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Japanese

Language; General language

Japanese (日本語 Nihongo) is the de facto official language of Japan with over 130 million speakers. Japanese is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called kanji, and two ...

Hakka is one of the major Chinese dialects and is spoken by the Hakka people in Southern China and the island of Taiwan. Due to its original useage in scattered isolated areas, Hakka has developed ...

Gan

Language; General language

Gan, or Jiangxinese, is a dialect of Chinese spoken in Jiangxi province and surrounding areas such as Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Fujian. There are around 50 million native speakers of Gan and it is ...

Classical Chinese

Language; General language

Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of ancient Chinese, making it different from any modern spoken form of Chinese. ...

Retronym

Language; General language

A word that is coined and applied to an object that already existed, as technological or societal change has meant that it now needs to be differentiated from a newer object. A classic example is ...

Anglo-Norman language

Language; General language

Anglo-Norman, also known as Anglo-Norman French is the name traditionally given to the dialect of the Old Norman language used in England during the Anglo-Norman period. The dialect is closely ...

Modern English

Language; General language

Modern English is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550. The period of Modern English is marked by English being adapted all around ...