Modern Language Notes (MLN) is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1886 at the Johns Hopkins University, with the intention of introducing...

Defense. Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean, which in turn descends from Old Korean, which descends from the Proto-Koreanic language, which is...

Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no) is preserved in words such as matsuge...

then the rise of the printing press and of early modern schooling. Latin was learnt as a spoken language as well as written, as the vehicle of schooling...

The Modern South Arabian languages, also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting...

a derivative of the Cyrillic script. Modern Persian is a continuation of Middle Persian, an official language of the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE), itself...

nations that had multiple indigenous languages opted to continue using Modern English as the official language to avoid the political difficulties inherent...

variants, and the modern Ukrainian language developed in the territory of present-day Ukraine. Russification saw the Ukrainian language banned as a subject...

basis for the modern Turkish language. While visiting the region between Adıyaman and Adana, Evliya Çelebi recorded the "Turkman language" and compared...

the "Microsoft design language" title became official, Microsoft executive Qi Lu referred to it as the modern UI design language in his MIXX conference...

referred to as Surayt (Turoyo: ܣܘܪܝܬ), or modern Suryoyo (Turoyo: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ), is a Central Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by the Syriac Christian...

the preceding Shauraseni language, a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is also the ancestor of other modern Indo-Aryan languages. In the Delhi region of...

the attested history of the language into three periods: Old Tamil (300 BCE–700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present). About 60...

"An Additional Source for Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'" from Modern Language Notes, Vol. 48, No. 6 (Jun., 1933), p. 349 Murtuza, Athar. "An Arabian...

of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the Kingdom of Castile, in the 13th century. Spanish colonialism in the early modern period spurred...

the Oghuz language was the simplest among all Turkic languages. Swedish turcologist and linguist Lars Johanson notes that Oghuz languages form a clearly...

original on 2 February 2013. Manning, Eugene W. (1892). "Romance Languages". Modern Language Notes. 7 (5): 158. doi:10.2307/2918378. JSTOR 2918378. Retrieved...

classical languages have subsequently entered the language as well. Modern Bulgarian was based essentially on the Eastern dialects of the language, but its...

Hindi is also one of Fiji's three official languages. Apart from the script and formal vocabulary, Modern Standard Hindi is mutually intelligible with...

languages native to a country as their first language and colloquial Arabic dialects as their second language. Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people...

ISSN 0167-7373. Sapir, Edward (1925), "Review: Les Langues du Monde", Modern Language Notes, 40 (6): 373–375, doi:10.2307/2914102, JSTOR 2914102. Shafer, Robert...

Empire, and also as a language of divine worship and religious study within Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism. Several modern varieties of Aramaic...

influence of these languages on the vocabulary and grammar of Modern English is widely acknowledged, most specialists in language contact do not consider...

Hebrew language experienced a full-scale revival as a spoken and literary language. The creation of a modern version of the ancient language was led...

Scott, Fred Newton (December 1915). "Vowel Alliteration in Modern Poetry". Modern Language Notes. 30 (8): 233. doi:10.2307/2915831. ISSN 0149-6611. Jakobson...

Germanic languages, with its closest relatives being Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English...

Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil...

Monde", Modern Language Notes, 40 (6): 373–375, doi:10.2307/2914102, JSTOR 2914102. Shafer, Robert (1955), "Classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages", Word...

ISBN 9780816032969. Krauss, Russell (1932). "Notes on Thomas, Geoffrey, and Philippa Chaucer". Modern Language Notes. 47 (6): 351–360. doi:10.2307/2913189....

considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. Similarly, Chinese...