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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists...
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    In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily...
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    Mat (Russian: мат; матерщи́на / ма́терный язы́к, matershchina / materny yazyk) is the term for vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some...
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  • The xin zixing (Chinese: 新字形; pinyin: xīn zìxíng; Jyutping: san1 zi6jing4; lit. 'new character forms') are a set of standardized Chinese character forms...
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  • The Krste Misirkov Institute for the Macedonian Language (Macedonian: Институт за македонски јазик „Крсте Мисирков“, Institut za makedonski jazik „Krste...
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    Von Höpken is a family of Swedish nobility of English origin ("Hoepking"). It is matriculated into Swedish House of Nobility 1719 under number 1414. Daniel...
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  • Teresa Fanego is a Spanish linguist specializing in the history of English. Fanego initially studied Germanic philology at the University of Santiago de...
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