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Pahlavi language

(Encyclopedia)Pahlavi language pāˈ– [key], member of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Pahlavi is the form of the Persian language that followed Old Persi...

Pehlevi language

(Encyclopedia)Pehlevi language: see Pahlavi language. ...

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. ...

Latin language

(Encyclopedia)CEE Latin language, member of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Latin was first encountered in ancient times as the language of Latium, the region of central Italy in w...

Khalka language

(Encyclopedia)Khalka language: see Mongolian languages. ...

language acquisition

(Encyclopedia)language acquisition, the process of learning a native or a second language. The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists. Although how c...

Catalan language

(Encyclopedia)Catalan language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 8 million people in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and...