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Gender loss began in the north of England; the south-east and the south-west Midlands were the most linguistically conservative regions, and Kent retained traces of gender in the 1340s. [5] Late 14th-century London English had almost completed the shift away from grammatical gender, [ 5 ] and Modern English retains no morphological agreement of ...
The Punjabi language is the most-widely spoken native language in Lahore, with 73.58% of Lahore counting it as their first language according to the 2023 Census. [152] Lahore is the largest Punjabi-speaking city in the world. According to the 2023 Pakistani census 21.1% speak Urdu, 2.06% Pashto, 2.01% Mewati and 2.78% other mother tongues. [153 ...
Pakistan is a multilingual country with over 70 languages spoken as first languages. [ 2][ 3] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [ 4][ 5] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred ...
SA Sign Language. 0.5%. At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all ...
All telephone numbers in Iran have 11 digits (initial 0 and ten digits). The first two or three digits after the zero are the area code. The possibilities are: (0xx) xxxx xxxx (for landlines), 09xx xxx xxxx (for cellphones) and 099xx xxx xxx (for MVNO ). When making a call within the same landline area code, initial 0 plus the area code must be ...
Concord types. There are seven basic sets of concords. [1] Each noun class has concords in each set, and the first and second persons have unique concords in some of the sets (the third person uses the class 1 and 2 concords). The exact number of concords differs from language to language, but all Bantu languages have at least the subjectival ...
Indian South African English. Indian South African English (ISAE) is a sub-variety that developed among the descendants of Indian immigrants to South Africa. [ 1] The Apartheid policy, in effect from 1948 to 1991, prevented Indian children from publicly interacting with people of English heritage.
Major Horn of Africa languages are Somali, Amharic and Oromo. Lingala is important in Central Africa. Important South African languages are Sotho, Tswana, Pedi, Venda, Tsonga, Swazi, Southern Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans. [ 36] French, English, and Portuguese are important languages in Africa due to colonialism.