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21 hours ago · Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the early 19th century, when regional vernaculars supplanted it in common academic and political usage—including its own descendants, the Romance languages.
21 hours 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 ...
21 hours ago · The French people ( French: Les Français, lit. 'The French') are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France .
21 hours ago · Newar developed as the court and state language of Nepal from the 14th to the late 18th centuries. [34] It was the definite language of stone and copper plate inscriptions, royal decrees, chronicles, Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts, official documents, journals, title deeds, correspondence and creative writing.
21 hours ago · Andorra is the sixth-smallest state in Europe, with an area of 468 square kilometres (181 sq mi) and a population of approximately 79,034. [15] [16] The Andorran people are a Romance ethnic group closely related to Catalans. [17] Andorra is the world's 16th-smallest country by land and 11th-smallest by population. [18] Its capital, Andorra la Vella, is the highest capital city in Europe, at an ...
21 hours ago · The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to ...
21 hours ago · Latin velar - coronal sequences like this (and also cl cr ct gd gl gr x ) underwent a palatal mutation to varying degrees in most Italo-Western Romance languages.
