Kalaw Lagaw Ya ( Kala Lagaw Ya ), or the Western Torres Strait Language ( several other names, see below ), is the language indigenous to all the central and western Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, Australia.

The language is known by several names besides Kalaw Lagaw Ya, most of which ( including Kalaw Lagaw Ya ), are strictly speaking names of dialects, spelling variants, dialect variants, and the like-and include translations of the English terms, Western Island Language and Central Island Language.

Besides native American Nez Perce, they include the Vakh dialects of the Khanty language, Wangkumara and, in its singular pronouns, Kalaw Lagaw Ya, both Australian languages.

Torres Strait Creole is the dominant language spoken on Thursday Island by the Islanders, followed by Kala Lagaw Ya, although English is also spoken.

The indigenous language is Kaiwalgau Ya ( otherwise known as Kowrareg ), a dialect of Kala Lagaw Ya.

The language of the island is the Gœmulgau ( Mabuylgau ) Ya sub-dialect of Kala Lagaw Ya.

The language of the Kaurareg is Kala Lagaw Ya, in the form of Kaiwalgau Ya ( called Kauraraigau Ya variant Kauraregau Ya in the 19th century ).

The municipality launched a linguistic plan to revive Breton as a language through Ya d ' ar brezhoneg on 16 June 2006.

The Ya Ne Dah Ah School teaches the Ahtna Athabaskan language as a part of its curriculum.

In France, Ya Ya Twist ( a French language cover of the Lee Dorsey rhythm and blues song " Ya Ya " and the only successful recording of a twist song by a female ) and " Chariot " ( the original version of I Will Follow Him ) became smash hits in 1962, while German and Italian versions of her English and French recordings charted as well.

*** Tai Ya language, Dǎiyǎyǔ, 傣雅语

The meanings of the parts of the name in the Tlingit language for Chatham Strait are as follows: Shee, Baranof Island ; Ya, face ; Xhaak, Center.

According to some researches, the name Nha Trang derives from a false Vietnamese spelling of a geographical name in the Cham language of the site Ya Trang ( lit.

The Ya Ne Dah Ah School in Chickaloon, Alaska teaches the Ahtna language as a part of its curriculum.

On 23 October 2006, the municipality launched a linguistic plan to promote Breton language through the Ya d ' ar brezhoneg (" Yes to Breton ") charter.

This song was covered in Mandarin Chinese language, given the title name of 過去的春夢 ( Passed Memory ) with Chinese lyrics written by Li Rui Cheng ( 李瑞成 ), recorded by various female and male singers such as Rou Yun ( 柔雲 ) in 1956 and Judi Jim ( 詹小屏 ) in 1973 from Hong Kong, Zi Wei ( 紫薇 ) in 1969, Bao Na-Na ( 包娜娜 ) in 1976, Fong Fei Fei ( 鳳飛飛 ) & Yao Su-Rong ( 姚蘇蓉 ) both in 1978, Long Piao-Piao ( 龍飄飄 ), Yu Ya ( 尤雅 ) in 2002 from Taiwan, and Ling Seow ( 凌霄 ) from Singapore.

English is the primary language spoken throughout Australia.

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

One source asserts that the term entered the language in 1827, adapted from an extinct Aboriginal language of New South Wales, Australia, but mentions a variant, wo-mur-rang, which it dates from 1798.

The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of Aboriginal people of South-Eastern Australia.

Many regions, notably Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore and the Caribbean, have developed their own native varieties of the language.

The only non-African language known to employ clicks as regular speech sounds is Damin, a ritual code used by speakers of Lardil in Australia.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

) The 2 – 3 – 5 formation, used predominantly in Australia from relatively lowly interschool to professional interstate competitions, provides common language for many players and helps explain why " centre half " is often a name used for a player in the centre of a defence with four or five players.

The language is also spoken by Greek emigrant communities in many countries in Western Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Germany, in Canada and the United States, Australia, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and others.

Italian ( or lingua italiana ) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia.

In Australia, Italian is the second most spoken foreign language after the Chinese languages, with 1. 4 % of the population speaking it as their home language.

The settlement of Australia in 1788 brought the English language to Oceania.

Thousands of Maltese emigrants in Australia, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, and the United States still speak the language, and in 2007 it was reported that Maltese is still spoken by descendants of Maltese immigrants in Tunisia.

The language is taught in some universities in Australia, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Russia, Serbia, the United States, and the United Kingdom among other countries.

Burchfield also broadened the scope to include developments of the language in English-speaking regions beyond the United Kingdom, including North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean.

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama – Nyungan language family there.

The Sinhalese language was also reported to be the 29th-fastest-growing language in Australia ( ranking above Somali but behind Hindi and Belarusian ).

No tonal language has been reported from Australia.

It might be pointed out that the integrating function of religion, for good or ill, has often supported or been identified with other groupings -- political, nationality, language, class, racial, sociability, even economic.

It has become painfully clear that the very attempt to make the language of social research free of values by erecting mathematical and physical models, is itself a conditioned response to a world which pays a premium price for technological manipulation.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

The complexities of communication have been considerably abetted in this case by appropriately stilted English language that has been excellently dubbed in place of the Russian dialogue.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

Swift has his proposer further degrade the Irish by using language ordinarily reserved for animals.

A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as the consonants.

Recently, Corey Anton has argued that we cannot be certain what is separate from or unified with something else: language, he asserts, divides what is not in fact separate.

Based on the proposed correspondences listed below, the following phoneme inventory has been reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto (- Macro )- Altaic language ( taken from Blažek's summary of the newest Altaic etymological dictionary et al.

It is a very traditional form of the language, probably derived from medieval deeds and documents, and has a very complicated structure and vocabulary which is generally reserved only for such documents.

Anatolia has been proposed to be the origin of the Indo-European language family.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

As a language of deaf education, ASL has been introduced to numerous countries, where it has often diverged into a separate dialect.

In recent years, researchers have shown that exposure to sign language has a positive impact on the socialization of hearing children.

ASL has come a long way from its condemned days of banned use to being viewed as a grammatical language, which is the main form of communication in American Deaf culture.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 speakers of the language remain, while other research places the number at fewer than 15 speakers – the language has been regarded as “ endangered ”.

In fact, no attempt to show a relationship with Ainu to any other language has gained wide acceptance, and Ainu is currently considered to be a language isolate.