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Wikipedia scowiki https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.47.0-wmf.18 first-letter Media Special Collogue Uiser Uiser collogue Wikipedia Wikipedia collogue File File collogue MediaWiki MediaWiki collogue Template Template collogue Help Help collogue Category Category collogue Portal Portal talk Define Define talk TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Event Event talk Encyclopædia Britannica 0 3912 922494 913307 2026-09-06T16:32:42Z Munci 6841 removed [[Category:Encyclopædia Britannica]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922494 wikitext text/x-wiki {{unsoorced}} '''Encyclopedia Britannica''' is a weel-kent Ingles-leid onwab [[encyclopaedia]]. Hit wis umwhile furthsetten bi Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., an ither furthsetters (fur auld editions). Hit wis written bi aboot 100 fu-time editors an mair nor 4,000 contributors. The 2010 version o the 15t eedition, that haes 32 vollums an 32,640 pages, wis the last prentit edition. {{Commonscat}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Encyclopaedia Britannica}} [[Category:18t-century beuks]] [[Category:1768 establishments]] [[Category:Companies based in Edinburgh]] [[Category:Companies based in Chicago, Illinois]] [[Category:Encyclopaedias]] [[Category:History o Edinburgh]] [[Category:Scots Enlichtment]] {{Stub/Beuk}} g3h2eoi0ud65zrzvgh7j1q89tpx1rui Cantonese 0 13571 922501 860793 2026-09-06T18:10:30Z PhantomFunds 136733 922501 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Guangdonghua-vector.svg|thumb]] [[File:Cantonese Language Distribution Macro.svg|thumb|{{legend|#fa4d3fff|500k+ Cantonese speakers}} {{legend|#fa8577ff|100k+ or >10% o the population}} {{legend|#fab4a7ff|50k+ Cantonese speakers}} {{legend|#fad9cfff|30k+ or an insignificant provincial amount within a kintry wi a significant amount o Cantonese speakers}}]] '''Cantonese''' is a leid spoken in an aroond the ceety o Canton (now [[Guangzhou]]) in soothren Cheenae, bi the majority population o [[Hong Kong]] an [[Macau]], an as a [[lingua franca]] o [[Guangdong|Guangdong province]], eastren [[Guangxi]] province, an some neighborin auries. It is uised in [[Hong Kong]] an [[Macau]] as the ''de facto'' offeecial spoken leid o government an instruction in schools. It is spoken bi [[owerseas Cheenese|owerseas Cheenese communities]] in [[Canadae]], [[Peru]], [[Panama]], the [[Unitit States]] an [[Australie]], as weel as atouer [[Europe]] an [[Sootheast Asie]], bein the maist widely spoken Cheenese leid an a lingua franca in mony o these communities. While the same "Cantonese" generally refers narraely tae the Hong Kong-Guangzhou dialect, it is [[#Names|also uised]] in a braider sense for the [[Yue Cheenese|Yue branch]] o Cheenese, whilk includes sib dialects lik [[Taishanese]]. The Cantonese leid is an aa viewed as pairt o the cultural identity for the native speakers athort muckle swathes o soothren Cheenae. Awthoch Cantonese skares muckle vocabulary an grammatical structur wi [[Mandarin Cheenese]], the twa leids arna mutually intelligible, in muckle pairt acause o pronunciation differences.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=czbGJLu59S0C&pg=PA5 Cantonese: a comprehensive grammar, p.5], Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip, Routledge, 1994</ref><ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pFnP_FXf-lAC&pg=RA1-PA48 Cantonese as written language: the growth of a written Chinese vernacular, p. 48], Donald B. Snow, Hong Kong University Press, 2004</ref> ==Names== In Inglis, the term "Cantonese" is ambiguous. Cantonese proper is the dialect native tae the ceety o Canton, whilk is the traditional Inglis name o Guangzhou, an later brocht tae Hong Kong an Macau; this narrae sense mey be specified as "Canton dialect" or "Guangzhou dialect" in Inglis.<ref>Ramsey and Ethnologue, respectively</ref> Housomeivver, "Cantonese" mey an aa refer tae the primary branch o Cheenese whilk conteens Cantonese proper as weel as [[Taishanese]] an [[Gaoyang dialect|Gaoyang]]; this braider uisage mey be specified as "[[Yue Cheenese|Yue]]" (粤). In this airticle, "Cantonese" will be uised for Cantonese proper. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Commonscat}} [[Category:Cantonese leid| ]] [[Category:Cheenese dialects]] [[Category:Leids o Hong Kong]] jlgdf4akpfsfllcm7asw7n32jz4duhe Runrig 0 134989 922495 869492 2026-09-06T16:50:03Z Munci 6841 removed [[Category:Muisical groups established in 1973]]; added [[Category:1973 establishments in Scotland]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922495 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Infobox musical artist | name = Runrig | image = Runrig_concert,_Inverness,_Aug_2012.jpg | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = [[Skye|Isle o Skye]], Scotland | genre = [[Celtic rock]], [[folk rock]] | years_active = 1973–2018 | label = Ridge Records, [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]] | past_members = [[Rory Macdonald (muisicker)|Rory Macdonald]] [[Calum MacDonald (muisicker)|Calum Macdonald]] [[Donnie Munro]] Malcolm Jones Iain Bayne [[Pete Wishart]] [[Bruce Guthro]] Blair Douglas Robert Macdonald Campbell Gunn Richard Cherns Brian Hurren | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|http://www.runrig.co.uk/}} }} '''''Runrig''''' is a Scots fowk rock muisic group fae [[Skye]]. Thay were first thegither in 1973 as The Run Rig Dance Band an thay war still thegither til 2018. Thay sang sangs in [[Scots Gaelic]] an in Inglis. {{Authority control}} [[Category:Scots muisical groups]] [[Category:Celtic muisic groups]] [[Category:Celtic rock muisic]] [[Category:Scots rock muisic groups]] [[Category:Scots Gaelic muisic]] [[Category:1973 establishments in Scotland]] [[Category:Muisical groups disestablished in 2018]] [[Category:Scots folk rock groups]] 17z8yvok3yfx9hncz5su5ow58rzknqh 922496 922495 2026-09-06T16:50:28Z Munci 6841 removed [[Category:Muisical groups disestablished in 2018]]; added [[Category:2018 disestablishments in Scotland]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922496 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Infobox musical artist | name = Runrig | image = Runrig_concert,_Inverness,_Aug_2012.jpg | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = [[Skye|Isle o Skye]], Scotland | genre = [[Celtic rock]], [[folk rock]] | years_active = 1973–2018 | label = Ridge Records, [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]] | past_members = [[Rory Macdonald (muisicker)|Rory Macdonald]] [[Calum MacDonald (muisicker)|Calum Macdonald]] [[Donnie Munro]] Malcolm Jones Iain Bayne [[Pete Wishart]] [[Bruce Guthro]] Blair Douglas Robert Macdonald Campbell Gunn Richard Cherns Brian Hurren | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|http://www.runrig.co.uk/}} }} '''''Runrig''''' is a Scots fowk rock muisic group fae [[Skye]]. Thay were first thegither in 1973 as The Run Rig Dance Band an thay war still thegither til 2018. Thay sang sangs in [[Scots Gaelic]] an in Inglis. {{Authority control}} [[Category:Scots muisical groups]] [[Category:Celtic muisic groups]] [[Category:Celtic rock muisic]] [[Category:Scots rock muisic groups]] [[Category:Scots Gaelic muisic]] [[Category:1973 establishments in Scotland]] [[Category:2018 disestablishments in Scotland]] [[Category:Scots folk rock groups]] glexhr3iam4ebj41t6mmv04q295mapm 922497 922496 2026-09-06T16:50:49Z Munci 6841 removed [[Category:Scots Gaelic muisic]]; added [[Category:Scots Gaelic leid]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922497 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Infobox musical artist | name = Runrig | image = Runrig_concert,_Inverness,_Aug_2012.jpg | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = [[Skye|Isle o Skye]], Scotland | genre = [[Celtic rock]], [[folk rock]] | years_active = 1973–2018 | label = Ridge Records, [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]] | past_members = [[Rory Macdonald (muisicker)|Rory Macdonald]] [[Calum MacDonald (muisicker)|Calum Macdonald]] [[Donnie Munro]] Malcolm Jones Iain Bayne [[Pete Wishart]] [[Bruce Guthro]] Blair Douglas Robert Macdonald Campbell Gunn Richard Cherns Brian Hurren | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|http://www.runrig.co.uk/}} }} '''''Runrig''''' is a Scots fowk rock muisic group fae [[Skye]]. Thay were first thegither in 1973 as The Run Rig Dance Band an thay war still thegither til 2018. Thay sang sangs in [[Scots Gaelic]] an in Inglis. {{Authority control}} [[Category:Scots muisical groups]] [[Category:Celtic muisic groups]] [[Category:Celtic rock muisic]] [[Category:Scots rock muisic groups]] [[Category:Scots Gaelic leid]] [[Category:1973 establishments in Scotland]] [[Category:2018 disestablishments in Scotland]] [[Category:Scots folk rock groups]] oinf63nfctzk0nv9jo47glypqx9u4nk 922498 922497 2026-09-06T16:52:52Z Munci 6841 −[[Category:Celtic rock muisic]]; ±[[Category:Scots folk rock groups]]→[[Category:Fowk rock]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922498 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Infobox musical artist | name = Runrig | image = Runrig_concert,_Inverness,_Aug_2012.jpg | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = [[Skye|Isle o Skye]], Scotland | genre = [[Celtic rock]], [[folk rock]] | years_active = 1973–2018 | label = Ridge Records, [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]] | past_members = [[Rory Macdonald (muisicker)|Rory Macdonald]] [[Calum MacDonald (muisicker)|Calum Macdonald]] [[Donnie Munro]] Malcolm Jones Iain Bayne [[Pete Wishart]] [[Bruce Guthro]] Blair Douglas Robert Macdonald Campbell Gunn Richard Cherns Brian Hurren | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|http://www.runrig.co.uk/}} }} '''''Runrig''''' is a Scots fowk rock muisic group fae [[Skye]]. Thay were first thegither in 1973 as The Run Rig Dance Band an thay war still thegither til 2018. Thay sang sangs in [[Scots Gaelic]] an in Inglis. {{Authority control}} [[Category:Scots muisical groups]] [[Category:Celtic muisic groups]] [[Category:Scots rock muisic groups]] [[Category:Scots Gaelic leid]] [[Category:1973 establishments in Scotland]] [[Category:2018 disestablishments in Scotland]] [[Category:Fowk rock]] 2ah1umxqeudqog0uarggrqz5thwi8zk Amaterasu 0 168646 922502 869502 2026-09-07T00:22:36Z Cobra 3000 28371 Pit in Infobox an stub tag 922502 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Infobox deity|type=Japanese|name=Amaterasu|other_names=|god_of=Goddess o the [[sun]] an the uiniverse; the meethical ancestress o the Imperial Hoose o Japan|image=File:Amaterasu cave crop.jpg|caption=Amaterasu emergin frae the cave, Ama-no-Iwato, whaur she retreatit ae time (detail o woodblock prent bi Kunisada)|planet=[[Sun]]|consort={{ubli|Unnamed sun god (One Myth)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kawamura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IihmAgAAQBAJ&q=virgin+amaterasu&pg=PA205 |title=Sociology & Society Of Japan |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-79319-9 |pages=205 |language=en}}</ref>|Tsukuyomi (some myths)}}|parents={{ubli|[[Izanagi]] ({{Lang|ja-latn|[[Kojiki]]}})|[[Izanagi]] and [[Izanami]] ({{Lang|ja-latn|[[Nihon Shoki]]}})}}|siblings={{ubli|[[Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto|Tsukuyomi]]|[[Susanoo-no-Mikoto|Susanoo]]|(and [[Kamiumi|others]])}}|children={{ubli|[[Ame-no-oshihomimi|Ame-no-Oshihomimi]]|[[Ame no Hohi]]|[[Amatsuhikone]]|[[Ikutsuhikone]]|[[Kumanokusubi]]}}|texts={{Lang|ja-latn|Kojiki}}, {{Lang|ja-latn|Nihon Shoki}}, ''Sendai Kuji Hongi''|cult_centre=Ise Shrine|abode=Takamagahara|artifacts=Yata no Kagami an Yasakani no Magatama|animals=Snake an draigon}}[[File:Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_(Kunisada)_1856.png|thumb|350 px|Amaterasu emergin oot o a cave]] {{nihongo|'''Amaterasu'''|[[Wiktionary:天照|天照]]}}, {{nihongo|'''Amaterasu-ōmikami'''|天照大神／天照大御神／天照皇大神}} or {{nihongo|'''Ōhirume-no-muchi-no-kami'''|大日孁貴神}} is a pairt o the Japanese meeth cycle, an aa a major deity o the [[Shinto]] releegion. She is seen as the goddess o the sun, but an aa o the universe. The name Amaterasu derived frae Amateru means "shinin in heiven." The meanin o her whole name, Amaterasu-ōmikami, is "the great august kami (god) who shines in the heaven".{{refn|''ama'' means "heiven"; ''tera'' is an inflectional form o ''teru'', "tae shine"; ''su'' is an honoreefic auxiliary verb which shaws respect for the actor; then ''amaterasu'' means "taea shine in the heiven". An ''ō'' means "big" or "great"; ''mi'' is a prefix for noble an august beins.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | editor=Akira Matsumura | encyclopedia=[[Daijirin]] | language=Japanese | edition=2nd | year=1995 | publisher=[[Sanseido]] Books | isbn=978-4385139005}}</ref>|name="name explanation"|group="N"}} Accordin tae the ''[[Kojiki]]'' an ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'' in [[Japanese meethologie]], the [[Emperor o Japan|Emperors o Japan]] are conseedert tae be direct descendants o Amaterasu. ==Notes== {{Reflist|group=N}} ==References== {{reflist}}{{Stub/Japan}}{{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese goddesses]] [[Category:Japanese monarchy]] [[Category:Japanese meethologie]] [[Category:Shinto kami]] [[Category:Mither goddesses]] [[Category:Solar goddesses]] jr1mh50u6xp52x37esp527banue90nn 922503 922502 2026-09-07T00:30:57Z CiphriusKane 74958 922503 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Infobox deity |type=Japanese |name=Amaterasu |other_names= |god_of=Goddess o the [[sun]] an the uiniverse; the mythological ancestress o the Imperial Hoose o Japan|image=File:Amaterasu cave crop.jpg|caption=Amaterasu emergin frae the cave, Ama-no-Iwato, whaur she retreatit ae time (detail o woodblock prent bi Kunisada) |planet=[[Sun]] |consort=Unnamed sun god<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kawamura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IihmAgAAQBAJ&q=virgin+amaterasu&pg=PA205 |title=Sociology & Society Of Japan |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-79319-9 |pages=205 |language=en}}</ref> or Tsukuyomi |parents=[[Izanagi]] ({{Lang|ja-latn|[[Kojiki]]}}) an [[Izanami]] ({{Lang|ja-latn|[[Nihon Shoki]]}}) |siblings=[[Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto|Tsukuyomi]], [[Susanoo-no-Mikoto|Susanoo]] (an [[Kamiumi|others]]) |children=[[Ame-no-oshihomimi|Ame-no-Oshihomimi]], [[Ame no Hohi]], [[Amatsuhikone]], [[Ikutsuhikone]], [[Kumanokusubi]] |texts={{Lang|ja-latn|Kojiki}}, {{Lang|ja-latn|Nihon Shoki}}, ''Sendai Kuji Hongi'' |cult_centre=Ise Shrine |abode=Takamagahara |artifacts=Yata no Kagami an Yasakani no Magatama |animals=Snake an draigon }}[[File:Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_(Kunisada)_1856.png|thumb|350 px|Amaterasu emergin oot o a cave]] {{nihongo|'''Amaterasu'''|[[Wiktionary:天照|天照]]}}, {{nihongo|'''Amaterasu-ōmikami'''|天照大神／天照大御神／天照皇大神}} or {{nihongo|'''Ōhirume-no-muchi-no-kami'''|大日孁貴神}} is a pairt o the Japanese meeth cycle, an aa a major deity o the [[Shinto]] releegion. She is seen as the goddess o the sun, but an aa o the universe. The name Amaterasu derived frae Amateru means "shinin in heiven." The meanin o her whole name, Amaterasu-ōmikami, is "the great august kami (god) who shines in the heaven".{{refn|''ama'' means "heiven"; ''tera'' is an inflectional form o ''teru'', "tae shine"; ''su'' is an honoreefic auxiliary verb which shaws respect for the actor; then ''amaterasu'' means "taea shine in the heiven". An ''ō'' means "big" or "great"; ''mi'' is a prefix for noble an august beins.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | editor=Akira Matsumura | encyclopedia=[[Daijirin]] | language=Japanese | edition=2nd | year=1995 | publisher=[[Sanseido]] Books | isbn=978-4385139005}}</ref>|name="name explanation"|group="N"}} Accordin tae the ''[[Kojiki]]'' an ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'' in [[Japanese meethologie]], the [[Emperor o Japan|Emperors o Japan]] are conseedert tae be direct descendants o Amaterasu. ==Notes== {{Reflist|group=N}} ==References== {{reflist}}{{Stub/Japan}}{{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese goddesses]] [[Category:Japanese monarchy]] [[Category:Japanese meethologie]] [[Category:Shinto kami]] [[Category:Mither goddesses]] [[Category:Solar goddesses]] 2jtqe5k1q121524v2icii6a6e8nay5f Category:1973 establishments in Scotland 14 196520 922499 667025 2026-09-06T17:11:22Z Munci 6841 added [[Category:Establishments]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922499 wikitext text/x-wiki [[Category:1973]] [[Category:Establishments]] q0rt727fmmrz7xkjzfxj9ne5hs74csv 922500 922499 2026-09-06T17:11:36Z Munci 6841 added [[Category:Scotland]] using [[Help:Gadget-HotCat|HotCat]] 922500 wikitext text/x-wiki [[Category:1973]] [[Category:Establishments]] [[Category:Scotland]] e14ctu7v2ft9kbftpjou7pybapmh7uk