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Maya script — Maya Type Logographic (used both logograms and syllabic characters) Languages Mayan languages Time period 3rd century BCE to … Wikipedia
Austronesian languages — formerly Malayo Polynesian languages Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan… … Universalium
Epenthesis — In phonology, epenthesis (IPA|/əˈpɛnθəsɪs/, Ancient Greek ἐπένθεσις epenthesis, from epi on + en in + thesis putting ) is the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. Epenthesis may be divided into two types … Wikipedia
Syllabary — A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.Languages using syllabariesLanguages that… … Wikipedia
Noto Peninsula — Landsat image with high resolution data from Space Shuttle. Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. The main… … Wikipedia
Arabic language — Arabic redirects here. For other uses, see Arabic (disambiguation). For the literary standard, see Modern Standard Arabic. For vernaculars, see varieties of Arabic. For others, see Arabic languages. Arabic العربية/عربي/عربى al ʿarabiyyah/ʿarabī … Wikipedia
BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon … Encyclopedia of Judaism
NATO phonetic alphabet — Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet. FAA radiotelephony alphabet and Morse code chart The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the NATO spelling alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or spelling alphabet, the… … Wikipedia
Dravidian languages — Family of 23 languages indigenous to and spoken principally in South Asia by more than 210 million people. The four major Dravidian languages of southern India Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam have independent scripts and long documented… … Universalium
prosody — prosodic /preuh sod ik/, prosodical, adj. /pros euh dee/, n. 1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton s prosody. 3. Ling. the stress and intonation… … Universalium
