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1 day ago · Example of the Cyrillic script. Excerpt from the manuscript "Bdinski Zbornik". Written in 1360. The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
- left-to-right
- Old Permic script
- Cyrillic
- See Languages using Cyrillic
1 day ago · Names In Manx The endonym of the language is Gaelg / Gailck, which shares the same etymology as the word "Gaelic", as do the endonyms of its sister languages: Irish (Gaeilge ; Gaoluinn, Gaedhlag and Gaeilic) and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig). Manx frequently uses the forms y Ghaelg / y Ghailck (with definite article), as do Irish (an Ghaeilge) and Scottish Gaelic (a' Ghàidhlig). To distinguish ...
1 day ago · The grammar of the Slovincian language is characterized by a high degree of inflection, a lack of articles, and vowel, consonant, and stress alternations. Slovincian has an inflectional system mostly inherited from Proto-Slavic, with many innovationss.
1 day ago · In grammar, the most important change was the emergence of the present tense. The present tense evolved out of the verb kil (கில்), meaning "to be possible" or "to befall". In Old Tamil, this verb was used as an aspect marker to indicate that an action was micro-durative, non-sustained or non-lasting, usually in combination with a time ...
4 hours ago · History Further information: Japanese writing system § History of the Japanese script Prehistory Proto-Japonic, the common ancestor of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages, is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from the Korean peninsula sometime in the early- to mid-4th century BC (the Yayoi period), replacing the languages of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including ...
1 day ago · However, the English term for the city was adapted from its Low German name, Kopenhagen. Copenhagen's Swedish name is Köpenhamn, a direct translation of the mutually intelligible Danish name. The city's Latin name, Hafnia, is the namesake of the element hafnium. History
4 hours ago · Another result of English influence on Chinese is the appearance in of so-called 字母词; 字母詞; zìmǔcí; 'lettered words' spelled with letters from the English alphabet. These have appeared in colloquial usage, as well as in magazines and newspapers, and on websites and television:
