have sometimes been considered language areas because of the widespread diffusion of specific areal features. Language contact may also lead to a variety...
language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language...
how advanced is areal linguistics? — Review of Aikhenvald & Dixon (2001): Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance". Studies in Language. 28 (1): 209–223...
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Programming languagesare described in terms of their syntax (form) and...
an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is...
jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. Most of these countries are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie...
German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏ̯t͡ʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It...
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) arelanguages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers...
languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are...
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the...
history as West Iberian (Ibero-Romance languages), historical contact between speakers and mutual influence, shared areal features as well as modern lexical...
the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that...
Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision. The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided...
language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language...
Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In...
constructed language (shortened to conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously...
tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
[ˈnepali]) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also...
GAY-lik), is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous...
simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script. It is primarily...
endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, [ˈbaŋla] ), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia. With...
in Language Studies. 8 (2). doi:10.33736/ils.1521.2019. ISSN 2180-2726. S2CID 213343934. Uri, Tadmor (2003). "Final /a/ mutation: a borrowed areal feature...
Murcia. The Catalan-speaking territories are often called the Països Catalans or "Catalan Countries". The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle...
Hindi and Bengali. The language has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indian languages. The major dialects of Marathi are Standard Marathi and...
script-based Turkish alphabet. Some distinctive characteristics of the Turkish languageare vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish...
Korea. The language has notable differences in each of the Koreas, in part owing to different official standardizations of the language. They are still largely...
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