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The Arabic chat alphabet, Arabizi, [1] Arabeezi, Arabish, Franco-Arabic or simply Franco [2] (from franco-arabe) refer to the romanized alphabets for informal Arabic dialects in which Arabic script is transcribed or encoded into a combination of Latin script and Arabic numerals.
Tigrinya notices at an Eritrean Orthodox Church, Schiebroek, Rotterdam. Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples. [2]
Sanskrit [c] is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. [19] [20] [21] It is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism.
English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans. [72] The countries where English is spoken can be grouped into different categories according to how English is used in each country.
The bewildering number and variety of phonetic values that signs could have in Sumerian led to a detour in understanding the language – a Paris-based orientalist, Joseph Halévy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was not a natural language, but rather a secret code (a cryptolect), and for over a decade the leading Assyriologists battled ...
The two front vowels, e and I , represent sounds that are found in English, but are more open and lax than a typical English speaker might assume when reading Klingon text written in the Latin alphabet, thus causing the consonants of a word to be more prominent. This enhances the sense that Klingon is a clipped and harsh-sounding language.
On October 25, 2019, Google announced that they had started applying BERT models for English language search queries within the US. [23] On December 9, 2019, it was reported that BERT had been adopted by Google Search for over 70 languages. [24] [25] In October 2020, almost every single English-based query was processed by a BERT model. [26]
The Kaktovik numerals have gained wide use among Alaskan Iñupiat. They have been introduced into language-immersion programs and have helped revive base-20 counting, which had been falling into disuse among the Iñupiat due to the prevalence of the base-10 system in English-medium schools. [4] [5]