Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic (/ s l ə ˈ v ɒ n ɪ k, s l æ ˈ-/) was the first Slavic literary language.. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianization of the Slavs. It is thought to have been based ...

Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of Indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These languages had no formal writing system previously. They are valued for their distinctiveness from the Latin script and for the ease with which literacy can be achieved; …

The DNAFLA system is a somewhat morphophonemic orthography, not indicating initial vowel shortening, always writing the directional particle as < dd , and not indicating all assimilations (e.g. Tămašăɣt for [tămašăq]).. In Burkina Faso the emphatics are denoted by "hooked" letters, as in Fula, e.g. ɗ ƭ .. Phonology Vowels. The vowel system includes five long vowels, /a, e, i, o, u ...

Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English or Pigeon English; traditional Chinese: 洋涇浜英語; simplified Chinese: 洋泾浜英语; pinyin: Yángjìng bāng yīngyǔ) is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese substratum.From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking …

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns.. The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future.Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and nonpast, or future and nonfuture.There are also tenseless …

The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul (English: / ˈ h ɑː n ɡ uː l / HAHN-gool) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel …

Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) was an Algonquian language spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in what then was (or later became) the southern two-thirds of New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and the northern two-thirds of Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma.It is one of the two Delaware languages, the other …

A pidgin / ˈ p ɪ dʒ ɪ n /, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade, or where both groups …

In phonetics, palatalization (/ ˌ p æ l ə t ə l aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən /, also US: /-l ɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən /) or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.Consonants pronounced this way are said to be palatalized and are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by affixing the letter ʲ to the base consonant.

Arabic grammar or Arabic language sciences (Arabic: النحو العربي an-naḥw al-‘arabī or Arabic: عُلُوم اللغَة العَرَبِيَّة ulūm al-lughah al-‘arabīyah) is the grammar of the Arabic language.Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have ...

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a writing system, and most of these systems have undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken …

Korean and the closely related Jeju language form the compact Koreanic language family. A relation to the Japonic languages is debated but currently not accepted by most linguists. Another theory is the Altaic Theory Mopak Datu., but it is either discredited or fringe.. Homer Hulbert claimed the Korean language was Ural-Altaic in his book The History of Korea (1905).

Levantine Arabic, also called Shami (autonym: ‏ شامي ‎ šāmi or اللهجة الشامية il-lahje š-šāmiyye), is a group of mutually intelligible vernacular Arabic varieties spoken in the Levant, in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Turkey (historically in Adana, Mersin and Hatay only). With over 44 million speakers, Levantine is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two ...

Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and a vowel and no vowel. Selected cognates. The following is a very brief selection of cognates in basic vocabulary across the Slavic language ...