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1 day ago · The Portuguese Empire ( Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ] ), also known as the Portuguese Overseas ( Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire ( Império Colonial Português ), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom ...
3 days ago · Konkani [note 3] ( Devanagari: कोंकणी, Kannada: ಕೊಂಕಣಿ, [citation needed] Malayalam: കൊംകണീ [citation needed], Perso-Arabic: کونکنی [citation needed], Romi: Konknni, IAST: Kōṅkaṇī, IPA: [kõkɳi]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the ...
5 days ago · Portuguese owes its importance—as the second Romance language (after Spanish) in terms of numbers of speakers—largely to its position as the language of Brazil, where in the early 21st century some 187 million people spoke it. In Portugal, the language’s country of origin, there are more than 10 million speakers.
2 days ago · Mozambique, [c] officially the Republic of Mozambique, [d] is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar ...
1 day ago · The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Javanese, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets.
1 day ago · It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. [1] The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators.
4 days ago · Chewa (also known as Nyanja, / ˈnjændʒə /) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, [3] so the language is usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled Cinianja in Portuguese). In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to ...
