Glossary:Linguistics

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 * Title            = Linguistics
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 * Definition       = Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics. There are over 6000 languages of Earth alone, with millions throughout the Marvel Universe.

All Marvel comics are written in variation of English known as "American English"

Most Comic Books often put "< >" brackets around American English to represent when a character is talking in another language. This is usually accompanied the first panel it shows up in by an editor note box stating what language they're speaking.

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 * Wolverine: due to his long life time and world travels speaks 12 languages fluently and a couple others pretty well. The languages have not been effected by his memory loss.
 * Captain America: thanks to his enhanced memory from the Super-Soldier Serum can speak English, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, French and Italian. There might be even more that he is lingual in. He picked up most of the languages fighting in World War II.
 * Tony Stark, in addition to English, speaks fluent French, German, Russian, Chinese. He is able to translate further using the Iron Man Armor's translation software.
 * Nightcrawler is similarly gifted as he spent his youth travelling around Europe as the star performer in a circus and knowing the language of wherever they were that week was very handy. Aside from the Russian and Japanese everyone learned he also speaks German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
 * Lockheed knows more languages than Beast, even though everyone treats him as a quote unquote "starlet's chihuahua", as Abigail Brand put it. He now teaches languages at the Xavier Institute.
 * Shatterstar then a member of X-Force, possesses enhanced learning capabilities and mastered Spanish by watching television. He's since been shown to be fluent in at least one other language German, and probably speaks several others.
 * Austin Cao, a client of Matt Murdock's. Austin worked in Language Services at Midas Investments; he speaks 17 languages fluently and another 10 passably.
 * Kitty Pryde of the X-Men also speaks a wide amount of languages. Kitty herself knows fluent royal and standard Shi'ar, and has some moderate knowledge of Gaelic, Hebrew, and German. When Illyana Rasputin came to stay with the team, Xavier telepathically taught them all fluent Russian, and when the team went to Japan for Wolverine's wedding to Mariko Yashida, he likewise taught them Japanese.
 * On Earth-1610; Namor became fluent in English by listening to the Fantastic Four speak to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for roughly five minutes.

Omnilingual

 * Doug Ramsey has the mutant to understand ans language, even if it should have been completely incomprehensible to the human mind. This extended even to raw computer binaries, dead written languages for which no Rosetta stone exists.

Telepathy

 * Professor X using his telepathy can understand all languages, he can download the knowledge into his mind or to others. When he sends a team on a mission with short-duration language programming, mostly by reading the minds of people in the area they're visiting. Recent examples have included:
 * Teaching Frenzy several local African dialects.
 * Programming the entire field team with local customs and languages when they visited a spaceship graveyard in Indonesia
 * Cyclops becoming fully fluent in Cantonese for a couple of weeks when the team undertook a mission in Hong Kong.
 * Illyana Rasputin was taught fluent English over the course of a single night by programming it into her brain while she slept.
 * when the team went to Japan for Wolverine's wedding to Mariko Yashida, he likewise taught them Japanese.
 * Sleepwalker, learned to speak English because that's the language his human host speaks. The letters page stated that if Sleepwalker had been trapped in the mind of someone who spoke another language, like French or German, he would have begun using that language when he first appeared in the human world.

Allspeak
All Asgardians, and other deities in the Marvel Universe, can speak every language thanks to the "Allspeak" or "All-Tongue", in which what they say is understood by every species in their own native language.

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 * SeeAlso          = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics