Whereas for certain other language families, such as the speakers of Indo-European, Uralic, and Austronesian, we are able to frame substantial hypotheses, in the case of the proposed Altaic family everything remains to be done.

It remains the accent upon which dictionary pronunciation guides are based, and for teaching English as a foreign language.

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

In addition, documents for these XML schema languages have to be parsed separately, so validating the schema of XML documents in pure standalone mode is not really possible with these languages: the document type declaration remains necessary for at least identifying ( with a XML Catalog ) the schema used in the parsed XML document and that will be validated in another language.

The procedure was sometimes practiced in musicals when the actor had an unsatisfactory singing voice, and remains in use to enable the screening of audio-visual material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the original performers.

Although this field remains largely confined to science fiction, the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life makes the question of alien language a credible topic for scientific and philosophical speculation.

However, the primary language for gematria calculations has always been and remains Hebrew and, to a lesser degree, Aramaic.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

Nevertheless, Italian remains an important language in the education and economic sectors in Libya.

Italian remains spoken as a second language by the elderly and educated and is also used in the new Federal Government of Somalia.

For this purpose he laboriously collected the scattered words and allusions found in classical writers, and endeavoured to determine the relationship between the German language and those of the Getae, Thracians, Scythians, and many other nations whose languages were at the time known only through doubtfully identified, often extremely corrupted remains preserved by Greek and Latin authors.

This structuralist view of language was first introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure, and his structuralism remains foundational for most approaches to language today.

French is still popularly spoken and remains the second language in Morocco whilst Spanish is also widespread, particularly in the northern regions.

In Hong Kong and Macau, because of their colonial and linguistic history, the language of education, the media, formal speech and everyday life remains the local Cantonese, although the standard language is now very influential and taught in schools.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the formalisms of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus and Alan Turing's Turing machines provided mathematical abstractions for expressing algorithms ; the lambda calculus remains influential in language design.

* C was developed between 1969 and 1973 as a system programming language, and remains popular.

American thought evolved the “ four-field approach ”, skeletons, artefacts, language and culture ( ways of life ) using the remains of North American people.

The term " Reichstag " also remains in use in the German language as the term for the parliaments of some foreign monarchies, such as Sweden's Riksdag and Japan's pre-war Imperial Diet.

English remains the language of government and commerce.

The term savate remains in use mostly outside France or when speaking a language other than French.

Nevertheless " Tocharian " remains the standard term for the language of the Tarim Basin manuscripts.

An interesting twist to the 4GL scene is realization that graphical interfaces and the related reasoning done by the user form a ' language ' that is poorly understood.

Lepore ( 2008 ) demonstrates Webster's paradoxical ideas about language and politics and shows why Webster's endeavors were at first so poorly received.

Anbessa Tefera and Peter Unseth consider the poorly attested Shabo language to be Nilo-Saharan, though unclassified within the family due to lack of data ; Dimmendaal considers it to be a language isolate on current evidence.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Panama was widely settled by Chibchan, Chocoan, and Cueva peoples, among whom the largest group were the Cueva ( whose specific language affiliation is poorly documented ).

Instead, Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language throughout its range from the hypothetical prisca latinitas of unknown or poorly remembered times in early Latium to the death of Latin after the fall of the empire.

The correlation between language and ethnicity is generally true, though not absolute, as some Hoklo speak Hokkien poorly while some non-Hoklo speak Hokkien fluently.

In Greek, the notions of language and reason are easily confused in the word logos, so speaking poorly was easily conflated with being stupid, an association not of course limited to the ancient Greeks.

Galindian is a poorly attested extinct language, thought to have been very similar to Old Prussian.

Lepore ( 2008 ) demonstrates Webster's innovative ideas about language and politics and shows why Webster's endeavors were at first so poorly received.

As there exists no local written language yet deciphered ( khipus remains poorly understood ), what is known of their religious beliefs is based on archaeological interpretation and some myths, which may have been passed down to the Incas and the Spanish.

Stubbins explains that the full version of Gub-Gub's encyclopedia, which was an immense and poorly organized collection of scribblings written by the pig in a language for pigs invented by Dr. Dolittle, was too long to translate into English.

( With changes in the language, the ancient classics were already poorly understood by Japanese in the Edo period and texts needed philological analysis in order to be properly understood.

Because of his language policies, Franco's legacy is still particularly poorly perceived in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

Considering the breadth of its use both in time and space, this language is particularly poorly documented in writing, particularly for the dialect of São Paulo spoken in the South.

The Dacian language is poorly documented.

The poorly attested Kassite language may have been related to Hurrian.

It is in serious danger of extinction, with only the oldest people speaking it at present, while most of the Extremaduran population ignores the language, since the majority of Extremadurans, and even own speakers regard it a poorly spoken Spanish.

For example, in the 2011 federal election, a sudden increase in opinion-poll support, particularly in Quebec, for the New Democratic Party – which historically has had a minimal presence in that province – led to greater scrutiny of some of that party's lower-profile Quebec candidates — one of whom, Ruth Ellen Brosseau, won even though she had never been in her riding and spoke its dominant language poorly.

Due to the resistance of Chief Victor ( Many Horses ), Stevens ended up inserting into the treaty complicated ( and doubtless poorly translated ) language that defined the Bitterroot Valley south of Lolo Creek as a " conditional reservation " for the Salish.

A poorly attested language spoken in the nearby village of Tuluwe may also turn out to be yet another language isolate.

One of the main obstacles for Maori language Kura is that most of their students read English poorly and nearly all text books and material, especially above level 2 are in English.

The shift observed in these communities from their mother tongues into English meant that children, who could have learnt their native language from their family, are instead struggling in their mother tongue and often score poorly in high school foreign language classes.