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Letters w and k, are rare and used only in loanwords, most often from Germanic languages (e.g whisky). Ligatures œ and æ are conventional but are rarely used (a few words are well known, e.g. œil, œuf(s), bœuf(s), most other are scientific/technical and borrowed from Latin). Words ending in -aux, -eux, or -oux.
[1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely the same in English and Spanish: They have the same spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word dividers, etc. It excludes proper nouns and words that have different diacritics (e.g., invasion/invasión, pâté ...
For languages written in other writing systems, write "Romanization - native script (language)", for example "Argentine - אַרגענטינע (Yiddish)", and alphabetize it in the list by the Romanized form. Due to its size, this list has been split into four parts: List of country names in various languages (A–C)
Recognised Minority Language in: the Brazilian city of Pomerode, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, the Italian autonomous province of Trentino, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak municipality of Krahule, and the Vatican City (Administrative and commanding language of the Swiss Guard) Ghanaian Pidgin – Kru Brofo ...
Burkina Faso (a national language along with Fula, Mossi and other languages, the official language is French) Dogon : Mali (a national language along with Bambara , Bomu , Bozo , Fula , Mamara , Songhay , Soninke , Syenara , Tamasheq , the official language is French )
Abau Language Papuan Languages Abaza Northwest Caucasian Abenaki Eastern Algonquian Abkhaz or Abkhazian Northwest Caucasian Abujmaria or Madiya or Maria Dravidian Acehnese Malayo-Polynesian Adamorobe Sign Language Language isolate Adele Kwa Adyghe or West Circassian Northwest Caucasian Afar Cushitic Afrikaans Germanic Afro-Seminole Creole English-based creole Aguaruna Chicham Ahom Kra–Dai ...
Guest column: In politics, there is a dirty, ugly, open secret that the word ‘poverty’ — the topic of poverty — is a taboo subject.
A pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive form.. The pejorative suffix may add the sense of "a despicable example of the preceding," as in Spanish -ejo (see below).