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4 days ago · Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. [1]
4 days ago · v. t. e. Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ (t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [3] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
5 days ago · Wu dialect: 1 n a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta Synonyms: Shanghai dialect , Wu Type of: Chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
4 days ago · dialect geography: 1 n the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features Synonyms: linguistic geography Type of: linguistics the scientific study of language
6 days ago · It is designated as the official language of mainland China and a major language in the United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is largely based on the Beijing dialect. Standard Chinese is a pluricentric language with local standards in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore that mainly differ in their lexicon. [7]
5 days ago · Dutch ( endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language [4] and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (or 60% of the population ...
1 day ago · These dialects include: Ionic: Predominantly used in the eastern territories, including the islands of the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor. Ionic is known for its influence on the development of Attic Greek, which later evolved into the Classical Greek used in much of the literature of the era. Doric: Spoken in the Peloponnese, Crete, and ...
