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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet...

Chamorro (English: /tʃəˈmɒroʊ/; Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering...

Silesian, occasionally called Upper Silesian, is an ethnolect of the Lechitic group spoken by part of people in Upper Silesia. Its vocabulary was significantly...

Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or...

In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly...

Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

This article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. Othala...

Ocaina is an indigenous American language spoken in western South America. Ocaina belongs to the Witotoan language family. It is its own group within the...

Tsolyáni is one of several languages invented by M. A. R. Barker, developed in the mid-to-late 1940s in parallel with his legendarium leading to the world...

Teonaht /ˈteɪ.oʊnɑːθ/ is a constructed language that has been developed since 1962 by science fiction writer and University of Rochester English professor...

Leísmo ("using le") is a dialectal variation in the Spanish language that occurs largely in Spain. It involves using the indirect object pronouns le and...

Inventive spelling (sometimes invented spelling) is the use of unconventional spellings of words. Conventional written English is not phonetic (that is...

Southern Scots is the dialect (or group of dialects) of Scots spoken in the Scottish Borders counties of mid and east Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and...

Joachim Grzega (born 9 September 1971 in Treuchtlingen) is a German linguist. He studied English and French at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt...

Emmy is a feminine (sometimes also masculine) given name. Orthographic variants include Emme, Emmi and Emmie. The name is in many instances a hypocoristic...

The de Landa alphabet is the correspondence of Spanish letters and glyphs written in the pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th-century bishop of Yucatán...