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  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Tunisian Arabic: copy of a Tunisian poem written by Sheykh Hassan el-Karray [185] Before 1700, lyrics of songs were not written in Tunisian Arabic but in Classical Arabic. [185] c. 1695: Seri: grammar and vocabulary compiled by Adamo Gilg: No longer known to exist. [186] 17th century: Hausa: Riwayar Annabi Musa by Abdallah Suka [187] late 17th ...

  3. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    The year is written in Arabic numerals. The name of the month can be written out in full or abbreviated, or it can be indicated by Roman numerals or Arabic numerals. The day is written in Arabic numerals. [72] [73] [74] MSZ ISO 8601:2003 Iceland: No: Yes: No (dd.mm.yyyy) [75] [76] IST EN 28601:1992 India: Yes: Yes: Sometimes

  4. Italian language - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language has developed through a long and slow process, which began after the Western Roman Empire's fall and the onset of the Middle Ages in the 5th century. [23] Latin, the predominant language of the western Roman Empire, remained the established written language in Europe during the Middle Ages, although most people were illiterate.

  5. List of Libyan Arabic words of Italian origin - Wikipedia

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    Italian Loanwords Libyan Arabic Italian Word IPA (Western) IPA (Eastern) Meaning Word Meaning ṣālīṭa [sˤɑːliːtˤa] slope salita up slope [1] kinšēllu [kənʃeːlːu] metallic gate cancello gate [2] anguli [aŋɡuli] corner angolo corner [3] ṭānṭa, uṭānṭa [tˤɑːntˤɑ], [utˤɑːntˤɑ] truck ottanta

  6. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...

  7. Sicilian language - Wikipedia

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    These languages include Latin (as Sicilian is a Romance language itself), Ancient Greek, Byzantine Greek, Spanish, Norman, Lombard, Hebrew, Catalan, Occitan, Arabic and Germanic languages, and the languages of the island's aboriginal Indo-European and pre-Indo-European inhabitants, known as the Sicels, Sicanians and Elymians.

  8. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Flavio Biondo was the first scholar to have observed (in 1435) linguistic affinities between the Romanian and Italian languages, as well as their common Latin origin. [28] The total of 880 million native speakers of Romance languages (ca. 2020) are divided as follows: [29] Spanish 54% (475 million, plus 75 million L2 for 550 million in the ...

  9. List of English words of Arabic origin (T–Z) - Wikipedia

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    The word entered astrology in the West with this meaning in the early 17th century, beginning in French. Early users in French said the word came from Arabic. [5] Definition of talisman | Dictionary.com tamarind تمر هندي tamr hindī (literally: "Indian date") [tamr hndj] (listen ⓘ), tamarind. Tamarinds were in use in ancient India.