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  2. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  3. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    Middle English candi, crystallized cane sugar, short for sugre-candi, partial translation of Old French sucre candi, ultimately from Arabic sukkar qandī : sukkar, sugar + qandī, consisting of sugar lumps (from qand, lump of crystallized sugar, from an Indic source akin to Pali kaṇḍa-, from Sanskrit खाण्डक khaṇḍakaḥ, from ...

  4. Language - Wikipedia

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    Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed between ...

  5. Multilingualism - Wikipedia

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    The frontage of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, with text written in eleven of South Africa's twelve official languages A multilingual sign outside the mayor's office in Novi Sad, Serbia, written in the four official languages of the city: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, and Pannonian Rusyn A stenciled danger sign in Singapore written in English, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay (the four ...

  6. Mutual intelligibility - Wikipedia

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    Mutual intelligibility is sometimes used to distinguish languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. Intelligibility between varieties can be asymmetric; that is, speakers of one variety may be able to better understand another than vice versa. An example of this is the case between Afrikaans and Dutch.

  7. John (given name) - Wikipedia

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    John (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ n / JON) is a common male name in the English language ultimately of Hebrew origin. The English form is from Middle English Ion, Ihon, Jon, Jan (mid-12c.), itself from Old French Jan, Jean, Jehan (Modern French Jean), [2] from Medieval Latin Johannes, altered form of Late Latin Ioannes, [2] or the Middle English personal name is directly from Medieval Latin, [3] which is from ...

  8. Amir (name) - Wikipedia

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    In Urdu (Urdu: عامر) the name has the same meaning as the original in Arabic, meaning ‘prince”. In Persian ( Persian : امير ) the name means ‘immortal’. In Persian Amir has a different meaning with other languages, it consists of two parts; A- which means 'un-' and mir which is the root of the verb mordan ('to die'), so Amir in ...

  9. List of multilingual countries and regions - Wikipedia

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    The national language is English and Urdu; English was to be replaced by Urdu however this has not occurred despite many attempts in the past to do so. Pakistan is unique in that both English and Urdu are non-native languages and nearly all Pakistani's need to learn them as a second and/or a third language. [182]