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Language is the term used to refer to a structured communication system based on speech, gesture, writing, and sign. The structure and free components of a language are grammar and vocabulary, respectively. Languages generally include writing systems that enable sounds or signs to be recorded for later reactivation. Human language is unique among systems of animal communication in that it does not depend on a single means of transmission, is highly variable among cultures and across time, and affords a much wider range of expression than other systems. Language also refers to the cognitive ability to learn and use such a communication system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.

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= Language (quota: 1,180 articles) =

General (quota: 430 articles)

 * 1)  Language
 * 2)  Origin of language
 * 3)  Artificial language
 * 4)  First language
 * 5)  Constructed language
 * 6)  Cultural emphasis
 * 7)  Escagraph
 * 8)  Fluency
 * 9)  Intensifier
 * 10)  Interpretive discussion
 * 11)  Language complexity
 * 12)  Language game
 * 13)  Language preservation
 * 14)  Lingua franca
 * 15)  Literacy
 * 16)  Reading
 * 17)  Metafunction
 * 18)  Natural language
 * 19)   Philology
 * 20)  Pidgin
 * 21)  Pronunciation
 * 22)  Second language
 * 23)  Speech
 * 24)  Origin of speech
 * 25)  Speech processing
 * 26)  Standard language
 * 27)  Translation
 * 28)  Language interpretation
 * 29)  Visual language
 * 30)  World language
 * 31)  Writing
 * 32)    Alphabet
 * 33)  Diacritic
 * 34)  Letter
 * 35)  Orthography
 * 36)  Syllabary
 * 37)  Transliteration
 * 38)  Writing system

Language acquisition (13 articles)

 * 1)  Language acquisition
 * 2)   Babbling
 * 3)   Cluttering
 * 4)  Crib talk
 * 5)  Extensive reading
 * 6)  Input hypothesis
 * 7)  Interlanguage
 * 8)  Language development
 * 9)  Phonological development
 * 10)  Second-language acquisition
 * 11)  Sequential bilingualism
 * 12)  Speech repetition
 * 13)  Vocabulary development

Grammar (49 articles)

 * 1)  Grammar
 * 2)  Syntax
 * 3)  Theta role
 * 4)  Sentence
 * 5)  Clause
 * 6)  Phrase
 * 7)   Proverb
 * 8)  Idiom
 * 9)  Affirmation and negation
 * 10)  Comparison
 * 11)  Comparative
 * 12)  Declension
 * 13)  Description
 * 14)  Determiner
 * 15)  Final clause
 * 16)  Formal grammar
 * 17)  Function word
 * 18)  Grammatical aspect
 * 19)  Grammatical case
 * 20)  Grammatical category
 * 21)  Grammatical conjugation
 * 22)  Grammatical mood
 * 23)  Grammatical number
 * 24)  Grammatical tense
 * 25)  Inflection
 * 26)  Nominalization
 * 27)  Possessive
 * 28)  Punctuation
 * 29)  Apostrophe
 * 30)  Bracket
 * 31)  Colon
 * 32)  Comma
 * 33)  Serial comma
 * 34)  Dash
 * 35)  Ellipsis
 * 36)  Exclamation mark
 * 37)  Full stop
 * 38)  Guillemet
 * 39)  Hyphen
 * 40)  Question mark
 * 41)  Quotation mark
 * 42)  Semicolon
 * 43)  Interpunct
 * 44)  Slash
 * 45)  Backslash
 * 46)  Space
 * 47)  Reduplication
 * 48)  Speech act
 * 49)  Systemic functional linguistics

Spelling (8 articles)

 * 1)  Spelling
 * 2)  Cacography
 * 3)  Official script
 * 4)  Phonemic orthography
 * 5)  Silent letter
 * 6)  Spelling pronunciation
 * 7)  Spelling reform
 * 8)  Typographical error

Linguistics (72 articles)

 * 1)  Linguistics
 * 2)  Lexicology
 * 3)  Linguistic typology

Applied linguistics (8 articles)

 * 1)  Applied linguistics
 * 2)  Computational linguistics
 * 3)  Contrastive linguistics
 * 4)  Evolutionary linguistics
 * 5)  Forensic linguistics
 * 6)   Internet linguistics
 * 7)  Neurolinguistics
 * 8)  Psycholinguistics

Descriptive linguistics (29 articles)

 * 1)  Anthropological linguistics
 * 2)  Comparative linguistics
 * 3)  Graphetics
 * 4)  Historical linguistics
 * 5)  Etymology
 * 6)  Language change
 * 7)  Semantic change
 * 8)  Sound change
 * 9)  Grimm's law
 * 10)  Phonological change
 * 11)  Syntactic change
 * 12)  Linguistic description
 * 13)  Phonetics
 * 14)  Consonant
 * 15)  Rhotic consonant
 * 16)   International Phonetic Alphabet
 * 17)  Prosody
 * 18)   Vowel
 * 19)  Schwa
 * 20)  Sociolinguistics
 * 21)  Accent
 * 22)  Code-switching
 * 23)  Dialect
 * 24)  Diglossia
 * 25)  Endangered language
 * 26)  Language death
 * 27)  Multilingualism
 * 28)  Bilingual education
 * 29)  Slang

Theoretical linguistics (32 articles)

 * 1)  Theoretical linguistics
 * 2)  Cognitive linguistics
 * 3)  Functional linguistics
 * 4)  Generative grammar
 * 5)  Lexis
 * 6)  Graphemics
 * 7)  Morphology
 * 8)  Abbreviation
 * 9)  Acronym
 * 10)  Contraction
 * 11)  Hypocorism
 * 12)  Morpheme
 * 13)  Morphophonology
 * 14)  Phonology
 * 15)  Phoneme
 * 16)  Syllable
 * 17)  Quantitative linguistics
 * 18)  Semantics
 * 19)  Euphemism
 * 20)  Profanity
 * 21)  Reference
 * 22)  Semiotics
 * 23)  Pragmatics
 * 24)  Sign
 * 25)  Symbol
 * 26)  Ideogram
 * 27)  Pictogram
 * 28)  Emoticon
 * 29)  Emoji
 * 30)  Heart symbol
 * 31)  Human skull symbolism
 * 32)  Smiley

Vocabulary (18 articles)

 * 1)  Vocabulary
 * 2)  Word
 * 3)  Part of speech
 * 4)  Noun
 * 5)  Name
 * 6)  Middle name
 * 7)  Nickname
 * 8)  Personal name
 * 9)  Surname
 * 10)  Proper noun and common noun
 * 11)  Verb
 * 12)  Adjective
 * 13)  Article
 * 14)  Adverb
 * 15)  Conjunction
 * 16)  Interjection
 * 17)  Pronoun
 * 18)  Preposition and postposition

Sound change and alternation (10 articles)

 * 1)  Alternation
 * 2)  Assimilation
 * 3)  Dissimilation
 * 4)  Elision
 * 5)  Epenthesis
 * 6)  Fortition
 * 7)  Lenition
 * 8)  Metathesis
 * 9)  Sandhi
 * 10)  Transphonologization

Language families (quota: 80 articles)

 * 1)  Language family
 * 2)  Afroasiatic languages
 * 3)  Semitic languages
 * 4)  Algic languages
 * 5)  Altaic languages
 * 6)  Austroasiatic languages
 * 7)  Austronesian languages
 * 8)  Oceanic languages
 * 9)  Polynesian languages
 * 10)  Creole language
 * 11)  Dravidian languages
 * 12)  Eskimo–Aleut languages
 * 13)   Indo-European languages
 * 14)  Celtic languages
 * 15)  Indo-Aryan languages
 * 16)  Romance languages
 * 17)  Germanic languages
 * 18)  Frisian languages
 * 19)  North Germanic languages
 * 20)  Iranian languages
 * 21)  Slavic languages
 * 22)  Japonic languages
 * 23)  Kartvelian languages
 * 24)  Khoisan languages
 * 25)  Koreanic languages
 * 26)  Kra–Dai languages
 * 27)  Language isolate
 * 28)  Niger–Congo languages
 * 29)  Bantu languages
 * 30)  Nilo-Saharan languages
 * 31)  Mayan languages
 * 32)  North Caucasian languages
 * 33)  Quechuan languages
 * 34)  Sign language
 * 35)  Sino-Tibetan languages
 * 36)  Trans–New Guinea languages
 * 37)  Tungusic languages
 * 38)  Turkic languages
 * 39)  Uralic languages
 * 40)  Uto-Aztecan languages

Alphabets and writing systems (quota: 100 articles)

 * 1)  Braille
 * 2)  Arabic script
 * 3)  Arabic alphabet
 * 4)  Persian alphabet
 * 5)  Brahmic scripts
 * 6)  Chinese characters
 * 7)  Simplified Chinese characters
 * 8)  Traditional Chinese characters
 * 9)  Cuneiform
 * 10)  Cyrillic script
 * 11)  Cyrillic alphabets
 * 12)  Devanagari
 * 13)  Egyptian hieroglyphs
 * 14)  Georgian scripts
 * 15)    Greek alphabet
 * 16)   Hangul
 * 17)  Hebrew alphabet
 * 18)  Indus script
 * 19)  Japanese writing system
 * 20)  Hiragana
 * 21)  Kanji
 * 22)  Katakana
 * 23)  Latin script
 * 24)   Latin alphabet
 * 25)  Linear A
 * 26)  Linear B
 * 27)  Maya script
 * 28)  Mongolian script
 * 29)   Morse code
 * 30)  Phoenician alphabet
 * 31)  Rosetta Stone
 * 32)  Romanization
 * 33)  Romanization of Arabic
 * 34)   Romanization of Chinese
 * 35)   Pinyin
 * 36)  Romanization of Japanese
 * 37)  Runes
 * 38)  Thai script
 * 39)  Tibetan script

General (17 articles)

 * 1)  Abkhaz language
 * 2)  Avar language
 * 3)  Aymara language
 * 4)  Chechen language
 * 5)  Cherokee language
 * 6)  Cree language
 * 7)  Georgian language
 * 8)   Greenlandic language
 * 9)  Guarani language
 * 10)  Hmong language
 * 11)  Inuktitut
 * 12)  Inupiaq language
 * 13)  Kanuri language
 * 14)  Mongolian language
 * 15)  Nahuatl
 * 16)   Navajo language
 * 17)  Ojibwe language

Afroasiatic languages (24 articles)

 * 1)  Afar language
 * 2)  Akkadian language
 * 3)  Amharic
 * 4)  Arabic
 * 5)  Classical Arabic
 * 6)  Egyptian Arabic
 * 7)  Levantine Arabic
 * 8)  Maghrebi Arabic
 * 9)  Modern Standard Arabic
 * 10)  Moroccan Arabic
 * 11)  Peninsular Arabic
 * 12)  Maltese language
 * 13)   Tunisian Arabic
 * 14)  Aramaic
 * 15)  Syriac language
 * 16)   Berber languages
 * 17)  Egyptian language
 * 18)  Coptic language
 * 19)   Hebrew language
 * 20)  Modern Hebrew
 * 21)  Hausa language
 * 22)  Oromo language
 * 23)  Somali language
 * 24)  Tigrinya language

Austronesian languages (22 articles)

 * 1)  Cebuano language
 * 2)  Chamorro language
 * 3)  Fijian language
 * 4)  Gilbertese language
 * 5)  Hawaiian language
 * 6)  Hiri Motu
 * 7)  Indonesian language
 * 8)  Javanese language
 * 9)  Madurese language
 * 10)  Malagasy language
 * 11)  Malay language
 * 12)  Māori language
 * 13)  Marshallese language
 * 14)  Nauruan language
 * 15)  Samoan language
 * 16)  Sundanese language
 * 17)   Tagalog language
 * 18)  Filipino language
 * 19)  Tahitian language
 * 20)  Tolai language
 * 21)  Tongan language
 * 22)  Tuvaluan language

Austro-Asiatic languages (2 articles)

 * 1)  Khmer language
 * 2)  Vietnamese language

Constructed languages (9 articles)

 * 1)   Esperanto
 * 2)  Ido
 * 3)   Interlingua
 * 4)  Interlingue
 * 5)  Interslavic language
 * 6)  Klingon language
 * 7)  Lojban
 * 8)  Toki Pona
 * 9)  Volapük

Creole languages (6 articles)

 * 1)  Bislama
 * 2)  Chavacano
 * 3)  Haitian Creole
 * 4)  Jamaican Patois
 * 5)  Sango language
 * 6)  Tok Pisin

Dravidian languages (4 articles)

 * 1)  Kannada
 * 2)  Malayalam
 * 3)  Tamil language
 * 4)  Telugu language

General (5 articles)

 * 1)  Albanian language
 * 2)  Armenian language
 * 3)  Greek language
 * 4)  Ancient Greek
 * 5)  Hittite language

Celtic languages (6 articles)

 * 1)  Breton language
 * 2)  Cornish language
 * 3)  Irish language
 * 4)  Manx language
 * 5)  Scottish Gaelic
 * 6)  Welsh language

Indo-Aryan languages (18 articles)

 * 1)  Assamese language
 * 2)   Bengali language
 * 3)  Bihari languages
 * 4)  Bhojpuri language
 * 5)  Gujarati language
 * 6)  Hindustani language
 * 7)   Hindi
 * 8)  Urdu
 * 9)  Kashmiri language
 * 10)  Maldivian language
 * 11)  Marathi language
 * 12)  Nepali language
 * 13)  Odia language
 * 14)  Pali
 * 15)    Sanskrit
 * 16)  Sindhi language
 * 17)  Sinhala language
 * 18)  Punjabi language

Romance languages (24 articles)

 * 1)   Aragonese language
 * 2)  Catalan language
 * 3)  Corsican language
 * 4)  French language
 * 5)  Middle French
 * 6)  Old French
 * 7)  Quebec French
 * 8)  Standard French
 * 9)  Galician language
 * 10)  Italian language
 * 11)  Regional Italian
 * 12)    Latin
 * 13)  Classical Latin
 * 14)  Latin grammar
 * 15)  Medieval Latin
 * 16)   Vulgar Latin
 * 17)  Occitan language
 * 18)   Portuguese language
 * 19)   Romanian language
 * 20)  Moldovan language
 * 21)   Romansh language
 * 22)  Sardinian language
 * 23)  Spanish language
 * 24)  Walloon language

Germanic languages (33 articles)

 * 1)  Afrikaans
 * 2)  Danish language
 * 3)  Dutch language
 * 4)  English language
 * 5)  Basic English
 * 6)   Old English
 * 7)  Middle English
 * 8)  Early Modern English
 * 9)  Modern English
 * 10)   American English
 * 11)  African-American Vernacular English
 * 12)  Australian English
 * 13)  British English
 * 14)  Canadian English
 * 15)  Indian English
 * 16)  South African English
 * 17)   Scots language
 * 18)  Faroese language
 * 19)   German language
 * 20)  High German languages
 * 21)  Pennsylvania German language
 * 22)  Swiss German
 * 23)  Low German
 * 24)  Gothic language
 * 25)  Icelandic language
 * 26)  Limburgish
 * 27)  Luxembourgish
 * 28)  Norwegian language
 * 29)  Bokmål
 * 30)  Nynorsk
 * 31)   Swedish language
 * 32)  West Frisian language
 * 33)  Yiddish

Iranian languages (6 articles)

 * 1)  Avestan
 * 2)  Kurdish languages
 * 3)  Ossetian language
 * 4)  Pashto
 * 5)  Persian language
 * 6)  Tajik language

Baltic languages (2 articles)

 * 1)  Latvian language
 * 2)  Lithuanian language

Slavic languages (14 articles)

 * 1)  Belarusian language
 * 2)  Bulgarian language
 * 3)  Czech language
 * 4)  Macedonian language
 * 5)  Old Church Slavonic
 * 6)  Polish language
 * 7)   Russian language
 * 8)  Serbo-Croatian
 * 9)  Bosnian language
 * 10)  Croatian language
 * 11)  Serbian language
 * 12)  Slovak language
 * 13)  Slovene language
 * 14)   Ukrainian language

Japonic languages (3 articles)

 * 1)  Hachijō language
 * 2)  Japanese language
 * 3)  Ryukyuan languages

Koreanic languages (2 articles)

 * 1)  Korean language
 * 2)  Jeju language

Kra–Dai languages (3 articles)

 * 1)  Lao language
 * 2)  Thai language
 * 3)  Zhuang languages

Language isolates (3 articles)

 * 1)  Basque language
 * 2)  Elamite language
 * 3)  Sumerian language

Niger–Congo languages (32 articles)

 * 1)  Akan language
 * 2)  Bambara language
 * 3)  Chewa language
 * 4)  Ewe language
 * 5)  Fula language
 * 6)  Igbo language
 * 7)  Kikuyu language
 * 8)  Kongo language
 * 9)  Lingala
 * 10)  Luba-Katanga language
 * 11)  Luganda
 * 12)  Herero language
 * 13)  Kinyarwanda
 * 14)  Kirundi
 * 15)  Mossi language
 * 16)  Northern Ndebele language
 * 17)  Ovambo language
 * 18)  Ndonga dialect
 * 19)  Kwanyama dialect
 * 20)  Shona language
 * 21)  Sotho language
 * 22)  Southern Ndebele language
 * 23)  Swahili language
 * 24)  Swazi language
 * 25)  Tsonga language
 * 26)  Tswana language
 * 27)  Twi
 * 28)  Venda language
 * 29)  Wolof language
 * 30)  Xhosa language
 * 31)  Yoruba language
 * 32)  Zulu language

Sign language (1 article)

 * 1)  American Sign Language

Sino-Tibetan languages (20 articles)

 * 1)  Burmese language
 * 2)  Chinese language
 * 3)  Classical Chinese
 * 4)  Gan Chinese
 * 5)  Hakka Chinese
 * 6)  Huizhou Chinese
 * 7)   Mandarin Chinese
 * 8)  Min Chinese
 * 9)  Fuzhou dialect
 * 10)  Southern Min
 * 11)   Taiwanese Hokkien
 * 12)  Wu Chinese
 * 13)  Shanghainese
 * 14)  Suzhou dialect
 * 15)  Xiang Chinese
 * 16)  Yue Chinese
 * 17)  Cantonese
 * 18)  Dzongkha
 * 19)  Nuosu language
 * 20)  Standard Tibetan

Turkic languages (11 articles)

 * 1)  Azerbaijani language
 * 2)  Bashkir language
 * 3)  Chuvash language
 * 4)  Kazakh language
 * 5)  Kyrgyz language
 * 6)  Tatar language
 * 7)    Turkish language
 * 8)  Turkmen language
 * 9)  Tuvan language
 * 10)  Uyghur language
 * 11)  Uzbek language

Uralic languages (5 articles)

 * 1)  Estonian language
 * 2)  Finnish language
 * 3)  Hungarian language
 * 4)  Komi language
 * 5)  Northern Sami

The English language (quota: 30 articles)

 * 1)  English alphabet
 * 2)  English Braille
 * 3)  English grammar
 * 4)  English clause syntax
 * 5)  English personal pronouns
 * 6)  English verbs
 * 7)  English orthography
 * 8)  English phonology
 * 9)  Phonological history of English
 * 10)  Great Vowel Shift
 * 11)  Rhoticity in English
 * 12)  History of English
 * 13)  Rhyming slang
 * 14)  Received Pronunciation