According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons.

Babies using sign language showed a three-month developmental advancement at 24-months, speaking like 27-month olds.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Some operations may change the state of the ADT ; therefore, the order in which operations are evaluated is important, and the same operation on the same entities may have different effects if executed at different times — just like the instructions of a computer, or the commands and procedures of an imperative language.

The Basque language became the main everyday language, while other languages like Spanish, Gascon, French, or Latin were preferred for the administration and high education.

Either approach is adequate for most uses, provided that one attends to the necessary changes in language, notation, and the definitions of concepts like restrictions, composition, inverse relation, and so on.

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

In languages with tagged unions such as ML, a tree node is often a tagged union of two types of nodes, one of which is a 3-tuple of data, left child, and right child, and the other of which is a " leaf " node, which contains no data and functions much like the null value in a language with pointers.

AD 100 ), states: " The Peucini, however, who are sometimes called Bastarnae, are like Germans in their language, way of life and types of dwelling and live in similar squalor and indolence ... mixed marriages are giving them to some extent the vile appearance of the Sarmatians.

After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

Unlike similar constructed languages like aUI, Blissymbolics was conceived as a purely visual, speech-less language, on the premise that “ interlinguistic communication is mainly carried on by reading and writing ”.

If the Czech ethnic origin was to be stressed, combinations like " Bohemian of Bohemian language "( Čech českého jazyka ), " a real Bohemian " ( pravý Čech ) etc.

Moreover, like all natural language based IALs, Basic is subject to criticism as unfairly biased towards the native speaker community.

All the known languages have words for at least " one " and " two " ( although this is disputed: see Piraha language ), and even some animals like the blackbird can distinguish a surprising number of items.

Chomsky argued that in order to explain language, we needed a theory like generative grammar, which not only attributed internal representations but characterized their underlying order.

In computing, C (, like the letter C ) is a general-purpose programming language initially developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at Bell Labs.

Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, most notably system software like the Unix computer operating system.

Mandatory priestly celibacy is not a doctrine, or dogma, of the Church ( examples of Catholic doctrine would be the principle of the absolute respect for life or the belief in the Assumption and Immaculate Conception ) but a church rule or discipline, like the use of the vernacular ( local ) language in Mass or the ancient rule of Lenten fasting and abstinence.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

* 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.

Also, although the kings of the Cimbri and Teutones carry what look like Celtic names, the origin of a name need not say anything about the ethnicity or language of the individual carrying the name.

Many computer languages require garbage collection, either as part of the language specification ( e. g., Java, C #, and most scripting languages ) or effectively for practical implementation ( e. g., formal languages like lambda calculus ); these are said to be garbage collected languages.

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.

Defined in 1994, it was influenced by an earlier proposal for an occam 3 language ( also referred to as " occam91 " during its early development ) created by Geoff Barrett at INMOS in the early 1990s.

For a time an interpreter ( sometimes referred to as a RIP for Raster Image Processor ) for the PostScript language was a common component of laser printers, into the 1990s.

In 1990s self-identifying Veddas knew few words and phrases in the Vedda language, but there were individuals who knew the language comprehensively.

In the United States, the National Captioning Institute noted that English as a foreign or second language ( ESL ) learners were the largest group buying decoders in the late 1980s and early 1990s before built-in decoders became a standard feature of US television sets.

Dominant systems in the 1980s and 1990s were the MITalk system, based largely on the work of Dennis Klatt at MIT, and the Bell Labs system ; the latter was one of the first multilingual language-independent systems, making extensive use of natural language processing methods.

Nevertheless starting in the 1990s, various laws and regulations have been passed by the Italian parliament and provincial assembly that put the Ladin language and culture under protection.

In the 1970s an instructional philosophy called whole language ( which explicitly de-emphasizes teaching phonics ) was introduced, and it became the primary method of reading instruction in the 1980s and 1990s.

Only after the lifting of martial laws in 1987 and mother tongue movement in the 1990s did Taiwan see a true revival in the Taiwanese language.

The keen observer may associate this with the development in the field of artificial intelligence made popular in the 1980s and 1990s such as expert systems, neural networks, machine learning, natural language processing, and vision.

Self was a dialect of Smalltalk, being untyped and using Just-in-time compilation as well as the prototype-based approach to objects: it was first used as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s and 1990s.

Richler's long-running dispute with Quebec nationalists was fueled by magazine articles he published in American publications between the late 1970s and mid 1990s, in which he criticized Quebec's language laws, and the rise of separatism.

The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Kenneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui, is a synthesis of APL ( also by Iverson ) and the FP and FL function-level languages created by John Backus.

From the early 1990s onwards, some entirely new VME subsystems were written partly or wholly in the C programming language.

In the early 1990s, the Akayev government pursued an aggressive policy of introducing Kyrgyz as the official language, forcing the remaining European population to use Kyrgyz in most public situations.

Many of these programmes were initially set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s by academic linguists wishing to preserve the languages, respectively-especially in areas where there either is a healthy speaking base, or an endangerment of as low as two remaining speakers of a language.

Native American boarding schools, which enforced white American values and the English language were extensively used as late as the 1990s, and were notorious for implementing corporal punishment if a Native child was caught speaking his or her language or freely practicing their tribal faith.

The short contains excessive use of profane language ( albeit censored ) and was played at animation festivals in the late 1990s, but has never been officially released.

In the early 1990s, the first elementary and high school in Slovene language was established in San Pietro al Natisone, and in 2001, the Italian state recognized the Slovene minority living in the area, guaranteeing it full rights.

Although not exactly equivalent to the English definition, the term " Контркультура " ( Kontrkul ' tura, " Counterculture ") became common in Russian to define a 1990s cultural movement that promoted acting outside of cultural conventions: the use of explicit language ; graphical descriptions of sex, violence and illicit activities ; and uncopyrighted use of " safe " characters involved in such activities.

Starting in the 1990s, various laws and regulations have been passed by the Italian parliament and provincial assembly that put the Cimbrian language and culture under protection.

Since the 1990s, Schell has appeared in many German language made-for-TV films, such as the 2003 film Alles Glück dieser Erde ( All the Luck in the World ) opposite Uschi Glas and in the television miniseries The Return of the Dancing Master ( 2004 ), which was based on Henning Mankell's novel.