toward the addressee. The distinction occurs in a number of the world's languages. Modern Afrikaans rarely makes the distinction between the informal...

The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Its name...

basically it is a SVO language. It has a T–V distinction: the use of the V-form demonstrates a respectful attitude towards superiors and the elderly, while it...

The analytic–synthetic distinction is a semantic distinction used primarily in philosophy to distinguish between propositions (in particular, statements...

list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia. Nasal palatal approximant...

no noun classes or grammatical gender. The language makes usage of honorifics and has a strong T–V distinction which distinguishes varying levels of politeness...

example in the Indic languages. This may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified and the distinction between plosive...

The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...

national languages of their respective countries of origin. There are more than 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the...

consonants are vowels. Since the number of speech sounds in the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists...

others. T-54s and T-55s have been involved in many of the world's armed conflicts since their introduction in the second half of the 20th century. The T-54/55...

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe,...

Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and...

Papers in Phonetics. Vol. 79. Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6. v t e...

that allows the user to choose a shutter speed Teravolt, a multiple of the SI-derived unit of electrical potential, the Volt T–V distinction, a contrast...

East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. It was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet...

standard English language, it is found in many languages around the world. The first published description of the inclusive-exclusive distinction by a European...

The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

as the sixth most-spoken among languages of the European Union. Polish is subdivided into regional dialects and maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns...

Regional indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers...

perhaps the smallest modern alphabet. The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world's smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has...

In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an idea of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892...

Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely...

Latin characters. Languages of the Indo-European family are classified as either centum languages or satem languages according to how the dorsal consonants...

works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words...

Aramaic) The Ethnologue classification is based on Hetzron, Robert. 1987. "Semitic Languages," The World's Major Languages (Oxford, pp. 654–663). The older...

users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community. A translator...

languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Precise estimates depend on an arbitrary distinction (dichotomy) established between languages and dialects...

the world. Some languages, such as the Iwaidja and Ilgar languages of Australia, have lateral flaps, and others, such as the Xhosa and Zulu languages...

than /f/ in most languages.[citation needed] This helps differentiate what would otherwise be a very subtle distinction. In English, use of the terms "fortis"...