Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro [poɾtuˈɡez bɾaziˈlejɾu]), also Portuguese of Brazil (português do Brasil, [poɾtuˈɡez du bɾaˈziw]) or South American Portuguese (português sul-americano) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and the most influential form of Portuguese worldwide. It is spoken by almost all of the 214 million inhabitants …

A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language where certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically inferable.The precise conditions vary from language to language, and can be quite intricate. The phenomenon of "pronoun-dropping" is part of the larger topic of zero or null anaphora. The connection between …

Czech (/ tʃ ɛ k /; Czech čeština [ˈtʃɛʃcɪna]), historically also Bohemian (/ b oʊ ˈ h iː m i ə n, b ə-/; lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic.Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility ...

Principles and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off.For example, the position of heads in phrases is determined by a …

In Japanese and Korean, the topic is normally marked with a postposition like -wa (は) or 는/은, -(n)eun.; In Côte d'Ivoire French, the topic is marked by the postposition « là ».The topic can be but is not necessarily a noun or a nominal group: « Voiture-là est jolie deh » ; « Aujourd'hui-là il fait chaud » ; « Pour toi-là n'est pas comme pour moi hein » ; « Nous qui sommes ...

Japanese is an agglutinative, synthetic, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent.Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment.Its phrases are exclusively head …

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 ...

Turkish (Türkçe (), Türk dili), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (Türkiye Türkçesi), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers.It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus.Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and …

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ()) is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language.Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, …

Like other Sinitic languages, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object (SVO) word order. Compared with southern Chinese varieties, the language has fewer vowels, final consonants …