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  2. 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.

  3. List of language families - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".

  4. Villalobos (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Villalobos is a Spanish surname (meaning town of wolves) and common in Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Italy. Villalobos is a city in the province of Zamora in Spain which derives its name from Spanish villa "town" and lobos "wolves".

  5. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  6. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  7. List of proposed language families - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of proposed language families, which connect established families into larger genetic groups (macro-families). Support for these proposals vary from case to case. Support for these proposals vary from case to case.

  8. Macrofamily - Wikipedia

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    Metonymically, the term became associated with the practice of trying to group together various languages and language families (including isolates) in a larger scale classification. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, some scholars [ 3 ] view this term as superfluous if not outright redundant as there is no real tangible linguistic divide the same way there ...

  9. English exonyms - Wikipedia

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    An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym). Exonyms and endonyms are features of all languages, and other languages may have their own exonym for English endonyms, for example Llundain is the Welsh exonym for the English endonym "London".