English synonyms

ĭng'glĭsh

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anglo
Of or relating to Anglos
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anglic
Anglian
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England's
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english-speaking
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non-celtic
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saxon
English or Anglo-Saxon
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akkadian
Of or pertaining to the Akkadian Empire.
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britannic
Of or pertaining to Britain, Great Britain or the United Kingdom; British
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anglian
Of or pertaining to the Angles (Germanic people)
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anglican
Of England or its people or culture
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His Majesty's
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Her Majesty's
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anglicized
Borrowed from English
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insular
Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
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anglo-saxon
Of their descendants; English
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norman
(Rare) Referring to the dialect of French spoken in Normandy.
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limey
Resembling limes (the fruit), lime-like.
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british
With the, the citizens or inhabitants of Britain collectively.
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englishmen
Plural form of Englishman
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anglo-saxons
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islanders
Plural form of islander
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britons
Plural form of Briton
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britishers
Plural form of Britisher
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John Bulls
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limeys
Plural form of limey
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cockneys
Plural form of cockney
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american-english (related)
The form of the English language that is chiefly used in North America, contrasted with British English and that of other places.
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british-english (related)
The English language as written and spoken in the United Kingdom (in contrast with other places, particularly other countries where English is predominant or at least an important language)
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canadian-english (related)
The English language as spoken and written in Canada
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old-english (related)
Black letter
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middle-english (related)
The ancestor language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD. It developed from Anglo-Saxon, also called Old English, with heavy influence from French and Latin after the Norman invasion.
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modern-english (related)
The English language since about the mid-15th cent.
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English language
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
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side
The definition of a side is half of something or someone, or a boundary.
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English people
the people of England
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afghani
Of or relating to Afghanistan, its people, or its language.
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albanian
(Central New York) of or from the city of Albany, New York State
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algonquin
Of the Algonquins or their language or culture
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annamese
Pertaining to Annam.
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aramaic
Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
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araucanian
(Uncommon, offensive) Mapudungun-language
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armenian
Of or relating to Armenia or its people, language, or culture.
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assamese
Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named
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avestan
Of or relating to Avestan.
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aztec
Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
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balinese
Of or relating to Bali or its people, language, or culture.
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baluchi
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berber
Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.
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byelorussian
Alternative spelling of Belarusian.
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carolinian
Of or relating to Carolina or the Carolinas.
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estonian
Of or relating to Estonia or its people, language, or culture.
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ethiopic
Of or relating to Ge'ez.
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euskarian
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faeroese
Alternative form of Faroese.
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fijian
Of the Fiji Islands or their people, language, or culture
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finnish
Of or pertaining to Finland.
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frisian
Designating or of Friesland or the Frisian Islands, or their people, language, or culture
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fulani
Of the Fulanis or their language or culture
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gaulish
Of Gaul or its people, language, or culture
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georgian
Of or characteristic of the period of the reign of George V of England, specif. with reference to literature
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hawaiian
Of or having to do with the culture of the US state of Hawaii.
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hittite
Of or relating to the Hittite people.
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illyrian
Of Illyria or its people, language, or culture
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karelian
Of, or pertaining to, Karelia or its people, culture or language.
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kashmiri
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kurdish
Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language
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latvian
Of or relating to Latvia or its people, language, or culture.
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lettish
Latvian
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lithuanian
Of or relating to Lithuania or its people, language, or culture.
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livonian
Pertaining to Livonia or Livonians.
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lusatian
Of the Lusatians or their language or culture
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lycian
Of or relating to Lycia or its people, language, or culture.
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lydian
Soft; gentle; effeminate
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macedonian
Of Macedonia or its ancient or modern people, language, or culture
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malagasy
Of or relating to Madagascar, the Malagasy, or their language or culture.
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malay
Of or relating to Malaysia, the Malay Peninsula, or the Malay Archipelago.
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maori
Of or pertaining to the Maori people, culture, or language.
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marathi
Pertaining to Maharashtra or its language.
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nepali
Of or relating to Nepal or its people, language, or culture.
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oscan
Of the Oscans or their language or culture
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osmanli
Ottoman.
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ossetic
Of or relating to Ossetia, the Ossets, or their language or culture.
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pashto
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phrygian
Of or relating to Phrygia or its people, language, or culture.
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russian
Of or relating to the former Soviet Union.
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ruthenian
(Mineralogy) Describing minerals containing ruthenium
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samoan
Of or relating to the islands of Samoa.
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sardinian
Of or relating to Sardinia or its people, language, or culture.
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sinhalese
Of Sri Lanka or its principal people, language, or culture
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slovak
Of or relating to Slovakia or its people, language, or culture.
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slovene
Of or relating to Slovenia or its people, language, or culture.
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slovenian
Of Slovenia or its people, language, or culture
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sogdian
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sorbian
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sumerian
Of Sumer
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susian
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tagalog
Of or relating to the Tagalogs.
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tahitian
Of or relating to Tahiti or its people, language, or culture.
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turkoman
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urdu
Of or relating to the Urdu language.
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visayan
Of the Visayans or their language or culture
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abnaki
Alternative spelling of Abenaki.
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afrikaans
A term sometimes used of people from South Africa and Namibia (who speak Afrikaans), more properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners.
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akan
A member of a people of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, including the Fante and the Twi.
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aleut
A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
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andaman
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anzanite
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arawak
A Caribbean language belonging to this group.
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aymara
Language spoken in South America
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bashkir
A member of a people of SW Russia
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batak
A collective name for several different peoples of the Philippines.
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bhili
A Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in west-central India.
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bihari
The group of dialects of Hindi spoken in Bihar
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bikol
Alternative spelling of Bicol.
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bini
Edo
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blackfoot
A member of a North American Indian people consisting of three subgroups (the Blackfoot proper, the Blood, and the Piegan) and living in Montana, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
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brahui
The Dravidian language of this people
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buginese
A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in parts of Sulawesi, Indonesia
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burushaski
A language of northwestern Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
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buryat
(Countable) Someone from Buryatia.
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cantonese
A person born or living in Canton, China
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cheremis
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cherokee
A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting a large area of the S Appalachian Mountains, now living in Oklahoma and North Carolina
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chibcha
The extinct Chibchan language of the Chibcha.
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chuvash
The Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash.
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cuman
The Turkic language spoken by these people.
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czech
A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
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dafla
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dinka
The language of these peoples, belonging to the Chari-Nile subfamily of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages
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dyak
Alternative form of Dayak.
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edo
A language spoken in parts of Nigeria
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elamitic
An extinct language spoken by the ancient Elamites.
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faliscan
The language of this people, closely related to Latin and known from place and personal names and from inscriptions.
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fula
The Niger-Congo language spoken by the Fulanis
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gadaba
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galcha
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galla
An Oromo.
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garo
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goldi
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gondi
The Dravidian language spoken by the Gonds, consisting of many dialects
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guanche
Aboriginal inhabitant originally of the island of Tenerife only, but widely used for the now extinct pre-hispanic population of the Canary Islands in general.
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guarani
The language of this people, related to Tupí
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haida
An indigenous nation of the Northwest Coast of North America, living primarily in British Columbia and Alaska.
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hausa
The Chadic language of this people, used as a trade language in many parts of W Africa
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ho
A prostitute.
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hopi
The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by this North American native American tribe.
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hottentot
The language of the Khoi, remarkable for its clicks.
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iban
The Malayic language of these people.
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ibanag
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ibo
A member of a people of SE Nigeria
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igorot
Any of the Austronesian languages of these peoples
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ivatan
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kachin
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kafiri
Any of the Indo-Iranian languages of the Nuristani. No longer in scientific use.
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kalmuck
Obsolete spelling of Kalmyk.
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kamchadal
A member of the ethnic group who are the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.
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kanarese
The Kannada language. No longer in current use.
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kara-kalpak
The Turkic language of this people
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karamojong
A Nilo-Saharan language of Uganda.
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karankawa
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kashubian
A member of the Kashubian people.
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keres
A family of languages, comprising the seven languages or dialects spoken by the Keres
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ket
The Yeniseian language of this people.
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khamti
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kharia
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khasi
The Austro-Asiatic language of the Khasi people.
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khmer
A member of a people of Cambodia whose civilization reached its height from the 9th to the 15th century.
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khondi
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khosa
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khowar
An Indo-Iranian language of NW Pakistan
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kickapoo
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, with small present-day populations in Kansas, Oklahoma, southern Texas, and northern Mexico.
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kirghiz
Turkish ethnic group in Kyrgyzstan.
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kiriwina
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kodagu
A hilly region in southern India, known in English as Coorg.
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kohistani
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koiari
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kolami
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komi
(Game of Go) Compensation points for the white player in the board game go.
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konkani
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korwa
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koryak
(Countable) A member of this Koryak-language-speaking people.
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kui
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kuki
Any member of numerous clans of hillspeople, found in parts of India, Burma and Bangladesh, with mongoloid features, straight black hair, and brown eyes and skin.
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kumyk
A Turkic language spoken by the Kumyks in the Dagestan region of the Russian Federation.
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kunama
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kurukh
A Dravidian language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
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kutchin
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kutenai
A member of a North American Indian people living in the Rocky Mountains in Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia
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lahnda
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lampong
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lamut
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lao
The official language of Laos (closely related to Thai).
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lapp
A Sami.
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limbu
A tribal people of Nepal (to a lesser extent India and Bhutan).
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luwian
An extinct Anatolian language regarded as closely related to Hittite
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madurese
An Austronesian language spoken predominantly on the island of Madura.
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magyar
The Uralic language of the Hungarians.
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malayalam
A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Kerala on the Malabar Coast of southwest India.
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manchu
The Tungusic language of the Manchu.
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mandingo
Mande
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mangarevan
The Polynesian language of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia.
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manobo
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meithei
A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the southeastern Himalayan state of Manipur in India.
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mende
A Mande language spoken in southern Sierra Leone and eastern Liberia.
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messapian
A speaker of Messapic.
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mishmi
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mishongnovi
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misima
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miskito
The language of the Miskito.
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mon
The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen
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mordvin
Any of the people who speak this language.
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mordvinian
Someone from Mordvinia (Mordovia).
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moro
Any of the Austronesian languages of these peoples
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mru
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muong
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mura
Luminance non-uniformity of a display device.
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murmi
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muskogee
Creek
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naga
Alternative spelling of nāga.
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newari
A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepali, India and Bhutan by the Newa people, and the only Tibeto-Burman language written in Devanagari script.
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ngala
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ngbaka
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nicobarese
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niuean
A person from Niue or of Niuean descent.
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nogai
A person belonging to this Turkic people.
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nootka
The Wakashan language of the Nootka.
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oraon
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oriya
The official language of the state of Orissa, India.
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ostyak
A member of a Finno-Ugric people living in W Siberia
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pahlavi
A writing system derived from the Aramaic alphabet used to write Middle Persian, Parthian, and other Middle Iranian languages.
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palaic
An extinct Indo-European language belonging to Anatolian branch, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa.
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palau
A nation consisting of about 200 islands and islets in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. When most of the Carolines became the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978, Palau chose to form a separate republic in free association with the United States, an arrangement that became effective in 1994. The capital is Melekeok.
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palaung
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pali
A Prakrit language that is a scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.
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pampango
(Countable) A native or inhabitant of Pampanga
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pangasinan
A language of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages; it is one of the major languages of the Philippines and the primary language in the province or region of Pangasinan.
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paya
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plattdeutsch
The group of West Germanic dialects of N Germany; Low German
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polabian
West Slavic language, extinct in 18th century.
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prakrit
Any of the modern Indic languages.
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quechua
A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, and in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
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romansh
A Rhaeto-Romance language that is an official language of Switzerland.
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sakai
A city of southern Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay south of Osaka. It was a leading port from the 15th to the 17th century.
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sasak
The language spoken by the Sasak people.
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serbo-croatian
A native speaker of Serbo-Croatian.
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shan
The Tai language of these peoples
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shilha
The Tashelhit language.
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shluh
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soyot
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swahili
An agglutinative language widely spoken in East Africa. Born of the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.
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syriac
Any of several modern Aramaic languages spoken by Eastern Christian communities of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran and by immigrants from these communities elsewhere.
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syryenian
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tagula
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tajiki
Tajik
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takelma
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tamashek
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tavgi
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tigre
A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.
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tipura
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tocharian
Either of the two Indo-European languages of this people, called Tocharian A and Tocharian B, recorded from the seventh to the ninth century.
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toda
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tuareg
A member of a Berber people of the W and central Sahara
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tulu
A Dravidian language of India with fewer than two million speakers, known as Tuluvas.
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tungus
A member of a people of E Siberia
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uighur
The Turkic language of the Uighurs.
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uzbek
The language of Uzbekistan.
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votyak
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wa
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xhosa
The language of these people, a Bantu language related to Zulu.
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yakut
The Turkic language of the Yakut.
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yoruba
The language of this people, a tone language of the Niger-Congo subfamily
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yurak
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zulu
The letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet
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occitan (related)
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italian-english (related)
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spanish (related)
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english-spanish (related)
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french (related)
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amharic (related)
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arabic (related)
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gaelic (related)
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portuguese (related)
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german (related)
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catalan (related)
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language (related)
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