Languages, ZUL-’BR
Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release.
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Zulu language
Zulu language, a Bantu language spoken by more than nine million people mainly in South Africa, especially in the......
Şinasi, İbrahim
İbrahim Şinasi was a writer who founded and led a Western movement in 19th-century Turkish literature. Şinasi became......
ʿAbd al-Malik
ʿAbd al-Malik was the fifth caliph (685–705 ce) of the Umayyad Arab dynasty centred in Damascus. He reorganized......
Ḥarīrī, al-
al-Ḥarīrī was a scholar of Arabic language and literature and government official who is primarily known for the......
Ḥisdai ibn Shaprut
Ḥisdai ibn Shaprut was a Jewish physician, translator, and political figure who helped inaugurate the golden age......
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq was an Arab scholar whose translations of Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and the Neoplatonists......
’Brom-ston
’Brom-ston was a Tibetan Buddhist, member of the school of the 11th-century reformer Atīśa. He translated much......