Month: March 2012

. ___*AKA*___ *modern standard mandarin* . *standard mandarin*  . *Modern Standard Mandarin Chinese* (MSMC) . (or simply mandarin) . -‘standard chinese’ is a standard variety of ‘chinese’ […]

“STANDARD CHINESE” . /ˈmændərɪn/ ‘simplified chinese’ –> 官话 ‘traditional chinese’ –> 官話 ‘pinyin’ –> guānhuà . *literally ‘speech of officials’* . [‘mandarin’ is a group […]

“MANDARIN CHINESE” . *AKA* –> “CHINESE” . *a branch of the ‘sino-tibetan language family’ consisting of hundreds of local language varieties, many of which are […]

*WIKILINK*– “THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE”– (the east slavic languages constitute 1 of 3 regional subgroups of ‘slavic languages’, currently spoken throughout ‘eastern europe’, ‘northern asia’, and […]

*WIKILINK*– “EAST SLAVIC LANGUAGES”– (the slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the Indo-European languages spoken by the ‘slavic peoples’) They are thought to descend from a […]

. “SLAVIC LANGUAGES” . *the balto-slavic languages are a branch of the ‘indo-european family’ of languages* . (it traditionally comprises the ‘baltic’ and ‘slavic’ languages) […]

“THE FRENCH LANGUAGE” . (/ˈdɔɪ(l) / dɔːˈiːl/ French: [lɑ̃ɡdɔjl] English: oïl languages . (the langues d’oïl are a ‘dialect continuum’ that includes ‘standard french’and its […]

Ä . /daɪˈɛrɪsɪs/  dy-ERR-i-sis (plural –> diaereses) *PRONUNCIATION AUDIO LINK* . *aka* –> “umlaut” . (from greek word diaíresis) (διαίρεσις) (meaning [‘division’ / ‘separation’ / […]

. -as of [3 JANUARY 2024]– . -SPECIAL CHARACTERS-(KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS) . *TYPES* –> #1 ‘GRAVE ACCENT’ À (hold down letter and press ‘1’ when menu […]

. -in ‘linguistics’, a grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given ‘language’– . *TYPES* —> “SIGN” “SYMBOL” “CHARACTER” “GLYPH” “LETTER” […]