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  2. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Spanish was one of the official languages in the Philippines in Southeast Asia until 1973. In the 1987 constitution, Spanish was removed as an official language (replaced by English), and was listed as an optional/voluntary language along with Arabic. It is currently spoken by a minority and taught in the school curriculum.

  3. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Although some Western vocabulary entered the language as loanwords – e.g., Italian salvietta, "napkin", was simply Russified in sound and spelling to салфетка (salfetka) – Pushkin and those he influenced most often preferred to render foreign borrowings into Russian by calquing. Compound words were broken down to their component ...

  4. Romance verbs - Wikipedia

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    In many cases, the empty cells in the tables above exist as distinct compound verbs in the modern languages. Thus, the main tense and mood distinctions in classical Latin are still made in most modern Romance languages, though some are now expressed through compound rather than simple verbs. Some examples, from Romanian:

  5. Classification of Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    A similar distinction exists in the Germanic languages, which share a language area [citation needed]; German, Dutch, Danish and Icelandic use 'have' and 'be', while English, Norwegian and Swedish use 'have' only (although in modern English, 'be' remains in certain relic phrases: Christ is risen, Joy to the world: the Lord is come).

  6. Romance linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.

  7. Romance copula - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.

  8. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    This reflects the usage, i.e. in the dialects of the province of Holland that most of Dutch settlers came from. Another difference is that in the Dutch language also adjectives and adverbs can be conjugated as diminutives as if they were nouns. Diminutives are widely used in both languages, but possibly more so in the Afrikaans language.

  9. Proto-Romance language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Romance is the result of applying the comparative method to reconstruct the latest common ancestor of the Romance languages.To what extent, if any, such a reconstruction reflects a real état de langue is controversial.

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