Most importantly, the ' Altaic ' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship.

Most of the thousands of human languages use patterns of sound or gesture for symbols which enable communication with others around them.

Most languages have one main copula, but some languages, like Spanish and Thai, have more than one, and some have none.

Most languages have exclusively pulmonic egressive consonants, which use the lungs and diaphragm, but ejectives, clicks, and implosives use different mechanisms.

Most languages, however, do include one or more fricatives, with being the most common, and a liquid consonant or two, with the most common.

Most of the documents, chiefly the minutes of the sessions, were written in Greek ; others, e. g. the imperial letters, were issued in both languages ; others, again, e. g. the papal letters, were written in Latin.

Most Khoisan languages, on the other hand ( with the notable exceptions of Naro and Sandawe ), use a more iconic system based on the pipe ⟨|⟩.

Most applications are programmed using common programming languages and software development tools.

Most assembly languages and some low-level languages, such as BCPL ( Basic Combined Programming Language ), lack support for data structures.

Most programming languages feature some sorts of library mechanism that allows data structure implementations to be reused by different programs.

Most XML schema languages are only replacements for element declarations and attribute list declarations, in such a way that it becomes possible to parse XML documents with non-validating XML parsers ( if the only purpose of the external DTD subset was to define the schema ).

Most people in Ethiopia speak Afro-Asiatic languages, mainly of the Semitic or Cushitic branches.

Most of the languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family.

Most general purpose functional programming languages allow unrestricted recursion and are Turing complete, which makes the halting problem undecidable, can cause unsoundness of equational reasoning, and generally requires the introduction of inconsistency into the logic expressed by the language's type system.

Most languages include a function known as or that returns the location of a string within another.

Most of the ISO / IEC 8859 encodings provide diacritic marks required for various European languages using the Latin script.

Most so-called interpreted languages use an intermediate representation, which combines compiling and interpreting.

Most historical linguists ( Campbell 2001: 45 ) reject the use of mass comparison as a tool for establishing genealogical relationships between languages.

Most American Indian linguists classify the native languages of the Americas into 150 to 180 independent language families.

Most are declarative languages, and are either frame languages, or are based on first-order logic.

Most of these languages only define an upper ontology with generic concepts, whereas the domain concepts are not part of the language definition.

Most addition reactions to alkenes follow the mechanism of electrophilic addition.

Most schools follow the British educational system.

Most suspension bridge cables follow a parabolic, not a catenary curve, due to the weight of the roadway being much greater than that of the cable.

Most structures follow the points-on-a-sphere pattern ( or, as if the central atom were in the middle of a polyhedron where the corners of that shape are the locations of the ligands ), where orbital overlap ( between ligand and metal orbitals ) and ligand-ligand repulsions tend to lead to certain regular geometries.

Most Protestants believe this salvific grace comes about at the moment of personal decision to follow Jesus, and that baptism is a symbol of the grace already received.

Most call numbers in the Expansive Classification follow conventions offering clues to the book's subject.

Most Arthurian romances of this period produced in English or Welsh did not follow this trend ; Camelot was referred to infrequently, and usually in translations from French.

Most writers were content to follow the rules slavishly, some flouted some or all of the conventions, and some exploited the conventions to produce new and startling results.

Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow ; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning Emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of Caesar.

Most sites today follow how RotoNews had a " news " and " analysis " element to each player update.

Most of this text explains how the free software philosophy works, and why it would be a good choice for the technology industry to follow.

Most scholars now follow Richter's identification.

Most sexual orientation specialists follow the general conclusion of Alfred Kinsey regarding the sexual continuum, according to which a minority of humans are exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, and that the majority are bisexual.

Most of the subsequent entries in the Quake franchise follow this storyline.

Most simply call themselves Jains and follow general traditions rather than specific sectarian practices.

Most Western-style knitters follow either the English style ( in which the yarn is held in the right hand ) or the Continental style ( in which the yarn is held in the left hand ).

Most modern-day knives follow either a fixed-blade or a folding construction style, with blade patterns and styles as varied as their makers and countries of origin.

Most people with lymphedema follow a daily regimen of treatment as suggested by their physician or certified lymphedema therapist.

Most economic textbooks follow the practice of carefully explaining the perfect competition model, only because of its usefulness to understand " departures " from it ( the so-called imperfect competition models ).

Most calendars, like our Gregorian calendar, follow the seasons and are based on the tropical year.

Most follow formats similar to the above ( Top 40s, Freeform, AOR and Oldies ), except with a different playlist.

Most countries of the world follow the principle of jus sanguinis rather than jus soli.

Most police forces salute similar to the Canadian Forces standard, with the exception of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, which follow the British Army standard of saluting with the full palm facing forward, touching the brim of the hat, if worn.

Most similar to music from Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, fully orchestrated strings follow, which are accompanied by percussion.