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A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well,...

Capitalization (American English) or capitalisation (British English) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and...

Kayliñña (Tigrinya and Amharic: ካይልኛ, romanized: kāyliññā) is one of two Agaw languages formerly spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews)...

Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a...

Fiji has three official languages under the 1997 constitution (and not revoked by the 2013 Constitution): English, Fijian and Fiji Hindi. The Fijian language...

A Spanish creole (Spanish: criollo), or Spanish-based creole language, is a creole language (contact language with native speakers) for which Spanish serves...

The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages. Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation...

A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), or complimentary close in American English, is an expression used to say farewell...

The Changting dialect (Chinese: 长汀话) is a dialect of Tingzhou Hakka mainly spoken in Changting County of northwest Fujian, China. It is generally regarded...

Bolivian Spanish (or Castilian) is the variety of Spanish spoken by the majority of the population in Bolivia, either as a mother tongue or as a second...

Kalaba-X is a simple constructed language created by the American linguist Kenneth L. Pike to help with the teaching of translation techniques. Each sentence...

Aulesti is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain. Aulesti is located...

A turn construction unit (TCU) is the fundamental segment of speech in a conversation, as analysed in conversation analysis. The idea was introduced in...

Endophora refers to the phenomenon of expressions that derive their reference from something within the surrounding text (endophors). For example, in the...

Alaric is a masculine Germanic given name that, broken into its parts means Ala "everyone's" and ric "ruler". This has various forms in the several Germanic...

The UNIcert is an international system of certification and accreditation for various languages learnt in a university context. The main goal of UNIcert...

Anacoenosis /ˌænəsiːˈnoʊsɪs/ is a figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question to an audience in a way that demonstrates a common interest. It...

Consonant gradation is the term used for a systematic set of alternations which are widespread in Finnish grammar. These alternations are a form of synchronic...