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  2. Longest words - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese. Vietnamese is an isolating language, which naturally limits the length of a morpheme. The longest, at seven letters, is nghiêng, which means "inclined" or "to lean". This is the longest word that can be written without a space. However, not all words in Vietnamese are single morphemes.

  3. Non-Sinoxenic pronunciations - Wikipedia

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    Non-Sinoxenic pronunciations are vocabularies borrowed from Chinese, but differ from Sinoxenic pronunciations in that: The corresponding Chinese writing system is not borrowed alongside the pronunciation. The pronunciation did not arise from the attempt at adopting Chinese as the literary language. The borrowed vocabulary is not limited to ...

  4. Gilbertese language - Wikipedia

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    Gilbertese or taetae ni Kiribati, also Kiribati (sometimes Kiribatese ), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages . The word Kiribati, the current name of the islands, is the local adaptation of the European name "Gilberts" to Gilbertese phonology.

  5. Vietnamese language and computers - Wikipedia

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    Software-based systems are a form of writing Vietnamese on phones or computers with software that can be installed on the device or from third-party software such as UniKey. Telex is the oldest input method devised to encode the Vietnamese language with its tones. Other input methods may also include VNI (Number key-based keyboard) and VIQR.

  6. Tây Bồi Pidgin French - Wikipedia

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    Tây Bồi. Tây Bồi ( Vietnamese: tiếng Tây Bồi ), [2] or Vietnamese Pidgin French, was a pidgin spoken by non-French-educated Vietnamese, typically those who worked as servants in French households or milieux during the colonial era. Literally, it means "French (Tây) [of- or spoken by] male servants (Bồi)". During the French ...

  7. Pho - Wikipedia

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    Main ingredients. Rice noodles, bone broth, and beef or chicken. Media: Phở. Phở or Pho [a] ( UK: / fɜː /, US: / fʌ / FUH, Canada: / fɔː / FAW; Vietnamese: [fəː˧˩˧] ⓘ) is a Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles ( bánh phở ), herbs, and meat (usually beef ( phở bò )), sometimes chicken ( phở gà ).

  8. D with stroke - Wikipedia

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    Đ (lowercase: đ, Latin alphabet ), known as crossed D or dyet, is a letter formed from the base character D/d overlaid with a crossbar. Crossing was used to create eth (ð), but eth has an uncial as its base whereas đ is based on the straight-backed roman d, like in Sámi Languages and Vietnamese. Crossed d is a letter in the alphabets of ...

  9. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    Communicative language teaching ( CLT ), or the communicative approach ( CA ), is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study. Learners in environments using communication to learn and practice the target language by interactions with one another and the instructor, the study of ...