WebAn 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 …

WebKorean 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 …

WebLevantine 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 ...

WebSimilarly, 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 …

WebCarolinian is an Austronesian language originating in the Caroline Islands, but spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands.It is an official language (as well as English) of the Carolinian people. Carolinian is a threatened language according to the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), but available data is scarce.There are approximately 3,100 native …

WebDual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified by the noun or pronoun acting as a single unit or in unison.

WebIn linguistics and pedagogy, an interlinear gloss is a gloss (series of brief explanations, such as definitions or pronunciations) placed between lines, such as between a line of original text and its translation into another language.When glossed, each line of the original text acquires one or more corresponding lines of transcription known as an interlinear text …

WebAshok Ramchandra Kelkar (1929–2014) was a linguist and critical Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2002 and Sahitya Akademi Award for Marathi in 2010.. Biography. Taklya was born on 22 April 1929 in Pune. He did his schooling from New English School and then from Ferguson College.

WebFrench (français or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.Its closest relatives are the other langues …

WebAymara (IPA: [aj.ˈma.ɾa] (); also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes.It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in …

WebOtomi (/ ˌ oʊ t ə ˈ m iː /; Spanish: Otomí) is an Oto-Pamean language family spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central altiplano region of Mexico. Otomi consists of several closely related languages, many of which are not mutually intelligible.The word Hñähñu [hɲɑ̃hɲṹ] has been proposed as an endonym, but since it …

Webʔi=na-tafi-ʔa 3SG = REAL -carve- TR oloroa six wa canoe ʔi=na-tafi-ʔa oloroa wa 3SG=REAL-carve-TR six canoe He carved six canoes. Types of number Singular versus plural Main article: Plural In most languages with grammatical number, nouns, and sometimes other parts of speech, have two forms, the singular, for one instance of a …

WebIn linguistics, an allomorph is a variant phonetic form of a morpheme, or, a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning. The term allomorph describes the realization of phonological variations for a specific morpheme. The different allomorphs that a morpheme can become are governed by morphophonemic rules. …

WebThe elements separated with hyphens denote the stem, the so-called thematic vowel of the case and the actual suffix. In Latin, for example, the nominative case is lupus and the vocative case is lupe, but the accusative case is lupum.The asterisks before the Proto-Indo-European words means that they are theoretical reconstructions and are not attested in a …