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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ApostropheApostrophe - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · The apostrophe ( ' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't".

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      The prime symbol ′ is commonly used to represent feet (ft),...

  2. 12 hours ago · In Malagasy, it represents /ⁿdz/. Other letters and digraphs of the Latin alphabet used for spelling this sound are ń (in Polish ), ň (in Czech and Slovakian ), ñ (in Spanish ), nh (in Portuguese and Occitan ), gn (in Italian and French ), and ny (in Hungarian, among others).

  3. 12 hours ago · In Basque, the name of the language is officially euskara (alongside various dialect forms). In French, the language is normally called basque, though euskara has become common in recent times. Spanish has a greater variety of names for the language. Today, it is most commonly referred to as vasco, lengua vasca, or euskera.

  4. 12 hours ago · Name The English word Maori is a borrowing from the Māori language, where it is spelled Māori. In New Zealand, the Māori language is often referred to as te reo [tɛ ˈɾɛ.ɔ] ("the language"), short for te reo Māori ("the Māori language"). The Māori-language spelling Māori (with a macron) has become common in New Zealand English in recent years, particularly in Māori-specific ...

  5. 12 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  6. 12 hours ago · Classification Cherokee is an Iroquoian language, and the only Southern Iroquoian language spoken today. Linguists believe that the Cherokee people migrated to the southeast from the Great Lakes region about three thousand years ago, bringing with them their language. Despite the three-thousand-year geographic separation, the Cherokee language today still shows some similarities to the ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › OmOm - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · Om (or Aum) ( listen ⓘ; Sanskrit: ॐ, ओम्, romanized : Oṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. [1] [2] Its written representation is the most important symbol of Hinduism. [3]

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