Languages In the World (63 page)
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Authors: Julie Tetel Andresen,Phillip M. Carter
- Macintosh operating system
- Magyars
- major and minor languages
- majority languages
- Mali
- mammalian brain
- Mandela, Nelson
- mantras
- Mao Zedong
- MÄori
- Mapuche
- Marcos, Subcomandante
- Marido en Alquiler
- marking
- mass nouns
- Matthews, Stephen
- Mayan people
- McWhorter, John
- Melanesia
- Mendel, Gregor
- Mesoamerica
- Mesopotamia
- messenger stick
- Mexicans
- Mexico
- Coahuila y Tejas
- Constitution
- Zapatista Uprising
- Coahuila y Tejas
- Miami
- Microcephalia
gene - Microsoft Local Language Program
- Middle East
- migration
- minority languages
- promotion of
- support for
- promotion of
- Mishnah
- Miskwaasining Nagamojig
- missionaries
- mitochondrial Eve
- Modern Family
- Mongolia
- Mongolian script
- mood
- morphemes
- boundary
- inflectional
- plural
- boundary
- morphology
- agglutinative
- analytic
- fusional
- inflectional
- isolating
- polysynthetic
- see also
syntax
- agglutinative
- Morris, Simon Conway
- mosaic traits
- mouth
- movement
- mtDNA
- Muhammad
- Müller, Friedrich Max
- multilingual states
- postcolonial
- postcolonial
- multilingualism
- postcolonial
- compromise pattern
- dominant language pattern
- neutral language pattern
- compromise pattern
- Spain
- United States
- see also
bilingualism
- postcolonial
- mutual intelligibility
- Myanmar
- Nakasone Yasuhiro
- nation states
- linguistic standardization
- multilingual
- national consciousness
- linguistic standardization
- nationalism
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
- Native Americans
- natural class
- Navajo people
- navigation
- Neanderthals
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- neoliberalism
- Neolithic culture
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- neutral languages pattern
- New York City
- Nicholas I of Russia
- Nichols, Johanna
- Niger-Congo
- Niigane Ojibwemowin Immersion School
- Nikkeijin
- nomadic herding
- nominativeâaccusative languages
- Noodin, Margaret
- noosphere
- Norman Conquest
- North Africa
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- North Carolina
- North Korea
- nouns
- caste
- count
- dependent
- head
- mass
- pluralization
- caste
- Nubia
- nucleotides
- numeral classifiers
- Nüshu
- Oakland Unified School District
- Obama, Barack
- object writing
- objectâdative construction
- oblique case
- October Crisis
- OÃere
- official languages
- Okinawans
- one-drop rule
- onomastics
- onomatopoeia
- ontogeny
- opportunity
- organic conception of language
- Ossetia
- Otto the Great of Germany
- Ottoman Empire
- Paine, Thomas
- Pakistan
- palatization
- Palawa
- Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
- paper
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Paris
- Paris japonica
- Parsley Massacre
- past tense, unknown
- perfective
- peripheral languages
- Persian Empire
- Persian Gulf War
- Persian script
- personality
- Peru
- petroglyphs/petrograms
- pharynx
- phenotype
- Philippines
- philology
- wave representation
- wave representation
- phonemes
- number of and complexity
- trading
- number of and complexity
- phonetic influence
- phoneticization
- phonetics
- phonology
- phyla
- phylogeny
- Pickering, John
- pictographs
- pidgin languages
- see also
creoles
- see also
- pinyin
- Pipil
- places of articulation
- Plautus
- plurals, broken
- pogroms
- Poland
- police
- political conception of language
- political power
- Polynesia
- polysynthetic morphology
- Poplack, Shana
- Popul Vih
- Portugal
- postcolonial states
- compromise pattern
- dominant language pattern
- neutral language pattern
- see also
colonialism
- compromise pattern
- power
- power languages
- PRAAT
- pragmatics
- prescriptivism
- primates
- print capitalism
- production disorders
- prokaryotes
- promising
- pronouns
- demonstrative
- inclusive/exclusive
- personal
- demonstrative
- pronunciation
- prosody
- protolanguages
- Psychological Science
- Puerto Rican communities
- pulp fiction
- PÅ«nana Leo
- Pure Tamil movement
- purification
- Puritans
- putamen
- Putin, Vladimir
- Qing Dynasty
- quasi-states
- Quebec
- Queen's English
- Quiet Revolution
- quinceañera
- Quinhai Province
- quippa camayocuna
- Qur'an
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- race
- incoherence of term
- Japan
- incoherence of term
- radicals
- Rajee, Shankar
- Rangoon
- Reagan, Ronald
- Real Academia Española
- reality
- rebus
- received pronunciation
- reception classes
- reception disorders
- reconstruction (linguistic)
- reflexive verbs
- refugia
see
residual zones - relative frames of reference
- religion
- as nation
- see also
missionaries
- as nation
- Renfrew, Colin
- reptilian brain
- residual zones
- respiration
- retroflex consonants
- rhizome model
- rhythmic balance
- rivers
- RNA
- rock drawings
- Roman alphabet
- Roman Empire
- Roman numerals
- Romania
- romanji
- Romanov dynasty
- Romanticism
- Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal
- runes
- Russia
- Chechen conflict
- Siberian language hotspot
- see also
Soviet Union
- Chechen conflict
- Russian Academy
- Sackashvili, Mikheil
- Sagard-Théodat, Gabriel
- San Cristóbal de las Casas
- San people
- Santa Ana, Otto
- Santiago, Bill
- Sapir, Edward
- Script Encoding Initiative
- scripts
- Arabic
- Chinese
- cuneiform
- Cyrillic
- Egyptian
- Persian
- Roman
- Uyghir
- Arabic
- Scythian ploughmen
- Sears, Richard
- second-language learners
- Secret History of the Mongols, The
- Sejong
- Se-quo-ya
- Sheridan, Thomas
- Sibawayh
- Siberia
- sign languages
- SIL International
- Singapore
- Sino-Tibetans
- Sipacapa
- Sixteen Candles
- skeleton
- skin colour
- slander
- slang
- slavery
- Slavic people
- Slovakia
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- social media
- Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores, The
- socialization
- solidarity languages
- Somalia
- sound symbolism
- South Africa
- South Asia
- South Korea
- South Ossettia
- South Sudan
- Southeast Asia
- Soviet Union
- collapse
- see also
Russia
- collapse
- Spain
- see also
Catalonia
- see also
- Spanglish
- Spanish Armada
- spatial adverbs
- spatial frames of reference
- speech acts
- Sprachbund
- spread
- rhizome model
- tree models
- wave models
- rhizome model
- spread zones
- Sri Lanka
- Stalin, Josef
- standardization
- steppe society
- Stewart, Jon
- stock (language)
- subjunctive mood
- Sudan
- supercentral languages
- Sweden
- Swift, Jonathan
- Switzerland
- Sykes, Sir Mark
- SykesâPicot agreement
- syllabaries
- syllable signs
- symbolic resources
- syntax
- cross-linguistic influence
- see also
ethnosyntax; morphology
- cross-linguistic influence
- Syria
- taboo replacement
- Taco Bell
- Tahrir Square
- Taipei
- Taiwan
- tally
- Tamil Nadu
- Tamil Tigers
- Tanganyika African National Union
- Tanzania
- Tasmania
- Tejas
- Telangana
- Telemundo
- telenovela
- television
- tense
- aspect and
- markers
- past
- present
- aspect and
- Teotihuacan
- terms of address
- Texas
- texting
- Thatcher, Margaret
- Thomas, George
- Thonmi Sambhota
- Thoth
- Tibet
- Tibetan Buddhist Canon
- Timberlake, Alan
- Timor-Leste
- Tocharians
- Tofalaria
- tone languages
- tonogenesis
- Toribio, Jacqueline Almeida
- tourism
- Trail of Tears
- Treasures of the Azerbaijani Language
- Trujillo, Rafael
- Ts'ang-Chieh
- tunings
- Turkey
- Language Commission
- Language Commission
- Tuvan
- typologies
- head/dependent
- morphological
- word order
- head/dependent
- Ueda Kazutoshi
- Ukrainians
- Ulaan Batar
- Unicode Consortium
- uniformitarianism
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- see also
British Empire
- see also
- United States
- African Americans
- educational system
- immigration
- Indian Reservations
- multilingualism
- national languages
- Native Americans
- presidency
- race politics
- see also
America; California; North Carolina
- African Americans
- unknown past tense
- Uyghir script
- Uyghur
- Uzhhorod
- variationism
- variety (of a language)
- Vatican Bank
- Vaugelas, Claude Favre de
- velar stop
- Venezuela
- verbs
- conjugation
- copula
- morphology
- suffixes
- volitional
- conjugation
- Vergara, Sofia
- vergonha
- vervet monkeys
- Vidunda Ward
- Vietnam
- viscera
- vocal tract
- Voice of America Radio
- Volga
- volitional verbs
- Volk
- vowels
- Walkabout
- wampum belts
- war
- War Measures Act
- Washington, George
- Waterman, Thomas
- Weinreich, Max
- Wernicke's area
- Whitney, William Dwight
- Whorf, Benjamin Lee
- William the Conqueror
- Wisconsin
- Wolf, Friedrich August
- Wolfram, Walt
- wolves
- women
- Wong-Fillmore, Lily
- word order typologies
- word play
- World Atlas of Language Structure
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization
- World War II
- written language
- abjad
- alphabets
- electronic
- object writing
- origins
- political power and
- religion and
- scripts
- Arabic
- Chinese
- cuneiform
- Cyrillic
- Egyptian
- Persian
- Roman
- Uyghir
- Arabic
- syllabary
- Tibet
- writing materials
- writing systems
- abjad
- Xinhua News Agency
- Xinjiang
- Y chromosome
- Yahi people
- Yangon
- Y-chromosomal Adam
- Yupik
- yuppies
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