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Vocabulary. Lexical comparison leads to more specific data about the history of the Italic languages. There are linguistic boundaries called isoglosses that may date back to pre-Italic history: e.g., Oscan humuns, Latin homines, and Gothic gumans ‘human beings’ derive from an Indo-European root that meant ‘earth’; and Oscan anamúm ‘mind’ (accusative singular) is directly related ...
David Matthews ( Urdu: ڈیْوِڈ مَیتھِیُوز; 1942 – 5 March 2021) was a British scholar, author, and translator of Urdu literature and translator of Muhammad Iqbal and Mir Anees poetry in English. [3] He taught Urdu language and Urdu literature for over 30 years (1965–99) at the School of Oriental and African Studies ...
During this time Hindustani was the language of both Hindus and Muslims. The non-communal nature of the language lasted until the British Raj in India, when in 1837 Hindustani in the Persian script (i.e. Urdu) replaced Persian as the official language and was made co-official along with English.
Dobhashi ( Bengali: দোভাষী, romanized : Dobhāṣī, lit. 'bilingual') is a neologism used to refer to a historical register of the Bengali language which borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It became the most customary form for composing puthi poetry predominantly using the traditional Bengali alphabet.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting is a guide for editors on how to format text, such as bold, italic, quotation marks, and other typographic elements, in Wikipedia articles. It covers the general principles, conventions, and exceptions for various types of text, as well as examples and references.
Italic peoples, Italic-language speaking people of ancient Italy; Italic languages, an Indo-European language family; Old Italic alphabet, an alphabet of ancient Italy; Calligraphy and typography. Italic script, a method of handwriting; Italic type, used in typography mainly for emphasis; Other uses. The Italic or Composite order; Italic (company)
Hindustani is a Central Indo-Aryan language based on Khari Boli (Khaṛi Boli). Its origin, development, and function reflect the dynamics of the sociolinguistic contact situation from which it emerged as a colloquial speech. It is inextricably linked with the emergence and standardisation of Urdu and Hindi.
