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This category has the following 200 subcategories, out of 234 total.

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Figures of speech subcategories by language‎ (14 c, 0 e)

A

Abkhaz figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Acehnese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Adyghe figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Afrikaans figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Aiwoo figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Akkadian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Albanian figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Alemannic German figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Amharic figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ancient Greek figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Arabic figures of speech‎ (7 c, 0 e)
Armenian figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Asi figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Asturian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Azerbaijani figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)

B

Bashkir figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Basque figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Bavarian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Belarusian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Bengali figures of speech‎ (2 c, 1 e)
Betawi figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Bikol Central figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Bourguignon figures of speech‎ (1 c, 2 e)
Bouyei figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Breton figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Bulgarian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Burmese figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)

C

Cantonese figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Catalan figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Cebuano figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)
Central Franconian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Chichewa figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Chickasaw figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Chinese figures of speech‎ (8 c, 0 e)
Cimbrian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Classical Nahuatl figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Classical Syriac figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Crimean Tatar figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Czech figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)

D

E

East Central German figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Eastern Min figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ede Nago figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Egyptian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Egyptian Arabic figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Emilian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
English figures of speech‎ (11 c, 0 e)
Esperanto figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Estonian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)

F

G

Galician figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Gan figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ge'ez figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Georgian figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
German figures of speech‎ (8 c, 0 e)
German Low German figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Greek figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)
Gujarati figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Gulf Arabic figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Gullah figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)

H

Haitian Creole figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Hakka figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Hausa figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Hawaiian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Hawaiian Creole figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Hebrew figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Hijazi Arabic figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Hiligaynon figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Hindi figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Hokkien figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Hungarian figures of speech‎ (7 c, 0 e)

I

Icelandic figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)
Ido figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ifè figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Igala figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Igbo figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ilocano figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Indonesian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Ingrian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Ingush figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Interlingua figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Irish figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Italian figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)

J

Jamaican Creole figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Japanese figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Jeju figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Jin figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Judeo-Italian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)

K

Kalasha figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Kalmyk figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Kannada figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Kapampangan figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Karelian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Kashmiri figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Kashubian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Khakas figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Khmer figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Kikuyu figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Kildin Sami figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Klingon figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Konkani figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Korean figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Kumyk figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)

L

Ladino figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Lao figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Latin figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Latvian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Laz figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Leizhou Min figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ligurian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Limburgish figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Lithuanian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Livvi figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Louisiana Creole figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Low German figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Lower Sorbian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Luxembourgish figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)

M

Macanese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Macedonian figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)
Magahi figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Maithili figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Malagasy figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Malay figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Malayalam figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Maltese figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Manchu figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Mandarin figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Manx figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Maori figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Marathi figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Marshallese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Masurian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Middle English figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Middle French figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Middle High German figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Mingrelian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Mon figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Mongolian figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Moroccan Arabic figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)

N

Na'vi figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Navajo figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Neapolitan figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Nepali figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Nez Perce figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Norman figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
North Levantine Arabic figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Northern East Cree figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Northern Kurdish figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Northern Min figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Norwegian figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Norwegian Bokmål figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Norwegian Nynorsk figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)

O

Occitan figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Old Church Slavonic figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Old English figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Old French figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Old Galician-Portuguese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Old Japanese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Old Norse figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Old Spanish figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Olukumi figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Ottoman Turkish figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)

P

Papiamentu figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Persian figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Polish figures of speech‎ (7 c, 0 e)
Portuguese figures of speech‎ (7 c, 0 e)
Proto-Indo-European figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Proto-Slavic figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Punjabi figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)

R

Romanian figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Russian figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)

S

Salar figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Samoan figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Sanskrit figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Sassarese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Saterland Frisian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Scots figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Scottish Gaelic figures of speech‎ (4 c, 0 e)
Serbo-Croatian figures of speech‎ (5 c, 0 e)
Shan figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Sichuanese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Sicilian figures of speech‎ (2 c, 0 e)
Silesian figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Slovak figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Slovene figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Somali figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
South Levantine Arabic figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Spanish figures of speech‎ (6 c, 0 e)
Sranan Tongo figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Sundanese figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Svan figures of speech‎ (1 c, 0 e)
Swahili figures of speech‎ (3 c, 0 e)
Swedish figures of speech‎ (8 c, 0 e)

T

Tagalog figures of speech‎ (7 c, 0 e)

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