• A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated...
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    about 28% of Modern English vocabulary, and from Latin, which also provides about 28%. Thus, although most of its total vocabulary now comes from Romance languages...
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    Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words...
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    century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese...
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  • 11 February 2015, kiasu was chosen as OED's Word of the Day. Singlish vocabulary formally takes after British English (in terms of spelling and abbreviations)...
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    developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen, but these minor differences can be found in any of the Korean...
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  • the judicious use of lexical affixes (prefixes and suffixes), the core vocabulary needed for communication was greatly reduced, making Esperanto a more...
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    Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with significant ancient...
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    Reading (redirect from Sight vocabulary)
    recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Other types of reading and writing...
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    particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and a similar word order. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic; it incorporates slightly more Romance loans than German...
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  • Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and other languages. Around three-quarters of the vocabulary in the standard academic dictionaries of Bulgarian consist of native lexical...
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    registers of V2 word order, a large percentage of the vocabulary (now at around 15% of modern French vocabulary) including the impersonal singular pronoun on...
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    language, Spanish is a descendant of Latin. Around 75% of modern Spanish vocabulary is derived from Latin, including Latin borrowings from Ancient Greek....
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  • Estonian vocabulary, i.e., the vocabulary of the Estonian language, was influenced by many other language groups. The heaviest external contribution, nearly...
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  • A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's...
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  • Iyaric (redirect from Rastafari vocabulary)
    lost. In defiance, the Rastafari movement created a modified English vocabulary and dialect, with the aim of liberating their language from its history...
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  • Vocabulary learning is the process acquiring building blocks in second language acquisition Restrepo Ramos (2015). The impact of vocabulary on proficiency...
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  • Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties...
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    Urdu (section Vocabulary)
    language; Urdu and Hindi share a common Sanskrit- and Prakrit-derived vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually intelligible...
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  • elements for the description of ontologies. It uses various forms of RDF vocabularies, intended to structure RDF resources. RDF and RDFS can be saved in a...
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    American English regional vocabulary Grinder, hero, hoagie, or sub? Gym shoe, sneaker, or tennis shoe? Regional vocabulary within American English varies...
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  • Sino-Korean vocabulary or Hanja-eo (Korean: 한자어; Hanja: 漢字語) refers to Korean words of Chinese origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed...
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    languages. It also exerted some influence on Arabic, while borrowing a lot of vocabulary from it in the Middle Ages. Some of the world's most famous pieces of...
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  • Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval. They are used in subject indexing schemes, subject headings, thesauri...
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    Twitchers' vocabulary is the set of jargon words used by twitchers (committed birdwatchers who travel long distances to see a new species to add a species...
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    Most of the Portuguese vocabulary comes from Latin because Portuguese is a Romance language. However, other languages that came into contact with it have...
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  • Gaga is a movement language and pedagogy developed by Batsheva Dance Company director and teacher Ohad Naharin. Used in some Israeli contemporary dance...
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  • 1501/Tarar_0000000247. Chadwick, John; Baumbach, Lydia (1963). "The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary". Glotta. 41 (3/4): 157–271. JSTOR 40265918. Lewis & Short Monier Williams...
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    modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifiers. Its vocabulary has had significant influence from Middle Chinese and loanwords from French...
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  • Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced [kaŋɡo], "Han words"), is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese...
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