UNESCO gateway page: "2008, International Year of Languages - Languages matter!" U.N. gateway page: "International Year of Languages" ICVWiki page on "World...
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coordination of the year. The International Year of Indigenous Languages aimed to focus attention on the risks confronting indigenous languages, especially...
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sign languages 2006: Annual theme: "Languages and cyberspace" 2007: Annual theme: Multilingual education 2008: International Year of Languages[citation...
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from the idea of a lingua franca (or dominant language) that people must use to communicate. The study of international auxiliary languages is interlinguistics...
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emphasize that it is never too late to learn a new language. European Day of Languages Languages of the European Union Breinstrup, Thomas, "2001 – Anno...
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The International Geophysical Year (IGY; French: Année géophysique internationale), also referred to as the third International Polar Year, was an international...
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International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) was a year-long celebration of astronomy that took place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the...
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university each year. Kaplan International Languages provides English courses, as well as French and German courses after acquiring Alpadia Language Schools in...
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Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the...
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*h₂et-no-, which also yielded Gothic aþn "year" (only the dative plural aþnam is attested). Although most languages treat the word as thematic *yeh₁r-o-,...
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The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an English language based secondary qualification similar to the GCSE and is recognised...
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over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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Programming languages are used for controlling the behavior of a machine (often a computer). Like natural languages, programming languages follow rules...
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national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia. Also, national languages are not...
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provisions of the Constitution, the Official Languages Act, 1963, the Official Languages Rules, 1976, and statutory instruments made by the Department of Official...
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Esperanto (redirect from Esperanto as an international language)
derives from Romance languages, but it also contains elements derived from Germanic, Greek, and Slavic languages. One of the language's most notable features...
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Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
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some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the...
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The International Truck of the Year (ITOY) is an annual award made by the international transport sector. Each year an expert jury, consisting of leading...
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(dichotomy) established between languages and dialects. Natural languages are spoken, signed, or both; however, any language can be encoded into secondary...
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The International Year of Peace was recognized in 1986 by the United Nations. It was first proposed during the UN conference of November 1981 by the United...
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ALGOL 58 (redirect from International algorithmic language)
ALGOL 58, originally named IAL, is one of the family of ALGOL computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL...
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Government of India to consider demands for the categorisation of languages as Classical languages. In the year 2004, the tentative criteria for the age of antiquity...
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architecture has strongly influenced the design of programming languages, with the most common type (imperative languages—which implement operations in a specified...
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Nations General Assembly proclamation of the International Year of Languages in 2008, the Arabic Language International Council was established by the Arab...
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languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...
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International Year of Volunteers was designated for 2001 by the United Nations General Assembly. The initiative aimed at increased recognition, facilitation...
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Regional language Street name controversy International Mother Language Day International Year of Languages (2008) Languages in censuses Directions of language...
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The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually...
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