A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing. This involves the use of visual symbols, known as graphemes, to represent linguistic...
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even written) considerably earlier than the dates of the earliest extant samples provided here. A written record may encode a stage of a language corresponding...
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Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout...
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self-designations for their language), and the second exonyms (names in foreign languages). Common endonyms: Ruska(ja) mova, written in various ways, as: ру́скаꙗ...
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Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly...
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It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released on July 2, 1996, by Columbia Records. After the modest commercial success of...
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spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language. An oral...
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Cyrillic alphabets (redirect from Languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet)
Turkic Living Northwest Caucasian languages are generally written using Cyrillic alphabets. Abaza is a Caucasian language, spoken by Abazins in the Karachay-Cherkessia...
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Written Cantonese is the most complete written form of a Chinese language after that for Mandarin Chinese and Classical Chinese. Written Chinese was the...
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the Kalahari Desert. [citation needed] Since the San people have no written language, [citation needed] these solar-powered devices—which are the size of...
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Modern Standard Arabic (redirect from Written arabic)
also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. MSA is the language used in literature, academia, print and mass media, law...
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known written languages, first recorded in the hieroglyphic script in the late 4th millennium BC. It is also the longest-attested human language, with...
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Germanic languages are now extinct, and Gothic is the only language in this branch which survives in written texts. The West Germanic languages, however...
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classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large body of ancient written literature. Classical languages are usually...
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century, when several regional written varieties began to develop. During the 19th century the area where the language was spoken declined due to the...
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term Oirat or more precisely, Written Oirat is sometimes also used to refer to the language of historical documents written in the Clear script. In Mongolia...
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the native or primary language of 88% of its population. Its speakers today amount to approximately 3.8 million. Georgian is written with its own unique...
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Written Language and Literacy is a peer-reviewed biannual academic journal of linguistics published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. The editor-in-chief...
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signing, or braille. In other words, human language is modality-independent, but written or signed language is the way to inscribe or encode the natural...
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written language is uniform and standardized. Swedish is the most widely spoken second language in Finland where its status is co-official language....
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the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Today there are two official forms of written Norwegian, Bokmål...
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and Faroese are classified as "insular Scandinavian". Although the written languages are compatible, spoken Danish is distinctly different from Norwegian...
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the Turkish alphabet as the formal written language and by 2005 the community leaders decided that the Turkish language would replace traditional Turkmeni...
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dialect of Mandarin and was first officially adopted in the 1930s. The language is written primarily using a logography of Chinese characters, largely shared...
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can be seen in the Hong Kong Language Maps, which shows oral languages from the 2011 Census, and oral and written languages from the 2016 Census. Statistics...
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Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., using American English orthography (see Written language), has translated the Bible into Pennsylvania Dutch. The New Testament...
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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the...
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Dano-Norwegian (redirect from Dano-Norwegian Language)
the Scandinavian languages went through great changes, as they were influenced in particular by Low German. Written Danish language mostly found its modern...
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and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil or Telugu, have a long history as a written language. The major families...
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