For languages, the explanation may be a cultural rather than biological need to distinguish populations.
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Smartype, from KeyView, doesn't display custom buttons for World of Warcraft of alter the fonts you see for languages that don't use the Latin alphabet.
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He used his knack for languages--he was studying Latin, Mandarin and French--to create a program that could extract the most relevant sentences out of long text.
Mr Berezhkov was trained as an engineer but had an ear for languages and as a child had picked up English and German from his parents.
Interpreters are available for other languages, and for the practical part of the test.
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At GCSE, 20% of total marks for foreign languages are now awarded for "knowledge and accurate application of prescribed grammar and structures".
The Latin market was quickly saturated and new markets for vernacular languages came along.
Those with a gift for learning languages are bound to have a big advantage.
We're localizing, globalizing and marketizing our code base which means we're building software for specific languages and markets.
Ziad Fazah, raised in Lebanon and now living in Brazil, once held the Guinness world record for 58 languages.
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In 1997, when Quijada ran his first Web search for invented languages, he discovered that his strange passion was in fact shared by others.
Nicholas Ostler, a scholar who heads the Foundation for Endangered Languages, a non-profit group based in Britain, says multilingual children do better academically than monolingual ones.
Localization support for international languages.
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They are loth to grant Silesians the sort of rights granted to other ethnic minorities, who have provisions for keeping up their languages in schools and for making it easier to win seats in parliament.
Twitter has rolled out versions of its site in right-to-left languages for the first time.
SGML, like XML, is a metalanguage -- a language used for defining other languages.
Entries for modern foreign languages were more variable, as was also the case in England.
Flock, Bump Technologies' photo-sharing app, has just added localization for 15 different languages, gaining it potential international appeal.
If English chooses to borrow, bend or savage the ancient languages for its own purposes, that is its privilege.
For the students themselves, studying abroad can present opportunities for learning new languages, travelling, career development, experiencing new cultures and forming new friendships.
The programme is also building a literate environment for the national languages.
In the coming months, the book will be translated into 12 more languages for publication in 72 countries in total, the Vatican added.
In the past three centuries, for example, languages have become extinct or vanished at an increasingly alarming rate, especially in America and Australia.
Speakers at the celebrations highlighted, in turn, the importance of languages for building sustainable development and lasting peace based on mutual understanding among peoples.
The GUI will support English, German, French and Spanish languages for both GUI text as well as meta-data from the iPod and other streaming media.
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Its content and apps were originally limited to English, but the company added support for several European languages (French, German, Spanish and Italian) earlier this year.
From China, his company takes online orders in 17 languages for all kinds of customized garments and gadgets, fulfills them in Chinese factories, and ships the goods direct to consumers worldwide.
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Application companies, in the meantime, can hope to see their programs run on many more handsets--and so spend their time building specialty features like new languages for speech recognition or digital-rights software for mobile music sales, Rubin contends.
The quality of education is also compromised by an acute shortage of culturally and linguistically relevant books for children because most books are only available in foreign languages or are intended for mature learners and readers.
The highly regarded Codecademy, for example, rewards badges for mastery of programming languages.
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