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The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (ouest in French, oest in Catalan, ovest in Italian, oeste in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root *wes reduced from *wes-pero 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ...
Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.
The Niger–Congo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa and perhaps the world in terms of the number of languages. One of its salient features is an elaborate noun class system with grammatical concord .
The West Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages [note 1] or North Atlantic languages [1]) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages.. The Atlantic languages are spoken along the Atlantic coast from Senegal to Liberia, though transhumant Fula speakers have spread eastward and are found in large numbers across the Sahel, from Senegal to Nigeria, Cameroon and Sudan.
The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group. [1] They include Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian, Silesian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. [1] The languages have traditionally been spoken across a mostly continuous region encompassing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, [1] the westernmost regions of Ukraine and ...
Other Western European languages include the Celtic group (that is, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton [19]) and Basque, the only currently living European language isolate. [20] Multilingualism and the protection of regional and minority languages are recognised political goals in Western Europe today.
The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages.The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel. [1] [2] [3]The grouping [4] supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron and John Huehnergard divides the Semitic language family into two branches: Eastern and Western.
The Romance language family (simplified). Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Gallo-Romance, Occitano-Romance (sometimes included in one of the two other branches) and Iberian Romance branches. Gallo-Italic may also be ...