In this growing age of inter-continental trading, talented multi-linguists are becoming an ever-...
Vowels. Italian employs seven vowel phonemes: /a/, /e/, /É›/, /i/, /o/, /É”/, /u/. The sounds of /e...
Officially, the Italian alphabet has 21 letters - the 26 of English, minus J, K, W, X, & Y....
Even for linguists, the line between "dialect" and "language" is fuzzy, or at...
The first secular university in the West to be established in the Dark Ages was in Bologna, in 1088...
The following table presents a number of basic phrases in Portuguese, without regard to whether it...
Virtually all the words in Portuguese derive from Vulgar Latin. Almost no vestiges remain of the...
Portuguese has 9 oral vowel sounds and 19 consonants. In some places one or more of these sounds...
The grammar of Portuguese is similar to that of other Romance languages, and quite close to Spanish...
Within Portugal, a number of regional accents can be distinguished, though none wanders so far from...
Portuguese, like its Romance-language siblings and cousins, is an Indo-European language derived...
German is an inflected language, meaning that nouns and verbs change their form in accordance with...
German linguists consider any version of speech that is traceable to a specific German tribe to be...
An ancient Germanic word, "theodisk" was used to describe "the people's language" (that is, what...
The simplification movement is thought of as a reform of the Chinese Communists, launched mainly in...
Easy Reference Table for the IPA The International Phonetic Alphabet or "IPA" is a method of...
Articles
Latin uses no articles, but Vulgar Latin does. It is not clear when exactly this change...
A late 3rd century work, called the "Appendix Probi," goes to the trouble of advising against...
