Historically, Latin or Romance languages have been the official languages in this region.

Historically the å has developed from a ligature by writing a small a on top of the letter a ; if an å character is unavailable, some Scandinavian languages allow the substitution of a doubled a.

Historically, a connection from Etruscan to the Semitic languages has also been discussed.

Historically, the Indo-European languages had eight morphological cases, though modern languages typically have fewer, using prepositions and word order to convey information that had previously been conveyed using distinct noun forms.

Historically, several names in various languages have identified Daugavpils.

Historically, this office has held the title of Pope, " Παπας " ( papas ), which means " Father " in the Greek and the Coptic languages, since Pope Heracleus, the 13th Alexandrine Bishop ( 232 – 249 AD ), was the first to associate the appellation of Pope with the title of the Bishop of Alexandria.

Historically, various Gallo-Romance languages were spoken in France, except for some outlying regions ( Corsica, western Brittany, French Basque country, French Flanders, Alsace and part of Lorraine ); the Wallonia region of Belgium ; the Romandy region of Switzerland ; the Channel Islands ; portions of the Spanish Pyrenees ; and in Northern Italy.

Historically, Message Queuing has used proprietary, closed protocols, restricting the ability for different operating systems or programming languages to interact in a heterogenous set of environments.

Historically, some languages treat vowel sounds that were formerly diphthongs as monophthongs.

Historically, the Nganasan language and a Taymyr Pidgin Russian were the only languages spoken among the Nganasan, but with increased education and village settlement, Russian has become the first language of many Nganasans and the Dolgan language is also spoken by some Nganasans who live in mixed villages such as Ust '- Avam.

Historically, Bhumthangkha and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Kurtöpkha to the east, Nupbikha to the west, and Khengkha to the south, to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of " Bumthang languages.

Historically, Khengkha and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Kurtöpkha, Nupbikha, and Bumthangkha to the north, to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of " Bumthang languages.

Historically, the Turkic languages are believed to have arrived in Iran from Central Asia from the 11th or 12th centuries onwards.

Historically, American Indian peoples from the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muskogee, Choctaw and Seminole nations ; ethnic European Americans from England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Spain ; and African-descended peoples originally speaking numerous languages from a variety of ethnic cultures of West Africa, are all represented at the fort.

Historically, different methods and languages were required for every repository, including each different database, file system, etc., and many of these repositories stored their content in different and incompatible formats.

Historically, this sound often derives from a former voiceless velar stop ( as in English, Slavic languages and Romance languages ), or a voiceless dental stop by way of palatalization, especially next to a front vowel.

Historically, only few such languages were successful in both establishing themselves and maintaining strong market position ; a short description of those languages follows below.

Historically, the " erosion " of word-final sounds ( strongest in Livonian, Võro and Estonian ) may leave a phonemic status to the morphophonological variations caused by the agglutination of the lost suffixes, which is the source of the third length level in these languages.

Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.

Historically almost all early computers were accumulator machines ; and many microcontrollers still popular as of 2010 ( such as the 68HC12, the PICmicro, the 8051 and several others ) are basically accumulator machines.

Historically, all living things were grouped as either animals or plants, and botany covered the study of all organisms not considered to be animals.

Historically, allegations of cannibalism were used by the colonial powers to justify the enslavement of what were seen as primitive peoples ; cannibalism has been said to test the bounds of cultural relativism as it challenges anthropologists " to define what is or is not beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior ".

Historically, in Socialist systems collectivist economics were carried to their furthest extreme, with a minimum of private ownership and a maximum of planned economy.

Historically, the baudot and braille keyboards were standardized to some extent, but they are unable to replicate the full character set of a modern keyboard.

Historically, Charlton's most successful period was the 1930s, when the club's highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the First Division in 1937.

Historically, Japanese attempts to normalize their relationship with China were met with Taiwanese accusations of ingratitude.

Historically, cranberry beds were constructed in wetlands.

Historically, RT-11 also served as the inspiration for many microcomputer OS's, as these were generally being written by programmers who cut their teeth on one of the many PDP-11 models.

Historically, lawyers in most European countries were addressed with the title of doctor, and countries outside of Europe have generally followed the practice of the European country which had policy influence through modernization or colonialization.

Historically, division rings were sometimes referred to as fields, while fields were called “ commutative fields ”.

Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, but some, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica or the world ´ s largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works.

Historically, distances were often measured by chains such as Gunter's chain, and angles using graduated circles and, later, the theodolite.

Historically, elliptic functions were discovered as inverse functions of elliptic integrals.

( Historically, division rings were sometimes referred to as fields, while fields were called commutative fields.

Historically, the hadrons ( mesons and baryons such as the proton and neutron ) and even whole atoms were once regarded as elementary particles ( indeed, the word " atom " means " indivisible ").

Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area ( such as Blarmacfoldach ).

Historically they were sometimes called Feynman-Dyson diagrams or Dyson graphs, because when they were introduced the path integral was unfamiliar, and Freeman Dyson's derivation from old-fashioned perturbation theory was easier to follow for physicists trained in earlier methods.

Historically the first decade of semiconductor electronics were entirely based on germanium, although its production for such use today is a small fraction ( 2 %) of that of ultra-high purity silicon, which has largely replaced it.

Historically German was widely spoken during that colonial period, but this practice is already forgotten.

Historically the language spoken in Provence was Provençal, a dialect of the Occitan language, also known as langue d ' oc, and closely related to Catalan.

Historically, the substantive and editorial differences among the first-edition and the third-edition versions is that the former, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), is a prescriptive style guide to clear and expressive writing, whilst the latter versions, The New Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 1996 ) and Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 2004 ), are descriptive usage guides to spoken and written English.

Historically, a woman in England would assume her new husband's family name ( or surname ) after marriage, and this remains common practice in the United Kingdom today as well as in common law countries and countries where English is spoken, including Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, Ireland, India, Philippines, the English-speaking provinces of Canada, and the United States.

Historically, the language spoken in Carcassonne and throughout Languedoc-Roussillon was not French, but actually the quite different Occitan.

Historically they have spoken the dialect of German known as Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German.

Historically, the dialect was also spoken in several other regions where its use has either largely or entirely faded.

Historically, Seminoles in Florida have spoken two mutually unintelligible lanugages, Mikasuki and Creek.

Historically, Low German was also spoken in formerly German parts of Poland as well as in East Prussia and the Baltic States of Estonia and Latvia.

Historically, they were spoken by the Khoi and San people.

Historically, the people of Auray have spoken the Vannes dialect of Breton but the citizens spoke French from the eighteenth century onwards.

Historically the language was spoken by various constituent groups of the Muscogee or Maskoki in what are now Alabama and Georgia.

Historically, written Cantonese has been used in Hong Kong for legal proceedings in order to write down the exact spoken testimony of a witness, instead of paraphrasing spoken Cantonese into standard written Chinese.

Historically the variants of Welsh and English Romani, constituted the same variant of Romani, share characteristics and are historically closely related to dialects spoken in France, Germany ( Sinti ), Scandinavia, Spain, Poland, North Russia and the Baltic states.