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5 days ago · In Irish, it represents /a/ between a broad and a slender consonant. In the Kernowek Standard orthography of Cornish, it represents /eː/, mostly in loanwords from English such as paint. aí is used in Irish for /iː/ between a broad and a slender consonant. aî is used in French for /ɛː/, as in aînesse /ɛːnɛs/ or maître /mɛːtʁ/.
1 day ago · Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
4 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
1 day ago · English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, [1] [2] allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. [3] It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation . Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad ...
5 days ago · Le reel est un terme désignant une danse traditionnelle irlandaise, ainsi que la musique qui l'accompagne. Très célèbre en Irlande, le reel déclenche très vite des fourmis dans les pieds, impossibles à réprimer !
4 days ago · Aristotle (384-322 BC) is history’s master of the art of Logic. The Trivium is a name for the the language arts in the seven liberal arts. The arts of the Trivium are Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric. It is important to realize that these are not three levels of study or three stages of learning, but three separate arts to be studied and practiced.
5 days ago · Ossetian is the sole survivor of the branch of Iranian languages known as Scythian. The Scythian group included numerous tribes, known in ancient sources as the Scythians, the Massagetae, the Saka, the Sarmatians, the Alans, and the Roxolani. The more easterly Khwarazm and Sogdians were also closely affiliated in linguistic terms.
