According to Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Indo-European root is * ser meaning " to protect ".

According to the Kurdish Academy of Language, Kurdish has the following phonemes:

According to a 2001 survey on the health of the Māori Language, the number of very fluent adult speakers was about 9 % of the Māori population, or 29, 000 adults.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica: Language families, as conceived in the historical study of languages, should not be confused with the quite separate classifications of languages by reference to their sharing certain predominant features of grammatical structure .< ref >" language.

According to the Charter of the French Language, all students must attend French language public schools except:

According to the Modern Language Association, there are ( in descending order ) 2, 372 English speakers, 55 Spanish speakers, 18 Vietnamese speakers, 5 German speakers, 4 Italian speakers, 3 Portuguese speakers, and 3 Russian speakers.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, " self-love " is " the instinct or desire to promote one's well-being "; while La Rochefoucauld considered ' that amour-propre ( self-regard ) is the mainspring of all human activities '.

According to GAO ( 2010 ), China has recently been putting enormous importance on foreign language learning, especially the English Language.

According to his 1954 autobiography for the Hall Syndicate, Kelly " fooled around with the Foreign Language Unit of the Army during the war, illustrating grunts and groans, and made friends in the newspaper and publishing business.

According to Guideline No. 5 of the contest process, submitted symbols were required to be " in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation ".

According to the project Application Manager during the project, Acorn was developing for it, Compiler for Acorn Modula-2 Extended Language ( CAMEL in Modula-2 +) bootstrapping from an Acorn Extended Modula-2 ( AEM2 ) compiler ( ported from Modula-2 ETH using Econet hardware ), though never released externally, it was ported to use it in SUN Unix machines, in an effort to port Sun's workstations Sun NeWS to the Archimedes, and after Olivetti bought out Acorn, developed a compiler based on CAMEL for the Modula-3 programming Language.

According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, the term derives from the Middle English brusket which comes from the earlier Old Norse brjósk, meaning cartilage.

According to its profile featured by the American Council of Learned Societies ( ACLS ), " The Modern Language Association is formed for educational, scientific, literary, and social objects and purposes, and more specifically for the promotion of the academic and scientific study of English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and other so-called modern languages and literatures.

According to the 2006 Canadian census, 575, 555 ( 7. 6 % of population ) in Quebec declare English as their only mother tongue, 744, 430 ( 10 %) use mostly English as their home language, and 918, 955 ( 12. 2 %) comprise the Official Language Minority, having English as their First Official language spoken.

According to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, in the 1880s ( the time of the beginning of the Zionist movement and the Hebrew revival ) there were mainly three groups of Hebrew regional accents: Ashkenazi ( Eastern European ) and Sephardi ( Spanish / Portuguese / Italian ), and Mizrahi ( Middle Eastern ) both largely used by Israelis of Iraqi, Moroccan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Yemeni heritage.

According to The Political Language of Islam, during the Islamic period, Ajam was originally used as a reference to denote those whom Arabs in the Arabian peninsula viewed as " alien " or outsiders.

According to linguist Ghil ' ad Zuckermann, " it is possible that the Sun Language Theory was adopted by Atatürk in order to legitimize the Arabic and Persian words which the Turkish language authorities did not manage to uproot.

A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing about 12, 000 Characters ( ISBN 1-86210-067-5 )

According to the English Language newspaper of the Chicago anarchists, it was " the fearful symbol of hunger, misery and death.

According to the March 1, 1992 " On Language " column by William Safire in the New York Times Magazine, the term was coined by New York Times editor Tim Race in a January 1992 New York Times article.

According to the list of municipalities which could be considered to be areas of predominant use of its own language or linguistic modality or areas of predominant use of normalised Catalan in the Second annex of the Second Final Disposition of the Avant-project of the Language Law, La Franja would be composed of:

According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, the two factions of the Party adhered to differing strands of communism prior to their 2004 merger, although " both organizations shared their belief in the ' annihilation of class enemies ' and in extreme violence as a means to secure organizational goals.

According to Tony at Megalithic Portal ... " Traditionally, it provided a good supply and never ran dry.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

According to the Census of Canada, the population of Cape Breton Island in 2011 was 135, 974, a 4. 4 % decline from 142, 298 in 2006, and a 14. 1 % decline from 158, 260 in 1996.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to the laws of Canada, a Canadian whisky must be mashed, distilled and aged in Canada.

According to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 201-300 in the world and 8-17th in Canada.

According to a survey conducted by The Scientist magazine, Dal was named the best non-commercial scientific institute in which to work in Canada.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

According to Environment Canada, Manitoba ranked first for clearest skies year round, and ranked second for clearest skies in the summer and for sunniest province in the winter and spring.

According to the Pagan Federation of Canada: ' Over the last few decades, many people have thought that the emphasis on male / female polarity in Wicca excludes homosexuals '.

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, the law school ranks among the top five in Canada.

According to U. S. News & World Report, the University of Manitoba is among the top 20 universities in Canada and top 400 universities in the world as of 2009.

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest lobster was caught in Nova Scotia, Canada, and weighed.

According to author Ginger Strand, the Horseshoe Falls is now entirely in Canada.

According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).

According to the Sagas, the first European to see Canada was Bjarni Herjólfsson, who was blown off course en route from Iceland to Greenland in the summer of 985 or 986 CE.

According to the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn — due to his having lived in Canada between 1791 and 1800, and fathering Queen Victoria — is the " ancestor of the modern Canadian Royal Family.

According to Granatstein, this meant that Canada was not able to live up to its post-Cold War military commitments.

According to the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities ( ARWU ) rankings, the university ranked 151-200 in the world and 7-8 in Canada.

According to the British North America Act, 1867, the Governor General of Canada may veto a bill by refusing Royal Assent.