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  • life face complete loss of tradition and language. Those who continue their ... The Nenets language is called n'enytsia vada, and belongs to ...
    10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
  • has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... war, art, literature, architecture, and language in the Western world, and ...
    12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
  • quot; Italian, instead of the traditional Latin, making him a key participant ... a teacher, and they both studied under the Latin scholar Brunetto Latini as ...
    14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
  • Old English torr is from Latin turris ("a tower, citadel, high ... The Latin term together with Greek τύρσις was loaned from a ...
    15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
  • a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic ... a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ...
    22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
  • Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches ... West to drift further apart. The dominant language of the West was Latin, while ...
    19 KB (2,956 words) - 19:43, 24 May 2024
  • techniques of meter and rhyme, derived from Latin poetry, that are utilized ... to us, it was clearly a thriving literary language, and there are extant works ...
    17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
  • him to be one of the greatest Spanish-language poets in history. He experimented ... vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is ...
    13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
  • as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day ... Americas is celebrated in many countries in Latin America. The most common ...
    20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
  • A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...
    33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
  • if there is no common theoretical language that can be used to compare ... questions regarding translation. Each language is configured and structured ...
    17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
  • of some works, particularly those in Latin with no Arabic originals ... the acquisition of copies of Greek and Latin authors for translation into ...
    16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
  • Europe and Latin America constituted minor destinations for post-war ... Brazil has Latin America's largest Koreatown while Koreatowns ...
    13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
  • and all probably derive, through Vulgar Latin *crosus (not attested), from ... of the Old French adjective magne, from Latin magnus, meaning "large ...
    8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
  • classical scholar. Educated at the famous Latin school in Schlettstadt, which ... excellent education. He attended the famous Latin school of Schlettstadt, which ...
    12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
  • His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to the ... Europe, and some were later translated into Latin, Spanish, French, English ...
    14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
  • Both the Latin word cedrus and the generic name Cedrus are derived from the Greek kedros. Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, kedros ...
    10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
  • with an amazing memory. He was schooled in Latin, and possibly Greek, at a ... in Italy. Already proficient in Latin and Greek, he studied Hebrew ...
    21 KB (3,278 words) - 14:25, 22 May 2024
  • Josephus were printed only in an imperfect Latin translation. It was only ... (War I.3), arguably the Western Aramaic language. He then wrote a seven-volume ...
    15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
  • in Haitian Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who ... in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ...
    10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022

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