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3 days ago · Like many other languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is an analytic language with phonemic tone. It has head-initial directionality, with subject–verb–object order and modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifiers.
- 85 million (2019)
Nov 21, 2023 · Dialectologist Jerry Norman estimated that there are hundreds of mutually unintelligible Sinitic languages. [11] They form a dialect continuum in which differences generally become more pronounced as distances increase, though there are also some sharp boundaries. [12]
- Proto-Sinitic
- Sino-TibetanSinitic
Nov 21, 2023 · The mountains and hills of South Asia’s languages and dialects A map from the Linguistic Survey of India depicting specimens of Bengali and Assamese languages. South Asia is one of the most...
- Dialects and Varieties of English
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There are hundreds of varieties of English. A variety of a language is a variation or system of differences from the standard form of the language. Variety is a general term that encompasses all changes in a language including jargon, dialects, and accents. A dialect is generally a regional or ethnic variation of a language that includes a differen...
England was a prolific colonizer, so because of this, English is spoken in dozens of counties and used as the official language of government and education in many more. Some of the countries where English is the official language and commonly spoken as a native language are the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zea...
There are hundreds of different varieties of English, including dialects and accents, that have developed through colonization, trade, migration, and industry. For example, the Pacific Northwest dialect was influenced by Native Americans in the area and the Yorkshire dialect was influenced by 13th century vikings invasions. Standard English, known ...
3 days ago · Khmer dialects, although mutually intelligible, are sometimes quite marked. Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh (Cambodia's capital city), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and southern Vietnam.
- 16 million (2007)
- Cambodia
- Austroasiatic, Khmer