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Animacy

Index Animacy

Animacy is a grammatical and semantic principle expressed in language based on how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is. [1]

135 relations: Accusative case, Adang language, Agreement (linguistics), Algonquian languages, Ambitransitive verb, Aneityum language, Animate (disambiguation), Arabic nouns and adjectives, Bandial language, Basque grammar, Bengali grammar, Bengali language, Causal reasoning, Causative, Cheyenne language, Chinese classifier, Chippewa language, Christianity and animal rights, Chukchi language, Comitative case, Competition model, Cryptotype, Czech language, Direct–inverse language, Disjunctive pronoun, Dothraki language, Duna language, Ergative–absolutive language, Erzgebirgisch, Fables and Parables, Finnish language, Gaulish language, Gender in English, Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender, Ghana, Grammatical conjugation, Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Gujarati grammar, Guosa, Hindustani grammar, Hittite language, Human–animal hybrid, Iatmül language, Implicational hierarchy, Index of linguistics articles, Interjection, Japanese possessives, Japanese pronouns, Japanese sound symbolism, ..., Jingulu language, Kanashi language, Kansai dialect, Kâte language, Komi grammar, Korean grammar, Kuikuro language, Kusunda language, Lengo language, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, List of glossing abbreviations, List of languages by type of grammatical genders, Lithuanian grammar, Malecite-Passamaquoddy language, Masculine virile, Massachusett grammar, Massachusett language, Maximum Overdrive, Mi'kmaq language, Mixe–Zoque languages, Moldavian dialect, Mongolian language, Morphosyntactic alignment, Nahuatl, Narasimha, Navajo grammar, Nepali grammar, Ninde language, Nominative–accusative language, Noun class, Obviative, Ojibwe grammar, Ojibwe language, Olaff the Madlander, Oneiroi, Orbis Pictus, Ossetian language, Ottawa phonology, Painting, Phantasos, Pipil language, Pohnpeian language, Polish language, Possession (linguistics), Proto-Algonquian language, Proto-Indo-European nominals, Pueblo linguistic area, Puppetry, Q'eqchi' language, Russian grammar, Ryukyuan languages, Sama–Bajaw languages, Sawi language (Dardic), Semantic property, Serbo-Croatian grammar, Shaloman, Shawnee language, Sinhalese language, Sona language (artificial), Southern Athabascan grammar, Spanish language, Split ergativity, Spotted ratfish, Sumerian language, Swahili grammar, Swampy Cree language, Taos language, Teiwa language, Thematic vowel, Third-person pronoun, Tigger, Tiriyó language, Tlamatini, Traditional story, Tupi language, Udmurt grammar, Valyrian languages, Vedda, Vedda language, Verb–object–subject, Vietnamese grammar, Volition (linguistics), Watt on Earth, Ye'kuana language, Yuchi language. Expand index (85 more) »

Accusative case

The accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

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Adang language

The Adang language is spoken on the island of Alor in Indonesia.

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Agreement (linguistics)

Agreement or concord (abbreviated) happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

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Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages (or; also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family.

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Ambitransitive verb

An ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive.

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Aneityum language

Anejom̃ or Aneityum (also spelled Anejom, and formerly Aneiteum, Aneityumese) is an Oceanic language spoken by 900 people on Aneityum Island, Vanuatu.

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Animate (disambiguation)

Animate Co., Ltd. is a Japanese anime retailer.

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Arabic nouns and adjectives

Arabic nouns and adjectives are declined according to case, state, gender and number.

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Bandial language

Bandial (Banjaal), or Eegima (Eegimaa), is a Jola language of the Casamance region of Senegal.

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Basque grammar

This article provides a grammar sketch of the Basque language, the language of the Basque people of the Basque Country or Euskal Herria, which borders the Bay of Biscay in Western Europe.

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Bengali grammar

Bengali grammar (বাংলা ব্যাকরণ Bangla Bækôrôn) is the study of the morphology and syntax of Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in the Indian subcontinent.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Causal reasoning

Causal reasoning is the process of identifying causality: the relationship between a cause and its effect.

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Causative

In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).

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Cheyenne language

The Cheyenne language (Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse), or Tsisinstsistots, is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people, predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, in the United States.

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Chinese classifier

The modern Chinese varieties make frequent use of what are called classifiers or measure words.

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Chippewa language

Chippewa (also known as Southwestern Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Ojibway, or Ojibwemowin) is an Algonquian language spoken from upper Michigan westward to North Dakota in the United States.

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Christianity and animal rights

The relationship between Christianity and animal rights has been a complex one that's varied greatly depending on the historical context, with different Christian communities in different nations coming to very different conclusions.

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Chukchi language

Chukchi is a Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

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Comitative case

The comitative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment.

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Competition model

The competition model is a psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing, developed by Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney (1981).

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Cryptotype

Cryptotype or covert categories of a language is a concept coined by Benjamin Lee Whorf which describes semantic or syntactic features that do not have a morphological implementation, but which are crucial for the construction and understanding of a phrase.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also Bohemian (lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group.

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Direct–inverse language

The definition of a direct–inverse language is a matter under research, but it is widely understood to involve different grammar for transitive predications according to the relative positions of their "subject" and their "object" on a person hierarchy, which, in turn, is some combination of saliency and animacy specific to a given language.

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Disjunctive pronoun

A disjunctive pronoun is a stressed form of a personal pronoun reserved for use in isolation or in certain syntactic contexts.

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Dothraki language

The Dothraki language is a constructed fictional language in George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones, where it is spoken by the Dothraki, nomadic inhabitants of the Dothraki Sea.

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Duna language

Duna (also known as Yuna) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

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Ergative–absolutive language

Ergative–absolutive languages, or ergative languages are languages that share a certain distinctive pattern relating to the subjects (technically, arguments) of verbs.

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Erzgebirgisch

Erzgebirgisch (Erzgebirgisch: Aarzgebèèrgsch) is a Central German dialect, spoken mainly in the central Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) in Saxony.

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Fables and Parables

Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści, 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity.

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Finnish language

Finnish (or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.

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Gaulish language

Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language that was spoken in parts of Europe as late as the Roman Empire.

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Gender in English

A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during the Middle English period.

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Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of language that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Grammatical conjugation

In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar).

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two", or "three or more").

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Gujarati grammar

The grammar of the Gujarati language is the study of the word order, case marking, verb conjugation, and other morphological and syntactic structures of the Gujarati language, an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken by the Gujarati people.

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Guosa

Guosa is a zonal constructed language originally created by Alex Igbineweka in 1965.

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Hindustani grammar

Hindustani, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.

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Hittite language

Hittite (natively " of Neša"), also known as Nesite and Neshite, is an Indo-European-language that was spoken by the Hittites, a people of Bronze Age Anatolia who created an empire, centred on Hattusa.

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Human–animal hybrid

in this very first animal-human God Vishnu as Matsya the one worship as hinduism diety Terms human–animal hybrid and animal–human hybrid refer to an entity that incorporates elements from both humans and non-human animals.

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Iatmül language

Iatmul is the name of the language of the Iatmul people, spoken around the Sepik River in the East Sepik Province, northern Papua New Guinea.

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Implicational hierarchy

Implicational hierarchy, in linguistics, is a chain of implicational universals.

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Index of linguistics articles

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language.

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Interjection

In linguistics, an interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction.

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Japanese possessives

The Japanese language has different ways of expressing the possessive relation.

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Japanese pronouns

Japanese pronouns (or Japanese deictic classifiers) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at.

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Japanese sound symbolism

Japanese has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones.

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Jingulu language

Jingulu (Djingili) is an Australian language spoken by the Jingili in the Northern Territory of Australia, historically around the township of Elliot.

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Kanashi language

Kanashi is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the isolated Malana (Malani) village area in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Kansai dialect

The is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan.

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Kâte language

Kâte is a Papuan language spoken by about 6,000 people in the Finschhafen District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Komi grammar

This article deals with the grammar of the Komi language of the northeastern European part of Russia (the article "Komi language" discusses the language in general and contains a quick overview of the language.).

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Korean grammar

This article is a description of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of Korean. For phonetics and phonology, see Korean phonology.

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Kuikuro language

Kuikuro or Kuikuroan is a dialect of the Upper Xingu Language spoken by the Kuikuro people.

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Kusunda language

Kusunda (Kusanda) is a language isolate spoken by a handful of people in western and central Nepal.

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Lengo language

Lengo is a Southeast Solomonic language of Guadalcanal.

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time

Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time is a 1992 book by linguist Johanna Nichols.

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List of glossing abbreviations

This page lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing.

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List of languages by type of grammatical genders

This article lists languages depending on their approach to grammatical gender.

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Lithuanian grammar

Lithuanian grammar is the study of rules governing the use of the Lithuanian language.

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Malecite-Passamaquoddy language

Malecite–Passamaquoddy (also known as Maliseet–Passamaquoddy) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples along both sides of the border between Maine in the United States and New Brunswick, Canada.

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Masculine virile

Masculine virile nouns are a class of nouns in some languages, such as Polish, which refer to male humans but not male animals.

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Massachusett grammar

The grammar of the Massachusett language shares similarities with the grammars of related Algonquian languages.

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Massachusett language

The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family, formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and south-eastern Massachusetts and currently, in its revived form, in four communities of Wampanoag people.

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Maximum Overdrive

Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American science fiction horror dark comedy film written and directed by Stephen King.

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Mi'kmaq language

The Mi'kmaq language (spelled and pronounced Micmac historically and now always Migmaw or Mikmaw in English, and Míkmaq, Míkmaw or Mìgmao in Mi'kmaq) is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States out of a total ethnic Mi'kmaq population of roughly 20,000.

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Mixe–Zoque languages

The Mixe–Zoque languages are a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.

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Moldavian dialect

The Moldavian dialect (subdialectul / graiul moldovean / moldovenesc) is one of several dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian).

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Mongolian language

The Mongolian language (in Mongolian script: Moŋɣol kele; in Mongolian Cyrillic: монгол хэл, mongol khel.) is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely-spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family.

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Morphosyntactic alignment

In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of transitive verbs like the dog chased the cat, and the single argument of intransitive verbs like the cat ran away.

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Nahuatl

Nahuatl (The Classical Nahuatl word nāhuatl (noun stem nāhua, + absolutive -tl) is thought to mean "a good, clear sound" This language name has several spellings, among them náhuatl (the standard spelling in the Spanish language),() Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl. In a back formation from the name of the language, the ethnic group of Nahuatl speakers are called Nahua.), known historically as Aztec, is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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Narasimha

Narasimha (Sanskrit: नरसिंह IAST: Narasiṃha, lit. man-lion) is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, one who incarnates in the form of part lion and part man to destroy an evil, end religious persecution and calamity on Earth, thereby restoring Dharma.

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Navajo grammar

Navajo is a "verb-heavy" language — it has a great preponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns.

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Nepali grammar

Nepali grammar is the study of the morphology and syntax of Nepali, an Indo-European language spoken in South Asia.

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Ninde language

Ninde, or Labo (also Nide, Meaun, Mewun) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 1,100 people in the Southwest Bay area of Malekula island, in Vanuatu.

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Nominative–accusative language

Nominative–accusative languages, or nominative languages have a form of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of transitive and intransitive verbs are distinguished from objects of transitive verbs by word order, case-marking, and/or verb agreement.

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Noun class

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns.

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Obviative

Obviative (abbreviated) third person is a grammatical-person marking that distinguishes a non-salient (obviative) third-person referent from a more salient (proximate) third-person referent in a given discourse context.

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Ojibwe grammar

The Ojibwe language is an Algonquian American Indian language spoken throughout the Great Lakes region and westward onto the northern plains.

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Ojibwe language

Ojibwe, also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa, or Otchipwe,R.

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Olaff the Madlander

Adrian the Barbarian (later Olaff the Madlander) was a comic strip in the comic The Beezer, and later the merged Beezer and Topper, first introduced in 1989.

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Oneiroi

In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi or Oneiri (Ὄνειροι, "Dreams") were various gods and demigods that ruled over dreams, nightmares, and oneiromantic symbols.

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Orbis Pictus

Orbis Pictus, or Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in Pictures) is a textbook for children written by Czech educator John Amos Comenius and published in 1658.

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Ossetian language

Ossetian, also known as Ossete and Ossetic, is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains.

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Ottawa phonology

Ottawa (also spelled Odawa) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken in a series of communities in southern Ontario and a smaller number of communities in northern Michigan.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Phantasos

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phantasos or Phantasus (Φαντασος – "fantasy", "apparition") was one of the Oneiroi (the deities of dreams), the sons (triplets, sometimes simply the most prominent three of many) of Hypnos (god of sleep) and Pasithea (goddess of relaxation, meditation and hallucinations), or Nyx (goddess of night) and Erebus (god of darkness).

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Pipil language

Pipil (natively Nawat) is a Uto-Toltec or Uto-Nicarao language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which stretches from Utah in the United States down through El Salvador to Nicaragua in Central America.

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Pohnpeian language

Pohnpeian, also rendered incorrectly as Ponapean (the U.S. once referred to this island as "Ponape") (Pohnpeian: Mahsen en Pohnpei or Lokaiahn Pohnpei), is a Micronesian language spoken as the indigenous language of the island of Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski or simply polski) is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and is the native language of the Poles.

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Possession (linguistics)

Possession, in the context of linguistics, is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) in some sense possesses (owns, has as a part, rules over, etc.) the referent of the other (the possessed).

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Proto-Algonquian language

Proto-Algonquian (commonly abbreviated PA) is the proto-language from which the various Algonquian languages are descended.

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Proto-Indo-European nominals

Proto-Indo-European nominals include nouns, adjectives and pronouns.

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Pueblo linguistic area

The Pueblo linguistic area (or Pueblo Sprachbund, Pueblo convergence area) is a Sprachbund (group of languages with similarities due to language contact) consisting of the language spoken in and near North American Pueblo locations.

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Puppetry

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.

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Q'eqchi' language

The Q'eqchi' language, also spelled Kekchi, K'ekchi', or kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages, spoken within Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala and Belize.

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Russian grammar

Russian grammar employs an Indo-European inflexional structure, with considerable adaptation.

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Ryukyuan languages

The are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.

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Sama–Bajaw languages

The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well established group of languages spoken by the Bajau and Sama peoples of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Sawi language (Dardic)

Sawi, Savi, or Sauji, is an endangered Indo-Aryan language of northeastern Afghanistan.

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Semantic property

Semantic properties or meaning properties are those aspects of a linguistic unit, such as a morpheme, word, or sentence, that contribute to the meaning of that unit.

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Serbo-Croatian grammar

Serbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language that has, like most other Slavic languages, an extensive system of inflection.

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Shaloman

Shaloman is a Jewish superhero with powers similar to Superman.

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Shawnee language

The Shawnee language is a Central Algonquian language spoken in parts of central and northeastern Oklahoma by the Shawnee people.

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Sinhalese language

Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.

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Sona language (artificial)

Sona is a worldlang created by Kenneth Searight and described in a book he published in 1935.

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Southern Athabascan grammar

Southern Athabascan (also Apachean, Southern Athabaskan) is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken in the North American Southwest.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Split ergativity

Split ergativity is a term used by comparative linguists to refer to languages where some constructions use ergative syntax and morphology, but other constructions show another pattern, usually nominative-accusative.

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Spotted ratfish

The spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) is a chimaera found in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Sumerian language

Sumerian (𒅴𒂠 "native tongue") is the language of ancient Sumer and a language isolate that was spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

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Swahili grammar

Swahili grammar is typical for Bantu languages, bearing all the hallmarks of this language family.

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Swampy Cree language

Swampy Cree (variously known as Maskekon, Omaškêkowak, and often anglicized as Omushkego) is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree.

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Taos language

The Taos language of the Northern Tiwa language branch of the Tanoan language family is spoken in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.

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Teiwa language

Teiwa (referred to as Tewa) is a non-Austronesian, Papuan language spoken on the Pantar island in eastern Indonesia.

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Thematic vowel

In Indo-European studies, a thematic vowel or theme vowel is the vowel or from ablaut placed before the ending of a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word.

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Third-person pronoun

A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener.

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Tigger

Tigger is a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy animals.

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Tiriyó language

The Tiriyó language is the everyday language of the Tiriyó people, the majority of whom are monolingual.

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Tlamatini

Tlamatini (plural tlamatinime) is a Nahuatl language word meaning "someone who knows something", generally translated as "wise man".

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Traditional story

Traditional stories, or stories about traditions, differ from both fiction and nonfiction in that the importance of transmitting the story's worldview is generally understood to transcend an immediate need to establish its categorization as imaginary or factual.

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Tupi language

Old Tupi or classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.

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Udmurt grammar

This article deals with the grammar of the Udmurt language.

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Valyrian languages

The Valyrian languages are a fictional language family in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, and in their television adaptation Game of Thrones.

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Vedda

The Vedda (වැද්දා, வேடர் Vēdar) are a minority indigenous group of people in Sri Lanka who, among other self-identified native communities such as Coast Veddas, Anuradhapura Veddas and Bintenne Veddas, are accorded indigenous status.

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Vedda language

Vedda is an endangered language which is used by the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka.

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Verb–object–subject

In linguistic typology, a Verb–object–subject or Verb–object–agent language – commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA – is one in which the most-typical sentences arrange their elements in that order which would (in English) equate to something like "Ate oranges Sam.".

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Vietnamese grammar

Vietnamese is an isolating language, meaning it has no inflection of any kind.

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Volition (linguistics)

In linguistics, volition is a concept that distinguishes whether the subject, or agent of a particular sentence intended an action or not.

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Watt on Earth

Watt on Earth is a children's television programme that ran for two 12-episode series in 1991 and 1992, shown as part of Children's BBC.

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Ye'kuana language

Ye'kuana, also known as Maquiritari, Dekwana, Ye'kwana, Ye'cuana, Yekuana, Cunuana, Kunuhana, De'cuana, De’kwana Carib, Pawana, Maquiritai, Maquiritare, Maiongong, or Soto is the language of the Ye'kuana people of Venezuela and Brazil.

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Yuchi language

Yuchi (Euchee) is the language of the Cohaya people living in Oklahoma.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animacy

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