Hans kurath

Hans Kurath. Austrian-born American linguist, best known as the editor-in-chief of the New England Linguistic Atlas, the first comprehensive linguistic atlas of a large region, for which he received the Loubat Prize , …

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Scholium

It is called scholia (from the Latin scholium and this of the Greek σχόλιον, ‘comment’) to notes or brief comments grammatical , critical or explanatory, whether original or extracts from existing comments, which are inserted in the margins of …

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Devanagari alphabet

The Devanagari or Devanāgarī is a writing abugida used to write Nepal and various languages of India – including Sanskrit , the bhili, the bhoshpurí, the BijaRi, the cashmere , the Hindi , Konkani, Marathi, the Nepalese and sindhí- . [1] Summary [ hide ] 1 Etymology 2 Writing and pronunciation 3 Origins 4 Principles …

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Spanish alphabet

Spanish alphabet . It is composed of twenty-seven letters: a, e, i, o, u, are called vowels, while the rest are consonants, some have certain distinctive characteristics that can be of formation …

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Digraph

Digraph . Groups of two letters that represent a single sound . The graphic representation system of Spanish has five digraphs, two of them (ch and ll) for a time were conventionally considered letters of the alphabet, …

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