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language — late 13c., langage words, what is said, conversation, talk, from O.Fr. langage (12c.), from V.L. *linguaticum, from L. lingua tongue, also speech, language (see LINGUAL (Cf. lingual)). The form with u developed in Anglo French. Meaning a language … Etymology dictionary
Language family — See also: List of language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto language of that family. The term family comes from the tree model of language origination in… … Wikipedia
Language and ethnicity of Kambojas — The Kambojas of Indian literature have been speculated to have been an Iranian people, perhaps cognate with the later Indo Scythians or Sakas.History of the hypothesisBased on Yaska s Nirukta and a gatha from Buddhist Bhuridatta Jataka , one… … Wikipedia
Paionian language — language name=Paionian familycolor=Indo European states=Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, northern Greece, southwestern Bulgaria extinct=probably 1st century BC 2nd century AD iso 2=ine|iso3=xliThe Paionian language is the poorly attested language… … Wikipedia
language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… … Universalium
Language isolate — A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or genetic ) relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other … Wikipedia
Persian language — Farsi redirects here. For other uses, see Farsi (disambiguation). Persian فارسی, دری, تاجیکی Wri … Wikipedia
Proto-Germanic language — Proto Germanic Spoken in Northern Europe Extinct evolved into Proto Norse, Gothic, Frankish and Ingvaeonic by the 4th century Language family Indo European … Wikipedia
Proto-language — *A proto language is a language which was the common ancestor of related languages that form a language family. *In historical linguistics, a synonymous term proposed language [redirected here] is a language for which no direct evidence exists,… … Wikipedia
Baenan language — Infobox Language name = Baenan states = Brazil region = Bahia speakers = ? iso2 = sai familycolor = American fam1 = Language isolate?Baenan is a poorly attested language of Brazil. The last remaining speaker lived in Bahia, Brazil in 1940. The… … Wikipedia
