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  2. Impromptu speaking - Wikipedia

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    Impromptu speaking is a speech that a person delivers without predetermination or preparation. The speaker is most commonly provided with their topic in the form of a quotation, but the topic may also be presented as an object, proverb, one-word abstract, or one of the many alternative possibilities. [1]

  3. Elocution - Wikipedia

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    "An accomplished elocutionist", an illustration of elocutionist performing an open-air recitation, published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms.

  4. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script can, therefore, be used as a true alphabet as well as an abjad, although it is often strongly, if erroneously, connected to the latter due to it being originally used only for Arabic. Use of the Arabic script in West African languages, especially in the Sahel, developed with the spread of Islam.

  5. Conversation analysis - Wikipedia

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    a. If the current speaker selects a next one to speak at the end of current TCU (by name, gaze or contextual aspects of what is said), the selected speaker has the right and obligation to speak next. b. If the current speaker does not select a next speaker, other potential speakers have the right to self-select (the first starter gets the turn) c.

  6. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Total speakers: L1: 345 million ... Standardisation of the orthography, using the Devanagari script, ... The following is a sample text in High Hindi, ...

  7. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

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  9. Indian English - Wikipedia

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    Native speakers of Indian languages prefer to pronounce the English alveolar plosives sound as more retroflex than dental, [49] and the use of retroflex consonants is a common feature of Indian English. [50] [51] In the Devanagari script of Hindi, all