Egyptian hieroglyphs were solved using the Rosetta Stone, which was a multilingual stele in Classical Greek, Demotic Egyptian and Classical Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The FAO Statistical Division produces FAOSTAT, an on-line multilingual database currently containing over 3 million time-series records from over 210 countries and territories covering statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population.

It supports from 1 to 48 channels at sampling rates of 8 to 96 kHz, with multichannel, multilingual, and multiprogram capabilities.

Due to the arrival of disparate settler groups from outside through the ages, it is now a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multilingual country.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

* Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records ( 1976 )

Another group of 80 legislators supported an amendment offered by Steve King of Iowa, seeking to strip provisions from the Act that required that translators or multilingual ballots be provided for U. S. citizens who do not speak English.

Belgium's trade advantages are derived from its central geographic location and a highly skilled, multilingual, and productive work force.

In 1784 he ordered that the country change its language of instruction from Latin to German, a highly controversial step in a multilingual empire.

They hired as agent a multilingual young physician from the British Electorate of Hanover, Justus Erich Bollmann, who established contact with Lafayette in prison and acquired an assistant, a South Carolinian medical student named Francis Kinloch Huger.

Wiktionary ( from the words wiki and dictionary ) is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in 158 languages.

Damo Suzuki was a very different singer from Mooney, with a multilingual ( he claimed to sing in " the language of the Stone Age ") and often inscrutable vocal style.

The role of English within the complex multilingual society of India is far from straightforward: it is used across the country, by speakers with various degrees of proficiency ; the grammar and phraseology may mimic that of the speaker's first language.

Increasing interest is being paid to multilingual data mining: the ability to gain information across languages and cluster similar items from different linguistic sources according to their meaning.

It is known for its international atmosphere, with one third of the students and 40 % of professors coming from abroad, and favours a multilingual approach to business education, offering bilingual ( French and English ) and trilingual ( French, English and Spanish ) bachelor's degrees, and graduate degrees both in English and in French.

World Socialist was a bi-annual journal that was produced by the international from 1983 to 1987 and the international's only publication to date ( World Socialism 69 was a multilingual publication by the Socialist Party of Great Britain ).

The site is multilingual, and publishes international current affairs articles written from a Marxist perspective, as well as a large number of historical and theoretical articles.

Popular music from Europe and various other countries was mixed with vintage recordings and multilingual chatter, switching back and forth between English, Spanish and Dutch, by hosts including long serving Eddie Startz and Tom Meijer each Sunday.

Education may be obtained from the multilingual public school system, which provide free education for all Malaysians, or private schools, or through homeschooling.

The role of English within the complex multilingual society of Pakistan is far from straightforward: it is used across the country, by speakers with various degrees of proficiency ; the grammar and phraseology may mimic that of the speaker's first language.

The call letters CFMT were derived from " Canada's first multilingual television.

" Switzerland as a small, multilingual, decentralized democracy was from a National Socialist viewpoint a total antithesis of the racially homogeneous and collectivized " Führer State ".

Both studios used continental film practices, especially those from Germany, with Alfred Hitchcock being encouraged by Balcon -- who had links with UFA -- to study there and make multilingual co-production films with UFA, before the war.

In heavily multilingual meetings, there may be more than one " intermediate " language, i. e. a Greek source language could be interpreted into English and then from English to other languages, and, at the same time, it may also be directly interpreted into French, and from French into yet more languages.

IFEX's multilingual ( English, French, Spanish, Arabic ) website contains the largest searchable online archive of information on free expression violations, dating back to 1995.

Walter Quin, tutor to the future Charles I, worked hard on multilingual anagrams on the name of father James.

After World War I, the various successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire made multilingual overprints to their old Imperial currency until new notes could be designed and circulated.

Following the end of World War I, when her native Bohemia became part of the new republic of Czechoslovakia, she found work in the Olomouc branch of the Pražská úvěrová banka ( Prague Credit Bank ) thanks to her multilingual skills, honed through her desire to travel the world.

The term " multilingual information retrieval " refers to CLIR in general, but it also has a specific meaning of cross-language information retrieval where a document collection is multilingual.

But many other European states have ethnic minorities which form a majority within a province or region, see multilingual countries and regions of Europe.

* WorldScript ( Old Macintosh multilingual text rendering engine )

Fraser supported multiculturalism and established a government-funded multilingual radio and television network, the Special Broadcasting Service ( SBS ), though their first radio stations were established under the Whitlam government.

Many traditional character encodings share a common problem in that they allow bilingual computer processing ( usually using Latin characters and the local script ), but not multilingual computer processing ( computer processing of arbitrary scripts mixed with each other ).

In multilingual studies ( based on Czech, German, French & English ), Underhill considers how different cultures reformulate key concepts such as truth, love, hate and war.

), Beyond bilingualism: Multilingualism and multilingual education ( pp. 192 – 205 ).

* Colors ( magazine ), a multilingual quarterly magazine

Due in part to her education at Quirm College for Young Ladies, Susan possesses various practical skills, some of which contribute to her success as a governess and later a teacher: she is accomplished in the fields of Mathematics and Logic ( priding herself on her ability to mentally calculate the square root of 27. 4 ), is multilingual, and has considerable knowledge of Discworld culture.

According to the philosophy of unity among all Christians, IFES allows only one member organisation per country, although in some bilingual and multilingual countries ( i. e. Canada, Belgium, Switzerland ), there are parallel organizations for different linguistic groups.

Simutrans is multilingual and is compiled for Microsoft Windows, Linux, BeOS / Haiku, Mac OS X and AmigaOS 4. x which make use of several graphics libraries such as GDI ( Windows only ), SDL ( all versions ) or Allegro ( BeOS only ).

This would combine all the Low Countries as a single multilingual entity, which would be similar to the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands ), uniting all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Northern France ( most likely Nord-Pas de Calais ).

This term has been hijacked by the Belgicists, who created the " Whole-Netherlandism " ideology or Burgundism, whose aim is a so-called " Whole-Netherlands " ( Heel-Nederland ) combining all the Low Countries into a single multilingual entity This would unite, not the territories in which Dutch people live, but all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands ( which would be similar to the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands ) and Northern France, most likely Nord-Pas de Calais ), along the lines of the historical Burgundian Circle ), creating a Greater Belgium.

* Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( 1899-1977 ), multilingual Russian novelist

Otto Maria Carpeaux ( March 9, 1900 – February 3, 1978 ), born Otto Karpfen, was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.

Chip Tsao ( born August 17, 1958 ), also known by his pen name To Kit and self-claimed First Wit of Hong Kong ( 香江第一才子 ), is a multilingual Hong Kong-based columnist, broadcaster, and writer.

In addition, some XOOPS modules create duplicate content by making the same information available on more than one URL while in other cases ( especially in case of multilingual sites ), several sets of content may be made available through the same URL.

This flexibility of Antiope provided a foundation on which multilingual and multialphabetic systems were developed, and also systems using dynamically redefinable character sets ( DRCS ), especially in variants delivered over the telephone ( videotex ).

In 1989, the International Organization for Standardization began work on the Universal Character Set ( UCS ), a multilingual character set that could be encoded using either a 16-bit ( 2-byte ) or 32-bit ( 4-byte ) value.

He introduced the concept of linguistic range, the degree to which the linguistic systems of the community differ so that speech communities can be multilingual, diglossic, multidialectal ( including sociolectal stratification ), or homogeneous-depending on the degree of difference among the different language systems used in the community.

* Bastardas-Boada, Albert ( 2007 ), “ Linguistic sustainability for a multilingual humanity ”, Glossa.

Although the Bureau of Translators ' multilingual dictionary ( 华夷译语, Hua-Yi yiyu, ' Sino-Barbarian Dictionary ') was known to Europeans since 1789 ( thanks to Jean Joseph Marie Amiot ), a copy with a Jurchen section ( Hua-Yi yiyu ) was not discovered until the late 19th century, when it was studied and published by Wilhelm Grube in 1896.

This trend continued in the 15th century, with Juan de Segovia's trilingual Qur ' an ( Arabic, Spanish, and Latin ), now lost, and Cardinal Cisneros's multilingual Bible.

IRCX defines ways to use SASL authentication to authenticate securely to the server, channel properties / metadata, multilingual support that can be queried using the enhanced " LISTX " command ( to find a channel in your language ), an additional user level ( so there are three levels: owners, hosts, and voices ), specific IRC operator levels, and full support for UTF-8 ( in nicknames, channel names, and so on ).