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12 hours ago · In the late 19th and early 20th century Romanian linguist Hasdeu speculated the origin of Albanians from the free Dacians (i.e., according to him, the Costoboci, the Carpi and the Bessi ), after their alleged migration southwards from outside the Danubian or Carpathian limes during Roman Imperial times.
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12 hours 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/.
12 hours ago · Illyrians. Illyrian tribes in the 1st–2nd centuries AD. The Illyrians ( Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks .
12 hours ago · American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, [b] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. [4] English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances is the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce.
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12 hours ago · Cantonese ( traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdùng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta.
12 hours ago · notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [181] [182] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [183] c. 1891. Galela.
12 hours ago · The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" has often been attributed to "Jump Jim Crow", a song-and-dance caricature of black people performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface, first performed in 1828. As a result of Rice's fame, Jim Crow had become by 1838 a pejorative expression meaning "Negro". When southern legislatures passed laws of ...
