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Istro-Romanian language
Istro-Romanian is an Eastern Romance language, or a dialect of the Romanian language. Of all the Romanian languages/dialects that are spoken outside of present-day Romania, it is the closest linguistically to the official language of the country of Romania, Daco-Romanian.
Istro-Romanian_language
Serer language
The Serer languages are a group of languages spoken by the Serer people in West Africa. They include Serer-Sine
Serer_language
Back-formation
Talk:Back-formation
Oscan language
Oscan, the language of the Osci, is in the Sabellic branch of the Italic language family, which is a branch of Indo-European that also includes Umbrian, Latin, and Faliscan. Samnium and in Campania, as well as in Lucania, Ager Bruttius (modern Calabria) and Abruzzo.
Oscan_language
Umbrian language
Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. It is closely related to Oscan.Umbrian is known from about 30 inscriptions dated from the 7th through 1st centuries BC. The largest by far, the Iguvine Tables or Eugubian tablets, consists of seven bronze plates with notes on the ceremonies and statutes for priests.
Umbrian_language
Bantu peoples
Talk:Bantu_peoples
Tuvaluan language
Tuvaluan_language
Classical Latin
Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature1st century BC and the early 1st century ADWhat is now called "Classical Latin" was, in fact, a highly stylized and polished written literary language selectively constructed from early Latin, of which far fewer works remain.
Classical_Latin
Noun
Talk:Noun
Determiner (function)
Determiner_(function)
Pashto language
Pashto (Naskh:transliterated Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto, Pashtu, or Pushtu), also known as Afghani, is an Indo-European language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. Pashto belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family. There are nearly 40 million Pashtuns. As defined in the Constitution of Afghanistan, Pashto is a national and official language.
Pashto_language
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese (文言文) is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of ancient Chinese, making it different from any modern spoken form of Chinese. However, the distinction between Literary Classical and Literary Vernacular Chinese is far from clear.
Classical_Chinese
Kanuri language
Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by approximately four million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan. Kanuri is the language associated with the Kanem and Bornu empires which dominated the Lake Chad region for a thousand years.The basic word order of Kanuri sentences is Subject Object Verb.
Kanuri_language
Malay language
Malay refers to a group of languages closely related to each other to the point of mutual intelligibility but that linguists consider to be separate languages. They are grouped into a group called "Local Malay", part of a larger group called "Malayan" within the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The various forms of Malay are spoken in Brunei, Indonesia (where the national language, Indonesian, is one form of it), Malaysia, Singapore, and southern Thailand.
Malay_language
Valencian
Valencian (valencià) is the historical, traditional, and official nameused in the Valencian Community of Spain to refer to the region's native language, known elsewhere as Catalan (català). Valencian is also spoken by a small number of people (fewer than 500) in Carche, a sparsely populated rural area in the Region de Murcia adjoining the Valencian Community. Valencian does not have any official recognition in this area.
Valencian
Lao language
Lao_language
Membranophone
Membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification.Most membranophones are drums.
Membranophone
Himno Nacional Mexicano
The National Anthem of Mexico () was officially adopted in 1943. The lyrics of the national anthem, which allude to Mexican victories in the heat of battle and cries of defending the homeland, were composed by poet Francisco González Bocanegra in 1853, after his fiancée locked him in a room.
Himno_Nacional_Mexicano
Gujarati language
Gujarati_language
Southern Ndebele language
The Southern Ndebele language (isiNdebele or Nrebele in Southern Ndebele) is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the amaNdebele (the Ndebele people of South Africa). There are two dialects of Southern Ndebele in South Africa: the Northern Transvaal Ndebele or Nrebele, and the Southern Transvaal Ndebele.
Southern_Ndebele_language
Llywrch
User_talk:Llywrch
Dalmatian language
Dalmatian is an extinct Romance language formerly spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro.The Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal townsZadar, Trogir, Split, Dubrovnik and Kotor (Jadera, Tragur, Spalatro, Raugia and Cattaro), each of these cities having a local dialect, and also on the islands of Krk, Cres and Rab (Vikla, Crepsa and Arba).
Dalmatian_language
Vandalic language
Vandalic was a Germanic language probably closely related to the Gothic language. The Vandals, Hasdingi and Silingi established themselves in Gallaecia (Northern Portugal and Galicia) and in Southern Spain, following other Germanic and non-Germanic peoples (Visigoths, Alans and Suevi), before moving to North Africa in AD 429.Very little is known about the Vandalic language other than a small number of personal names of Vandalic origin in Spanish.
Vandalic_language
Romani language
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy (native namerromani ćhib) is the language of the Romani people. It is an Indo-Aryan language, sometimes included in either the "Central" or the "Northwestern" group, sometimes treated as a branch of its own.Romani is a macrolanguage in the ISO 639 classification, taken to consist of seven sub-languages or major dialects.
Romani_language
Zapotec peoples
The Zapotecs are an indigenous people of Mexico. The population is concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities exist in neighboring states as well. The present-day population is estimated at approximately 300,000 to 400,000 persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of the native Zapotec languages and dialects.
Zapotec_peoples
Thai language
Talk:Thai_language
Cantonese
Cantonese (academically known as Yue (Pinyin) or Yüeh (Wade-Giles), after the Mandarin pronunciation of 「粵」) is a primary branch of Chinese. The name "Cantonese" is also commonly used in a narrower sense for Standard Cantonese, the prestige dialect of Cantonese in the broader sense.The issue of whether Cantonese in the broader sense (Yue) should be regarded as a language in its own right or as a dialect of a Chinese language depends on conceptions of what a language is.
Cantonese
Siwi language
Siwi is a Berber language of Egypt, spoken by about 15,000 people in and around the oasis of Siwa, near the Libyan border. The language has been heavily influenced by Egyptian Arabic, to a greater degree than most Berber languages. It continues to be the first language of Siwi children.
Siwi_language
Zenaga language
Zenaga_language
Tuareg languages
Tuareg (or Tamasheq/Tamajaq/Tamahaq) is a Berber language or family of closely related languages spoken by the Tuareg, in many parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, with a few speakers, the Kinnin, in Chad.
Tuareg_languages
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic (c. 9th–6th centuries BC), Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC–6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece and the ancient world.
Ancient_Greek
ILR scale
ILR_scale
Polabian language
The Polabian language is an extinct West Slavic language that was spoken by the Slavs of North-Eastern Germany around the Elbe or Laba River (hence the name). It was spoken approximately until the mid-18th century, when it was suppressed by German, in the areas of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein.Polabian was in some respects markedly different from other Slavic languages.
Polabian_language
Knaanic language
Knaanic (also called Canaanic, Leshon Knaan or Judeo-Slavic) was a West Slavic Jewish language, formerly spoken in the lands of the Western Slavs, notably the Czech lands, but also the lands of modern Poland, Lusatia and other Sorbian regions. It became extinct in the Late Middle Ages.
Knaanic_language
Rusyn language
Rusyn (; ) is an East Slavic idiom that is spoken by the Rusyns. Opinions differ among linguists concerning whether Rusyn is a separate East Slavic language or a dialect of Ukrainian. The political implications of the dispute add to the controversy.
Rusyn_language
Manchu language
Manchu is a Tungusic language spoken in Northeast China; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 70 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus. Although the Xibe language, with 40,000 speakers, is in almost every respect identical to classical Manchu, Xibe speakers, who live in Liaoning and far western Xinjiang, are ethnically distinct from Manchus and lay claim to the distinctiveness of their language.
Manchu_language
Austro-Bavarian language
Austro-Bavarian or Bavarian is a major group of Upper German varieties. Like standard German, Austro-Bavarian is a High German language, but they are not the same language. However, Austro-Bavarian and Standard German have influenced each other and the vast majority of Austro-Bavarian speakers speak Standard German as well.Austro-Bavarian is also used to refer to the dialect group which includes the Austro-Bavarian dialect discussed here, as well as the Cimbrian, Hutterite German, and Mócheno dialects of German.
Austro-Bavarian_language
Galindian language
Galindian is a poorly attested extinct language, considered to be a part of the Baltic languages group. There are no extant writings in Galindan.
Galindian_language
Georgian language
Georgian (, kartuli ena) is the native tongue of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Iran, Russia, the USA and Europe).
Georgian_language
Main Page/Archive 3
Talk:Main_Page/Archive_3
Mongolian language
The Mongolian language (, Mongγol kele; Cyrillic:Mongol khel) is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China, totalling about 5.7 million speakers. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect of Mongolian, written in Cyrillic, is predominant; in Inner Mongolia, the language is more dialectically diverse and written in the traditional Mongolian script.
Mongolian_language
Rotokas language
Rotokas is a language (part of the East Papuan language phylum) spoken by some 4000 people in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. There are at least three dialects of the languagephonemic inventory and for having perhaps the smallest modern alphabet.
Rotokas_language
Tshiluba language
Tshiluba (also called Luba-Kasai and Luba-Lulua) is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a national language.
Tshiluba_language
Burushaski
Burushaski ( - burū́šaskī) is a language isolate (that is, not known to be related to any other language of the world). It is spoken by some 87,000 (as of 2000) Burusho people in the Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, and parts of the Gilgit valleys in the Northern Areas in Pakistan. It is also spoken by some 300 speakers in Srinagar, India. Other names for the language are Kanjut (Kunjoot), Werchikwār, Boorishki, Brushas (Brushias) and Miśa
Burushaski
Endangered language
endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language.The total number of contemporary languages in the world is not known. Estimates vary depending on the extent and means of the research intended to discover them, the definition of a distinct language and the current state of knowledge concerning the identities and vital statistics of the various peoples of the earth.
Endangered_language
Isolating language
In morphological typology (in linguistics), an isolating language (in fact the most extreme case of an analytic language) is any language in which words are composed of a single morpheme. This is in contrast to a synthetic language which can have words composed of multiple morphemes.
Isolating_language
Persian people
Talk:Persian_people
English numerals
English numerals are words for numbers used in English-speaking cultures.
English_numerals
Acadian French
Acadian French (le français acadien) is a variety or dialect of French spoken by francophone Acadians in the Canadian Maritime provinces, the Saint John River Valley in northern Maine, the Magdalen Islands and Havre-Saint-Pierre, along the St. Lawrence's north shore (where the original Acadian is probably best heard due to the longtime isolation of these localities).
Acadian_French
Bokmål
Bokmål (lit. "book language"), is the more commonly used of the two Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85-90% of the population in Norway, regardless of dialect, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language.Bokmål is regulated by the governmental Norwegian Language Council.
Bokmål