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Urdu (اُردُو, [ʊɾduː] ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan...

Malayalam is written in a non-Latin script. Malayalam text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard...

A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. Writing...

Belarusian (endonym: беларуская мова, romanized: bielaruskaja mova, pronounced [bʲɛɫaˈruskaja ˈmɔva]) is an East Slavic language. It is one of the two...

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late...

Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language...

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Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (Arabic: اللغة العامية المصرية, [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]), or simply Masri (also Masry) (مَصرى)...

The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim...

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the glottal fricative,...

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In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make...

Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific...

Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of...

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...

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Lambadi, Lambani, Lamani or Banjari is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Banjara people across India. The language does not have a native script...

The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains...

Gondi (Gōṇḍī), natively known as Koitur (Kōī, Kōītōr), is a South-Central Dravidian language, spoken by about three million Gondi people, chiefly in the...

A spelling alphabet (also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially...

Michael Everson (born January 1963) is an American and Irish linguist, script encoder, typesetter, type designer and publisher. He runs a publishing company...

Talysh (تؤلشه زوؤن, Tolışə Zıvon, Tолышә зывон) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and...

Norms are concepts (sentences) of practical import, oriented to affecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express...

You may need rendering support to display the Karen script in this article correctly. S’gaw, S'gaw Karen, or S’gaw K’Nyaw, commonly known as Karen, is...

East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east...

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Lohar is considered to be a caste among Hindus and a clan among Muslims and Sikhs in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, and in Nepal. They...

This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages in English. The list provides...

Chulym (in Chulym: Ось тили, Ös tili; Russian: Чулымский язык), also known as Chulim, Chulym-Turkic (not to be confused with the Turkic Siberian Tatar...

A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries. Many examples...

The Kaqchikel language (in modern orthography; formerly also spelled Cakchiquel or Cachiquel) is an indigenous Mesoamerican language and a member of the...

The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK; Chinese: 汉语水平考试; pinyin: Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì), translated as the Chinese Proficiency Test, is the People's Republic of...

Barese dialect (natively dialètte barése; Italian: dialetto barese) is an Italoromance dialect belonging to the southern intermediate group, spoken in...

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This is a list of English prepositions. The following are single-word prepositions that can take a noun phrase complement following the preposition. Prepositions...

Toda is a Dravidian language noted for its many fricatives and trills. It is spoken by the Toda people, a population of about one thousand who live in...

Balkan Gagauz, Balkan Turkish or Rumelian (Turkish: Rumeli Türkçesi), is a Turkic language spoken in European Turkey, in Dulovo and the Deliorman area...

The Aragonese (Aragonese and Spanish: aragoneses, Catalan: aragonesos) are the Romance people self-identified with the historical region of Aragon, in...

Esperanto symbols, primarily the Esperanto flag, have seen much consistency over the time of Esperanto's existence (namely in the consistent usage of the...

Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO...

Vulgarity is the quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined. This judgement may refer to language, visual art, social class, or social climbers. John...

The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced...

The Slavic first palatalization is a Proto-Slavic sound change that manifested as regressive palatalization of inherited Balto-Slavic velar consonants...

The advanced learner's dictionary is the most common type of monolingual learner's dictionary, that is, a dictionary written in one language only, for...

Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of features, accompanied by an increase in the...

The main language of the Isle of Man is English, predominantly the Manx English dialect. Manx, the historical language of the island, is still maintained...

Runic is a Unicode block containing runic characters. It was introduced in Unicode 3.0 (1999), with eight additional characters introduced in Unicode 7...

The silent period (also called pre-production period) is a phase reported to have been observed in second-language acquisition where the learner does not...

Thanjavur Marathi (Marathi: तंजावूर मराठी), also spelled as Tanjore Marathi, is a dialect of Marathi spoken by Thanjavur Maharashtrians who migrated south...

The source–filter model represents speech as a combination of a sound source, such as the vocal cords, and a linear acoustic filter, the vocal tract. While...

Jennifer Sandra Cole is a professor of linguistics and Director of the Prosody and Speech Dynamics Lab at Northwestern University. Her research uses experimental...

Halim or Haleem (Arabic: حليم) is an Arabic masculine given name which means gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger...

The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world. It is called a historical thesaurus as it arranges the whole vocabulary...

Paige is a gender neutral given name. It is of Latin origin from Byzantine "Págius" (young helper / mate of young nobles), derived from the Greek "Paidion"...

Richard Henry Geoghegan (/ˈɡeɪɡən/ GAY-gən; 8 January 1866 – 27 October 1943) was an Anglo-American philologist and the first known Esperantist from the...

An ergonym is a proper name or title of an organization, that reflects its function (for example, business associations, learned institutions, industrial...

A belgicism (French: belgicisme) is a word, expression, or turn of phrase that is unique to or associated with Belgian French. Even though the French spoken...

Wakefield is an English surname. Wakefield is the 1,356th most common surname in Great Britain, with 7,767 bearers. It is most common in the West Midlands...

Sarajevo Summer Law School is a project organized by the European Law Students' Association (ELSA) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ELSA summer law schools are...