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  2. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  3. Wasei-eigo - Wikipedia

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    These transformations often result in truncated (or "backclipped") words and words with extra vowels inserted to accommodate the Japanese mora syllabic structure. [ 5 ] : 70 Wasei-eigo , on the other hand, is the re-working of and experimentation with these words that results in an entirely novel meaning as compared to the original intended ...

  4. Non-English-based programming languages - Wikipedia

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    Scratch is a block-based educational language. The text of the blocks is translated into many languages, and users can select different translations. Unicode characters are supported in variable and list names. (Scratch lists are not stored inside variables the way arrays or lists are handled in most languages.

  5. Macaronic language - Wikipedia

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    Macaronic Latin in particular is a jumbled jargon made up of vernacular words given Latin endings or of Latin words mixed with the vernacular in a pastiche (compare dog Latin). The word macaronic comes from the Neo-Latin macaronicus, which is from the Italian maccarone, or "dumpling", regarded as coarse peasant fare. It is generally derogatory ...

  6. French-Japanese - Wikipedia

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    French(-)Japanese or Japanese(-)French may refer to: France-Japan relations (c.f. "a French-Japanese treaty") French language education in Japan (c.f. "a French Japanese class") Japanese language education in France; People with multiple citizenship of France and Japan

  7. Duolingo releases its top 10 languages of 2023. What made the ...

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    French. 4. German. 5. Japanese. 6. Korean. 7. Italian. 8. ... with 86% of the people learning Japanese and 76% of those learning Chinese under 30. ... Younger people have different preferences ...

  8. Cross-border language - Wikipedia

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    These are people who understand written and/or spoken Basque but who have little speaking ability. They represent 15.3% of the population. Official language or lingua franca monolinguals. Non-Basque-speaking monolinguals are those who speak only Spanish or French in the Basque Country. They are the majority, representing 57.8% of the population.

  9. Linguistic discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based upon their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, such as their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and ...