Virtually all dialects of Spanish make the distinction between a formal and a familiar register in the second-person singular, and thus have two different pronouns meaning "you": usted in the formal, ...
Main article: History of SpanishA page of Cantar de Mio Cid, the oldest preserved Spanish epic poem, in medieval Spanish.The Spanish language evolved from Vulgar Latin (colloquial Latin), which was br ...
Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.The An ...
As an Austronesian language, Malay is fundamentally gender-neutral. The third-person singular pronoun dia can mean 'he', 'she' or sometimes 'it', and the object/possessive suffix -nya can mean 'him/hi ...
The vast majority of modern Iranian Persian and Dari text is written with the Arabic script. Tajik, which is considered by some linguists to be a Persian dialect influenced by Russian and the Turkic l ...
Persian belongs to the Western branch of the Iranian family of Indo-European languages, which also includes Kurdish, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talyshi, and Baluchi. The language is in the Southwestern Iran ...
Avoidance speech in Australian Aboriginal languages is closely tied to elaborate tribal kinship systems in which certain relatives are considered taboo. Avoidance relations differ from tribe to tribe ...
Whether or not it is due to genetic unity, typologically the Australian languages form a language area or Sprachbund, sharing much of their vocabulary and sharing many distinctive phonological feature ...
Modern knowledge of Sumerian phonology is inevitably extremely flawed and incomplete because of the lack of native speakers, the transmission through the filter of Akkadian phonology and the difficult ...
The history of written Sumerian can be divided into several periods:Archaic Sumerian — 31st–26th century BC,Old or Classical Sumerian — 26th–23rd century. BC,Neo-Sumerian — 23rd–21st century BC, ...
The word onnarashii (女らしい), which is usually translated as "ladylike" or "feminine," refers to the behaviour expected of a typical Japanese woman. As well as behaving in particular ways, being onn ...
Proponents of gender-neutral language argue that the use of gender-specific language often implies male superiority or reflects an unequal state of society. According to The Handbook of English Lingui ...
The current president of OII Australia is researcher Morgan Carpenter. Tony Briffa, known as the first publicly intersex mayor, is Vice President. Tony Briffa is also the Vice President of the Androge ...
Alex MacFarlane is believed to be the first person in Australia to obtain a birth certificate recording sex as indeterminate, and the first Australian passport with an 'X' sex marker in 2003.Alex MacF ...
A majority of countries in Europe give transsexual people the right to at least change their first name, most of which also provide a way of changing birth certificates. Several European countries rec ...
