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  2. Japanese particles - Wikipedia

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    Etymology: no + ni Nouns and na-adjectives must be followed by na before using this particle. No ni has a stronger meaning than kedo when used to mean "although", and conveys regret when used to mean "would have". Adjectives, verbs: "although" Benkyō shiten no ni, eigo ga hanasenai. 勉強してんのに、英語が話せない。

  3. Yāska - Wikipedia

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    Yāska was an ancient Indian [2] grammarian [3] [4] and linguist [5] (7th–5th century BCE [1]).Preceding Pāṇini (7th–4th century BCE [6] [7] [8]), he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of "etymology" (explanation of words) within Sanskrit grammatical tradition and the Nighantu, the oldest proto-thesaurus in India. [9]

  4. Noni language - Wikipedia

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    The Noni language, also called Noone, is an Eastern Beboid language of the Niger–Congo family in Cameroon.The Noone, Ncane, and Mungong varieties are sometimes considered three distinct Noni languages.

  5. Aṣṭādhyāyī - Wikipedia

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    tan-ādayaḥ – no presents; kry-ādayaḥ (i.e., krī-ādayaḥ) – ni presents; cur-ādayaḥ – aya presents (causatives, denominatives etc.) The above names are composed of the first verbal root in each class followed by ādayaḥ "etc.; and next" – bhv-ādayaḥ thus means "the class starting with bhū".

  6. Makurakotoba - Wikipedia

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    Makurakotoba are most familiar to modern readers in the Man'yōshū, and when they are included in later poetry, it is to make allusions to poems in the Man'yōshū.The exact origin of makurakotoba remains contested to this day, though both the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, two of Japan's earliest chronicles, use it as a literary technique.

  7. HathiTrust - Wikipedia

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    The HathiTrust Shared Print Program is a distributed collective collection whose participating libraries have committed to retaining almost 18 million monograph volumes for 25 years, representing three-quarters of HathiTrust digital book holdings. [11]

  8. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. In meeting the challenge of making sure no student falls behind in achievement, the definition of a good education is based on the results on standardized tests in reading and mathematics, for which children are tested in grades 3 through 8. “If a child fails the

  9. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Congo Free State, a former name: As above, a translation of the French État indépendant du Congo ("Free State of the Congo"), formed by Leopold II of Belgium in 1885 to administer the holdings of the International Congo Society acknowledged as separate from the country of Belgium at the 1884 Berlin Conference.