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• Alphabet [r]: Writing system in which symbols - single or multiple letters, such as <a> or <ch> - represent phonemes (significant 'sounds') of a language. ^[e]
• American English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United States of America; widely used around the world. ^[e]
• British English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United Kingdom; widely used around the world, especially in current and former countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. ^[e]
• Canadian English [r]: Any of the dialects of English, standard or not, that are used in Canada. ^[e]
• Descriptive linguistics [r]: The work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. ^[e]
• English grammar [r]: The body of rules describing the properties of the English language. ^[e]
• Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. ^[e]
• Japanese language [r]: (日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide. ^[e]
• Korean language [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
• Received Pronunciation [r]: British English accent that developed in educational institutions in the nineteenth century and is associated with the wealthy and powerful in the United Kingdom, rather than a geographic region, and which few British people actually use; 'refined' RP, even rarer, is colloquially referred to as 'posh'. ^[e]
• Romansh language [r]: Romance language spoken in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland; one of the official languages of the country, with about 35,000 speakers. ^[e]
• Washington Post [r]: A daily newspaper in Washington, D.C. with a slight to moderate liberal bias; first published details of the Watergate scandal. ^[e]
• Writing [r]: The process of recording thoughts or speech in a visually or haptically retrievable manner. ^[e]