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  2. Historical linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. [ 1] Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: [ 2][ 3] to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages. to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping them ...

  3. List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia

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    ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [ 1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...

  4. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate. Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [ 3]

  5. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques. The origin of language is a hotly contested topic, with some languages tentatively ...

  6. Urdu Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 17 August 2024, it has 209,226 articles, 183,393 registered users and 12,670 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...

  7. Sindhi language - Wikipedia

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    Sindhi ( / ˈsɪndi / SIN-dee; [ 3] Sindhi: سِنڌِي‎ ( Perso-Arabic) or सिन्धी ( Devanagari), pronounced [sɪndʱiː]) [ a] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status. It is also spoken by a further 1.7 million people in India, where it is a ...

  8. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Guugu Yimidhirr. notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [ 202][ 203] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [ 204] c. 1891. Galela.

  9. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq ( Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق ), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [ 6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.