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Malay (/məˈleɪ/ mə-LAY; Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia...

A nickname or nick, also known as a sobriquet, is a substitute for the proper name of a person, place or thing. It is commonly used to express affection...

Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English); formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in...

A double-barrelled name is a type of compound surname, typically featuring two words (occasionally more), often joined by a hyphen. Notable people with...

1936 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1936. 1936 (MCMXXXVI)...

A numeric character reference (NCR) is a common markup construct used in SGML and SGML-derived markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a...

Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a...

The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various...

Look up verbal noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions...

Qoqmončaq is a mixed language based on Kazakh, Mongolian, and Evenki, spoken by about 200 people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's...

Functional illiteracy consists of reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills...

The Singapore Tennis Open was a new addition to the ATP Tour in 2021. Sander Gillé and Joran Vliegen won the title, defeating Matthew Ebden and John-Patrick...

Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound [ʒ]. While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar...

Hungarian has ten dialects. These are fully mutually intelligible, and do not differ significantly from standard Hungarian except for the Csángó dialect...

A spurious diphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek vowel that is etymologically a long vowel but written exactly like a true diphthong ει, ου...

Lung is a poorly attested extinct language that appears to have been closely related to Ajumbu, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. Pierpaolo Di Carlo...

Sithric 'Carrach-in-Cairn' Mág Tighearnán (anglicised Sitric 'the Scabbed of Carn' McKiernan) was chief of the McKiernan Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhunco...

Takao Suzuki (鈴木 孝夫, Suzuki Takao, Tokyo, 9 November 1926 – 10 February 2021) was a Japanese sociolinguist, He was the author of ことばと文化, translated into...

Prendergast is a British and Irish surname. This toponymic surname may derive from prender from a Germanic word for fire or conflagration (cf. brand) where...

Girolamo Germano S.J. (Latinised: Hieronymus Germanus) (Palermo, 1568 - 27 December 1632) was a Jesuit, Greek scholar and Italian philologist. There is...