Developments in the systematic study of ancient civilizations through the disciplines of Classics and Egyptology informed both archaeology and eventually social anthropology, as did the study of East and South Asian languages and cultures.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

* Latest day on which New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures can fall.

The abalone meat from South Africa is prohibited for sale in the country to help reduce poaching ; however, much of the illegally harvested meat is sold in Asian countries.

* New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:

* American-Born Confused Desi, refers to American youth of South Asian descent

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Co-ed South Asian a cappella groups are also gaining in popularity.

Maize Mirchi, the co-ed a cappella group from the University of Michigan hosts " Sa Re Ga Ma Pella ", an annual South Asian a cappella invitational with various groups from the Midwest.

The loss of Kashmir during his reign opened a new chapter in South Asian history.

The scope of the Department of Asia is extremely broad, its collections of over 75, 000 objects covers the material culture of the whole Asian continent ( from East, South, Central and South-East Asia ) and from the Neolithic up to the present day.

The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

Costa Rica major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

It is globally popular and an essential flavouring in many cuisines, particularly South Asian, Northern African and Latin American cuisines.

A 40-year study of African, Asian, and South American tropical forests by the University of Leeds, shows tropical forests absorb about 18 % of all carbon dioxide added by fossil fuels.

It is believed that their origin lies in the Pakistani region of Baltistan, from where they were brought and pioneered by South Asian migrants to the UK.

* South Asian cuisine

This allele occurs almost exclusively in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians.

The South Asian inhabitants of Mehrgarh fashioned tools with local copper ore ( ore used as pigment ) between 7700 – 3300 BC.

Other excavations from ancient tombs in the Indus Valley civilization indicate a South Asian origin.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

For example the late Alam Lohar is a good example of a classical South Asian folk singer of great repute.

It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

The first Antarctic land discovered was the island of South Georgia, visited by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675.

Southern Hemisphere native varieties of English began to develop during the 18th century, with the colonisation of Australasia and South Africa.

Australian English and New Zealand English are closely related to each other, and share some similarities with South African English.

Small communities of native English speakers can be found in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia ; the dialects spoken are similar to South African English.

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

Six episodes from series one were a core text in the Year 12 English Advanced syllabus for the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales ( 2000 – 2008 ) for Module C: Representation and Text: Elective 1: Telling the Truth.

Episodes of Frontline have been analysed for the Media topic in the Year 10 English syllabus in New South Wales since at least 2001.

* 1909 – Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer and English rugby union player ( d. 1990 )

There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish.

** Hangeul or han-geul in the Revised Romanization of Korean, which the South Korean government uses in all English publications and encourages for all purposes.

The inner circle is the traditional base of English and includes countries such as the United Kingdom and Ireland and the anglophone populations of the former British colonies of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and various islands of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.

In South Korean pronunciation, the initial " R " of the name is pronounced as " N ," as per standard Korean phonology.