confusion of languages
1confusion — [kən fyo͞o′zhən] n. [ME & OFr < L confusio] a confusing or being confused; specif., a) state of disorder b) bewilderment; distraction c) embarrassment d) failure to distinguish between things covered with confusion greatly embarrassed con …
2confusion — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of confusing] Syn. obscuring, blurring, mixing up, upsetting, disturbing, embarrassing, discomfiting, abashing, agitating, addling, fuddling, miscalculation, miscalcuLating, befuddling, tangling, mixing, cluttering,… …
3Languages of Pakistan — Languages of country = Pakistan official = Urdu; English main = Balochi; Pashto; Punjabi; Sindhi regional = Kashmiri; Potwari; Siraiki indigenous = Balti; Brahui; Hindko; Jhangochi minority = Burushaski; Kalash; Khowar; Shina immigrant = Arabic;… …
4Confusion of tongues — Gustave Doré s interpretation of the confusion of tongues. The confusion of tongues (confusio linguarum) is the initial fragmentation of human languages described in the Book of Genesis 11:1–9, as a result of the construction of the Tower of… …
5Languages of Nicaragua — The official language of Nicaragua is Spanish; however, Nicaraguans on the Caribbean coast speak indigenous languages and also English. The communities located on the Caribbean coast also have access to education in their native… …
6Languages — (Kurdish) The Kurdish languages belong to the Indo European language family and are thus distantly related to English and most other European languages. Persian (Farsi), however, is the major language most closely related to Kurdish. On the… …
7Romance languages — romance1 (def. 8). [1770 80] * * * Group of related languages derived from Latin, with nearly 920 million native speakers. The major Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are national languages. French is probably… …
8Tibeto-Burman languages — Introduction language group within the Sino Tibetan family (Sino Tibetan languages). At the end of the 20th century, Tibeto Burman languages were spoken by approximately 57 million people; countries that had more than 1 million Tibeto… …
9Austronesian languages — Infobox Language family name=Austronesian region=Maritime Southeast Asia, Oceania, Madagascar, Taiwan familycolor=Austronesian family=one of the world s major language families; although links with other families have been proposed, none of these …
10Hmong-Mien languages — or Miao Yao languages Language family of southern China, northern Vietnam, Laos, and northern Thailand, with more than nine million speakers. Hmong (Miao, Meo) has been divided into three dialect groups, Western, Central, and Northern. Beginning… …
