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An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, initialism...

Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also non-Arab Muslim countries have...

This article includes inline links to audio files. If you have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic...

In many languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy, which were...

The word thou (/ðaʊ/) is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word you...

This article details the geographical distribution of speakers of the German language, regardless of the legislative status within the countries where...

Macanese patois, known as patuá to its speakers, is a Portuguese-based creole language with a substrate from Cantonese, Malay and Sinhala, which was originally...

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

Syntactic ambiguity, also known as structural ambiguity, amphiboly, or amphibology, is characterized by the potential for a sentence to yield multiple...

You may need rendering support to display the Karen script in this article correctly. S’gaw, S'gaw Karen, or S’gaw K’Nyaw, commonly known as Karen, is...

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

Wasei-kango (Japanese: 和製漢語, "Japanese-made Chinese words") are those words in the Japanese language composed of Chinese morphemes but invented in Japan...

Jaꞑalif, Yangalif or Yañalif (Tatar: jaꞑa əlifba/yaña älifba → jaꞑalif/yañalif, [jɑŋɑˈlif], Cyrillic: Яңалиф, "new alphabet") is the first Latin alphabet...

Hungarian is a Uralic language of the Ugric group. It has been spoken in the region of modern-day Hungary since the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian...

Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world (see linguistic typology) that groups languages according to their common morphological...

The orthography of the Sotho language is fairly recent and is based on the Latin script, but, like most languages written using the Latin alphabet, it...

Kushnir (Ukrainian: Кушнір, Belarusian: Кушнір, Russian: Кушни́р, Ку́шнир, Yiddish: קושניר) kushashvili(ქუშაშვილი) is a Ukrainian and Jewish surname, meaning...

The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Portuguese: Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) is an international treaty whose purpose...

Harold Craig Melchert (born April 5, 1945) is an American linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. He received...

Falcon is a surname. Some possible places of origin are: Pompeyo Falcó, a Roman consul a Scandinavian prince, who arrived in Spain about 1080 a prince...