WebThe Latin alphabet is used by Arabic speakers over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the Arabic alphabet is unavailable or difficult to use for technical reasons; ... (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix) External links. Swadesh lists: Varieties of Arabic This page was last edited on 22 November 2022, at 19:49 ...

WebTunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a set of dialects of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its over 11 million speakers as: تونسي, romanized: Tounsi (), "Tunisian" or Derja "everyday language" to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of Tunisia.Tunisian Arabic is mostly similar to eastern Algerian Arabic …

WebThai, or Central Thai (historically Siamese; Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai people and a vast majority of Thai Chinese.It is the sole official language of Thailand.. Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is …

WebDalmatian (/ d æ l ˈ m eɪ ʃ ən /) or Dalmatic (/ d æ l ˈ m æ t ɪ k /; Dalmatian: langa dalmata or simply dalmato; Italian: lingua dalmatica, dalmatico; Serbo-Croatian: dalmatski) was a Romance language that was spoken in the Dalmatia region of present-day Croatia, and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro. [citation needed] The name refers to a tribe of the …

WebNov 18, 2022 · A Swadesh list may also be useful to achieve knowledge of some universal terms in other languages. This is because, for basic communication, knowledge of vocabulary is more important than knowledge of grammar and syntax. ... (Vulgar Latin) - Latvian – Lingala – Lithuanian – Low Saxon – Macedonian – Makasar – Malagasy – …

WebSemantic change. Many pairs of cognates have come to have different meanings due to semantic change.These false friends include the following: Spanish diseñar means 'to design' in Spanish, while its Portuguese cognate desenhar means 'to draw'.; Similarly, Spanish dibujo for 'drawing', with an archaic Portuguese equivalent debuxo meaning …

WebLinguists had long classified Walloon as a dialect of French, which in turn is a langue d'oïl.Like French, it descended from Vulgar Latin.Arguing that a French-speaking person could not understand Walloon easily, especially in its eastern forms, Jules Feller (1859–1940) insisted that Walloon had an original "superior unity", which made it a …

WebItalian (italiano [itaˈljaːno] or lingua italiana [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland …

WebNov 13, 2022 · In reference to vulgar language, from expressions such as pardon my French in the early 19th century, originally in reference to actual (but often mildly impolite) French expressions by the upper class, subsequently adopted ironically by the lower class for English cursewords under the charitable conceit that the listener would not be familiar ...

WebTaiwanese Hokkien (/ ˈ h ɒ k i ɛ n, h ɒ ˈ k iː ɛ n /) (Chinese: 臺灣話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân-ōe; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân-uē), also known as Taigi/Taigu (Chinese: 臺語; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú), Taiwanese, Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by about 70%+ of the population of Taiwan. It is spoken by a ...