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A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with another language. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa...

Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, [ˈeɲe] ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order...

A retroflex (/ˈrɛtrəflɛks, -roʊ-/), apico-domal, or cacuminal [citation needed] (/kəˈkjuːmɪnəl/) consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has...

Wamesa is an Austronesian language of Indonesian New Guinea, spoken across the neck of the Doberai Peninsula or Bird's Head. There are currently 5,000–8...

In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

In grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified...

This article contains Old Hungarian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Old Hungarian...

Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or...

Visa requirements for French citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of France. As of January...

The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the...

Kaurna (/ˈɡɑːnə/ or /ˈɡaʊnə/) is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. The Kaurna...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

Kisuba, also known as Olusuba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Suba people of Kenya. The language features an extensive noun-classification system using...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

Niçard (Classical orthography), nissart/Niçart (Mistralian orthography, IPA: [niˈsaʀt]), niçois (/niːˈswɑː/ nee-SWAH, French: [niswa]), or nizzardo (Italian:...

In semantics, donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun with clear meaning (it is semantically bound) but whose syntactic role in the sentence...

Eteocretan (/ˌiːtioʊˈkriːtən, ˌɛt-/ from Greek: Ἐτεόκρητες, translit. Eteókrētes, lit. "true Cretans", itself composed from ἐτεός eteós "true" and Κρής...

The Boonwurrung language, also anglicised as Bunurong, Bun wurrung, and other variant spellings, is an Aboriginal Australian language traditionally spoken...