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“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” […]

“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 […]