WebGreek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced ; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the …

WebEmilian-Romagnol. In the Romagnol dialects, õ is used to represent [õː], e.g. savõ [saˈvõː] "soap". Estonian. In Estonian, Õ is the 27th letter of the alphabet (between W and Ä), and it represents a vowel characteristic of Estonian, the unrounded back vowel /ɤ/, which may be close-mid back, close back, or close-mid central.

WebSpanish (español or castellano, Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain.Spanish is the official language of 20 countries.It is the world's …

WebPicard (/ ˈ p ɪ k ɑː d /, also US: / p ɪ ˈ k ɑːr d, ˈ p ɪ k ər d /, French: ()) is a langue d'oïl of the Romance language family spoken in the northernmost part of France and Hainaut province in Belgium.Administratively, this area is divided between the French Hauts-de-France region and the Belgian Wallonia along the border between both countries due to its traditional …

WebGuernésiais, also known as Dgèrnésiais, Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey.It is sometimes known on the island simply as "patois".As one of the langues d'oïl, it has its roots in Latin, but has had strong influence from both Old Norse and English at different points in its history.. There …

WebDialectologists record variation across a dialect continuum using maps of various features collected in a linguistic atlas, beginning with an atlas of German dialects by Georg Wenker (from 1888), based on a postal survey of schoolmasters. The influential Atlas linguistique de la France (1902–10) pioneered the use of a trained fieldworker. These atlases typically …

WebLigurian or Genoese (locally called zeneise or zeneize) is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa, now comprising the area of Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco (where it is called Monegasque), the village of Bonifacio in Corsica, and in the villages of …

WebA French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier.Most often this lexifier is not modern French but rather a 17th- or 18th-century koiné of French from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors, and the nascent French colonies. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack …

WebThe charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Spanish language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{}}, {{}}, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.For terms that are more relevant to regions that have not undergone …

WebThe charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Welsh language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.See Welsh phonology and Welsh orthography for a more …