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1 day ago · The English language has been official in the state of Oklahoma since 2010. The variety of North American English spoken is called Oklahoma English, which is "quite diverse with its uneven blending of features of North Midland, South Midland, and Southern dialects".
4 days ago · Themself is attested from the 14th to 16th centuries. Its use has been increasing since the 1970s or 1980s, though it is sometimes still classified as "a minority form". In 2002, Payne and Huddleston, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, called its use in standard dialect "rare and acceptable only to a minority of speakers" but "likely to increase with the growing acceptance of ...
3 days ago · English the American Way. Author: Sheila MacKechnie Murtha M.A., Jane Airey O’Connor M.Ed. This bestselling textbook is divided into units with chapter titles like “Taking a Drive” and “Dining in Style.”. Units cover topics that Americans encounter every day and use these situations to teach English grammar.
5 days ago · 23. Explore English Dialects. English comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Dialects are the different ways in which a language is spoken based on who the speaker is and where they come from. The United States alone has over 20 English-language dialects, including Southern English, New England English and Western English. Many natives can ...
4 days ago · The Mayan languages [notes 1] form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica, both in the south of Mexico and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least six million Maya people, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name, [1] [notes 2 ...
3 days ago · Portuguese language, Romance language that is spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese colonial and formerly colonial territories. Galician, spoken in northwestern Spain, is closely related to Portuguese. Portuguese owes its importance—as the second Romance language (after Spanish) in terms of numbers of speakers—largely to its ...
1 day ago · Number of native speakers of each Romance language, as fractions of the total 690 million (2007) The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries.
