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20 hours ago · The Syriac language ( / ˈsɪriæk / SIH-ree-ak; Classical Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, romanized: Leššānā Suryāyā ), [a] also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan ( Urhāyā ), Mesopotamian language ( Nahrāyā) and as Aramaic ( Aramāyā ), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. [4] [5] [6] Classical ...
20 hours ago · Origin and development Etymology The word 'Pali' is used as a name for the language of the Theravada canon. The word seems to have its origins in commentarial traditions, wherein the Pāli (in the sense of the line of original text quoted) was distinguished from the commentary or vernacular translation that followed it in the manuscript. K. R. Norman suggests that its emergence was based on a ...
20 hours ago · Eastern Common Turkic, the language of the royal house and its core tribes, in all likelihood remained the language of the ruling elite in the same way that Mongol continued to be used by the rulers of the Golden Horde, alongside of the Qipčaq Turkic speech spoken by the bulk of the Turkic tribesmen that constituted the military force of this part of the Činggisid empire. Similarity, Oğuric ...
20 hours ago · The earliest translation to a regional Indo-Aryan language is the early 14th century Saptakanda Ramayana in Assamese by Madhava Kandali. Valmiki's Ramayana inspired Sri Ramacharit Manas by Tulsidas in 1576, an epic in Awadhi Hindi with a slant more grounded in a different realm of Hindu literature, that of bhakti ; it is an acknowledged masterpiece, popularly known as Tulsi-krita Ramayana .
20 hours ago · It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. [1] The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators.
20 hours ago · Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language of Chuvashia. [5] [6] There are contradictory numbers regarding the number of people able to speak Chuvash nowadays; some sources claim it is spoken by 1,640,000 persons in Russia and another 34,000 in other countries [7] and that 86% of ethnic Chuvash and 8% of the ...
20 hours ago · A Manx speaker, recorded in the Isle of Man. Manx ( endonym: Gaelg or Gailck, pronounced [ɡilɡ, geːlɡ] or [gilk] ), [4] also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Gaelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. Manx is the historical language of the Manx people .
