Jèrriais (French: Jersiais, also known as the Jersey Language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French in English) is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people.It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island in the Channel Islands archipelago off the coast of France.Its closest relatives are the other Norman languages, such …

Jersey (/ ˈ dʒ ɜːr z i / JUR-zee, French: (); Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (French: Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is 14 miles (23 km) from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy.

Continuous versus progressive. The progressive aspect expresses the dynamic quality of actions that are in progress while the continuous aspect expresses the state of the subject that is continuing the action. For instance, "Tom is reading" can express dynamic activity: "Tom is reading a book" – i.e. right now (progressive aspect), or Tom's current state: "Tom is reading …

British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, …

Saint Helier (Jèrriais: St Hélyi, benannt nach dem heiligen Helier) ist eine der zwölf Gemeinden (), die Hauptstadt und gleichzeitig größte Stadt auf der Kanalinsel Jersey, der größten der Kanalinseln im Ärmelkanal.Saint Helier liegt an der Südküste von Jersey, hat eine Bevölkerung von ungefähr 33.500 Einwohnern (Zensus 2011) und ist Verwaltungssitz der Insel; das ...

Classification. Forming a part of the Western Romance dialect continuum, Monégasque shares many features with the Genoese dialect.Though similar to the dialect of Ventimiglia, it does differ from the Menton dialect.It shares similarities also with the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language.. Monegasque, like all other Ligurian language variants, is derived directly from the Vulgar Latin …

St Ouen (Jèrriais and French: Saint Ouën) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands.It is around 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) north-west of St Helier. It has a population of 4,097. The parish is the largest parish by surface area, covering 8,525 vergées (15 km 2), and is located in part on a peninsula.. The parish is largely agricultural. There is no single centre as the ...

Aranese (Occitan: aranés) is a standardized form of the Pyrenean Gascon variety of the Occitan language spoken in the Val d'Aran, in northwestern Catalonia close to the Spanish border with France, where it is one of the three official languages beside Catalan and Spanish. In 2010, it was declared the third official language in Catalonia by the Parliament of Catalonia.

Etymology. Lingua franca meant literally "Frankish language" in Late Latin, and it originally referred specifically to the language that was used around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as the main language of commerce. However, the term "Franks" was actually applied to all Western Europeans during the late Byzantine Period. Later, the meaning of lingua franca expanded to …

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".. Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to …