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Urkers is the local language of the municipality and former island of Urk, located on the west coast of the Dutch province of Flevoland.Urk was an island until the middle of the 20th century.
] Standard Dutch: Kerkraads, Standard German: (die) Mundart von Kerkrade [3] meaning (the) dialect of Kerkrade) is a Ripuarian dialect spoken in Kerkrade and its surroundings, including Herzogenrath in Germany. [1] It is spoken in all social classes, but the variety spoken by younger people in Kerkrade is somewhat closer to Standard Dutch. [4] [5]
Felicitas Augusta holding a caduceus and a cornucopia, two symbols of health and wealth, on the reverse of an aureus issued under the emperor Valerian. In ancient Roman culture, felicitas (from the Latin adjective felix, "fruitful, blessed, happy, lucky") is a condition of divinely inspired productivity, blessedness, or happiness.
Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo, "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinamese Creole) [2] is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 519,600 people in Suriname.
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.
Gronings (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣroːnɪŋs] ⓘ; Gronings: Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Low Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland.
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
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