Proto-Dravidian had five short and long vowels: *a, *ā, *i, *ī, *u, *ū, *e, *ē, *o, *ō. There were no diphthongs; ai and au are treated as *ay and *av (or *aw). The five-vowel system is largely p ...
The existence of the Dravidian language family was first suggested in 1816 by Alexander D. Campbell in his A Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, in which he and Francis W. Ellis argued that Telugu and T ...
Hittite is the modern name for the language, chosen after the identification of the Hatti (Khatti) kingdom with the Hittites mentioned in the Bible (Hebrew Kheti), although this identification was sub ...
In Basque, the name of the language is officially Euskara (alongside various dialect forms). There are currently three etymological theories of the name Euskara that are taken seriously by linguists a ...
The sample text, from the Southwestern Ojibwe dialect, is taken, with permission, from the first four lines of Niizh Ikwewag (Two Women), a story told by Earl Nyholm, on Professor Brian Donovan of Bem ...
The Algonquian language family of which Ojibwe is a member is itself a member of the Algic language family, other Algic languages being Wiyot and Yurok. Ojibwe is sometimes described as a Central Algo ...
Dyirbal actually has only four places of articulation for the stop and nasal consonants—this is fewer than most other Australian Aboriginal languages, which have six. This is because Dyirbal lacks th ...
In general, there are three main ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into noun classes:according to similarities in their meaning (semantic criterion),by grouping them with other nouns th ...
Historically, Connacht Irish represents the westernmost remnant of a dialect area which stretched across the centre of Ireland to the east coast. The strongest dialect of Connacht Irish is to be found ...
Main article: GaeltachtOfficial Gaeltacht areasThere are parts of Ireland where Irish is still spoken daily to some extent as a traditional native language. These regions are known individually and co ...
The government-backed Goethe-Institut (named after the famous German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) aims to enhance the knowledge of German culture and language within Europe and the rest of the w ...
German is written in the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with Umlaut, namely ?, ? and ü, as well as the Eszett or scharfes s (sharp s), ?. In Switze ...
Varieties of standard GermanIn German linguistics, German dialects are distinguished from varieties of standard German.The German dialects are the traditional local varieties. They are traditionally t ...
Main article: List of territorial entities where German is an official languageSee also: German diasporaGerman-speaking communities can be found in the former German colony of Namibia as well as in ot ...
M?dchen für ?Jugendliche, Kind weiblichen Geschlechts, Freundin eines jungen Mannes“ verwendet ein Diminutivsuffix und ist etymologisch eine Verkleinerungsform des Wortes Magd. Es wurde zun?chst ...
