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21Romance languages — romance1 (def. 8). [1770 80] * * * Group of related languages derived from Latin, with nearly 920 million native speakers. The major Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are national languages. French is probably… …
22Japanese language — Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more… …
23Collating sequence — The term collating sequence refers to the order in which individual characters should be taken when sorting a collection of character strings using dictionary order. This article is concerned with the order of the alphabetical characters… …
24Germanic languages — Branch of the Indo European language family, comprising languages descended from Proto Germanic. These are divided into West Germanic, including English, German, Frisian, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Yiddish; North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish,… …
25Proto-Germanic language — Proto Germanic Spoken in Northern Europe Extinct evolved into Proto Norse, Gothic, Frankish and Ingvaeonic by the 4th century Language family Indo European …
26syn|co|pa|tion — «SIHNG kuh PAY shuhn», noun. 1. a) the act of syncopating or quality of being syncopated; a shifting or anticipating of the accent to a normally unaccented beat, produced for example by beginning a note on a normally unaccented beat and holding… …
27Arsis — Ar sis ([aum]r s[i^]s), n. [L. arsis, Gr. a rsis a raising or lifting, an elevation of the voice, fr. a i rein to raise or lift up. Its ordinary use is the result of am early misapprehension; originally and properly it denotes the lifting of the… …
28metrical accentuation — Arsis Ar sis ([aum]r s[i^]s), n. [L. arsis, Gr. a rsis a raising or lifting, an elevation of the voice, fr. a i rein to raise or lift up. Its ordinary use is the result of am early misapprehension; originally and properly it denotes the lifting… …
29American English — US English redirects here. For the political organization, see U.S. English (organization). For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). English language prevalence in the United States. Darker shades of blue indicate higher… …
30Counterpoint — For other uses, see Counterpoint (disambiguation). Extract from Fugue no. 17 in A flat major, BWV 862, from book 1 of The Well Tempered Clavier by Bach, who is widely regarded as the greatest practitioner of counterpoint.[ …
