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Abadi (Gabadi) is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Abaga is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Abai Sungai is a Paitanic language spoken in Malaysia.
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Abanyom is an Ekoid language spoken in Nigeria.
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Abau is a Sepik language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Abaza is a language spoken by the Abaza people of Russia and Turkey.
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Abe is a Kwa language spoken in Ivory Coast.
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Abenlen Ayta is a Sambalic language spoken in the Philippines.
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Abidji is a Kwa language spoken in Ivory Coast.
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Abinonm is a language spoken in Indonesia.
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Abkhaz is a Caucasian language spoken in Georgia and Turkey.
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Abo is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
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Abom is a Tirio language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Reports from 2002 indicate Abom may now be extinct.
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Abon is a Tivoid language spoken in Nigeria.
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Abron (Brong) is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast.
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Abu is a Ramu language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Abua is a language spoken in Nigeria.
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Abui is an Alor language spoken in Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
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Abujmaria is a language spoken by the Abujmaria people of India.
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Abun is a language spoken in Indonesia.
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Abung is a Lampungic language spoken in south Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Abure is a Kwa language spoken in Ivory Coast.
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Abureni (Mini) is a language spoken in Nigeria.
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The accusative is the case of a noun or pronoun that is the object of a verb or is governed by a preposition. For example: 'He stroked the dog' 'I worked in the shed'. Here, 'dog' and 'shed' are both in the accusative case. 'Dog' is the object of the verb 'stroked'; 'shed' is governed by the preposition 'in'. In the grammar of some inflected languages, such as Latin, Greek, and Russian, the
accusative case is the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective used when it is the direct object of a verb. The accusative is also used for the object of certain prepositions.
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Aceh is a Malayic language spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Achagua is an Arawakan language spoken in Colombia.
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Achang (Achung, Atsang, Ach'ang, Acang, Ahchan, Ngacang, Ngatsang, Ngachang, Ngac'ang, Ngo Chang, Mönghsa) is a language spoken in China and also in parts of Myanmar.
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Ache is a Tupi language spoken in Paraguay.
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Acheron (Asheron) is a Talodi language spoken in Sudan.
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Acholi is a Nilotic language spoken in Uganda and Sudan.
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Achterhoeks is a Germanic language spoken in the Netherlands.
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Achuar-Shiwiar (Achual) is a Jivaroan language spoken in Peru and Ecuador.
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Achumawi is an almost extinct Hokan language formerly spoken by the Achumawi Indians of north-east California.
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Adabe is a language spoken in East Timor.
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Adang is an Alor language spoken in Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
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Adangbe is a Kwa language spoken by the Adan and Agotime peoples of Ghana and Togo.
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Adap is a Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan.
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Adasen Itneg is an Isnag language spoken in the Philippines.
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Adele is a Kwa language spoken in Togo and by the Bidire people of Ghana who call the language Gidire.
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Adhola is a Nilotic language spoken by the Jopadhola people of Uganda.
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Adi (known in China as Boga'er Luoba) is a Tani language spoken in parts of Assam, India and in China.
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Adioukrou is a Kwa language spoken in Ivory Coast.
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Adivasi Oriya (Tribal Oriya) is a language spoken by the Kotia people of India.
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Adiwasi Garasia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by some Bhil peoples of northern Gujarat, India.
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An adjective is a grammatical part of speech for words that describe nouns (for example, new and beautiful, as in 'a new hat' and 'a beautiful day').
Adjectives generally have three degrees: the positive degree (new, beautiful), the comparative degree (newer, more beautiful), and the superlative degree (newest, most beautiful). Some adjectives do not normally need comparative and superlative forms; one person cannot be 'more asleep' than someone else, a lone action is unlikely to be 'the most single-handed action ever seen', and many people dislike the expression 'most unique' or 'almost unique', because something unique is supposed to be the only one that exists. For purposes of emphasis or style these conventions may be set aside ('I don't know who is more unique; they are both remarkable people'). Double comparatives such as 'more bigger' are not grammatical in Standard English, but Shakespeare used a double superlative ('the most unkindest cut of all'). Some adjectives may have both comparative and both superlative forms (commoner and more common; commonest and most common); shorter words usually take on the suffixes -er/-est but occasionally they may be given the more/most
forms for emphasis or other reasons ('Which of them is the most clear?'). When an adjective comes before a noun it is attributive; when it comes after noun and verb (for example, 'It looks good') it is predicative. Some
adjectives can only be used predicatively ('The child was asleep', but not 'the asleep child'). The participles of verbs are regularly used adjectivally ('a sleeping child', 'boiled milk'), often in compound forms ('a quick-acting medicine', 'a glass-making factory', 'a hard-boiled egg', ' well-trained teachers').
Adjectives are often formed by adding suffixes to nouns (for example sand: sandy; nation: national).
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Adonara is a language spoken in Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
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Aduge is an Edoid language spoken in Nigeria.
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An adverb is the grammatical part of speech for words that modify or describe verbs (for example 'she ran quickly'). Most adverbs are formed from adjectives or past participles by adding -ly (quick: quickly) or -ally (automatic: automatically). Sometimes adverbs are formed by adding -wise (likewise and clockwise, as in 'moving clockwise'; in 'a clockwise direction', clockwise is an adjective). Some adverbs have a distinct form from their partnering adjective; for example, good/well ('it was good work; they did it well'). Others do not derive from adjectives (very, in 'very nice'; tomorrow, in 'I'll do it tomorrow'), and some are unadapted adjectives (pretty, as in 'It's pretty good'). Sentence adverbs modify whole sentences or phrases: 'Generally, it rains a lot here'; 'Usually, the town is busy at this time of year.' Sometimes there is controversy in such matters. Hopefully is universally accepted in sentences like 'He looked at them hopefully' ('He looked at them full of hope'), but some people dislike it in 'Hopefully, we'll see you again next year' ('We hope that we'll see you again next year').
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Adyghe is a Circassian language spoken in the Adyghea Republic in European Russia and in Iraq, Isreal, Jordan, Macedonia, Syria and Turkey.
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Adynyamathanha (Wailpi, Wailbi, Waljbi, Wipie, Ad'n'amadana, Anjimatana, Anjiwatana, Archualda, Benbakanjamata, Binbarnja, Gadjnjamada, Jandali, Kanjimata, Keydnjmarda, Mardala, Nimalda, Nuralda, Unyamootha, Umbertana) is a Yura language spoken by the Aborigines of the Flinders Range mountains in South Australia.
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Adzera is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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