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- Acute accent [r]: A diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. [e]
- African Union [r]: Continental organization, which succeeded the Organisation of African Unity on September 9, 1999. [e]
- Afrikaans language [r]: West-Germanic language descended from and still closely related to Dutch spoken by many people in South Africa and Namibia [e]
- Ancient Greece [r]: The loose collection of Greek-speaking city-states centered on the Aegean Sea which flourished from the end of the Mycenaean age to the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. [e]
- Angola [r]: (pop.12,264,000) A country in southern Africa. [e]
- Asturian-Leonese language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bermuda [r]: British overseas territory located in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of South Carolina [e]
- Brazil [r]: Largest country in South America with a population of 190 million people and rich resources; Portuguese is the national language [e]
- C (letter) [r]: The third letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- Catalog of artworks known in English by a foreign title [r]: A list of works of art that are known in English by a foreign title. [e]
- Cent (unit of currency) [r]: Monetary unit or coin that equals 1/100 of the basic monetary unit. [e]
- Creole (people) [r]: People of mixed ancestry, generally colonial and indigenous. Depending on context, the term can be merely descriptive or highly pejorative. [e]
- Dialect continuum [r]: Range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area, differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close, and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. [e]
- Distrito Federal [r]: The Brazilian Federal District (Portuguese: Distrito Federal) which is used for the capital city Brasília. [e]
- Dzongkha language [r]: the national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan [e]
- England [r]: The largest and southernmost country in the United Kingdom, and location of the largest city and seat of government, London; population about 51,000,000. [e]
- Fall River, Massachusetts [r]: City in Bristol County, Massachusetts, U.S.A., located about 49 miles south of Boston. [e]
- France [r]: Western European republic (population c. 64.1 million; capital Paris) extending across Europe from the English Channel in the north-west to the Mediterranean in the south-east; bounded by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain; founding member of the European Union. Colonial power in Southeast Asia until 1954. [e]
- French language [r]: A Romance language spoken in northwestern Europe (mainly in France, Belgium, Switzerland), in Canada and in many other countries. [e]
- Galician language [r]: The language of Galicia in northwest Spain. [e]
- Galician-Portuguese language [r]: Romance language spoken mainly in Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and various countries of Africa and Asia, with two main standardized varieties: Galician in Galicia and Portuguese in the other countries. [e]
- Hawaiian Creole [r]: Creole language (created through children acquiring a pidgin as their first language and thereby making it complex) popularly known as Hawaiian 'Pidgin', with vocabulary largely from English; spoken in the U.S. state of Hawaii, it replaced an earlier pidgin based on the Hawaiian language. [e]
- Iberian Peninsula [r]: Peninsula containing Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. [e]
- Indonesia [r]: A country in Southeast Asia. [e]
- International Phonetic Alphabet [r]: System of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. [e]
- Italian language [r]: A Romance language spoken in Italy and Switzerland. [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]
- Latin America [r]: The region of the Americas that shares a common tradition and historical heritage of European colonization, mostly Iberian. [e]
- Latin language [r]: An Indo-European language of the Italic group which was the dominant medium of communication in western Europe for many centuries; the ancestor of today's Romance languages, such as French and Spanish. [e]
- Macau [r]: A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, and former Portugese colony, located on the South China Sea south of Guangzhou. [e]
- Mozarabic language [r]: Extinct Romance language spoken during the Middle Ages in the Muslim part of the Iberian Peninsula. [e]
- Muhammad [r]: An Arab prophet and the founder of Islam (570-632 CE). [e]
- Occitan language [r]: Romance language spoken in Occitania. [e]
- Paris [r]: Capital of France, population about 2,200,000. [e]
- Phonetics [r]: Branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. [e]
- Pidgin Hawaiian [r]: Extinct pidgin language spoken in Hawaii, which drew most of its vocabulary from Hawaiian; spoken mainly by immigrants to Hawaii, and died out in the early twentieth century. [e]
- Pidgin [r]: A language with no native speakers and few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]
- Portugal [r]: South-west European republic (population c. 10.7 million; capital Lisbon) on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula, with a long Atlantic coastline to its west and bordering Spain to the north and east. [e]
- Received Pronunciation [r]: An accent of British English that is generally thought of as the stereotypical accent of the British aristocracy, and the standard British accent for use on film, radio and television. [e]
- Rio de Janeiro [r]: The second largest city in Brazil, and the former capital of the country until 1960. [e]
- Romance languages [r]: Branch of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken in southern, eastern and western Europe and descended from Vulgar Latin, the language of the Ancient Romans; includes modern Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian. [e]
- Saudade [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Schwa [r]: Mid-central neutral vowel, typically occurring in unstressed syllables and, in some systems of phonetic transcription, a stressed mid-central vowel. [e]
- Sephardi Jews [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Society of Jesus [r]: A Catholic religious order founded in 1534 by St Ignatius of Loyola. [e]
- South Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spanish language [r]: A Romance language widely spoken in Spain, its current and former territories, and the United States of America. [e]
- Spelling pronunciation [r]: Pronunciation of a word that differs from the historically established one, arising on the basis of the word's spelling. [e]
- Sri Lanka [r]: An island nation in South Asia, located 31 km off the south-east coast of India, formerly known as Ceylon . [e]
- State of Hawaii [r]: State of the United States of America consisting of an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. [e]
- Sugar Loaf [r]: Sugar Loaf (Portuguese: Pão de Açúcar) is a peak overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.[1] [e]
- Taiwan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unicode [r]: Character encoding standard designed to formalize a universal representation of alphanumeric symbols. [e]
- Uruguay [r]: An economically sound democracy in the Southern Cone of South America, with Argentina and Brazil as neighbors [e]
