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Feb 6, 2019 · The most widely spoken Indo-European languages by native speakers are Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Spanish, English, Portuguese, Bengali, Punjabi, and Russian, each with over 100 million speakers, with German, French, Marathi, Italian, and Persian also having more than 50 million. Today, nearly 42% of the human population (3.2 billion) speaks an ...
The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire . Medieval Basque. Indo-European languages. Germanic languages. Buri. Gothic. Suebian. Vandalic. Italic languages.
1. Ghazal or Rekhta. It’s an Arabic word that means “conversing with the beloved.”. It developed in Persia in the 10th century AD from the Arabic verse form qasida. A Qasida (Ballad) is a long poem in Urdu, Persian or Arabic which usually describes battles or written in praise of kings; princes or the poet’s patron.
Italiot Greek, also known as Italic-Greek and Salentino-Calabrian Greek refers to two varieties of Modern Greek spoken in Italy by the Griko people . Italiot Greek refers to the Greek varieties spoken in areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of Magna Graecia. There are two small Griko-speaking communities known as the Griko people who ...
a. of or relating to the Italic languages. 2. a. characterized by slanting characters. 3. n. a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right. 4. n. a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right. 5. n. a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
8.1 Introduction. The Italian peninsula before the Roman conquest was home to a large number of languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. 1 Among these languages, the following have been thought to descend from a common ancestor, Proto-Italic (cf. Figure 8.1 ). 1.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Urdu ( / ˈʊərduː /; اردو, [ʊɾduː] ⓘ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. [10] [11] It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English. [12]
