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The first Glosa dictionary was published 1978. The name of the language comes from the Greek root glossa meaning tongue or language. Glosa is an isolating language, which means that words never change form, and Glosa spelling is also completely regular
Word of mouth is the passing of information from person to person using oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day. [1] Storytelling is a common form of word-of-mouth communication where one person tells others a story about a real event or something made up.
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for chewing and swallowing as part of the digestive process , and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste buds housed in numerous lingual papillae .
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The movement of the mouth and lips affects the pronunciation words. The tongue plays a key role in the pronunciation of vowels and consonants. The tongue moves in several different positions to correctly produce these sounds. The tip of the tongue moves towards the top of the gum ridge to produce words starting with the letter ‘L’.
The tongue makes an extremely broad contact across the roof of the mouth, making correlation with the places of articulation of non-clicks difficult, but Ladefoged & Traill (1984:18) find that the primary place of articulation is the palate, and say that "there is no doubt that [ǂ] should be described as a palatal sound".
The Tongue, or Xannon Shirley, Australian musician; Tongues (Esham album), 2001; Tongues (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album), 2007 "Tongue" (song), by R.E.M., 1995 "Tongue", a song by Seether from the 2005 album Karma and Effect "Tongue", a song by Soilwork from the 2013 album The Living Infinite "Tongues" (song), by Joywave featuring KOPPS, 2014
The word comes from trans-, meaning "across", and lingual, meaning "having to do with languages (tongues)"; thus, it means "across tongues", that is, "across languages". Internationalisms offer many examples of translingual vocabulary. For example, international scientific vocabulary comprises thousands of translingual words and combining forms.