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1 day ago · Beja language. Beja ( Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea. In 2022 there were 2,550,000 Beja speakers in Sudan, and 121,000 Beja speakers in Eritrea according to Ethnologue.
1 day ago · 5. “U know di Schweppes” – the phrase operates as one of the newer street slangs, heard most widely since 2017. It references the two grapefruit soft drinks sold in Jamaica, Ting and Schweppes. The term ‘ting’ functions as a brand name and also a Jamaica patois word meaning ‘thing’. Thus the phrase “u know di ting” would ...
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4 days ago · People who compile dictionaries are called lexicographers. While sometimes thought of as a branch of linguistics, the art of lexicography is properly considered a distinct field. Some are written by a single lexicographer, but many of the most respected and widely used examples today are the work of many individuals.
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2 days ago · As language constantly evolves, new slang words are created and adopted by people from various generations and cultures. This article will provide a comprehensive list of slang words from A to Z, accompanied by their meanings so that readers can both expand their understanding and stay in-the-know.
2 days ago · e. African-American Vernacular English [a] ( AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4] Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more ...
4 days ago · As defined by the philosophy of language, colloquial language is an ordinary or natural language that uses colloquialisms. Colloquialisms are informal words, phrases, or sayings often specific to one geographical area and typically only used in informal settings. Generally, linguists make distinctions between colloquial language and slang ...
1 day ago · Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Timetremǹkhēmi) is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, [2] representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, [2] [4] and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt. [1] Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the ...
