Serbo-Croatian (/ ˌ s ɜːr b oʊ k r oʊ ˈ eɪ ʃ ən / ()) – also called Serbo-Croat (/ ˌ s ɜːr b oʊ ˈ k r oʊ æ t /), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.It is a pluricentric language with four ...

The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages.. For purely native (Anglo-Saxon-derived) words, see List of English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.English words of African origin; List of English words of Afrikaans origin. List of South African English regionalisms

Macaronic Latin in particular is a jumbled jargon made up of vernacular words given Latin endings or of Latin words mixed with the vernacular in a pastiche (compare dog Latin). The word macaronic comes from the New Latin macaronicus which is from the Italian maccarone ("dumpling," regarded as coarse peasant fare).

Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states and one dependent territory, totaling around 442 million people. This includes Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language. In these countries and territories, Spanish is the main or mostly used language of communication of the vast majority of the population; official …

The use of the English language in the inspiration for the choice of elements, in particular for keywords in computer programming languages and code libraries, represents a significant trend in the history of language design. According to the HOPL online database of languages, out of the 8,500+ programming languages recorded, roughly 2,400 of them were developed in the United …

The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – have the higher status of "procedural" languages of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages). Irish previously had the lower status of "treaty language" before being upgraded to an official and …

A betű IPA-jele képen példa szó megjegyzés a: ɒ: alma [ˈɒlmɒ]: Palóc nyelvjárásban „rövid á”-nak [a] ejtik. Egyes források az [ɔ] jellel jelölik.: á: aː: ág [aːg]: A magyarban előfordul az á rövid változata is egyes külföldi eredetű szavakban (jele: ȧ), de ez helyettesíthető a vagy á hangokkal, pl: mȧrketing, Mȧx, kȧritȧsz. ...

A skót gael (skót gaelül gàidhlig) a goidel (gael) nyelvek csoportjába, tágabban a szigeti kelta nyelvek családjába tartozik. Ebbe a csoportba tartozik még az ír és a manx nyelv is. Ez a csoport különbözik a kelta nyelvek úgynevezett „brit” csoportjától, melybe a walesi, a korni és a breton tartozik. A skót gael, a manx és az ír gael egyaránt az óír leszármazottai.

Nahuatl (English: / ˈ n ɑː w ɑː t əl /; Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ()), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about 1.7 million Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller populations in the United States.

Other than those involving a consonant plus /j/ or /w/, the only possible consonant cluster is /ʃk/.. Until the early 1900s, Fox was a phonologically very conservative language and preserved many features of Proto-Algonquian; records from the decades immediately following 1900 are particularly useful to Algonquianists for this reason.By the 1960s, however, an extensive …

English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages.Language education for people learning English may be known as English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EFL), English as an additional language (EAL), English as a New Language (ENL), or English for speakers of other languages (ESOL).

Romanization is the process of transcribing a language into the Latin script. There are many systems of romanization for the Chinese varieties, due to the lack of a native phonetic transcription until modern times. Chinese is first known to have been written in Latin characters by Western Christian missionaries in the 16th century.

Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.It is not attested in writing but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method.Proto-Celtic is generally thought to have been spoken between 1300 and 800 BC, after which it began to split into different languages.

The Japanese word ao (青, n., aoi (青い, adj.)), the same kanji character as the Chinese qīng, can refer to either blue or green depending on the situation.Modern Japanese has a word for green (緑, midori), but it is a relatively recent usage. [citation needed] Ancient Japanese did not have this distinction: the word midori came into use only in the Heian period, and at that time (and …