The word horologia ( from the Greek ὡρα, hour, and λέγειν, to tell ) was used to describe all these devices, but the use of this word ( still used in several Romance languages ) for all timekeepers conceals from us the true nature of the mechanisms.

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

In Italy, almost all Romance languages spoken as the vernacular ( other than standard Italian and other unrelated, non-Italian languages ) are termed " Italian dialects "; the only exceptions are Sardinian and Friulan, which the law recognises as official regional languages.

Its other principal members are Romanian, Greek and Albanian, all of which belong to different genetic branches of the Indo-European family of languages ( Romanian is a Romance language, while Greek and Albanian each comprise their own separate branches ).

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Another style of notation, rarely used in English, uses the suffix " is " to indicate a sharp and " es " ( only " s " after A and E ) for a flat, e. g. Fis for F, Ges for G, Es for E. This system first arose in Germany and is used in almost all European countries whose main language is not English or a Romance language.

The Romance languages ( sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages ) are all the related languages derived from Vulgar Latin and forming a subgroup of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

Logudorese Sardinian (, ) is a standardised variety of Sardinian, often considered the most conservative of all Romance languages.

Latin G and K before, were not palatalized in it, in stark contrast with all other Romance languages.

In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.

Proto-Romance is a proto-language, i. e. the latest stage common to all of the Romance languages.

Describing himself as a pupil of Raynouard, he went on to expand the concept to all Romance languages, not just the speech of the troubadours, on a systematic basis, thereby becoming the originator of a new field of scholarly inquiry.

From approximately this point on, the Latin vernaculars began to be viewed as separate languages, developing local norms and, for some, orthographies of their own, so that Vulgar Latin must be regarded not as extinct – since all modern Romance varieties are its continuation – but as replaced conceptually and terminologically by multiple labels recognizing regional differences in linguistic features.

It is difficult to place the point in which the definite article, absent in Latin but present in all Romance languages, arose ; largely because the highly colloquial speech in which it arose was seldom written down until the daughter languages had strongly diverged ; most surviving texts in early Romance show the articles fully developed.

Considerable variation exists in all of the Romance vernaculars as to their actual use: in Romanian, the articles can be suffixed to the noun, as in other members of the Balkan sprachbund and the North Germanic languages.

For example, with his sister Adele, he co-introduced the Gershwins ' " I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise " from Stop Flirting ( 1923 ), " Fascinating Rhythm " in Lady, Be Good ( 1924 ), " Funny Face " in Funny Face ( 1927 ); and, in duets with Ginger Rogers, he presented Irving Berlin's " I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket " in Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " in Swing Time ( 1936 ), along with The Gershwins ' " Let's Call The Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

In other songs, Davies revived the style of British music hall, vaudeville and trad jazz: " Dedicated Follower of Fashion ", " Sunny Afternoon ", " Dandy " and " Little Miss Queen of Darkness " ( all 1966 ); " Mister Pleasant " and " End of the Season " ( both 1967 ); " Sitting By the Riverside " and " All of My Friends Were There " ( both 1968 ); " She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina " ( 1969 ); " Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues " and " Alcohol " ( both 1971 ); " Look a Little on the Sunny Side " ( 1972 ); and " Holiday Romance " ( 1975 ).

In 2010, Lady Gaga's music video " Bad Romance " made headlines by becoming the most-viewed video on YouTube and whole internet of all time, music-related or otherwise, with 130 million views ; it had over 430 million views by later 2011.

Joanna mastered all of the Iberian Romance languages: Castilian, Leonese, Galician-Portuguese and Catalan.

A quantity of the more legendary material coalesced into a text known as the Alexander Romance, the basis of all the Alexander legends of the Middle Ages, originated during the time of the Ptolemies, but in its present form belongs to the 3rd century AD.

" He concluded: " I most heartily recommend Romance to all serious game players out there.

* In the manga Battle Vixens, all the warriors from Romance of the Three Kingdoms are reborn as Japanese high school students, whose lives have to replay the entire story.

Naturally this includes all communication forms, e.g. languages, or any social, political, economic or religious structures employed for such control.

This explanation of tone difficulties, however, does not apply in all languages.

And he has proclaimed greater or less affiliation between all Western hemisphere languages.

The sounds of speech of all languages of the world can be written by a rather-small universal phonetic-alphabet.

Antisemitism refers specifically to prejudice against Jews alone and in general, despite the fact that there are other speakers of Semitic languages ( e. g. Arabs, Ethiopians, or Assyrians ) and that not all Jews speak a Semitic language.

The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.

Sign languages exhibit the use of polymorphemic constructions referred to as classifiers ( not all researchers term these constructions classifiers ).

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

The same case is used in many languages for the objects of ( some or all ) prepositions.

By all accounts, AMOS was extremely fast among interpreted languages.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians, Latvians ( including Latgalians ) — all Eastern Balts — as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the Western Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.

His son, Abdul-Rahim, was fluent in Chaghatay, Urdu, and Persian and composed in all three languages.

The N ' Ko ( ߒ ' ߞߏ ) alphabet is a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949 as a writing system for the Mande languages of West Africa ; N ’ Ko means ' I say ' in all Mande languages.

During its 19-year run, Gwalarn tried to raise the language to the level of other great “ international ” languages by creating original works covering all genres and by proposing Breton translations of internationally-recognized foreign works.

Like all international auxiliary languages ( or IALs ), Basic English may be criticised as unavoidably based on personal preferences, and thus, paradoxically, inherently divisive.

In all five of the southeastern Bantu languages named, the breathy voiced stops ( even if they are realised phonetically as devoiced aspirates ) have a marked tone-lowering ( or tone-depressing ) effect on the following tautosyllabic vowels.

Acronyms and abbreviations can be considered codes, and in a sense all languages and writing systems are codes for human thought.

* List of all constellations in 15 languages ( German WP, with interwiki-links to other languages )