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1 day ago · Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
3 days ago · The search for the origin of language has a long history in mythology. Most mythologies do not credit humans with the invention of language but speak of a divine language predating human language.
5 days ago · The modern word "Vampire" is derived from the Old Slavic and Turkic languages form "онпыр (onpyr)", with the addition of the "v" sound in front of the large nasal vowel (on), characteristic of Old Bulgarian. The Bulgarian format is впир (vpir).
4 days ago · Founded in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.
5 days ago · So what is the origin of the word “Fiji”? Even the word “Fiji” is an approximation. Moreover, it is not based on a Standard Fijian pronunciation. Spelled in a variety of ways at first, it stems from the Tongan word for Viti: now spelled Fisi, but at that time, pronounced [fiči].
4 days ago · Abell Edition. Genealogical research has identified a few American settlers as Gateway ancestors. This means that the ancestor has a line of connection to a member of Royalty. One of those ancestors is Robert Abell, our 11th Great Grandfather. As proof, I offer this descendant chart from King Edward I to Robert Abell.
4 days ago · Trotzdem sollen alle Sprachversionen dem Grundkonzept der ersten, englischsprachigen Wikipedia entsprechen: dem Konzept einer freien Enzyklopädie, die umfassend und allgemein verständlich ist. Über die Einrichtung einer neuen Sprachversion entscheidet ein Ausschuss der Wikimedia Foundation .
