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81 relations: Abstraction, Adjective, Anaphora (linguistics), Ancient Greek, Andalusian Spanish, Arabic, Armenian language, Article (grammar), Basque language, Bengali language, Bill Bryson, Cantonese, Caribbean Spanish, Chevak Cupꞌik dialect, Chinese language, Classical Arabic, Classical Chinese, Copula (linguistics), Cree language, Deixis, Determiner, English language, Eskaleut languages, French language, Georgian language, German language, Grammatical gender, Han dynasty, Hawaiian language, Hungarian language, Idiom, Ilocano language, Indo-European languages, Interlocutor (linguistics), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Interrogative word, Italian language, Japanese language, John Milton, Kiranti languages, Korean language, Language family, Latin, Linguistic frame of reference, List of glossing abbreviations, Macedonian language, Malagasy language, Modern Standard Arabic, Nandi–Markweta languages, New High German, ... Expand index (31 more) »
Abstraction
Abstraction is a process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers, first principles, or other methods.
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Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
See Demonstrative and Adjective
Anaphora (linguistics)
In linguistics, anaphora is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent).
See Demonstrative and Anaphora (linguistics)
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Demonstrative and Ancient Greek
Andalusian Spanish
The Andalusian dialects of Spanish (andaluz) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar.
See Demonstrative and Andalusian Spanish
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Armenian language
Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family.
See Demonstrative and Armenian language
Article (grammar)
In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. Demonstrative and article (grammar) are parts of speech.
See Demonstrative and Article (grammar)
Basque language
Basque (euskara) is the only surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today. Basque is spoken by the Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
See Demonstrative and Basque language
Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
See Demonstrative and Bengali language
Bill Bryson
William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an American-British journalist and author.
See Demonstrative and Bill Bryson
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.
See Demonstrative and Cantonese
Caribbean Spanish
* Caribbean Spanish (español caribeño) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region.
See Demonstrative and Caribbean Spanish
Chevak Cupꞌik dialect
Chevak Cupʼik or just Cupʼik (and sometimes Cugtun) is a subdialect of the Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect of Yupʼik spoken in southwestern Alaska in the Chevak (Cupʼik, Cevʼaq) by Chevak Cupʼik Eskimos (own name Cupʼit or Cevʼallrarmuit).
See Demonstrative and Chevak Cupꞌik dialect
Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
See Demonstrative and Chinese language
Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (the most eloquent classic Arabic) is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages onwards, having succeeded the Paleo-Arabic script.
See Demonstrative and Classical Arabic
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.
See Demonstrative and Classical Chinese
Copula (linguistics)
In linguistics, a copula /‘kɑpjələ/ (copulas or copulae; abbreviated) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a "link" or "tie" that connects two different things. Demonstrative and copula (linguistics) are parts of speech.
See Demonstrative and Copula (linguistics)
Cree language
Cree (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador.
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Deixis
In linguistics, deixis is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance.
Determiner
Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers. Demonstrative and Determiner are parts of speech.
See Demonstrative and Determiner
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
See Demonstrative and English language
Eskaleut languages
The Eskaleut, Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
See Demonstrative and Eskaleut languages
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
See Demonstrative and French language
Georgian language
Georgian (ქართული ენა) is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language; it serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages.
See Demonstrative and Georgian language
German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
See Demonstrative and Grammatical gender
Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
See Demonstrative and Han dynasty
Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
See Demonstrative and Hungarian language
Idiom
An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
Ilocano language
Ilocano (also Ilokano;; Ilocano: Pagsasao nga Ilokano) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, primarily by Ilocano people and as a lingua franca by the Igorot people and also by the native settlers of Cagayan Valley.
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
See Demonstrative and Indo-European languages
Interlocutor (linguistics)
In linguistics, discourse analysis, and related fields, an interlocutor is a person involved in a conversation or dialogue.
See Demonstrative and Interlocutor (linguistics)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a scholarly online encyclopedia with 880 articles about philosophy, philosophers, and related topics.
See Demonstrative and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.
See Demonstrative and Interrogative word
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
See Demonstrative and Italian language
Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
See Demonstrative and Japanese language
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.
See Demonstrative and John Milton
Kiranti languages
The Kiranti languages are a major family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Nepal and India (notably Sikkim, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Bhutan) by the Kirati people.
See Demonstrative and Kiranti languages
Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
See Demonstrative and Korean language
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
See Demonstrative and Language family
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Linguistic frame of reference
Linguistic frame of reference is a frame of reference as it is expressed in a language.
See Demonstrative and Linguistic frame of reference
List of glossing abbreviations
This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages in English.
See Demonstrative and List of glossing abbreviations
Macedonian language
Macedonian (македонски јазик) is an Eastern South Slavic language.
See Demonstrative and Macedonian language
Malagasy language
Malagasy (Sorabe: مَلَغَسِ) is an Austronesian language and dialect continuum spoken in Madagascar.
See Demonstrative and Malagasy language
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard.
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Nandi–Markweta languages
The Elgeyo language, or Kalenjin proper, are a dialect cluster of the Kalenjin branch of the Nilotic language family.
See Demonstrative and Nandi–Markweta languages
New High German
New High German (NHG; Neuhochdeutsch (Nhdt., Nhd.)) is the term used for the most recent period in the history of the German language, starting in the 17th century.
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North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
See Demonstrative and North Germanic languages
Northern Sámi
Northern Sámi or North Sámi (Davvisámegiella; Pohjoissaame; Nordsamisk; Nordsamiska; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sámi languages.
See Demonstrative and Northern Sámi
Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. Demonstrative and noun are parts of speech.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Demonstrative and Portuguese language
Predicate (grammar)
The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields.
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Pro-form
In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or sentence where the meaning is recoverable from the context. Demonstrative and pro-form are parts of speech.
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Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Demonstrative and pronoun are parts of speech.
Resumptive pronoun
A resumptive pronoun is a personal pronoun appearing in a relative clause, which restates the antecedent after a pause or interruption (such as an embedded clause, series of adjectives, or a wh-island), as in This is the girli that whenever it rains shei cries. Resumptive pronouns have been described as "ways of salvaging a sentence that a speaker has started without realizing that it is impossible or at least difficult to finish it grammatically".
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
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Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
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Seri language
Seri (cmiique iitom) is an indigenous language spoken by between 716La situación sociolingüística de la lengua seri en 2006.
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Shanghainese
The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas.
See Demonstrative and Shanghainese
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers.
See Demonstrative and Sino-Tibetan languages
Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.
See Demonstrative and Southern American English
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Demonstrative and Spanish language
Sri Lankan Tamil dialects
The Sri Lankan Tamil dialects or Ceylon Tamil or commonly in Tamil language Eelam Tamil are a group of Tamil dialects used in Sri Lanka by its native Tamil speakers that is distinct from the dialects of Tamil spoken in Tamil Nadu.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Standard English
In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc.
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Subject (grammar)
A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).
See Demonstrative and Subject (grammar)
Suzhou dialect
Suzhounese (Suzhounese: 蘇州閒話), also known as the Suzhou dialect, is the variety of Chinese traditionally spoken in the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu, China.
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Taihu Wu
Taihu Wu (吳語太湖片) or Northern Wu (北部吳語) is a Wu Chinese language spoken in much of the southern part of the province of Jiangsu, including Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, the southern part of Nantong, Jingjiang and Danyang; the municipality of Shanghai; and the northern part of Zhejiang province, including Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Huzhou, and Jiaxing.
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Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
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Three-dimensional space
In geometry, a three-dimensional space (3D space, 3-space or, rarely, tri-dimensional space) is a mathematical space in which three values (coordinates) are required to determine the position of a point.
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Tiriyó language
Tiriyó is the Cariban language used in everyday life by the Tiriyó people, the majority of whom are monolingual.
See Demonstrative and Tiriyó language
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Word
A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible.
Written vernacular Chinese
Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China.
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Yupik languages
The Yupik languages are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka.
See Demonstrative and Yupik languages
References
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