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Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication...

and Pakistan, respectively. Thus, it is also called Hindi–Urdu. Colloquial registers of the language fall on a spectrum between these standards. In modern...

example in news broadcasts or sermons, the consonants /t n ŋ/ are used. In colloquial Samoan, however, /n ŋ/ merge as [ŋ] and /t/ is pronounced [k]. The glottal...

are sometimes considered language families instead. Conversely, colloquial registers of Hindi and Urdu are almost completely mutually intelligible, and...

evolved into standardized Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial register with less prestigious variations attested in inscriptions and some...

languages are Yoruba in West Africa and Vietnamese (especially its colloquial register) in Southeast Asia. A closely related concept is that of an analytic...

fall broadly into two main registers—Colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg llafar) and Literary Welsh (Cymraeg llenyddol). Colloquial Welsh is used in most speech...

Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English), formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in...

formal or rarefied register of their mother tongue. The morphology of the two registers is discussed in separate articles: Colloquial Welsh morphology,...

(save, map, level, etc.). The perceived overuse of anglicisms in the colloquial register is one cause of the stigmatization of Quebec French. Both the Québécois...

words that are used mainly in the spontaneous spoken language in colloquial registers in German. Their dual function is to reflect the mood or the attitude...

have adopted more and more features from English, largely from the colloquial register. This process of language contact or dialectisation under English...

their English studies, means "cock", "penis", or for an equivalent colloquial register: "dick". The etymology of the term is unclear. Mainstream theories...

possible audience. Post-Independence, Hindi films tended to use a colloquial register of Hindustani, mutually intelligible by Hindi and Urdu speakers,...

English no longer has quite the same distinction between literary and colloquial registers. English has been used as a literary language in countries that were...

"Desconfiado" is the usual word in Florianópolis. Used only in a colloquial register. Widespread in Brazil but not typical of Florianópolis. Na casa do...

to Spanish, and the colloquial register to the local Austronesian languages. In the common, colloquial, vulgar or familiar register/sociolect, words of...

colloquial register is at a more advanced stage in the cycle, and the first part (ne or ni(d)) is very frequently omitted. In formal Welsh registers,...

processor end in "86", including the 80186, 80286, 80386 and 80486. Colloquially, their names were "186", "286", "386" and "486". The term is not synonymous...

since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party Daigaku Nyushi Center, a colloquial term for the National Center for University Entrance Examinations, a Japanese...