* Languages have different conventions for treating modified letters and certain letter combinations.

Languages have been compared since antiquity.

Languages spoken in Estonia are largely reflective of the ethnic groups composing the country, and thus have changed with historical trends affecting the ethnic makeup of the country.

Languages of South and East Asia, such as the Dravidian and Austronesian languages, typically do not have such voiced fricatives as and, which are very familiar to European speakers.

Languages with rich nominal inflection typically have a number of identifiable declension classes, or groups of nouns with a similar pattern of case inflection.

Languages that do not have grammatical tense, such as Chinese, express time reference through adverbials, time phrases, and so on.

Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had for the later stages to have occurred.

Languages have different ways of dealing with these problems of repeated inheritance.

Languages that allow only single inheritance, where a class can only derive from one base class, do not have the diamond problem.

Languages such as C and assembly language have rudimentary macro systems, implemented as preprocessors to the compiler or assembler.

Languages like this have nasal vowels accompanied with complementary distribution between oral and nasal consonants before oral and nasal vowels.

Languages which have more tonal levels tend to use tone more for lexical and less for grammatical contrasts.

Languages which utilize vowel length or intonation rather than or in addition to syllabic accents in determining meter, such as Ottoman Turkish or Vedic, often have concepts similar to the iamb and dactyl to describe common combinations of long and short sounds.

Languages such as English do not have phonemic tone, although they use intonation for functions such as emphasis and attitude.

Languages that use syllabaries today tend to have simple phonotactics, with a predominance of monomoraic ( CV ) syllables.

Languages of dominant societies over the centuries have served as auxiliary languages, sometimes approaching the international level.

Victor Gollum lists Cree in the Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages as one of fifty five languages that have more than 1, 000 speakers which are being actively acquired by children.

Other school magazines, including The Spectrum and The Arts Review, have been published, as well as publications produced by individual departments such as The Cave ( Philosophy ), Etonomics ( Economics ), Scientific Etonian ( Science ), and most recently The Lexicon ( Modern Languages ).

Languages based on grammars with a high value of k have traditionally been considered to be difficult to parse, although this is less true now given the availability and widespread use of parser generators supporting LL ( k ) grammars for arbitrary k.

Languages named Cimmerian and Cimbrian have both existed.

Languages ( such as English ) having no syntactic T – V distinction may have semantic analogues to convey the mentioned attitudes towards the addressee, such as whether to address someone by first or last name, or whether to use " sir "/" ma ' am " in US English.

Languages with a Latin-derived alphabet have used multiple methods of sentence spacing since the advent of movable type in the 15th century.

* A fanciful etymology was given for the name " Oberon " by Charles Mackay in his book The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe along with many other theories on words found in the English language that have not found mainstream acceptance.

Languages that support list comprehensions or similar constructs may also make use of implicit iterators during the construction of the result list, as in Python:

Languages which allow the addition of constructs with user defined syntax include Camlp4, OpenC ++, Seed7, and Felix.

Languages do not generally allow words or syllables to be built of any arbitrary sequences of phonemes ; there are phonotactic restrictions on which sequences of phonemes are possible and in which environments certain phonemes can occur.

Languages with a passive voice construction may resort to it in order to allow the default syntactic pivot to shift its semantic role ( from agent to patient ) in a coordinated proposition:

Languages like Scheme, which implement tail-call optimization, allow infinite recursion of a specific sort — tail recursion — to occur without stack overflow.

Languages that do not allow words to end in certain or any consonants will add a dummy vowel to the end of loanwords from other languages that include a forbidden final consonant.

On 17 September 1987 programmer Howard G. ( Ward ) Cunningham, then with Tektronix, and Apple Computer's Kent Beck co-published the paper Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs.

The party seeks to alter federal language policy, as it applies within Quebec, so as to eliminate the statutory equality of English that is guaranteed under the Official Languages Act and other federal legislation.

Languages also might make use of grammatical differences that are lost when translated: in Czech, for example, the language is Čeština, the nation is Česká republika, and the people are Češi.

Languages that support existential types make use of existentially quantified type variables.

** the Official Languages Act of 1987 ( Sri Lanka ) passed in Sri Lanka in 1987 to make Tamil an official language of the country

Languages make a distinction between these two forces based on their roles.

Finally, the Act establishes a Commissioner of Official Languages and specifies his duties to hear and investigate complaints, make recommendations to Parliament, and delegate authority in matters pertaining to official languages in Canada.

Languages of the Middle East make up only 2 percent ( 1. 3 being Hebrew and. 5 percent Arabic ).

MOF can be viewed as a standard to write metamodels, for example in order to model the abstract syntax of Domain Specific Languages.

Languages that are often derided as write-only include APL, DDT, Perl, Forth, TECO, and regular expression syntax used in various languages.

Languages may use both syntax and prosody to distinguish interrogative sentences ( which pose questions ) from declarative sentences ( which state propositions ).

Languages to program a matrix require a more abbreviated syntax and style of command than normal programming languages such as C ++ and Java.

His great achievement, however, was preparing volumes iii, iv, and v on syntax entitled Vergleichende Syntax der indogermanischen Sprachen in Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen ( Outline of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages ), published in Strassburg between 1893 and 1900 by Delbrück and Brugmann.