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  2. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  3. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    Old English: Indo-European: 37: 19 18 This inventory of Late Old English includes two contrastive long diphthongs, which probably existed. Some scholars suggest the existence of /ʃ/ and two affricates, but this viewpoint is controversial, and the phonemes are not counted here. [44] Polish: Indo-European: 37: 29 8 [23] Portuguese: Indo-European ...

  4. List of languages by number of speakers in Europe - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. ... Portuguese: 10,000,000 [20 ...

  5. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    commonly accented letters: â, ê, î, ô, û, ŵ, ŷ, although acute (´), grave (`), and dieresis (¨) accents can hypothetically occur on all vowels; word endings: -ion, -au, -wr, -wyr; y is the most common letter in the language; w between consonants (w in fact represents a vowel in the Welsh language)

  6. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    In North America 1,000,000 people speak Portuguese as their home language, mainly immigrants from Brazil, Portugal, and other Portuguese-speaking countries and their descendants. [24] In Oceania, Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language, after French, due mainly to the number of speakers in East Timor.

  7. Portuguese phonology - Wikipedia

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    The consonant inventory of Portuguese is fairly conservative. [citation needed] The medieval Galician-Portuguese system of seven sibilants (/ts dz/, /ʃ ʒ/, /tʃ/, and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺/) is still distinguished in spelling (intervocalic c/ç z, x g/j, ch, ss -s-respectively), but is reduced to the four fricatives /s z ʃ ʒ/ by the merger of /tʃ/ into /ʃ/ and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺ ...

  8. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...

  9. Portuguese language - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, [6] and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.