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IndoEuropeanTree. English languages. English-based creole languages are not generally included, as only their lexicon, not their linguistic structure, comes from English.

English languages

See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Anglian". Proto-Indo- European. Lojban. Lojban (pronounced locally: [ˈloʒban] ( )) is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic, succeeding the project of Loglan.

Lojban

The name "Lojban" is a compound formed from loj and ban, which are short forms of logji (logic) and bangu (language), respectively. Mid-Atlantic English. Mid-Atlantic English (sometimes called a Transatlantic accent) is a cultivated or acquired version of the English language once found in certain aristocratic elements of American society and taught for use in the American theatre.

Mid-Atlantic English

It is not a typical vernacular of any location, but rather blends American and British without being predominantly either. Mid-Atlantic speech patterns and vocabulary are also used by some Anglophone expatriates, many adopting certain features of the accent of their place of residence. Mid-Atlantic English was popular in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the early 1960s, and continues to be associated with such people as Cary Grant,[1] Katharine Hepburn, Calvin Coolidge, William F.

Buckley, Jr.,[2] Gore Vidal, George Plimpton,[3][4] Roscoe Lee Browne,[5] Norman Mailer,[6] Diana Vreeland,[7] Maria Callas, Patrick McGoohan, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV,[8] John Houseman, Angela Cartwright, and Jonathan Harris. Acquisition[edit]