Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia - Noun
In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Classification Of Nouns
Noun - Proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns (also called proper names) are the names of unique entities. For example, "Janet", "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Case Number And Gender
In sentences, noun phrases may function in a variety of different ways, the most obvious being as subjects (performers of action) or obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Case, Number, And Gender
In sentences, noun phrases may function in a variety of different ways, the most obvious being as subjects (performers of action) or obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White People: Encyclopedia - White People
White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though lite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumerian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumerian Language - Grammar
Finding a place for the Sumerian language in modern analytic linguistics has proven to be a formidable challenge since the first steps of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Verbs
The Hebrew word for verb is פועל po'al, and as in English, verbs in Hebrew can express both action and status. Hebrew verbs stem from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laal Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Laal Language - Classification
Laal remains unclassified, although extensive Adamawa-Ubangi (particularly Bua) and to a lesser extent Chadic influence is found. It is s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syriac Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Syriac Language - Classification
Syriac is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family, the Semitic language sub-family, the West Semitic language branch, and the Aramai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Nouns
The Hebrew word for "noun" is שם עצם shem etsem. Hebrew nouns are inflected by gender, number (and sometimes by possession) but not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Textual Classifications
Text (文章 bunshō) is composed of sentences (文 bun), which are in turn composed of phrases (文節 bunsetsu), which are its smallest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Other Independent Words
Japanese grammar - Adverbs. Adverbs in Japanese are not as tightly integrated into the morphology as in many other languages. Indeed, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laal Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Laal Language - Grammar
Laal language - Syntax. The typical word order can be summarized as subject - (verbal particle) - verb - object - adverb; preposition -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Adjectives
The Hebrew adjective שם תואר shem toar comes after the noun and agrees with it in gender and number: ספר קטן sefer katan (sm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Classification And Related Languages
Indo-European - Italic - Romance - Italo-Western - Western - Gallo-Iberian - Ibero-Romance - West-Iberian - Portuguese-Galician Portugues...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Word Order
Word order of sentences is somewhat arbitrary, as sentences and clauses can be Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) or Verb-Subject-Object (VSO). In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumerian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumerian Language - Chronology
The chronology of the Sumerian language may be divided into several periods according to linguistic and historical considerations: Archa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumerian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumerian Language - Decipherment
Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895) deciphered the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia, and helped prepare The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumerian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumerian Language - Classification
Sumerian is the first known written language. Its script, called cuneiform, meaning "wedge-shaped", was later also used for Akkadian, Uga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars: Encyclopedia Ii - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars - Terminology
Players of DotA Allstars (and DotA in general) have developed a list of jargon and terminology that is frequently used during in-game cha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Classification And Related Languages
Portuguese is a member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Its closest relatives are Galician, Ladino, and Spanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Classification And Related Languages
Portuguese is a member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Its closest relatives are Galician, Ladino, and Spanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Types Of Noun Classes
Most Indo-European languages distinguish feminine, masculine and sometimes neuter noun classes. But this system of classification is not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kapampangan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kapampangan Language - Grammar
Kapampangan language - Nouns. While Kapampangan nouns are not inflected, they are usually preceded by case markers. There are three typ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sandawe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sandawe Language - Sounds
Sandawe language - Vowels. Sandawe has five vowel qualities: All five vowel qualities may be found as short oral, long oral and long na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shabo Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Shabo Language - Sample Sentences
mawo hoop: water boiled upa mawo hoop-ka: A man boiled water (lit. "man water boiled-caus.") gumu be: it is not a stick (lit. "stick not"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laal Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Laal Language - Speakers And Status
The language's speakers are mainly river fishermen and farmers; they also sell salt extracted from the ashes of doum palms and Vossia cus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laal Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Laal Language - Sounds
The sounds of Laal are transcribed here using International Phonetic Alphabet symbols. The consonants are: Implosives and prenasalised st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semitic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic Languages - Present Situation
Arabic is spoken natively by majorities from Mauritania to Oman, and from Iraq to the Sudan; as the language of the Qur'an and as a lingu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semitic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic Languages - Grammar
The Semitic languages share a number of grammatical features, although variation has naturally occurred - even within the same language a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Grammar
Main article: German grammar German is an inflected language. German language - Noun inflection. German nouns inflect into: one of fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kapampangan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kapampangan Language - Geographic Distribution
Kapampangan is primarily spoken in the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac. It also spoken in the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, and Bat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semitic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic Languages - Classification
The classification given below, based on shared innovations - established by Robert Hetzron in 1976 with later emendations by John Huehne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Grammar
Portuguese language - General. Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semitic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic Languages - History
Semitic languages - Origins. Since Semitic is a member of Afro-Asiatic, a principally African family, the first speakers of Proto-Semit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syriac Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Syriac Language - History
The history of Syriac can be divided into three distinct periods: Old Syriac (the language of the kingdom of Osroene), Middle Syriac (K�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syriac Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Syriac Language - Grammar
Syriac words, as with those in other Semitic languages, are built out of triliteral roots, permutations of three Syriac consonants. For e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sotho Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sotho Language - Geographic Distribution
According to 2001 census data, there were 3,555,186 first language Sesotho speakers recorded in South Africa, approximately eight per cen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kapampangan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kapampangan Language - History
The word Kapampangan is derived from the rootword pampang which means river bank. Very little is known about the language prior to the ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kapampangan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kapampangan Language - Classification
Kapampangan is a Northern Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. The position of Kapampangan among the Northern Phi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kapampangan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kapampangan Language - Sounds
Standard Kapampangan has 21 phonemes: 15 consonants and five vowels. Some western dialects of Kapampangan have six vowels. Syllable struc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kapampangan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kapampangan Language - Examples
Kapampangan language - Some Common Phrases. Kumusta naka? - How are you? Masalese ku pu. - I'm fine. Nanung lagyu mu?- What is your na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Notes
^  List of personal pronouns from sci.lang.japan FAQ. ^  Discussion of pronoun reference constraints by Bart Mathias on sci.lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ojibwe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ojibwe Language - Phonology
The largest dialects of Ojibwe tend to have 29 phonemes, 11 vowels (seven oral and four nasal) and 18 consonants. The obstruents of Ojibw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Geographic Distribution
Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Sounds
As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of dipthongs. Most dialects, inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Vocabulary
The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, by Antônio Houaiss (1915 – 1999), son of Lebanese immigrants in Brazil and former Brazi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Writing System
Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - History
Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ojibwe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ojibwe Language - History
In the evolution from Proto-Algonquian to Ojibwe, the most sweeping change was the voicing of all Proto-Algonquian voiceless obstruents e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Conjugable Words
Japanese grammar - Stem forms. Prior to discussing the conjugable words, a brief note about stem forms. Conjugative suffixes and auxili...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Ancillary Words
Japanese grammar - Particles. Particles in Japanese are postpositional—they immediately follow the modified component. A full listing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Grammar
Portuguese language - General. Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Grammar
Portuguese language - General. Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ojibwe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ojibwe Language - Geographic Distribution
Ojibwe is spoken by around 10,000 people in the United States and by as many as 45,000 in Canada, making it one of the largest Algic lang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ojibwe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ojibwe Language - Grammar
Ojibwe, like many American languages, is polysynthetic, meaning it exhibits a great deal of synthesis and a very high morpheme-to-word ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ojibwe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ojibwe Language - Examples
This example text is taken, with permission, from the first four lines of Niizh Ikwewag, a story originally told by John Nichols, on Prof...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars: Encyclopedia Ii - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars - History
Defense of the Ancients: Allstars is based on the concept of Aeon of Strife which originated from Starcraft, by Blizzard Entertainment, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars: Encyclopedia Ii - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars - Development
Currently, in most versions of Allstars, the map contains many more heroes and items than does the original DotA, and is updated frequent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars: Encyclopedia Ii - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars - Current Player Trends
Currently, players have shown increasing interest in the 6.xx versions as with each consecutive version, more bugs are fixed and the map ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars: Encyclopedia Ii - Defense Of The Ancients: Allstars - Verbal Acknowledgements
One feature Defense of the Ancients: Allstars (like many other custom maps, including Elite Snipers) has is the use of map sounds and ver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Geographic Distribution
German is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, in two-thirds of Switzerland, in two-thirds of the South Tyrol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - History
As a consequence of the colonisation patterns the Völkerwanderung, the routes for trade and communication (chiefly the rivers), and of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Classification And Related Languages
German is a member of the western branch of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the Indo-European language family....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Dialects
The term "German" is used for the dialects of Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland (that is, outside the French-, Italian-, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Standard German
In German linguistics, only the traditional regional varieties are called dialects, not the different varieties of standard German. Stand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Writing System
German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with Umlaut, namely ä, ö an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Cognates With English
There are many German words that are cognate to English words. Most of them are easily identifiable and have almost the same meaning. Whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Names Of The German Language In Other Languages
Because of the turbulent history of both Germany and the German language, the names that other peoples have chosen to use to refer to it ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Classification And Related Languages
German is a member of the western branch of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the Indo-European language family....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Vocabulary
Almost 90% of the Portuguese vocabulary is derived from Latin; needless to say, with substantial phonological and morphological changes w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - History
The history of the German language begins with the High German consonant shift during the Migration period, separating South Germanic dia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Vocabulary
Portuguese, both in morphology and syntax, represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of any foreign l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Writing System
Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - History
Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Derived Languages
Starting with the 16th century, the extensive contacts between Portuguese travelers and settlers, African slaves, and local populations l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Influence On Other Languages
Portuguese also loaned words to many other languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum, Swahili, as well as in several creole l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Geographic Distribution
Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Sounds
As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of diphthongs. European Portuguese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - History
Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Derived Languages
Starting with the 16th century, the extensive contacts between Portuguese travelers and settlers, African slaves, and local populations l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Influence On Other Languages
Portuguese also loaned words to many other languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum, Swahili, as well as in several creole l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Geographic Distribution
Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Sounds
As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of diphthongs. European Portuguese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Writing System
Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Niger-congo Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Niger-congo Languages - Common Features
Niger-Congo languages - Phonology. Niger-Congo languages have a clear preference for open syllables of the type CV (Consonant Vowel). T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Niger-congo Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Niger-congo Languages - Classification History
Niger-Congo languages - Early classifications. Niger-Congo as it is known today was only gradually recognized as a unity. In early clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Classification
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). Finnish is a synthetic langu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Adverbs
The Hebrew term for adverb is תואר הפועל toar ha'po'al. Hebrew forms adverbs in several different ways. A few common adjectives ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carrier Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Carrier Language - Morphology
Carrier nouns are inflected for possession and number. Possession is marked by prefixation as well, in some cases, as changes in the noun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - The Epistemological Challenge
White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though lite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sandawe Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Sandawe Language - Grammar
Sandawe language - Pronouns. Sandawe language - Syllable structure. Sandawe syllables are usually of the form CV; in monosyllabic wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shabo Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Shabo Language - Sounds
The consonants are: Consonants in brackets are not entirely phonemic, according to Teferra (1995): p and f are in free variation s and �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shabo Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Shabo Language - Grammar
Shabo language - Syntax. Basic word order is subject-object-verb; there are postpositions rather than prepositions. Shabo language - P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andamanese Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Andamanese Languages - Grammar
The Andamanese languages are quite agglutinative, with an extensive prefix and suffix system. Possibly their most distinctive characteris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albanian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Albanian Language - Grammar
Albanian nouns are inflected by gender (masculine, feminine and neuter) and number (singular and plural). There are 4 declensions with 5 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albanian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Albanian Language - Grammar
Albanian nouns are inflected by gender (masculine, feminine and neuter) and number (singular and plural). There are 4 declensions with 5 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syriac Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Syriac Language - Sounds
There is some variation in the pronunciation of Syriac in its various forms. The various Modern Eastern Aramaic vernaculars have quite di...   » Read the article