A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated...

of Modern English vocabulary, and from Latin, which is the source for an additional 28%. While the majority of English vocabulary derives from Romance...

Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words...

11 February 2015, kiasu was chosen as OED's Word of the Day. Singlish vocabulary formally takes after British English (in terms of spelling and abbreviations)...

century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese...

Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced [kaŋɡo], "Han words"), is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese...

developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen. However, these minor differences can be found in any of the Korean...

particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and (similar) word order. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic; it incorporates slightly more Romance loans than German...

registers of V2 word order, a large percentage of the vocabulary (now at around 15% of modern French vocabulary) including the impersonal singular pronoun on...

Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and other languages. Around three-quarters of the vocabulary in the standard academic dictionaries of Bulgarian consist of native lexical...