Upper Sorbian (in the Free State of Saxony) Lower Sorbian (in Brandenburg) Immigrant languages. Immigrant languages spoken by sizable [clarification needed] communities of first and second-generation (dominant origin of the speakers in brackets): Turkish (southern Europe and Western Asia) c. 1.8%; Kurdish (Western Asia) c. 0.3%

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic …

ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in part two of the standard, including the corresponding two-letter codes where they exist.. Where two ISO 639-2 codes are given in the table, the one with the asterisk is the bibliographic code (B code) and the other is the …

The Frisian (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n /, / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n /) languages are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages; the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian …

Bohemia (/ b oʊ ˈ h iː m i ə / boh-HEE-mee-ə; Czech: Čechy; German: Böhmen (help · info); Upper Sorbian: Čěska; Silesian: Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which …

Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a particular language variety.At one time, the study of phonology related only to the study of the systems of phonemes in spoken …

Levels of language endangerment. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":. Vulnerable - "most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home)" Definitely endangered - "children no longer learn the language as …

Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Czech, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, and Sorbian languages.This letter also appears in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Irish, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Galician languages as a variant of letter "o". In some cases, The Letter "ó" is used in some languages …

Socioeconomic indicators: 2017 ; Ethnicity Per capita income Household Income College degrees (%) Bulgarian: $39,334 $75,693 60.8 Croatian: $47,292

Nov 30, 2022 · Sorbian languages Lower Sorbian; Upper Sorbian; South Slavic languages Eastern South Slavic languages Bulgarian; Macedonian; ... World languages. Numbers in Over 5000 Languages by Mark Rosenfelder (Scope-wise, probably the best multi-language site. This is the only database on the Internet with nearly all the world's languages in it; however ...

A proverb (from Latin: proverbium) is a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs are often metaphorical and use formulaic language.A proverbial phrase or a proverbial expression is a type of a conventional saying similar to proverbs and transmitted by oral tradition.

Lusatia (German: Lausitz, Polish: Łużyce, Upper Sorbian: Łužica, Lower Sorbian: Łužyca, Czech: Lužice, Latin: Lusatia, rarely also referred to as Sorbia) is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland.Lusatia stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Pulsnitz and Black Elster rivers in the west, and is located within the German …

Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".. They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. After their deaths, their pupils continued their …

All vowel phonemes except for /ɪ/ and /ə/ can be both long (represented with ː ) and short. Phonologically, /a/ behaves both as a front or back vowel depending on the geographical area and vowel length. Diphthongs. The number of diphthongs in Scottish Gaelic depends to some extent on the dialect in question but most commonly, 9 or 10 are described: /ei, ɤi, ai, ui, iə, uə, …