This vast population is divided into over 300 distinct ethnic groups, and approximately 680 native languages.
Expanding to international markets is more than localizing a website to the native languages.
She reckons that the diversity of native languages in America supports the genetic data.
Their populations generally aren't ethnically Russian and speak native languages other than Russian.
The island of Gaua, part of Vanuatu in the Pacific, is just 13 miles across, yet it has five distinct native languages.
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It aims to preserve Native languages, cultures, and histories while offering a competitive education that prepares young people to succeed in college and careers.
"We do not use HTML5 for apps, but rather build them in the native languages of the platforms, " said Global Chief Technology Officer Christian Hardenberg.
Thornton Media is recognized as a leader in the tech side of indigenous language revitalization, developing translation devices, talking toys programmed in native languages and other tools over its 17-year lifespan.
Also, she advises intercultural weddings can seem more cohesive if an officiant and readers incorporate some native languages into the ceremony as a nod to family members who have traveled from another part of the world.
Before his remarks, President Obama signed an executive order to expand educational opportunities for First American students aimed helping to preserve Native languages, cultures, and histories, while ensuring that these young people are prepared for colleges and careers.
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Most of these broadcast-partners lack the know-how or capital to pump their own signals over the Internet, so they're happy to have JumpTV install the gear and give them access to a homesick audience hungry for news and entertainment in their native languages.
Linguists estimate about 200 Native American languages are spoken in the U.S. and Canada, with another 100 already extinct.
From Native American languages came words like raccoon, possum, caribou, moose, skunk, squash, hickory, pecan, persimmon, moccasin and caucus.
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Experts point to the early- to mid-1970s as the effort's start, and say it got a boost when the Native American Languages Act, passed in 1990, declared the U.S. was committed to ensuring the languages' survival.
Whorf never got an advanced degree, but he took graduate classes in his free time with the anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir, in the nineteen-thirties, and he devoted his leisure hours to the study of Native American languages.
The focal point for the project was a round table held on 27 and 28 October 2005 with the participation of experts in linguistics, ethnology and anthropology, teachers of the native Siberian languages, researchers from Siberian institutions and UNESCO intangible cultural heritage experts.
Apple products currently support only 50 languages, none of which is a Native American language.
Virginia Collier and Wayne Thomas from George Mason University in Virginia studied more than 6 million student records and found that full-immersion bilingual programs in which native and nonnative students are given instruction in both languages are the most effective.
One particular hard-to-make clicklike sound, a voiceless uvular ejective affricate, has been found in only a few other languages, including the Caucasian language Ubykh, whose last native speaker died in 1992.
And yet, by some estimates, Esperanto still has more speakers than six thousand of the languages spoken around the world today, including approximately a thousand native speakers (among them George Soros) who learned it as their first language.
Just last week, the company announced that it was adding five language portals in Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Italian and Swedish, with fully localized games and native-language customer support bringing the company up to 10 languages total.
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