Search results

This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Latin alphabet, also...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue...

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...

Sesotho sa Lebowa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo...

Aymara (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...

This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead...

You may need rendering support to display the uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script...

A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject...

The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from...

Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality...

Luba-Kasai, also known as Cilubà or Tshilubà, Luba-Lulua, is a Bantu language (Zone L) of Central Africa and a national language of the Democratic Republic...

Kobon (pronounced [xombon], [k͡xombon] or [kʰombon]) is a language of Papua New Guinea. It has somewhere around 90–120 verbs[citation needed]. Kobon has...

Gairaigo (外来語, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡaiɾaiɡo]) is Japanese for "loan word", and indicates a transcription into Japanese. In particular, the word usually...

Cumbrian dialect or Cumberland dialect is a local dialect of Northern England in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the...

Dr. Esperanto's International Language (Russian: Международный язык), commonly referred to as Unua Libro (First Book), is an 1887 book by Polish ophthalmologist...

The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC)...

Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects. Among the words with which Dutch has enriched the English vocabulary...

A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, more commonly known as Brown–Driver–Briggs or BDB (from the name of its three authors) is a standard...

The surname Tylecote is an English family name, believed to be of Norman origin. The name took the form Talcott, Talcoat and Tayllcote through the sixteenth...