Later, he became one of the central spirits of the Army Language Program and the language school of Washington's Foreign Service Institute.

These provinces and many areas of Navarre are heavily populated by ethnic Basques, but the Euskara language had, at least until the 1990s, all but disappeared from most of Álava, western parts of Biscay and central and southern areas of Navarre.

The BASIC language was also central to the HP Time-Shared BASIC system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Pick operating system.

Standard Khmer, or Central Khmer, the language as taught in schools and used by the media is based on the Battambang dialect spoken throughout the plains of the northwest and central provinces.

* Loanwords that have a low central vowel in their language of origin, such as llama, pasta, and pyjamas, as well as place names like Gaza, tend to have rather than ( which is the same as due to the father – bother merger, see below ); this also applies to older loans like drama or Apache.

Though the TeX typesetting language has an equivalent, the CTAN ( and in fact the CPAN's name is based on the CTAN ), few languages have an exhaustive central repository for libraries.

The Saraiki language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda languages group, and is spoken in Cholistan as well as in a large part of central Pakistan.

* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.

The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that ".. nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry.

A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

Changes could and did occur in the language, but only by acquiring widespread popular support ; there was no central authority making arbitrary changes, as happened with Volapük and some other languages.

* Suzette Haden Elgin's engineered secret language Láadan, with its covert gestural form, which is central to the Native Tongue series of novels

In Europe, English received a more central role particularly since 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles was composed not only in French, the common language of diplomacy at the time, but, under special request from American president Woodrow Wilson, also in English-a major milestone in the globalisation of English.

The origins of the Brahui speaking tribes are uncertain, but their language indicates they are a northern Dravidian people, who may have migrated from central India circa 1000 AD, whose language has been modified by residence in the proximity of largely Iranian peoples, most notably the Baloch with whom the Brahui have been greatly mixed.

Broca's Area is today still considered an important language center, playing a central role in processing syntax, grammar, and sentence structure.

Cortés used Marina ( her Christian name ) for translating between the Nahuatl language ( the common language of central Mexico of that time ) and the Chontal Maya language.

The central idea of these theories is that language development occurs through the incremental acquisition of meaningful chunks of elementary constituents, which can be words, phonemes, or syllables.

Kuniyoshi Sakai proposed, based on several neuroimaging studies, that there may be a " grammar center ", where language is primarily processed in the left lateral premotor cortex ( located near the pre central sulcus and the inferior frontal sulcus ).

Machine code or machine language is a system of impartible instructions executed directly by a computer's central processing unit ( CPU ).

The modernist interpretation of nationalism and nation-building perceives that nationalism arises and flourishes in modern societies described as being associated with having: an industrial economy capable of self-sustainability of the society, a central supreme authority capable of maintaining authority and unity, and a centralized language or small group of centralized languages understood by a community of people.

Esperanto is not the primary language of any geographic region, outside of temporary gatherings ( such as conventions like the World Congress of Esperanto ) and isolated offices ( such as the World Esperanto Association's central office in Rotterdam ).

The Khmer language has influenced, and also been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia.

Khmer differs from neighboring languages such as Thai, Lao and Vietnamese in that it is not a tonal language.

The language of this transition period, from about the 14th to 18th centuries, is referred to as Middle Khmer and saw borrowing from Thai, Lao and, to a lesser extent, Vietnamese.

In the Lao language, it is called phak see, and in Thai, it is known as phak chee Lao.

For example, in court of justice where strictly formal Thai language is used, Dr cannot be mentioned as a person's title.

The Mekong has thus not been an obstacle but a facilitator for communication, and the similarities between Laos and northeast Thai society — same people, same language — reflect the close contact that has existed across the river for centuries.

However, some written languages like Chinese, Japanese and Thai do not mark word boundaries in such a fashion, and in those languages text segmentation is a significant task requiring knowledge of the vocabulary and morphology of words in the language.

* At least four versions exist in the Thai language.

The soy sauces which are used in Thai cuisine are of Chinese origin and the Thai names for them are ( wholly or partially ) loanwords from the Teochew language: si-io dam ( dark soy sauce ), si-io khao ( light soy sauce ), and taochiao ( fermented whole soy beans ).

On 25 October 2005 it was announced that the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai language radio services would end by March 2006 in order to finance the launch of an Arabic and Persian language TV news channel in 2007.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, " a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant.

Other vernacular names include Nimm ( Punjabi ), Vembu ( Tamil ), Arya Veppu ( Malayalam ), Azad Dirakht ( Persian ), Nimba, Arishta, Picumarda ( Sanskrit, Oriya ), Limdo ( Gujarati language ) Kadu-Limba ( Marathi ), Dongoyaro ( in some Nigerian languages ), Margosa, Neem ( نيم ) ( Arabic ), Nimtree, Vepu ( వ ే ప ు), Vempu ( வ ே ம ் ப ு), Vepa ( వ ే ప ) ( Telugu ), Bevu ( ಕಹ ಿ ಬ ೇ ವ ು ( Kannada ), Kodu nimb ( Konkani ), ක ො හ ො ඹ ( Kohomba, Sinhala ), Tamar ( Burmese ), sầu đâu, xoan Ấn Độ ( Vietnamese ), ស ្ ដ ៅ ( Sdao, Khmer ), สะเดา ( Sadao, Thai ), אזדרכת ( Hebrew ), " Maliyirinin " ( Bambara language ) and Paraiso ( Spanish ).

Thai ( Phasa Thai ), more precisely Central Thai or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group.

Ethnically, three main groups have to be distinguished, each speaking a Bantu language: the Ovimbundu who represent 37 % of the population, the ( Ambundu ) with 25 %, and the Bakongo 13 %.

Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

The 2001 census recorded 10 % of the local population spoke the language, a five fold increase over ten years from the figure of 2 % recorded in 1991.

With the establishment of a German state in Prussia, and the eradication or flight of much of the Baltic Prussian population in the 13th century, the remaining Prussians began to be assimilated, and by the end of the 17th century, the Prussian language had become extinct.

The Bambara language is the language of people of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4, 000, 000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali ( it is estimated that about 80 percent of the population speak it as a first or second language ).

Only a small part of the population has more than an elemental knowledge of French, the official language.

Croatian is declared as the native language by 96 % of the population.

The local Indian population left their mark also on the language with some 400 Taíno terms and place-names of the island.

Moore asked the commission to assess whether the francophone population of the Ottawa-Gatineau area was sufficiently well-served by existing French radio services, and to consider licensing one or more of the French language applications, which included a Christian music station, a community radio station and a campus radio station for the Université du Québec en Outaouais, in addition to or instead of the approved stations.

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.

Polish language productions for Chicago's large Polish speaking population can be seen at the historic Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park.

In 1980 about 70 % of the population " had some command of the Corsican language ".

In 1990 out of a total population of about 254, 000 the percentage had declined to 50 %, with only 10 % using it as a first language.

According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali ( 297, 000 speakers ) or Afar ( 99, 200 speakers ) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively.

Danish is widely spoken in Greenland, and an unknown portion of the native Greenlandic population has Danish as their first language.

Eritrea's population comprises nine ethnic groups, most of whom speak languages from the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

With a population of approximately 3, 000, and the number of speakers in the mere hundreds, Alutiiq communities are currently in the process of revitalizing their language.