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  2. Interlingual homograph - Wikipedia

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    An interlingual homograph is a word that occurs in more than one written language, but which has a different meaning or pronunciation in each language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example the word "done" is an adjective in English (pronounced /dʌn/), a verb in Spanish (present subjunctive form of donar ) and a noun in Czech (vocative singular form of don ...

  3. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form.

  4. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    lots of tildes over vowels (including y) and n; tilde over g: g̃—it's the only language in the world to use it. Example words: hagũa and g̃uahẽ. b, d, and g usually do not occur without m or n before (mb, nd, ng) unless they're Spanish loan words. f, l, q, w, x, z extremely rare outside loan words; does not use c without h: ch

  5. Lists of country names in various languages - Wikipedia

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    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)

  6. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Verbs are given in their "dictionary form". The exact form given depends on the specific language: For the Germanic languages and for Welsh, the infinitive is given. For Latin, the Baltic languages, and the Slavic languages, the first-person singular present indicative is given, with the infinitive supplied in parentheses.

  7. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining ...

  8. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...

  9. Í - Wikipedia

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    Í is the 12th letter of the Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the hight unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɨ/ as in "bír" [b̶ɨr̶] 'one'.At the end of the word it is pronounced with half open mouth undergoing dilatation "Keñiytúw" and becoming mid unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft /ə/, also known as schwa, as in "tílí" [t̶ɨl̶ə] 'his tongue'.