ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for identifying languages. The standard was published by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on 1 February 2007.. ISO 639-3 extends …

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA), terms used mostly by linguists, is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; occasionally, it also refers to spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. MSA is the language used in literature, academia, print and mass media, law …

This divergence is a classic example of diglossia. All formal writing in China was done in Literary Chinese until the May Fourth Movement in 1919, after which it was replaced by Written Vernacular Chinese. This new form was based on the vocabulary and grammar of modern Mandarin dialects, particularly the Beijing dialect, and is the written form of Modern Standard …

La letteratura tedesca raccoglie l'insieme delle opere letterarie scritte in tedesco, per cui vengono incluse la letteratura austriaca, quella della Svizzera tedesca e quella delle altre isole linguistiche tedesche. Si inscrivono nel campo della letteratura anche le opere che non perseguono in maniera diretta un progetto estetico, ma comunque frutto di particolare rigore …

La diglosia (palabra acuñada a partir del griego antiguo δίγλωσσος, de dos lenguas) es la situación de convivencia de dos variedades lingüísticas emparentadas entre sí en el seno de una misma población o territorio, donde uno de los idiomas tiene un dominio o preferencia (como lengua de cultura, de prestigio o de uso oficial) frente a otro, que es relegado a las situaciones …

This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered scripts, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages.It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or names …

The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (Latin: Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae), commonly called the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" (Italian: Regno Lombardo-Veneto, German: Königreich Lombardo-Venetien), was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1815 to 1866. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna in recognition of the Austrian House …

Le minoranze linguistiche in Italia riconosciute dalla legge 482 del 1999 (dati 2013). La legislazione italiana a tutela delle minoranze linguistiche riconosce dodici comunità linguistiche storiche parlanti idiomi ascritti a varie famiglie linguistiche presenti entro i confini della Repubblica italiana e diversi dall'italiano, lingua ufficiale dello stato.Questi dodici gruppi …