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Irish language
(Encyclopedia)Irish language, also called Irish Gaelic and Erse, member of the Goidelic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Celtic languages). The history of Irish as a liter...Indonesian language
(Encyclopedia)Indonesian language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Javanese language
(Encyclopedia)Javanese language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Italian language
(Encyclopedia) CEE Italian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of...international language
(Encyclopedia)international language, sometimes called universal language, a language intended to be used by people of different linguistic backgrounds to facilitate communication among them and to reduce the misun...manual language
(Encyclopedia)manual language: see sign language. ...Maori language
(Encyclopedia)Maori language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Malagasy language
(Encyclopedia)Malagasy language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Malay language
(Encyclopedia)Malay language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Assyrian language
(Encyclopedia)Assyrian language, East Semitic dialect that evolved from Akkadian after 1950 b.c. The term Assyrian is sometimes incorrectly used for the Akkadian language as a whole because the first inscriptions i...Browse by Subject
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