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A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with...

A cedilla (/sɪˈdɪlə/ sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced [sedij]), is a hook or...

The Linguasphere Observatory (or the Observatoire, based on its original French and legal title: Observatoire Linguistique) is a non-profit transnational...

Stokoe notation (/ˈstoʊki/) is the first phonemic script used for sign languages. It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with...

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

Spanish is the language that is predominantly understood and spoken as a first or second language by nearly all of the population of Argentina. According...

Bidjara, also spelt Bidyara or Pitjara, is an Australian Aboriginal language. In 1980, it was spoken by 20 elders in Queensland between the towns of Tambo...

Fita (Ѳ ѳ; italics: Ѳ ѳ) is a letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. The shape and the name of the letter are derived from the Greek letter theta (Θ θ)...

The Charter of the French Language (French: La charte de la langue française), also known in English as Bill 101 or Law 101 (French: Loi 101), is a law...

The history of the Romanian language started in Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity. There are three main hypotheses around...

A tongue twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Additionally...

In geolinguistics, areal features are elements shared by languages or dialects in a geographic area, particularly when such features are not descended...

Zhuang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 庄 in simplified character and 莊 in traditional character. It is usually romanized as "Chuang"...

Ba, Bâ, and Bah are potentially related West African surnames, usually of Fula origin. In the Fula culture of Mali and Senegal, the surname Diakité is...

Inigo derives from the Castilian rendering (Íñigo) of the medieval Basque name Eneko. Ultimately, the name means "my little (man)". While mostly seen among...

Bilingual lexical access is an area of psycholinguistics that studies the activation or retrieval process of the mental lexicon for bilingual people. Bilingual...

Cibulka (feminine Cibulková) is a widespread name in the former Czechoslovakia as well as throughout the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, where it was frequently...

The word brigade, originally used to describe a military unit, and later (mainly in Britain) to describe a fire service, can also be used as a pejorative...

The surname Feng is a romanization of several Chinese surnames. (wikt:馮 féng 2nd tone "gallop"), very common Chinese surname (wikt:鳳 fèng 4th tone "phoenix")...