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  • 91language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …

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  • 92phoneme — /foh neem/, n. Ling. any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are… …

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  • 93Romance 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… …

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  • 94language, philosophy of — Philosophical study of the nature and use of natural languages and the relations between language, language users, and the world. It encompasses the philosophical study of linguistic meaning (see semantics), the philosophical study of language… …

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  • 95Civic initiative Czechia — The Civic Initiative Czechia (Občanská iniciativa Česko / Czechia) was formed in Brno in October 1997 as a platform to help spread, insitutionalize and practically adopt Czechia, the geographic one word name of the Czech Republic,[1] that has… …

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  • 96Romanian subdialects — The Romanian subdialects (subdialecte or graiuri) are the several varieties of the Romanian language, more specifically of its Daco Romanian dialect. All linguists seem to agree on classifying the subdialects into two types, northern and southern …

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  • 97Arabic language — Arabic redirects here. For other uses, see Arabic (disambiguation). For the literary standard, see Modern Standard Arabic. For vernaculars, see varieties of Arabic. For others, see Arabic languages. Arabic العربية/عربي/عربى al ʿarabiyyah/ʿarabī …

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  • 98Baltic languages — Infobox Language family name=Baltic region=Northern Europe familycolor=Indo European fam1=Indo European fam2=Balto Slavic child1=Western Baltic child2=Eastern Baltic iso2=batThe Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the… …

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  • 99Daniel Jones (phonetician) — Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), Daniel Jones is considered by many to be …

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  • 100Hebrew language — Hebrew redirects here. For other uses, see Hebrew (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Yiddish language. Hebrew עִבְרִית …

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