Portal:Language/Selected picture

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The layout design for these subpages is at Portal:Language/Selected picture/Layout.

  1. Add a new picture to the next available subpage.
  2. Update "max=" to the new total for its {{Random portal component}} on the main page.

Picture list

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Map-Lusophone World-en.png
Credit: Yug, Sting and The Ogre

Countries and regions where Portuguese has official status

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The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum
Credit: © Hans Hillewaert

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

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Credit: Public domain

Maryada PatralLetter of Conduct written by Acharya Bhiksu (1st Head of Jain Swetamber Terapanth Sect) written in Rajasthani language

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Castellano-Español-en.png
Credit: Phoenix7777 and Bnwwf91

Geographical distribution of the preferential use of the terms castellano (Castilian), in red, vs. español (Spanish), in blue, to refer to the Spanish language

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Phoenician alphabet.svg
Credit: Luca

The Phoenician alphabet was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. It became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures. The Aramaic alphabet, a modified form of Phoenician, was the ancestor of modern Arabic script, while Hebrew script is a stylistic variant of the Aramaic script. The Greek alphabet (and by extension its descendants such as the Latin, the Cyrillic and the Coptic), was a direct successor of Phoenician, though certain letter values were changed to represent vowels.

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The portal was originally configured to display a new picture each month. An archive of the selections is at Portal:Language/Picture of the month, or this link lists all the selections.