Search results

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer...

The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various...

Upper German (German: Oberdeutsch [ˈoːbɐdɔʏtʃ] ) is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in the southern German-speaking area (Sprachraum)...

This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Gyaru-moji (ギャル文字, "gal's...

A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries. Many examples...

Proto-Arabic is the name given to the hypothetical reconstructed ancestor of all the varieties of Arabic attested since the 9th century BC. There are two...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

Transfer-based machine translation is a type of machine translation (MT). It is currently one of the most widely used methods of machine translation. In...

Shan (simplified Chinese: 单; traditional Chinese: 單; pinyin: Shàn) is a Chinese surname. The origin of this surname is not clear. One explanation is that...

The Spanish language is widely spoken in most of the Catalan-speaking territories, where it is partly characterized by language contact with the Catalan...

Sin-Decade is the fourth studio album by the Danish hard rock/heavy metal band Pretty Maids. It was produced by Flemming Rasmussen and Pretty Maids, and...

An endangered language is a language that is at a risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...

Mark Roderick Vendrell Southern (3 March 1961 – 15 March 2006) was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics. His research and teaching...

N'Heures Souris Rames (Nursery Rhymes) is a book of homophonic translations from English to French, published in 1980 by Ormonde de Kay. It contains some...

Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (née da Cunha; 20 October 1913 – 21 May 2011) was a Brazilian singer. She was Carmen Miranda and Aurora Miranda's sister. Cecilia...