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    (the two words are actually etymologically cognate and not arbitrarily homonyms). ѣ — Originally had a distinct sound, but by the middle of the eighteenth...
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  • (sut’, "are") is still used in some standard phrases, but since it is a homonym of the noun "essence", most native speakers do not notice it to be a verb:...
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  • Runglish (category English-based pidgins and creoles)
    the Cyrillic alphabet. Although less widespread than other pidgins and creoles, such as Tok Pisin, Runglish is spoken in a number of English-Russian communities...
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  • Historical-comparative linguistics - Historical linguistics - History of linguistics - Homonym - Hypernym - Hyponym I-mutation - Ideogram - Idiolect - Idiom - Illative...
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    2013) that Vietnamese is possibly a hybrid language which differs from a creole language. It is theorised that Vietnamese was descended from a proto-Austroasiatic...
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    did not know it, it was his own fault." — George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days (1879); quoted by Baskervill & Sewell. "Every person who turns this...
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  • other names, that is homonyms and synonyms, by which each variety is known are also included in the lists below. These homonyms and synonyms indicate...
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    current territory of the Olavarría Partido). Chapaleofú refers to the homonymic water stream vicinity, situated in the current Tandil Partido. Both municipalities...
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    indistinguishable from Шш. The reform also created many homographs and homonyms, which used to be spelled differently. Examples: есть/ѣсть (to be/eat)...
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  • include composite words unless the omission might cause confusion among homonyms distinguished only by diacritic signs. In all French words that begin with...
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    are not compulsory, but can be added to clarify the meaning of words (homonyms) which otherwise would be identical. One example is ein gut ("a boy") versus...
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  • lexical. That is, tone is used to distinguish words which would otherwise be homonyms. This is characteristic of heavily tonal languages such as Chinese, Vietnamese...
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  • pronounced identically, which helps differentiate words that would otherwise be homonyms, as in mane (silent ⟨e⟩ strategy), main (digraph strategy) and Maine (both...
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    of Chile, Mateo de Toro y Zambrano. It allowed the participation of the creole aristocracy, and it marked the beginning of the Chilean War of Independence...
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  • which was initially called (County of the) Ardennes named itself after its homonym capital city founded in 963. From Celtic Lucilem "small", German lützel...
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  • final /s/ in a final-stressed word, which makes mas "but" and mais "more" homonyms, both pronounced [majs] or [majʃ]. Other affected examples are faz "he...
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    In some cases, loanwords from English turn existing Spanish words into homonyms: coche has come to acquire the additional meaning of "coach" in the United...
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