the Asante and Akuapem varieties.
About 3-letter languages
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