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The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul (English: /ˈhɑːnɡuːl/ HAHN-gool; Korean: 한글; Hanja: 韓㐎) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl (조선글; 朝鮮㐎) in North Korea, is...

Esperanto (/ˌɛspəˈrɑːntoʊ/, /-æntoʊ/) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters...

A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. Writing...

A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do...

The Ukrainian language (українська мова, ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔʋɐ]) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken...

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, initialism...

Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking...

An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning...

A nickname or nick, also known as a sobriquet, is a substitute for the proper name of a person, place or thing. It is commonly used to express affection...

This article contains characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology)...

Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in...

The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language used in citizen interactions with government officials. As of...

In various cultures, a middle name is a portion of a personal name that is written between the person's first given name and their surname. A middle name...

In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written...

Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no Shimei, Nihonjin no Seimei, Nihonjin no Namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed...

There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...