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  • ...ed to as "Alpha-3" codes. There are 464 entries in the [[list of ISO 639-2 codes]]. ...des for languages, would not be able to accommodate a sufficient number of languages. The ISO 639-2 standard was first released in [[1998]].
    7 KB (1,012 words) - 01:56, 14 October 2010
  • ...two-letter codes registered. The registered codes cover the world's major languages. These codes are a useful international, and formal, shorthand for indicating languages. For example:
    4 KB (553 words) - 01:54, 14 October 2010
  • ...lpha-3 codes with an aim to cover all known [[natural language|natural]] [[language]]s. The standard was published by ISO on 2007-02-05.<ref name="ISO status"> ...//www.sil.org/iso639-3/types.asp#A Types of individual languages - Ancient languages (sil.org)]</ref>
    6 KB (934 words) - 01:54, 14 October 2010
  • L
    ...989) ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged.'' (1993); "el", "ells", ''op. cit.''</ref> is the twelfth [[Le ...h as [[Japanese language|Japanese]] or some southern dialects of [[Chinese language|Chinese]].
    5 KB (783 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • M
    ...89); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "em," op. cit.</ref> is the thirteenth [[Letter (alph ...nt]] sound, {{IPAblink|m}}, in Classical languages as well as the modern [[language]]s. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (first edition) says that ‹m› is
    4 KB (552 words) - 22:12, 4 May 2011
  • Q
    ...89); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "que," op. cit.</ref> is the seventeenth [[Letter (al ...languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones. In [[Greek language|Greek]], this sign as [[Qoppa]] {{Unicode|Ϙ}} probably came to represent s
    7 KB (1,071 words) - 22:12, 4 May 2011
  • S
    ...89); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "ess," op. cit.</ref> is the nineteenth [[Letter (alp ...]] and [[Latin]], the {{IPA|/s/}} value was maintained, and only in modern languages has the letter been used to represent other sounds.
    5 KB (797 words) - 22:12, 4 May 2011
  • ...ions.<ref> [http://www3.who.int/whosis/gis/salb/salb_coding.htm Names and codes for January 2000, Ethiopia] (WHO website). The information in the WHO sprea ...speak [[Gumuz language|Gumuz]]; the remaining 0.3% spoke all other primary languages reported. The majority of the inhabitants were [[Islam in Ethiopia|Muslim]]
    5 KB (683 words) - 22:09, 4 May 2011
  • J
    ...ay", ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993)</ref> is the tenth [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] in the ...d J; therefore, [[English language|English]] J, acquired from the [[French language|French]] J, has a sound value quite different from {{IPA|/j/}} (which repre
    11 KB (1,626 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • D
    ...''[[Merriam-Webster]]'s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "dee", ''op. cit.''</ref> is the fourth [[Letter (alp ...es include [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Scottish Gaelic]], [[Navajo language|Navajo]], and the [[Pinyin]] transliteration of [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin
    6 KB (861 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • K
    ...nary|''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'']] (1993); "kay," op. cit.</ref> is the eleventh [[Letter (alp In the English language, K usually represents the [[voiceless velar plosive]]; this sound is also r
    6 KB (1,002 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • B
    ...epresent a variety of [[bilabial consonant|bilabial sounds]] (depending on language), most commonly a [[voiced bilabial plosive]]. ‹B› is often confused with the visually similar [[German language|German]] ‹[[ß]]› which stands for ‹ss› (historically, <ſz>).
    7 KB (1,078 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • E
    ...c Libraries|accessdate=2008-06-25}}</ref> and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] languages.<ref name="Brian Keck UKFSN" /> ...e was in length but later on, short ‹e› represented {{IPA|/ɛ/}}. In other languages that use the ‹e›, it represents various other phonetic values, sometime
    9 KB (1,267 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • <!-- Area/postal codes & others --------> ...stinct from the dominant regional languages [[Ewe language|Ewe]] and [[Twi language|Twi]]. The Siwu name for the village is ''kaa i kato'', or "home up high".
    6 KB (717 words) - 20:54, 2 August 2014
  • W
    ...89); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993)</ref><ref>Brown & Kiddle (1870) ''The institutes of g ...wiktionary.org/wiki/W#Pronunciation_5 Pronunciation]</ref> and in [[French language|French]] ''double vé'', both literally "double vee".
    12 KB (1,788 words) - 22:12, 4 May 2011
  • C
    ...89); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "cee", ''op. cit.''</ref> is the third [[Letter (alph ...sive consonant]]s had no contrastive [[phonation|voicing]], so the [[Greek language|Greek]] ‹[[Gamma|Γ]]› (Gamma) was adopted into the [[Etruscan alphabet
    15 KB (2,233 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • F
    ...# redirects here. For the programming language, see [[F Sharp (programming language)]]. For other uses, see [[F-sharp (disambiguation)]].}} The origin of ‹f› is the [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] letter [[Waw (letter)|''vâv'']] that represented the {{IPA|/v/}}
    4 KB (678 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • A
    ...ter had denoted in [[Phoenician languages|Phoenician]] and other [[Semitic languages]], so they used the sign to represent the vowel {{IPA|/a/}}, and kept its n ...odern [[Latin alphabet]] used to write many languages, including [[English language|English]].
    10 KB (1,480 words) - 22:10, 4 May 2011
  • G
    ...mes|named]] ''gee'')<ref>''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''. 1976.</ref> is the seventh [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] in the [[basic m ...ed]] [[allophone]]s before front vowels; consequently in today's [[Romance languages]], ‹c› and ‹g› have different sound values depending on context. B
    11 KB (1,646 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011
  • H
    ...89); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "aitch", op. cit.</ref> is the eighth [[Letter (alpha ...{{IPA|/h/}} phoneme from its neighbouring Slavic languages, and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] developed a secondary {{IPA|/h/}} from {{IPA|/f/}}, before losing
    13 KB (1,911 words) - 22:11, 4 May 2011

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