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  • 42stress — stressless, adj. stresslessness, n. /stres/, n. 1. importance or significance attached to a thing; emphasis: to lay stress upon good manners. 2. Phonet. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of… …

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  • 46Helvetism — A Helvetism (new lat. Helvetia = Switzerland and ism) is any distinctive characteristic of Swiss Standard German that is not found in other varieties of Standard German. The most typical helvetisms appear characteristically in vocabulary and… …

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  • 47Bengali alphabet — Bengali abugida Type Abugida Languages Bengali Time period 11th Century to the present …

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  • 50Hopi language — Hopi is a Uto Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people (a Pueblo group) of northeastern Arizona, USA, although today some Hopi are monolingual English speakers.The use of the language gradually declined over the course of the 20th century. In… …

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