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The Conlang Flag, a symbol of language construction created by subscribers to the CONLANG mailing list, which represents the Tower of Babel against a rising sun. A constructed language (shortened to conlang) [a] is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised ...
The Conlang Flag, a symbol of language construction created by subscribers to the CONLANG mailing list, which represents the Tower of Babel against a rising sun. A constructed language (shortened to conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a ...
The larger of the individual Bantu groups have populations of several million, e.g. the Baganda [5] people of Uganda (5.5 million as of 2014), the Shona of Zimbabwe (17.6 million as of 2020), the Zulu of South Africa (14.2 million as of 2016), the Luba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (28.8 million as of 2010), the Sukuma of Tanzania (10 ...
The Bantu languages (English: UK: / ˌ b æ n ˈ t uː /, US: / ˈ b æ n t uː / Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) [1] [2] are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The term "Bantoid" was first used by Krause in 1895 for languages that showed resemblances in vocabulary to Bantu. Joseph Greenberg , in his 1963 The Languages of Africa , defined Bantoid as the group to which Bantu belongs together with its closest relatives; this is the sense in which the term is still used today.
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
[2] [3] Kēlen: 2009 Sylvia Sotomayor An alien language that attempts to eliminate verbs, which would violate a universal feature among natural human languages. Viossa: 2014 Artificial pidgin language with no strict grammar or phonetic rules; accepted as correct as long as speakers can understand each other.
With the 2025 Academy Awards airing Sunday, March 2 (ABC and Hulu, 7 p.m. ET/4 PT), we look back at the biggest Oscar snubs of all time.