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A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that...

Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: eme-gir15, lit. ''native language'') was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages...

The langues d'oïl (/dɔɪ(l)/ doy(l), US also /dɔːˈiːl/ daw-EEL, French: [lɑ̃ɡ dɔjl]) are a dialect continuum that includes standard French and its closest...

The Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate...

Zarphatic, or Judeo-French (Zarphatic: Tzarfatit), is an extinct Jewish language that was spoken by the French Jews of northern France and in parts of...

A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence. In the English language specifically...

Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape Verdeans...

Kande is an undocumented Bantu language of Gabon. Kande at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie...

Gh is a digraph found in many languages. In English, ⟨gh⟩ historically represented [x] (the voiceless velar fricative, as in the Scottish Gaelic word loch)...

Swiss French (French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy...

Thailand is home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern...

Dhundhari (ढूंढाड़ी), also known as Jaipuri, is a Rajasthani language within the Indo-Aryan language family. It is spoken in the Dhundhar region of northeastern...

Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran. Although it contains many old Turkic elements, it has become widely Persianized. Khalaj has about 150 words...

Goaria is a Marwari Rajasthani language spoken by some 25,000 people in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The people are predominantly Hindu, and use the Hindi...

Mentonasc (Occitan pronunciation: [me(n)tuˈnaʃk]; Mentonasco in Italian, Mentonnais [mɑ̃tɔnɛ] or Mentonasque [mɑ̃tɔnask] in French) is a Romance dialect...

Ye with grave (Ѐ ѐ; italics: Ѐ ѐ) is a regular combination of Cyrillic letter Ye (Е е) and grave accent. Although this combination is not considered a...

I with grave (Ѝ ѝ; italics: Ѝ ѝ) is a character representing a stressed variant of the regular letter ⟨И⟩ in some Cyrillic alphabets, but none of them...

Zje (З́ з́; italics: З́ з́) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, formed from З with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in the Montenegrin alphabet...

A with grave (А̀ а̀; italics: А̀ а̀) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with grave (À à À à)...

Look up bloody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bloody, as an adjective or adverb, is an expletive attributive commonly used in British English, Irish...