Month: March 2012

“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” […]

“LANGUES D’OÏL” . (the gallo-romance branch of the ‘romance languages’ includes (in the narrowest sense)…) *the ‘french language’* *the ‘occitan language’* *the ‘franco-provençal language’*(aka ‘arpitan’) […]

“THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE” . *aka ‘central romance languages’* . (a group of ‘romance languages’ spoken in…) ‘italy’ ‘corsica’ (aka ‘france’) ‘dalmatia’(in modern-day ‘croatia’) . Italo-Dalmatian […]

(‘italo-western’ is (in some classifications) the largest branch of the ‘romance languages’) . (it comprises 2 of the branches of ‘romance languages’…) “ITALO-DALMATIAN LANGUAGES” “WESTERN […]

“THE SPANISH LANGUAGE” . (the castilian languages are ‘castilian’ (aka ‘spanish’) and its closest relatives) (besides derivatives of ‘spanish’ such as ‘ladino’, this refers principally […]

“CASTILIAN LANGUAGES” . (‘west iberian’ is a branch of the ‘romance languages’ that includes…) ‘castilian’ (‘spanish’ / ‘judaeo-spanish / ladino’) ‘astur-leonese’(‘asturian’) ‘extremaduran’ ‘leonese’ ‘mirandese’ ‘cantabrian’ […]

TYPES –> “WEST IBERIAN ROMANCE LANGAUGES” . *SYNONYMS* –> “IBERO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES” “IBERIAN LANGAUGES” . (an ‘areal grouping’ of ‘romance languages’ that developed on the ‘iberian […]