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| Middle English Middle English is the name given by historical linguists to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and about 1470, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William Caxton in the 1470s, and slightly later by Richard Pynson. The language of England as spoken after this time, up to 1650, is known as Early Modern English. Middle_English | |
| Māori language Māori or te reo Māori () commonly te reo ("the language"), is an official language of New Zealand. Linguists classify it within the Eastern Polynesian languages as closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan and Tahitian; somewhat less closely to Hawaiian and Marquesan; and more distantly to the languages of Western Polynesia, including Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean and Tongan. Māori_language | |
| Cree language Cree (also known as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi) is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Labrador, making it by far the most spoken aboriginal language in Canada. Cree_language | |
| Tetum Tetum (also Tetun) is an Austronesian language, a national language and one of the two official languages of East Timor. Some of its dialects have been greatly influenced by Portuguese, the other official language of the country, especially in their vocabulary, but also in aspects of their grammar. Tetum | |
| Autosegmental phonology Autosegmental_phonology | |
| Igbo language Igbo (IgboAsụsụ Igbo) is a language spoken in Nigeria by around 20-25 million people, mainly the Igbo people making up the population of its speakers. The language is spoken especially in the southeastern region of Nigeria once identified as Biafra and parts of the extreme Southern regions (including the Niger Deltan regions) of Nigeria. Igbo_language | |
| Hakka (language) Hakka (; Hakka:Hak-kâ-fa) is one of the main subdivisions of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka people and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world.Due to its usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island and Taiwan. Hakka_(language) | |
| Sign language Talk:Sign_language | |
| Voice (grammar) Talk:Voice_(grammar) | |
| Egyptian language Talk:Egyptian_language | |
| Quebec French Quebec French (, le français du Québec), or less often Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language in Canada, in its formal and informal registers. Quebec French is used in everyday communication, as well as in education, the media, and government.Canadian French is a frequently used umbrella term for the varieties of French used in Canada including Quebec French. Quebec_French | |
| Bacan "Bachan" redirects here. For the Bachchan family, see Bachchan Family..Bacan (formerly Bachan, Bachian or Batchian, Dutch:Batjan) refers to a group of islands in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia and to that group's largest island. The islands are mountainous and forested. The islands lies south of Ternate and west of Halmahera's southernmost arm. The second and third largest islands are Kasiruta and Mandioli. There are dozens of smaller islands in the group. Bacan | |
| Dida language Dida is a dialect cluster of the Kru family spoken in Ivory Coast. Ethnologue divides Dida into two groups, Yocoboué Dida (101,600 speakers in 1993) and Lakota Dida (93,800 speakers in 1993), which are only marginally mutually intelligible and best considered separate languages. Each is dialectically diverseprestige dialect is the Lozoua speech of the town of Guitry. Dida_language | |
| Taiwanese Minnan Taiwanese Minnan (臺灣閩南語), commonly known as Taiwanese (Tâi-oân-oē, 臺灣話), is a variant of the Min Nan Chinese language spoken by about 70% of the population of Taiwan. The largest ethnic group in Taiwan for which Taiwanese Minnan is considered a native language is known as Hoklo or Holo (Hō-ló). Taiwanese_Minnan | |
| Austronesian languages The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. It is on par with Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families. Austronesian_languages | |
| Syriac language Syriac ( 'Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature. Syriac_language | |
| Balochi language Balochi (بلوچی also Baluchi, Baloci or Baluci) is a Northwestern Iranian language. It is the principal language of the Baloch of Balochistan, Pakistan, eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan. It is also spoken as a second language by some Brahui. It is designated as one of nine official languages of Pakistan. Balochi_language | |
| Zulu language Zulu (called isiZulu in Zulu), is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa (24% of the population) as well as being understood by over 50% of the population (Ethnologue 2005). It became one of South Africa's eleven official languages in 1994 at the end of apartheid. Like many other Bantu languages, it is written using the Latin alphabet. Zulu_language | |
| Evaluation Evaluation is systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance of something or someone using criteria against a set of standards. Evaluation often is used to characterize and appraise subjects of interest in a wide range of human enterprises, including the arts, criminal justice, foundations and non-profit organizations, government, health care, and other human services. Evaluation | |
| Nepali language Nepali_language | |
| Doric dialect (Scotland) Doric (also known as Mid Northern or North East Scots) refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland. The term Doric was formerly used to refer to all dialects of Scots, but is now reserved specifically for North Eastern varieties. Doric_dialect_(Scotland) | |
| Scots language Scots or Lowland Scots refers to the Germanic varieties spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster. It is not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic, the surviving Celtic language of Scotland.Since there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots. Scots_language | |
| Sumerian language Sumerian ( "native tongue") was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in Southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC. It was gradually replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate), but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the first century AD. Sumerian_language | |
| Serbo-Croatian language/Archive 2 Talk:Serbo-Croatian_language/Archive_2 | |
| Hindustani language Hindustani_language | |
| Ge'ez language Ge'ez_language | |
| Emic and etic Emic and etic are terms used by anthropologists, and by others in the social and behavioral sciences to refer to two different kinds of data concerning human behavior. In particular, they are used in cultural anthropology, to refer to kinds of fieldwork done and viewpoints obtained. Emic_and_etic | |
| Ainu language Ainu (Ainuaynu itak; Japanese:ainu-go; Cyrillic alphabet:Ainu language spoken by members of the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō. Until the twentieth century, Ainu languages were also spoken throughout the southern half of the island of Sakhalin and by small numbers of people in the Kuril Islands. All but the Hokkaidō language are extinct, and Hokkaidō is moribund, though there are ongoing attempts to revive it. Ainu_language | |
| Kazakh language Kazakh (also Qazaq and variants, natively 'Kyrgyz and Karakalpak.Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony. Kazakh_language | |
| Uzbek language Uzbek (O‘zbek tili or O'zbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили or Ўзбекча in Cyrillic script; أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی in Arabic script) is a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 23.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia. Uzbek_language | |
| Tok Pisin Tok Pisin (; tok is derived from English "talk" but like many such words has a wider application, also meaning "word" or "speech" and even "language" - pisin is derived from English "pidgin" and for its speakers is simply the name of the language) is a creole spoken throughout Papua New Guinea; in parts of Western, Gulf, Central, Oro Province and Milne Bay Provinces the use of Tok Pisin has a shorter history, and is less universal, especially among older people. Tok_Pisin | |
| Sonority hierarchy A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a ranking of speech sounds (or phones) by amplitude. For example, if you say the vowel plosive syllable structure; rules about what segments may appear in onsets or codas together, such as SSP, are formulated in terms of the difference of their sonority values. Some languages also have assimilation rules based on sonority hierarchy, for example, the Finnish potential mood (e.g. -tne- → -nne-). Sonority_hierarchy | |
| Serbian language The Serbian language (Serbian Cyrillic:Serbian Latin:Srpski jezik) is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora. Standard Serbian is based on the Shtokavian dialect, like the modern Croatian and Bosnian, with which it is mutually intelligible, and was previously unified with under the standard known as Serbo-Croatian. Serbian_language | |
| Croatian language The Croatian language () is a South Slavic language which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Croatian minorities in some neighbouring countries, in the Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croatian diaspora. Standard Croatian is dialectally based on the Western Štokavian dialect with the Ijekavian reflex of the Common Slavic yat vowel. Croatian_language | |
| Guaraní language Guaraní, and more specifically its primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní (; local name avañe'ẽ Guaraní_language | |
| Bislama Bislama is a creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. It is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" (those who live in Port Vila and Luganville), and the second language of the rest of the country's residents. "Yumi, Yumi, Yumi", the Vanuatu national anthem, is in Bislama. Bislama | |
| Lingala language Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. It has over 10 million speakers. It is classed C.36D under the Guthrie system for classifying Bantu languages and C.40 under the SIL system. Lingala_language | |
| Lithuanian language Lithuanian_language | |
| Astur-Leonese linguistic group Astur-Leonese is a dialect continuum included in the West Iberian branch of the Romance languages. The languages that can be included in this linguistic group are (Asturian, asturianu, or Bable), in the Spanish province of Asturias. Close to Asturian is the (Leonese language, Llingua Llïonesa), spoken in the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca and in some villages in the District of Bragança, Portugal. Astur-Leonese_linguistic_group | |
| Alsatian language Alsatian (Elsässerditsch; ; or Elsässerdeutsch) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times. Alsatian_language | |
| Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили, Kyrgyz tili, قىرعىز ٴتىلى) is a Turkic language and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. Genetically it is most closely related to Altay and more distantly so to Kazakh; however, modern-day language convergence has resulted in an increasing degree of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz and Kazakh.Kyrgyz is spoken by about 4 million people in Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Russia. Kyrgyz_language | |
| Corn tortilla For other types of tortillas, see tortillaIn Mexico and Central America, a tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flat bread, made from finely ground maize (often called "corn" in the United States). In Mexico, there are three colors of maize dough for making tortillasA similar bread from South America is called arepa (though arepas are typically much thicker than tortillas). Corn_tortilla | |
| Luganda language Luganda, sometimes known as Ganda, is a major language of Uganda, spoken by over ten million people mainly in Southern Uganda which includes the Ugandan capital Kampala. It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Typologically, it is an agglutinating language with subject-verb-object word order and nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.With about six million first-language-speakers in the Buganda region and about four million others with a working knowledge, it is the most widely spoken Ugandan language, and as second language in Uganda is next to English. Luganda_language | |
| Iztaccíhuatl Iztaccíhuatl (alternative spellings include Ixtaccíhuatl, or either variant spelled without the accent) ( or, as spelled with the x, ), is the third highest mountain in Mexico, after the Pico de Orizaba (5,636Popocatépetl (5,426Nahuatl for "white woman". The mountain has four peaks, the highest of which is 5,230Mexico City and is often visible from the capital, depending on atmospheric conditions. Iztaccíhuatl | |
| Popocatépetl Popocatépetl is an active volcano and, at 5,426 m (17,802 ft), the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba (5,636Iztaccíhuatl volcano to the north by the high saddle known as the Paso de Cortés, and lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt.The name Popocatépetl comes from the Nahuatl words popōca 'it smokes' and tepētl 'mountain', thus Smoking Mountain; the name Don Goyo comes from the mountain’s association in the lore of the region with San Gregorio (St. Popocatépetl | |
| Nahuatl Talk:Nahuatl | |
| Tigrinya language Tigrinya ( ትግርኛ, tigriññā), also spelled Tigrigna, Tigrina, Tigriña, less commonly Tigrinian, Tigrinyan, is a Semitic language spoken by the Tigray-Tigrinya people in Tigray Eritrea (there referred to as the "Tigrinya" people), where it is one of the two dominant languages of Eritrea, and in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia (whose speakers are called "Tigray"), where it has official status, and among groups of emigrants from these regions, including some of the Beta Israel now living in Israel. Tigrinya_language | |
| Amharic Amharic (አማርኛ amarəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Amharic | |
| Wolof language Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania, and it is the native language of the ethnic group of the Wolof people. Like the neighboring language Fula, it belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, Wolof is not a tonal language.Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken not only by members of the Wolof ethnic group (approximately 40 percent of the population) but also by most other Senegalese. Wolof_language | |
| Xhosa language Xhosa ( , isiXhosa) is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation. Xhosa_language |
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