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Timucua is a language isolate formerly spoken in northern and central Florida and southern Georgia by the Timucua peoples. Timucua was the primary language...

Silesian (Silesian: Schläsisch, Schläs’sch, Schlä’sch, Schläsch, German: Schlesisch), Silesian German or Lower Silesian is a nearly extinct German dialect...

Early Modern Japanese (近世日本語, kinsei nihongo) was the stage of the Japanese language after Middle Japanese and before Modern Japanese. It is a period of...

Crotty (and variations O’Crotty, Crotti, Crottee, etc.) are anglicisations of the Irish name Ó Crotaigh – ‘Descendant of Crotach’. The name dates from...

Orkhon Turkic (also Göktürk), is the first stage of Old Turkic, known as the oldest Turkic literary language preceding Old Uyghur. It is generally used...

In linguistics, coordination is a complex syntactic structure that links together two or more elements; these elements are called conjuncts or conjoins...

Encoding, in semiotics, is the process of creating a message for transmission by an addresser to an addressee. The complementary process – interpreting...

In semiotics, the value of a sign depends on its position and relations in the system of signification and upon the particular codes being used. Value...

François Thibaut (born January 3, 1948) is an American educator known for developing the Thibaut Technique, a second language acquisition method for children...

McShane is a patronymic surname originating in Ireland. Also appears in Scotland and England. The surname evolved from the given name Shane, a derivative...

Montfortian (locally Mofers or Mofertaans) is a Central Limburgish dialect spoken in the Dutch town of Montfort. It is closely related to the dialects...

Raimo Aulis Anttila (April 21, 1935 – January 27, 2023) was a Finnish linguist and professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of California...