Encyclopedia - Vocabulary: Encyclopedia - Vocabulary
A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. The vocabulary of a person is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Gender
Some Esperanto roots are semantically masculine or feminine. In general, feminine words are derived from their masculine equivalent. Esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Origins
Esperanto occupies a middle ground between "naturalistic" conlangs such as Interlingua, which borrow words en masse from their source lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baby Talk: Encyclopedia Ii - Baby Talk - Vocabulary
The vocabulary of baby talk includes nonverbal sounds and slurred or simplified versions of ordinary words, but it also includes a vocabu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rotwelsch: Encyclopedia Ii - Rotwelsch - Vocabulary
Because of its development as a means of conveying information about goods and transactions, it has no terms for abstractions. For exampl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viennese German: Encyclopedia Ii - Viennese German - Vocabulary
The Viennese vocabulary displays particular characteristics. Viennese retains many Middle High German and sometimes even Old High German ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jamaican English: Encyclopedia Ii - Jamaican English - Vocabulary
Recent American influence is even more obvious in the lexicon (babies sleep in "cribs" and wear "diapers" [or "pampers"]; some people liv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maltese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Maltese Language - Vocabulary
Maltese vocabulary is a hybrid based on a foundation of Arabic Semitic roots with a heavy borrowing of Sicilian (rather than Tuscan Itali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Papiamento: Encyclopedia Ii - Papiamento - Vocabulary
Most of the vocabulary is derived from Portuguese and Spanish, and most of the time the real origin is unknown due to the great similarit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thracian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Thracian Language - Vocabulary
The most reliable Thracian words are the words which have been explicitly cited and described as Thracian by the ancient authors. There a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Papiamento: Encyclopedia Ii - Papiamento - Vocabulary
Most of the vocabulary is derived from Portuguese and Spanish, and most of the time the real origin is unknown due to the great similarit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punjabi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Punjabi Language - Vocabulary
Modern Punjabi vocabulary has been influenced by other languages, including Hindustani, Persian and English. Like other North Indian lang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phrygian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Phrygian Language - Vocabulary
A sizable body of Phrygian words are theoretically known; however, the meaning and etymologies and even correct forms of many Phrygian wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinook Jargon: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinook Jargon - Vocabulary
Jargon placenames are found throughout the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States. A few Jargon words: Nika or naika: I, mine or anything...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punjabi: Encyclopedia Ii - Punjabi - Vocabulary
Modern Punjabi vocabulary has been influenced by other languages, including Hindustani, Persian and English. Like other North Indian lang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Javanese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Javanese Language - Vocabulary
Javanese has a rich vocabulary, with many foreign loan words as well as the native Austronesian base. Sanskrit has had a deep and lasting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hanja: Encyclopedia Ii - Hanja - Vocabulary
Much like Japanese, a great deal of Hanja vocabulary were directly borrowed from Chinese vocabulary. A small number of Sino-Korean words ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - Vocabulary
The vocabulary is rather rich - especially in rural areas there are many special terms retained, e.g. regarding cattle or weather. In the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinook Jargon: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinook Jargon - Vocabulary
Jargon placenames are found throughout the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States. A few Jargon words: Nika: I, mine or anything first-pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beijing Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Beijing Dialect - Vocabulary
Beijing dialect has a lot of words that are considered slangy, and therefore occur much less or not at all in Standard Mandarin. Non-Beij...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gujarati Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gujarati Language - Vocabulary
The Gujarati spoken today takes vocabulary and even structure in some cases from Persian due to the more than five centuries of the rule ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Greek - Vocabulary
Due to the long-term diglossy between Latin and Greek, Medieval Greek borrowed various linguistic elements from the Latin language, part ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interlingua: Encyclopedia Ii - Interlingua - Vocabulary
The IALA set up a control group of five widely-known languages with much shared vocabulary, grouped into four units: French, Italian, Spa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinglish: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinglish - Vocabulary
Erroneous vocabulary usage (e.g. "to put in Jingzhang Expressway" instead of "entering Jingzhang Expressway") can also qualify as Chingli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toki Pona: Encyclopedia Ii - Toki Pona - Vocabulary
The 118-word vocabulary is designed around the principles of living a simple life without the complications of modern civilization. The w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interlingua: Encyclopedia Ii - Interlingua - Vocabulary
The IALA set up a control group of five widely-known languages with much shared vocabulary, grouped into four units: French, Italian, Spa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vulgar Latin: Encyclopedia Ii - Vulgar Latin - Vocabulary
Certain words from Classical Latin were dropped from the vocabulary. Classical equus, "horse", was consistently replaced by caballus, "na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - Vocabulary
There are more polysyllabic words in Mandarin than in other varieties of Chinese. This is partly because Mandarin has undergone many more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - Vocabulary
There are more polysyllabic words in Mandarin than in other varieties of Chinese. This is partly because Mandarin has undergone many more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindi: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindi - Vocabulary
Standard Hindi derives much of its formal and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit. Standard or shuddha ("pure") Hindi is used only in publ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Graphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Graphology - Vocabulary
"Every system of handwriting analysis has its own vocabulary. Even though two or more systems may share the same words, the meaning of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indonesian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Indonesian Language - Vocabulary
Indonesian as a modern dialect of Malay has borrowed heavily from many languages, among others: Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Chin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bengali Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Bengali Language - Vocabulary
The typical Bangla dictionary lists 75,000 separate words, of which 50,000 (67%) are considered tôtshôm (direct borrowings from Sanskri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Persian Language - Vocabulary
There are many loanwords in the Persian language, mostly coming from Arabic, English, French, and the Turkic languages. Persian has likew...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seri Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Seri Language - Vocabulary
Seri has a small number of loanwords, mostly from Spanish. Many ideas are expressed not with single words, but with fixed expressions con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Vocabulary
Where Canadian English shares vocabulary with other English dialects, it tends to share most with American English. For instance, automot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Korean Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Korean Language - Vocabulary
The core of the Korean vocabulary is made up of native Korean words. More than 50% of the vocabulary, however, especially scholarly termi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bulgarian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulgarian Language - Vocabulary
Most of the vocabulary of modern Bulgarian consists of derivations of some 2,000 words inherited from proto-Slavonic through the mediatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moroccan Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Moroccan Arabic - Vocabulary
Moroccan Arabic is grammatically simpler, and has a less voluminous vocabulary than Classical Arabic. It has also integrated many Berber,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Turkish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Turkish Language - Vocabulary
For more details on this topic, see Turkish vocabulary. Turkish has the resources for building up many new words from old: from nouns:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algonquian Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Algonquian Languages - Vocabulary
Loan words Main article: List of English words of Algonquian origin Because Algonquian languages were some of the first that Europeans ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Warsaw Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Warsaw Dialect - Vocabulary
As mentioned above, the Warsaw dialect includes a large set of borrowed words from a variety of languages. ... See also:Warsaw dialect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Language - Vocabulary
The original language of Japan was the so-called yamato kotoba. In addition to this original language, Japanese also has a great number o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Vocabulary
Modern Tamil vocabulary still retains most of the words from classical Tamil. Due to this and because of the emphasis on learning classic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vulgar Latin: Encyclopedia Ii - Vulgar Latin - Vocabulary
Certain words from Classical Latin were dropped from the vocabulary. Classical equus, "horse", was consistently replaced by caballus, "na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetum Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetum Language - Vocabulary
The Tetum name for East Timor is Timor Lorosa'e or 'land of the rising sun'. loro - sun loron - day lorosa'e - sunrise or 'east' The Te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swedish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Swedish Language - Vocabulary
The vocabulary of Swedish is mainly Germanic, either through common Germanic heritage or through loans from German, Low German and to som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Language - Vocabulary
See History of the Russian language for an account of the successive foreign influences on the Russian language. The total number of word...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Language - Vocabulary
See History of the Russian language for an account of the successive foreign influences on the Russian language. The total number of word...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Language - Vocabulary
Lithuanian language - Lexical borrowings in the language. Purists strongly believe that foreign influence on their native language is a...   » 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 - Forro Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Forro Language - Vocabulary
Although the São Tomean Creole had (and still has) a restricted contact with Portuguese (seen as a prestigious language), it did preserv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tunisian Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Tunisian Arabic - Vocabulary
The most immediately apparent difference between Tunisian and standard Arabic is the extensive use of words borrowed from Italian, Spanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jamaican Creole: Encyclopedia Ii - Jamaican Creole - Vocabulary
Naturally, Jamaican Creole contains many words borrowed from English as well as from Spanish, Portuguese, Hindustani, and African languag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albanian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Albanian Language - Vocabulary
There are Albanian words which have cognates (of non-Latin origin) in Romanian and there is a theory that the language spoken by the Daci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Vocabulary
Due to its isolation, no significant certain translations from Etruscan into modern languages have been produced yet, however we can be f...   » 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 - Nahuatl Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Nahuatl Language - Vocabulary
Nahuatl language - Words loaned to other languages. Main article: words of Nahuatl origin Nahuatl has been an exceedingly rich source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian English - Vocabulary
Australian English - The origins of Australian words. Australian English incorporates many uniquely Australian terms. One of the best-k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albanian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Albanian Language - Vocabulary
There are Albanian words which have cognates (of non-Latin origin) in Romanian and there is a theory that the language spoken by the Daci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Polish Language - Vocabulary
Singular: ja - I ty - you on - he ona - she ono - it Plural: my - we wy - you (Plural) oni - they (mixed group, both men and women) one -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georgian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Georgian Language - Vocabulary
Georgian has a rich word-derivation system. By using a root, and adding some definite prefixes and suffixes, one can derive many nouns an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inuit Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Inuit Language - Vocabulary
Inuit language - Toponymy and Names. Exotic as traditional Inuit names sound, both the names of places and people tend to be highly pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slovenian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Slovenian Language - Vocabulary
Slovenian uses, much like German or French, separate forms of 'you' for formal and informal situations. The English thou can be translate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singlish: Encyclopedia Ii - Singlish - Vocabulary
Singlish formally takes after British English (in terms of spelling and abbreviations), although naming conventions are in a mix of Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nahuatl Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Nahuatl Language - Vocabulary
Nahuatl language - Words loaned to other languages. Main article: words of Nahuatl origin Nahuatl has been an exceedingly rich source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mid Ulster English: Encyclopedia Ii - Mid Ulster English - Vocabulary
Much non-standard vocabulary found in Mid Ulster English and many meanings of standard English words peculiar to the dialect come from Sc...   » 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 - Norwegian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Norwegian Language - Vocabulary
Compound words are written together in Norwegian (see Nominal compositum), which can cause words to become very long, for example sannsyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taiwanese Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Taiwanese Linguistics - Vocabulary
Modern linguistic studies (by Robert L. Cheng and Chin-An Li, for example) estimate that most (75 % to 90 %) Taiwanese words have cognate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian English - Vocabulary
Australian English - The origins of Australian words. Australian English incorporates many uniquely Australian terms. One of the best-k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Language: Encyclopedia Ii - French Language - Vocabulary
The majority of French words derive from vernacular or "vulgar" Latin or were constructed from Latin or Greek roots. There are often pair...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Megleno-romanian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Megleno-romanian Language - Vocabulary
Much of the vocabulary is of Latin origin and much of its phonetics and semantics is shared with Aromanian and Romanian: basilica > M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Language: Encyclopedia Ii - French Language - Vocabulary
The majority of French words derive from vernacular or "vulgar" Latin or were constructed from Latin or Greek roots. There are often pair...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Language: Encyclopedia Ii - French Language - Vocabulary
The majority of French words derive from vernacular or "vulgar" Latin or were constructed from Latin or Greek roots. There are often pair...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telugu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Telugu Language - Vocabulary
Like all Dravidian languages, Telugu has a base (or lexicon) of words which are essentially Dravidian in origin. Words that describe obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telugu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Telugu Language - Vocabulary
Like all Dravidian languages, Telugu has a base (or lexicon) of words which are essentially Dravidian in origin. Words that describe obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thai Lunar Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Thai Lunar Calendar - Vocabulary
Thai orthography spells most native words phonetically, though there is no definitive system for transcription into roman letters. Here, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Vocabulary
Almost without exception, Germanic words (which include all the basics such as pronouns and conjunctions) are shorter and more informal. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marathi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Marathi Language - Vocabulary
Interestingly, Marathi uses the large number of modified Urdu, Persian and Arabic words. This came about because, for a significant peri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indonesian Slang Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Indonesian Slang Language - Vocabulary
Indonesian slang language structure is derived mainly from formal Indonesian language. Its vocabulary expands from a combination of deriv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Vocabulary - Capacity
Jean Aitchison gives the capacity of the vocabulary of college graduates with bachelor of education degrees as a "guestimate" of at least...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controlled Vocabulary: Encyclopedia - Controlled Vocabulary
A controlled vocabulary (also called a taxonomy) is a carefully selected list of words and phrases, which are used to tag units of inform...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Correlatives
The correlatives or "table words" are a paradigm of proforms, used to ask and answer the questions what, where, when, why, who, whose, ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Antonyms
People sometimes object to using the prefix mal- to derive highly frequent antonyms, especially when they're as long as malproksima (far)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comics Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Comics Vocabulary - Panels
Images are usually laid out within borders, known as panels. The layout of the panels can be in a grid, Watchmen being notable for utilis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Word Formation
One of the ways Zamenhof made Esperanto easier to learn than ethnic languages was by creating a regular and highly productive derivationa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controlled Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Controlled Vocabulary - Applications
Controlled vocabularies, such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings, are an essential component of bibliography, the study and clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comics Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Comics Vocabulary - Splash Page
A splash page, sometimes referred to simply as a splash, is a full page drawing in a comic book. A splash page is often used as the first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controlled Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Controlled Vocabulary - Controlled Vocabulary Vs. Free Text Searching
Controlled vocabularies are intentionally designed to remedy the major deficiency of free text searching: the appearance of too many irre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regional Vocabularies Of American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Regional Vocabularies Of American English - Regional Vocabulary Tables
See: Chinook Jargon was a trade language (or pidgin) of the Pacific Northwest, which spread quickly up the West Coast from Oregon State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Latin: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Latin - Vocabulary Syntax And Grammar
Medieval Latin - Vocabulary. Medieval Latin was characterised by an enlarged vocabulary, which freely borrowed from other sources. Prom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tonality: Encyclopedia Ii - Tonality - Vocabulary Of Tonal Analysis
Many of the terms and symbols necessary to analyze tonal organization follow below. Tonality - Scales. Main article: Scale (music). S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tempo: Encyclopedia Ii - Tempo - Musical Vocabulary For Tempo
Whether a music piece has a mathematical time indication or not, in classical music it is customary to describe the tempo of a piece by o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tempo: Encyclopedia Ii - Tempo - Musical Vocabulary For Tempo
Whether a music piece has a mathematical time indication or not, in classical music it is customary to describe the tempo of a piece by o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tempo: Encyclopedia Ii - Tempo - Musical Vocabulary For Tempo
Whether a music piece has a mathematical time indication or not, in classical music it is customary to describe the tempo of a piece by o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horse: Encyclopedia Ii - Horse - Specialized Vocabulary
Because horses and humans have lived and worked together for thousands of years, an extensive specialized vocabulary has arisen to descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine English: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine English - Vocabulary And Usage
Where Philippine English shares vocabulary with other English dialects, it shares more similarities with American English than with Briti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horse: Encyclopedia Ii - Horse - Specialized Vocabulary
The English-speaking world measures the height of horses in hands. One hand is defined in British law as 101.6 mm and is derived from a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Vocabulary And Borrowed Words
Tagalog vocabulary is composed mostly of words of Austronesian origin with borrowings from Spanish, Min Nan Chinese (also known as Hokkie...   » Read the article