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Films set in the Kalahari Desert, a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa, extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi). It covers much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
Yawuru is a Western Nyulnyulan language spoken on the coast south of Broome in Western Australia.. Grammatically it resembles other Nyulnyulan languages. It has a relatively free word order.
A phonemic alphabet designed for the English language: D'ni: 1997: Richard A. Watson: Alphabet for the fictional language in the game Riven and its sequels Duployan shorthand: Dupl: 1891: Jean-Marie Le Jeune: Historically used as the main (non-shorthand) script for Chinook Jargon: Elbasan: Elba: 1761: disputed: Alphabet for Albanian used to ...
Sands of the Kalahari is a 1965 British adventure film starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews, Theodore Bikel and Nigel Davenport, based on the 1960 novel The Sands of Kalahari by William Mulvihill. [1] The screenplay was written by Cy Endfield and the uncredited William Mulvihill and directed by Cy Endfield.
The system embodies two principles: (1) alphabetic letters from the English alphabet are used to write Ojibwe but with Ojibwe sound values; (2) the system is phonemic in nature in that each letter or letter combination indicates its basic sound value and does not reflect all the phonetic detail that occurs. Accurate pronunciation thus cannot be ...
Western Neo-Aramaic is the sole surviving remnant of the once extensive Western Aramaic-speaking area, which also included the Palestine region and Lebanon in the 7th century. [19] It is now spoken exclusively by the inhabitants of Maaloula and Jubb'adin, about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Damascus .
Unlike the Myanmar script, the Kayah Li script is an alphabet proper as the consonant letters do not have any subsequent vowel.Four of the vowels are written with separate letter, the others are written using a combination of the letter for a and a diacritic marker.
Stephen Wootton Bushell's decipherment of 37 Tangut characters The Tangut character for "man", a relatively simple character [Tangut] is remarkable for being written in one of the most inconvenient of all scripts, a collection of nearly 5,800 characters of the same kind as Chinese characters but rather more complicated; very few are made up of as few as four strokes and most are made up of a ...