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Languages of the World
Human language is the structured system of communication that people use to share thoughts, knowledge, and culture. Thousands of distinct languages are spoken across the world, and scholars classify most of them into language families that descend from common ancestral tongues. The Indo-European family, for example, includes English, German, French, Greek, and Latin, along with many others, which is why these languages share certain words and grammatical features.
Languages differ in their sounds, vocabulary, writing systems, and grammar. Some, such as English, rely heavily on word order and small function words to convey meaning, while others, such as Latin, use elaborate inflections that change the form of words to mark their role in a sentence. Pronunciation also varies widely, and pronunciation guides help learners produce sounds that may not exist in their native language. Writing systems range from alphabets to scripts that represent syllables or whole words.
The study of languages, known as linguistics, examines how languages are structured, how they change over time, and how they relate to one another. Learning a second language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation, and it offers access to other cultures and bodies of knowledge. Resources for learners include grammars, dictionaries, pronunciation guides, and graded lessons for major languages such as Dutch, French, English, German, Greek, and Latin.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a language family?
- A language family is a group of languages descended from a single ancestral language, such as the Indo-European family that includes English, French and Latin.
- Why do some European languages resemble each other?
- Many share a common ancestor, so they have inherited similar vocabulary, grammar and structures over thousands of years of development.
- What does linguistics study?
- Linguistics is the scientific study of language, including its sounds, grammar, meaning, history and the relationships between languages.
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overview
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Alphabet
The history of the alphabet |
| Alphabets of Europe
a source of linguistic data for the indigenous languages of Europe. The use of
the term indigenous (or autochthonous) indicates that this report
covers the languages native to the European geographical area. “Nativeness” is
to be understood in an academic linguistic sense |
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Alphabets
Alphabets of the world, An alphabetical index of all the writing systems and
languges featured on this site |
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Animated Chinese
Characters |
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Arabic Alphabet
Arabic Alphabet |
| BBC
- languages to learn, French, Spanish, German and Italian online |
| Behind
the name the etymology and history of first names |
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Clip
art collection for foreign/second language instruction collection of clip
art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors.
Drawings are designed to be culturally and linguistically neutral as much as
possible |
| Ethnologue: languages of the
world contains descriptions of all the languages spoken in a country,
164 language maps, 6809 language descriptions, a searchable database of
language resources |
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Etymology Etymology is the study of the history of words |
| European minority languages |
| Fonetiks
an online language laboratory: complete pronunciation guides with native
speaker sounds and accents, British English, American English, Spanish,
Italian, French, French Canadian, German, Thai, Indonesian, prononciation |
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Phrase
Finder The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and
idioms |
| Goethe
tests multilingual vocabulary exercises / language tests in Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French,
German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish
and much more, a
tip |
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Handwriting for kids |
| Hieroglyphs!
a guide and web directory to Egyptian hieroglyphs a
tip |
| History of Indo-European Languages
migrations and cultural diffusion carried the Indo-European protolanguage from
the homeland, which the authors place in the Transcaucasus, and fragmented it
into dialects. Some spread west to Anatolia and Greece, others southwest to
Iran and India |
| Indo
European languages Greek, Sanskrit, and closely related languages |
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Language database language database of more than 1300 languages |
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Language identifier this program will attempt to identify automatically the
language of a sentence, phrase, or word of your choosing |
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Language identifier English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch,
Afrikaans, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Portuguese, Icelandic, and Latin |
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Language identifier
language identifier is a utility which can guess the language of a short
sentence |
| Languages with more than 30,000,000
speakers as of 1993
of the 40 languages listed, no less than 18 are spoken in India (including
Pakistan and Bangladesh) or China |
| Numbers
from 1 to 10 in over 4500 languages |
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Phrase and word origins |
| Pronunciation of
ancient Egyptian |
| Roadmaps to
Unicode proportional maps of actual and proposed allocations to Unicode and
ISO/IEC 10646 |
| Russian
Alphabet |
| Sign
Language Alphabets from all over the world |
| Sounds of the
world's animals animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. English and French cows sound the
same, but not in English and French! Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals |
| Verbix
Verbix is linguistic software that conjugates verbs in 50+ modern and extinct languages : French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Dutch
and many more. It is designed to
be a reference for foreign languages students, a tip |
| Word
origins etymology is the study of word origins. It is not the study of
insects; that is entomology. Where words come from is a fascinating subject,
full of folklore and historical lessons |
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World
Wide Words More than 1600 pages on the origins, history, evolution and
idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide |
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Writing Systems of the World
The Explore! Linguistics site is devoted to introducing the study of language
and linguistics to high school students and others who may be interested |
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