Historical languages (also known as historic languages) are languages that were spoken in a historical period, but that are distinct from their modern...

Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature...

(also called Arpitan) is a language sometimes considered to be halfway between the langue d'oïl (the historical language of northern France and ancestor...

the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to...

Universal language may refer to a hypothetical or historical language spoken and understood by all or most of the world's people. In some contexts, it...

belong to the larger category of Gallo-Romance languages, which also include the historical languages of east-central France and western Switzerland,...

and Germanic Europe, and historically being split between different principalities, the nation has multiple official languages. The Kingdom of Belgium...

which is the vernacular language. Literary Arabic is the official language and the most widely written. The Coptic language is used primarily by Egyptian...

language may refer to: Nepali language, or Gorkhali, the official language of modern Nepal Newari language, or Nepal Bhasa, the historical language of...

historical language and have many basic grammatical mistakes. Anglo-Saxon England portal Anglish Exeter Book Go (verb) History of the Scots language I-mutation...

Zealand, it is the dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitly defined by law. It is a co-official language of the United Nations, the...

related languages from a common ancestor is directly attested in the historical record. For example, this is the case for the Romance language family,...

Historical glottometry is a method used in historical linguistics. It is a quantitative, non-cladistic approach to language subgrouping. The aim of historical...

programming languages. Formerly named Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019. Raku introduces elements of many modern and historical languages. Compatibility...

the total number of phonemes the language contains. Determining the exact course of sound change in historical languages can pose difficulties, since the...

classical Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language. Spoken by about 96 million...

and areas of southern India. Historically, Indo-European languages were also spoken in Anatolia. Some European languages of this family—English, French...

The term historical Jesus refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally...

and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed...

language variety" due to its lack of official status. Asturian is the historical language of Asturias, portions of the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora...

but also the historical development of their forms and meanings. It may also describe the vocabulary of an earlier stage of a language's development without...

describing the structure of a language at a specific point in time) or diachronically (through the historical development of a language over a period of time)...

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is...

Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. This is not the same as historical...

as well as a few other phenomena, a few historical linguists prefer to reconstruct PIE as a tone language where each morpheme had an inherent tone;...

(1978), "Standard Language and Socio-Historical Parameters: Standard Lankan Tamil", International Journal of the Sociology of Language (16), doi:10.1515/ijsl...

"Jalaa - An almost forgotten language of NE Nigeria: A language isolate". In Nurse, Derek (ed.). Historical Language Contact in Africa. SUGIA Sprache...

derivation within a language in studies that are not concerned with historical linguistics and that do not cross the language barrier. Language portal Linguistics...

partition of India and Pakistan. Historically, Buddhists in Leh have referred to all Muslims in Ladakh as Balti. The Balti language has four variants or dialects...

The main language of the Isle of Man is English, predominantly the Manx English dialect. Manx, the historical language of the island, is still maintained...