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 ...

The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל ‎, Mīgdal Bāḇel) narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר ‎). There they agree to build a city and a tower with ...

Welsh (Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric".

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Basque tribes were mentioned in Roman times by Strabo and Pliny, including the Vascones, the Aquitani, and others.There is enough evidence to support the hypothesis that at that time and later they spoke old varieties of the Basque language (see: Aquitanian language). In the Early Middle Ages the territory between the Ebro and Garonne rivers was known as Vasconia, a …

Terminology. The term Hispanic derives from Latin Hispanicus, the adjectival derivation of Latin (and Greek) Hispania (that is, the Iberian peninsula), possibly of Celtiberian origin. In English the word is attested from the 16th century (and in the late 19th century in American English). The words Spain, Spanish, and Spaniard are of the same etymology as Hispanus, ultimately.

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the …

Catalan (/ ˈ k æ t əl ə n,-æ n, ˌ k æ t ə ˈ l æ n /; autonym: català, Eastern Catalan: ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands.

Formally speaking, the national language of Spain, the official Spanish language, is the Castilian language (as opposed to regional Spanish languages like Galician, Catalan, Asturleonese and Basque). As such both names, español and castellano, have distinct and independent meanings that may be required for clarity in some specific contexts ...

The Ottomans became involved in multi-continental religious wars when Spain and Portugal were united under the Iberian Union. The Ottomans were holders of the Caliph title, meaning they were the leaders of all Muslims worldwide. The Iberians were leaders of the Christian crusaders, and so the two were locked in a worldwide conflict.