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

A language barrier is a figurative phrase used primarily to refer to linguistic barriers to communication, i.e. the difficulties in communication experienced...

West Midlands English is a group of dialects of the English language native to the English West Midlands. Certain areas of the West Midlands are stereotyped...

In linguistics, an inflected preposition is a type of word that occurs in some languages, that corresponds to the combination of a preposition and a personal...

Novial was created as an international auxiliary language by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, who introduced it to the world in 1928. Jespersen had previously...

According to the alphabetic principle, letters and combinations of letters are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language based on systematic...

The term Finglish was coined by professor Martti Nisonen in the 1920s in Hancock, Michigan, United States, to describe a mixture of Finnish and English...

Banu (بنو) is Arabic for "the children of" or "descendants of" and appears before the name of a tribal progenitor. The English counterpart would be "House...

Svante is the shortening for the Swedish male first name Svantepolk. It originates from Slavic ancestors of first prominent Svantes in Sweden. The Slavic...

Duane is both a given name for a male, and a family name. The name derives from St. Dubhán, who established an abbey in Hook Head, Ireland, during the...

SuperWrite is an English shorthand system based largely on previous shorthand systems and largely intended for people who need to increase their writing...

Awlad Mana is an ethnic group of Sudan. It is a minority, that speaks Zaghawa, a Nilo-Saharan language. They number more than 150,000 people. A Cluster...