Its official definition, edited by Woodward, Wetherall and Gorman, was first published in 1970.

Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years.

Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.

Its official name is Our Lady of Dolours.

Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States.

Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole ( Créole Martiniquais ).

Its official news publication is The Final Call Newspaper.

Its official language is Swiss German.

Its standardized form, commonly called Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English.

Its official name was the German Reich ( Deutsches Reich ).

Its functions had been fully absorbed into official government machinery in the British Raj and its private army had been nationalised by the British Crown.

Its aim was to prevent middle-class citizens from evading their responsibilities by financially putting into question the neutrality of the under-sheriff, the official entrusted with impanelling juries.

Its official name is Tokyo Metropolis, highlighting its special designation.

Its charter had been granted by an Anglican king and seems to have assumed that the Church of England would be its official church.

Its official establishment was deferred with the outbreak of World War II until August 23, 1948.

Its later use in legislation waned in favour of providing a schedule of local government areas and became mostly obsolete with the official creation of Greater London in 1965.

Its official debut came two nights later at the Sixth Annual Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival.

Its official population count was 761, 137 inhabitants in 2006 ; however, some estimates indicate its population to be as high as 1. 2 million ; the population in 1960 was only 70, 000.

Its GDP per capita was € 62, 374 in 2003, according to INSEE official figures.

Its official release was on October 17, 2007, but many stores began selling it five days in advance due to an internet leak of the album.

Its web site contains a link to the official rules of Pétanque and a link to a list of its national members.

Its official journal is Albanian Official Journal.

Its releases lag behind the official releases, due to its small development team and the concurrent development of the technology used to port the user interface.

Its official dedication took place on 1 July 2000, with Queen Margrethe II, and King Carl XVI Gustaf as the host and hostess of the ceremony.

Its terms will tend to be labile or vague, and they will fit actual languages more and more badly.

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

Its main reforms were in bringing the alphabet, semantics, and some grammatical features into closer alignment with the Romance languages, as well as removal of adjectival agreement and the accusative case except when necessary.

Its Indo-European origins are confirmed by the many cognate words in other Indo-European languages: It is cognate with Greek πέρδομαι ( perdomai ), Latin pēdĕre, Sanskrit pardate, Avestan pərəδaiti, Italian pettare, French " péter ", Russian пердеть ( perdet ') and Polish " pierd " << PIE * perd wind loudly or * pezd same, softly, all of which mean the same thing.

Its development was also influenced by other Italian languages and by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.

Its other principal members are Romanian, Greek and Albanian, all of which belong to different genetic branches of the Indo-European family of languages ( Romanian is a Romance language, while Greek and Albanian each comprise their own separate branches ).

Its vocabulary is based largely on the Germanic and Romance languages and its grammar is influenced by English.

Its legal terminology is practically devoid of loan words from foreign languages, suggesting that it is truly indigenous.

Its position in the cultures of Greater India is akin to that of Latin and Greek in Europe and it has significantly influenced most modern languages of the Indian subcontinent, particularly in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Its closest ancient relatives are the Iranian languages Old Persian and Avestan.

Its variants do differ slightly, as is the case with other pluricentric languages ( English, French, Spanish, German, Hindustani and Portuguese, among others ), but not to a degree which would justify considering them as different languages.

Its descendant script, the Cyrillic, is still used by many languages today.

Its name means Red Sand in Turkic languages.

Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages.

Its simplicity not only allowed it to be used in multiple languages, but it also allowed the common people to learn how to write.

Its popularity is attested by the number of languages in which it exists, each of these being represented by two or more variant " editions ": Greek ( the original ), Coptic, Armenian and Latin versions.

" Its morphology may vary across languages.

Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1, 500 languages.

Its closest equivalent in other Polynesian languages is the Cook Island Māori word po ' utukava, referring to a coastal shrub with white berries, Sophora tomentosa.

Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved circa 1000 – 1200 AD from the Magadhi Prakrit, which developed from a dialect or group of dialects that were close to, but different from, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit. Its sister languages include Bengali, Chittagonian, Sylheti ( Cilôţi ), Oriya, the Bihari languages. It is written with the Assamese script.