Since 1812, Francisco Covarrubias ( considered as the father of the Bufo Theater ) gradually substituted in his theatrical pieces the typical characters of the Spanish “ tonadilla escénica ” with creole characters such as “ guajiros ”, “ monteros ”, “ carreteros ” or “ peones ”.

Since the Norteiros are ethnic Konkani people, the substrate of the Daman creole is likely to be Konkani.

Since then, the standard set of languages included in Altaic has comprised Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

Since software can be designed using many different programming languages and in many different operating systems and operating environments, software standard is needed so that different software can understand and exchange information between each other.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

Since the time of Pāṇini, at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of their block structure, and described how sentences are recursively built up from smaller phrases, and eventually individual words or word elements.

Since all the names come from languages used long after the dolmens were erected, they don't indicate the intentions of the civilisations that constructed them.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

Since the end of Sakoku in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly – the last half-century or so has seen a very large volume of words borrowed from English, especially words about technology, including pasokon ( a shortening of " personal computer "), intānetto (" Internet "), and kamera (" camera ").

Since 1999, the education laws have forbidden the public universities to instruct students in languages other than Latvian ( there are exclusions made for linguistics, some international projects and non-budget groups ).

Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

Since most languages are textual, this article discusses textual syntax.

Since the late twentieth century, the Maya code has been almost completely deciphered, and the Mayan languages are among the most documented and studied in Mesoamerica.

Since HDLs are not considered to be programming languages by most hardware engineers, hardware refactoring is to be considered a separate field from traditional code refactoring.

Since Brown and Lenneberg believed that the objective reality denoted by language was the same for speakers of all languages, they decided to test how different languages codified the same message differently and whether differences in codification could be proven to affect behavior.

Since 1997 Sardinian has been an official language on the island, together with other languages spoken there.

Since few people are able to understand ancient languages, each age has translated Sappho in its own idiomatic way.

Since 1982, when the International Organization for Standardization adopted Pinyin as the standard romanization of Chinese, many Western languages have changed from spelling this loanword dao in national systems ( e. g., French EFEO Chinese transcription and English Wade – Giles ) to dao in Pinyin.

Since the first edition in French " Manuel du Répertoire bibliographique universel " ( 1905 ), UDC has been translated and published in various editions in 40 languages.

Since many settlers came via France and Italy, it is also likely that the Romance-based Jewish languages of those regions were represented.

Since Niklaus Wirth went on to develop languages such as Modula and Oberon ( where one could define a module before knowing about the entire program specification ), one can infer that top down programming was not strictly what he promoted.

Since the early 1990s, Masson has written a number of books on the emotional life of animals, one of which, When Elephants Weep, has been translated into 20 languages.

Since the Atlas mountains rise in the region inhabited by Berbers, it has been suggested that the name might be taken from one of the Berber languages, specifically adrar, Berber for " mountain ".

Since the Anglo-Boer war the term " Boervolk " was rarely used in the 20th century by the various regimes because of this attempt to assimilate the Boervolk with the Afrikaners.

Since only one note can be played at a time on each string, the fretting pattern is generally chosen so that notes which are rarely heard together ( such as C and C ) share a string pair.

Since the establishment of the first shogunate in 1192, the Emperors of Japan have rarely taken on a role as supreme battlefield commander, unlike many Western monarchs.

Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with much of the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

Since the time of the first drafts of the barcode it has very rarely been officially used by commercial or political institutions.

Since most sights are of the sun or moon, and haze is rare without overcast, the low-light advantages of the half-horizon mirror are rarely important in practice.

Since the introduction of MRI this test is rarely necessary to diagnose syringomyelia.

Since Presidents rarely died in office, however, the better preparation for the Presidency was considered to be the office of Secretary of State, in which Webster served under Harrison, Tyler, and later, Taylor's successor, Fillmore.

Since there are rarely any visible remains of these settlements, they are not generally considered ghost towns ; instead, they are referred to in archaeological circles as deserted medieval villages.

Since the Emperor rarely led campaigns personally, Song forces lacked unity of command.

Since Welk's show targeted an audience of mature, middle-aged viewers, the band would rarely play tunes from the current charts except strictly as novelty numbers.

Since there is rarely an obliging Fanny's behind handy, there is usually a substitute picture, woodcarving or pottery so that Fanny ’ s bottom is available.

Since this is not typically a goal in extreme analysis, or in civil engineering design, then the situation rarely presents itself.

Since the DBS nomenclature is rarely used in the UK or Ireland, the popularity of Sky's service has caused the terms " minidish " and " digibox " to be applied to products other than Sky's hardware.

Since it lies immediately west of 23rd Street, it is very rarely referred to as " 24th Street ".

Since the parsing algorithm makes intelligent use of layout ( indentation ), there is rarely a need for bracketing statements and no statement terminators are required.

Since its use is rarely lifesaving, this slight difference in time of response is inconsequential.

Since pinyin became the international standard for Chinese romanization in 1982, other romanizations ( including the Wade-Giles system, Gwoyeu Romatzyh developed by Yuen Ren Chao, and Latinxua Sin Wenz ) have become rarely used.

Since 1988, the theatre has been permitted to call itself the Royal National Theatre, but the full title is rarely used.

Since other methods are safer, quicker, and cheaper, this method is now rarely used ; however, an advantage of this approach is the sensitivity of auto-radiography based imaging, which enables highly accurate protein quantification when combined with optical software ( e. g. Optiquant ).

Since there is no land mass in the vicinity, temperatures rarely drop below even in the winter.

Since all professional police and gendarmes have sub-officer status in France, the gendarmerie brigadier ranks are rarely used, since they are used only by auxiliaries.

Since the 1980s it has been recognized that, rarely, rocks are dry enough and of a refractory enough composition to record without melting " ultra-high " metamorphic temperatures of 900-1100 ° C.

Since the invasion, it has opened only rarely, opened on July 3, 2003 for several hours for a visit by journalists and Coalition Provisional Authority head J. Paul Bremer, as a signal that things were returning to normal.