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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]
- Andorra [r]: Small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. [e]
- Antarctica [r]: The Earth's southernmost continent, located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle; covers the South Pole. [e]
- Aragonese language [r]: Romance language mainly spoken in northern Aragon. [e]
- Aran Valley [r]: Semi-autonomous valley of northern Spain, culturally in Occitania. [e]
- Argentina [r]: Second largest South American country; speaks Spanish. [e]
- Arne (name) [r]:
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Meaning and origin of the Germanic and Greek name Arne [e]
- Asturian-Leonese language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
- Belize [r]: a country (formerly known as British Honduras) located in Central America, bordering Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the west and south. The capital city of Belize is Belmopan. [e]
- C (letter) [r]: The third letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e]
- Catalan Countries [r]: Cultural territory of southwestern Europe where Catalan is the native language. [e]
- Catalan language [r]: A Romance language spoken in the Catalan Countries (eastern Spain, Andorra, parts of France and Sardinia). [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]
- Chess [r]: Board game for two players played on a checkered board requiring skill, strategy and intellect. [e]
- Colombia [r]: Country in South America. [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]
- Cuba [r]: a Communist state made up of a number of islands in the Caribbean. [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]
- Dialect [r]: Regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists. [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]
- Esperanto [r]: International language created by Zamenhof in the late 19th century. [e]
- Falklands War [r]: 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands and their dependencies. [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]
- German dialects [r]: Dialect dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects the German with the Dutch language. [e]
- German language [r]: German is a West-Germanic language, the official language of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein, one of several official languages in Switzerland and Belgium, and also spoken in Italy and Denmark. [e]
- Gibraltar [r]: Self-governing British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula and Europe, overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. [e]
- Grammatical number [r]: Grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than one"). [e]
- Greek alphabet [r]: Set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [e]
- Guatemala [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iberian Peninsula [r]: Peninsula containing Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. [e]
- Indo-European languages [r]: A group of several hundred languages, including the majority of languages spoken in Europe and the subcontinent of India, that share a considerable common vocabulary and linguistic features. [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]
- 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]
- Languages of the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Latin America [r]: The region of the Americas that shares a common tradition and historical heritage of European colonization, mostly Iberian. [e]
- Latin alphabet [r]: Most widely used alphabet, the standard script of most languages that originated in Europe, where it developed in ancient Rome before 600 BC from the Etruscan alphabet (in turn derived from the Greek alphabet). [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]
- Mexico City [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mexico [r]: A country in North America, bordering the United States on the north and Guatemala and Belize on the south. [e]
- Micrurus fulvius [r]: Venomous elapid species found in the southeastern U.S.A. [e]
- Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
- Morocco [r]: An Arab monarchy of western North Africa, nonaligned but generally moderate, with a slow-growing economy [e]
- Mozarabic language [r]: Extinct Romance language spoken during the Middle Ages in the Muslim part of the Iberian Peninsula. [e]
- Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
- O. Henry [r]: Pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), American author of some 400 short stories. [e]
- Occitan language [r]: Romance language spoken in Occitania. [e]
- Oceania [r]: A major geographical region of the planet Earth, mostly in the southern hemisphere, consisting of Australasia (the Australian continent and New Zealand), Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. [e]
- Official English movement [r]: Campaigns in the USA which call for English to be made the only official language of the country; a common name for this is 'English Only', often used by civil liberties groups to describe the debate, but supporters usually prefer 'pro-English' or 'official English'. [e]
- Palatalization [r]: An umbrella term for several processes of assimilation in phonetics and phonology, by which the articulation of a consonant is changed under the influence of a preceding or following front vowel or a palatal or palatalized consonant. [e]
- Palau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philippines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phonetics [r]: Branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. [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]
- Portuguese language [r]: An Iberian Romance language, of the Indo-European family. [e]
- Project Gutenberg [r]: A volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works, primarily the full texts of public domain books. [e]
- Punjabi language [r]: The language of the Punjabi people and the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. [e]
- Rioplatense Spanish [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- Romansh language [r]: Romance language spoken in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland; one of the official languages of the country, with about 40,000 speakers. [e]
- Sephardi Jews [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spelling pronunciation [r]: Pronunciation of a word that differs from the historically established one, arising on the basis of the word's spelling. [e]
- Stephen Krashen [r]: emeritus professor of education at the University of Southern California; his research concerns second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, literacy and neurolinguistics. [e]
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence activities in the Americas [r]: Activities by the United States intelligence community in the Western Hemisphere, including but not limited to that of the Central Intelligence Agency; there are major drug enforcement programs, shared military projects, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had jurisdiction in WWII [e]
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Analysis by the United States intelligence community, in conjunction with more general health organizations, relating to issues of human survival from health-related issues [e]
- Unicode [r]: Character encoding standard designed to formalize a universal representation of alphanumeric symbols. [e]
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- Uruguay [r]: An economically sound democracy in the Southern Cone of South America, with Argentina and Brazil as neighbors [e]
- Valencian Country [r]: Historical region and autonomous community in Spain. [e]
- València, Valencian Country [r]: Capital city of the Valencian Country, in Spain [e]
- Venezuela [r]: A Latin American country located at the north of South America. [e]
- Verb [r]: A word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generally defines action. [e]
- Voicing (linguistics) [r]: Either the physical production of vibration by the vocal folds as part of articulation, or the potential phonological distinction this allows, i.e. the distinct difference between units such as [b] and [p] in many languages. [e]
- Voseo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Western Sahara [r]: Add brief definition or description
