In his 1987 book Language in the Americas, while supporting the Eskimo – Aleut and Na-Dené groupings as distinct, he proposed that all the other Native American languages belong to a single language macro-family, which he termed Amerind.

Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 64 Awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty one have gone to European films, five to Asian films, three to African films and three to films from the Americas.

PacCALL: The Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, promoting CALL in the Pacific, from East to Southeast Asia, Oceania, across to the Americas.

Language in the Americas.

Due to a large number of methodological flaws in the 1987 book Language in the Americas, the relationships he proposed between these languages have been rejected by the majority of historical linguists as unsupported.

This has made Greenlandic a unique example of an indigenous language of the Americas that serves exclusively as an official language of a semi-independent country, yet it is still considered to be in a " vulnerable " state by the UNESCO Red Book of Language Endangerment.

External organizations including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Education Association, Amnesty International, the Modern Language Association, and Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas also took positions in favor of retiring the Chief.

Language in the Americas.

Joseph Greenberg's Language in the Americas ( 1987 ) linked Macro-Ge and Macro-Carib together, but also with Macro-Panoan rather than Tupian.

Language in the Americas.

A typological grammar of Panare: A Cariban Language of Venezuela Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 5.

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.

His 1939 memorial article for Sapir, " The Relation of Habitual Thought And Behavior to Language ", in particular has been taken to be Whorf's definitive statement of the issue, and is his most frequently quoted piece.

The notation aspect of the Booch method has now been superseded by the Unified Modeling Language ( UML ), which features graphical elements from the Booch method along with elements from the object-modeling technique ( OMT ) and object-oriented software engineering ( OOSE ).

More recently, a Roman-based orthography named Brolikva which is short form of Brahui Roman Likvar has been developed by the Brahui Language Board of the University of Balochistan in Quetta.

As a teaching aid for English as a Second Language, Basic English has been criticised for the choice of the core vocabulary and for its grammatical constraints.

In 1997, the ITP Nelson Dictionary of the Canadian English Language was another product, but has not been updated since.

The Unified Modeling Language has support for sequence diagrams.

The Common Language Infrastructure currently has no built-in support for Dynamically typed languages because the existing Common Intermediate Language is statically typed.

Dia has special objects to help draw entity-relationship models ( tedia2sql can be used to create the SQL DDL ), Unified Modeling Language ( UML ) diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple electrical circuits.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

The name " Erlang ", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been understood as a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang, and ( initially at least ) simultaneously as an abbreviation of " Ericsson Language ".

Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, again more than any other country in Asia.

Angola, at the presidency of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ) since 2010, has since March 21, 2011, a military mission in Guinea-Bissau ( MISSANG ) to assist the reform in sector of defence and security.

American Sign Language ( ASL ) is similar to many other sign languages in that it has no grammatical tense but many verbal aspects produced by modifying the base verb sign.

Oriental Hebrew was chosen as the representative variant by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, but has declined in popularity.

The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

Roger Nunn considers different types of competence in relation to the teaching of English as an International Language, arguing that linguistic competence has yet to be adequately addressed in recent considerations of EIL.

Development of the Semantic Web, has included development of XML-based knowledge representation languages and standards, including RDF, RDF Schema, Topic Maps, DARPA Agent Markup Language ( DAML ), Ontology Inference Layer ( OIL ), and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ).

According to the Language Portal of Canada, " this fairly new tradition has gained in popularity in France, Great Britain, Jamaica and Brazil ", although this information has not been confirmed with authoritative sources from these countries.

* ATLAS Transformation Language – Dia diagrams may be generated by ATL model transformations

In the High Order Language Working Group ( HOLWG ) the process to define Ada generated requirements documents sporting different names, representing the various stages of development of the Ada language, as described in 1993 by Col William Whitaker in an article ACM SIGPLAN Notices.

Data generated as illustrated by the Association of Spanish Language Academies. The darker the country, the stronger its dominance.

It seems further that imagery that originates from the senses and internally generated imagery may have a shared ontology at higher levels of cortical processing ( see e. g. Language of thought ).

Promotional literature for this proposed new system has generated considerable controversy in the UK Deaf Community and alarm among Sign Language Professionals because of remarks about British Sign Language by the charities Operations Director styling it a " basic communication system ".

Data generated as illustrated by the Association of Spanish Language Academies.

His commentaries ranged from goings on at Algoma Steel to the Language Resolution and beyond and often generated talk in the community and occasionally rebuttals and headlines in the local papers.

Language groups such as the German Network, French Network ( FrNet ) and Japanese Network ( J-Net ), as well as subject-based networks such as STEP and infotech, maintain lively internet-based groups for purposes such as the clarification of terminological queries, discussion of best practice, sharing work, and organizing social events within what is often seen as a solitary profession.

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

Kärlekens språk ( The Language of Love ) was an informative documentary about sex and sexual techniques that featured the first real act of sex in a mainstream film, and inevitably it caused intense debate around the world.

) ( 1980 ) Language and learning: the debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky.

In his publication Biological Foundations of Language he advanced the hypothesis of a critical period for language development ; a topic which remains controversial and the subject of debate.

In April 2006 Senior Biology Major Ding Ding and Junior English Major Yu Yongcui of the OUC Speech and Debate Team reached the semifinals of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press " FLTRP Cup " national debate competition.

There is an ongoing debate within the Saurashtra community regarding the use of the script for the Sourashtra language right from 1920 when a resolution was passed to adopt Devanagari Script for Sourashtra Language.

Language is often drawn into the debate as a complicating factor.