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101Hausa language — Afro Asiatic language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger. Hausa, which is spoken by some 31 million people, belongs to the Chadic branch of Afro Asiatic. Outside of Hausaland, communities of Hausa merchants have stimulated the use of Hausa as …
102Ethiopic alphabet — writing system used to write the Geʿez (Geʿez language) literary and ecclesiastical language and the Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Apparently derived from Sabaean, a South Semitic (South Semitic alphabet)… …
103Serbo-Croatian phonology — Serbo Croatian is a South Slavic language with four very similar national standards. This article deals exclusively with the Eastern Herzegovinian Neo Shtokavian dialect, the basis for the official standard of Yugoslavia and its present day forms …
104History of Icelandic — A page from the Landnámabók The history of the Icelandic language began in the 9th century with the settlement of Iceland, mostly by Norwegians, brought a dialect of Old Norse to the island. The oldest preserved texts in Icelandic were written… …
105Modern Indo-European language — Modern Indo European Sindhueuropaiom Created by Carlos Quiles, María Teresa Batalla Date founded 2006 Setting and usage international auxiliary language …
106Old Chinese phonology — The phonology of Old Chinese describes the language reflected by the rhymes of the Shijing and the phonetic components of Chinese characters, corresponding to the earlier half of the 1st millennium BC. Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the… …
107Old High German declension — Old High German is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. A set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five… …
108vocalism — VOCALÍSM s.n. 1. Sistem al vocalelor unei limbi, din punct de vedere fonetic şi fonologic, într un anumit moment al evoluţiei sale. 2. Parte, capitol al foneticii istorice a unei limbi, care se ocupă cu studiul vocalelor. – Din fr. vocalisme.… …
109Vocalism — Vo cal*ism (v[=o] kal*[i^]z m), n. 1. The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization. [1913 Webster] 2. A vocalic sound. [R.] [1913 Webster] …
110Vocality — Vo*cal i*ty (v[ o]*k[a^]l [i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. L. vocalitas euphony.] 1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. [1913 Webster] 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character. [1913… …
