Portal:Language/Picture of the month

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/May 2006

The Rosetta Stone is granite stone which was the key to deciphering hieroglyphics.

/July 2006

Portal:Language/Picture of the month/July 2006

Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. Diagonal patterns indicate sparsely populated areas. Dotted lines mark boundaries of corresponding subnational administrative units.

/November 2006

26th century BC Sumerian cuneiform inscription listing gifts to the high priestess of Adab on the occasion of her election

/December 2006

Countries and regions where Portuguese has official status.

/January 2007

An X-Ray of the four cardinal vowels [i, u, a, ɑ] during speech.

/February 2007

The coat of arms of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic circa 1929. "Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" is written (from top to bottom) in Tajik Latin, Tajik Perso-Arabic and Russian Cyrillic.

/March 2007

The three language (Tamil, English and Hindi) name board at the Tirusulam railwaystation in South India

/April 2007

A calligram of the Basmala shaped like a stork.

/May 2007

Maya glyphs in stucco at the Museo de sitio in Palenque, Mexico

/June 2009

/November 2011

Group of sculptures in Ulm. The inscription in Upper German dialect states "Dr Metzgr ond dr Baur beim Handl om dui Sau" (that means "The butcher and the farmer bargaining about the sow")

/December 2011

Animation of the stroke order for writing the Katakana character サ

/January 2012

The title page of the *Grammatical Notices of the Burmese Language* by Adoniram Judson (1842)

/February 2012

The Ath alphabet is used to write Baronh, an artificial language created by Japanese science fiction author Morioka Hiroyuki

/March 2012

results of the 2012 referendum in Latvia concerning constitutional amendments proposing to elevate the status of Russian language. Colours reflect percentage of participants, data are classified by municipalities of Latvia, green region are in favour.