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- Language [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Language (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- What is language? [r]: The definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. [e]
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- Alphabet [r]: Writing system in which symbols - single or multiple letters, such as <a> or <ch> - represent phonemes (significant 'sounds') of a language. [e]
- American English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United States of America; widely used around the world. [e]
- British English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United Kingdom; widely used around the world, especially in current and former countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. [e]
- Canadian English [r]: Any of the dialects of English, standard or not, that are used in Canada. [e]
- Descriptive linguistics [r]: The work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. [e]
- English grammar [r]: The body of rules describing the properties of the English language. [e]
- Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. [e]
- Japanese language [r]: (日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide. [e]
- Korean language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). [e]
- Received Pronunciation [r]: British English accent that developed in educational institutions in the nineteenth century and is associated with the wealthy and powerful in the United Kingdom, rather than a geographic region, and which few British people actually use; 'refined' RP, even rarer, is colloquially referred to as 'posh'. [e]
- Romansh language [r]: Romance language spoken in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland; one of the official languages of the country, with about 35,000 speakers. [e]
- Washington Post [r]: A daily newspaper in Washington, D.C. with a slight to moderate liberal bias; first published details of the Watergate scandal. [e]
- Writing [r]: The process of recording thoughts or speech in a visually or haptically retrievable manner. [e]
- Logic [r]: The study of the standards and practices of correct argumentation. [e]
- Wikipedia [r]: An online encyclopedia in every major language, open to anonymous editing by anyone. [e]
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler [r]: (1931- ), German historian of the 19th and 20th centuries, and founder of the "Bielefeld School" of Social history. [e]
- Applied statistics [r]: the practice of collecting and interpreting numerical observations for the purpose of generating information. [e]