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20 hours ago · This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
20 hours ago · Typography and iconicity. [edit] The International Phonetic Alphabet is based on the Latin script, and uses as few non-Latin letters as possible. [ 6 ] The Association created the IPA so that the sound values of most letters would correspond to "international usage" (approximately Classical Latin). [ 6 ]
20 hours ago · It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam, and still used by Vietnamese diaspora in the world. Vietnamese is classified as belonging to the Vietic branch, one of the branches of the Austroasiatic language family.
20 hours ago · According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). [6] In the Canadian province of Quebec, only 7.5% of the population are mother tongue anglophone, as most of Quebec's residents are native speakers of Quebec ...
20 hours ago · Richard Davis cites a count by Callewaert & Hemraj in 1982 of 1,891 translations of the Bhagavad Gita in 75 languages, including 273 in English. [318] These translations vary, [ 319 ] and are in part an interpretative reconstruction of the original Sanskrit text that differ in their "friendliness to the reader", [ 320 ] and in the amount of "violence to the original Gita text".
20 hours ago · The rest are বিদেশী bideśi or "foreign" sources, including Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and English among others, accounting for around 28,000 (28%) of all Bengali words, highlighting the significant influence that foreign languages and cultures have had on the Bengali language throughout Bengal's long history of contact with different peoples and the cultural exchanges that came ...
20 hours ago · The UK has joined 34 fellow countries that contribute to UN peacekeeping forces to "strongly condemn recent attacks" by Israel on the troops in Lebanon.
