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Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers...

Hungarian (magyar nyelv, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈɲɛlv] ) is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring...

Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The...

There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native...

Examples of a rhotic and a non-rhotic speaker Rhotic (American) speaker /ˈfɑrmər/ for farmer Non-rhotic (British) speaker /ˈfɑːmə/ for farmer Problems...

This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bambara, also known as...

A pharyngeal consonant is a consonant that is articulated primarily in the pharynx. Some phoneticians distinguish upper pharyngeal consonants, or "high"...

É or é (e-acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, it is used for loanwords (such as French résumé), romanization (Japanese Pokémon) (Balinese...

John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where...

The voiceless bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

Squamish (/ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/ SKWAW-mish; Sḵwx̱wúʔmesh sníchim, sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of the Pacific...

Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety...

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important or...

In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...

Jicarilla (Jicarilla Apache: Abáachi mizaa) is an Eastern Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Jicarilla Apache. The traditional homelands of the...

The jinmeiyō kanji (人名用漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [dʑimmeːjoːkaꜜɲdʑi], lit. 'kanji for use in personal names') are a set of 863 Chinese characters known...

Complex dynamic systems theory in the field of linguistics is a perspective and approach to the study of second, third and additional language acquisition...

Maipure (Maypure, Mejepure), was a language once spoken along the Ventuari, Sipapo, and Autana rivers of Amazonas and, as a lingua franca, in the Upper...

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta...

Arabic verbs (فِعْل fiʿl; pl. أَفْعَال afʿāl), like the verbs in other Semitic languages, and the entire vocabulary in those languages, are based on a...