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  2. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  3. French in Action - Wikipedia

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    2016. ( 2016) French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series . The television series — the best-known aspect of the course — was produced in 1987 by WGBH, Yale University, and Wellesley College, and funded by ...

  4. Singapore Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    sing1237. Singapore Sign Language, or SgSL, is the native sign language used by the deaf and hard of hearing in Singapore, developed over six decades since the setting up of the first school for the Deaf in 1954. [1] Since Singapore's independence in 1965, the Singapore deaf community has had to adapt to many linguistic changes.

  5. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The plus sign ( +) and the minus sign ( −) are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively. In addition, + represents the operation of addition, which results in a sum, while − represents subtraction, resulting in a difference. [1] Their use has been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous.

  6. Course in General Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Course in General Linguistics. Course in General Linguistics ( French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures given by historical-comparative linguist Ferdinand de Saussure at the University of Geneva between 1906 and 1911. It was published in 1916, after Saussure's ...

  7. List of French-language poets - Wikipedia

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    List of poets who have written in the French language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  8. Mexican Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Mexican Sign Language. Mexican Sign Language ( Spanish: Lengua de señas mexicana, LSM; also previously known by several other names), is a natural language that serves as the predominant language of the Deaf community in Mexico. LSM is a complete and organized visual language, which is expressed with the hands, face, and body, with its own ...

  9. Hors d'oeuvre - Wikipedia

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    Etymology. Hors d'œuvre in French literally means 'outside the work', that is "not part of the ordinary set of courses in a meal". In practice, it is a dish which stands on its own as a snack or supports the main course. [1] [7] The French spelling is the same for singular and plural usage; in English, the typographic ligature œ is usually ...