The atlas's authors said the earlier definition was not a "true reflection" of the language's status.
The new technique could assist with automated translation, as well as unpicking a language's evolutionary progress.
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Shakespeare then helped to make Richard notorious as one of the English language's most memorable villains.
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But whatever tricks or technology are used, the only test of a language's viability is everyday life.
The addition of Japanese kana, the written language's two syllabic scripts, to kanji, or Chinese characters, adds another layer of complexity.
Abbreviations and fragments are a language's normal response to stress.
The war also demolished the language's remaining chivalric euphemisms.
The first minister said he expected the latest Census findings to show a smaller proportion of Welsh speakers in the language's traditional stronghold communities, but more people speaking Welsh in other parts of Wales, including Cardiff.
Once he has been accepted, Dr Kaufman and his colleagues start chipping away at the language's phonology (the sounds of which it is composed) and its syntax (how its meaning is changed by the order of words and phrases).
Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee respectively have included important language in S. 1546, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Reauthorization Act of 2011.
Shortly after that, efforts by a coalition of "pro-choice" Republican advocacy groups to strike the platform plank outlining party opposition to abortion were abandoned for this election year, when the language's opponents realized they had a chance of making their case on the floor.
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Thus, after noting the Estonian language's "primitive cast, " Mr. Theroux turns his attention to Lord Monboddo, an 18th-century sage who believed that apes were essentially humans without the power of speech, enjoyably esoteric information that tells us little about Estonia but a lot about Mr. Theroux's magpie mind.
"It flows so well in the English language because that's the original language, " she says.
More than its blended iconography or august, prayerful figures, however, the painter's pictorial language defines El Greco's vision of heaven: The amorphous, billowing clouds, silvery palette and mannered, phantomlike personages who float in indeterminate space and time (including, prematurely, Spain's King Philip II) defy the laws and logic of material reality to conjure another realm.
"Occupy" is the top word of 2011, according to the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language.
The Schubert piece, sung with power, if not much nuance, by soprano Michelle Trainor, was more musically related to Mr. MacMillan's language than one might have expected, particularly since Sarah's aria had a similarly overwrought character.
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While that violation citation was previously known, the report's precise language and details of KBR's alleged "failures" were not known until now.
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In Cornwall, after school clubs have been set up to encourage the use of the language and there's a Manx-language primary school on the Isle of Man.
This Saturday 4 June, Rotorua's Samoan community will host a special event at which Samoan Language Week's 2011 Champions will be announced.
PAP's language of modernity and development, and that it is older voters who feel alienated by Singapore's rapid transformation.
If you've seen most of Microsoft's design language for nearly three years, there's only one word that sums it up: Metro.
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To demonstrate the causal role of language, what's needed are studies that directly manipulate language and look for effects in cognition.
Playing music from his big-band tribute to Nat King Cole's Spanish-language albums, saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble occupied the same space as Mr. Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra, which drew from its new album, a take on the music of Sly Stone.
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The album - Sant Allah (Homage to God) in Senegal's Wolof language - marks a departure for one of West Africa's most popular artists.
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Hanashite Hon'yaku provides translations between Japanese and the receiver's language, currently English, Chinese or Korean.
Even when Mr. Stoppard invented scenes, he often used Ford's language, repurposing internal monologues as dialogue.
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Benioff has been savvy about opening his technology to developers who can't be bothered with Salesforce's language.
Relying on the taxpayers' money in order to support the regions is "yesterday's language, " he told Evan Davis.
There was a comment that Stravinsky's language and his structures are so much more sophisticated, interesting and developed.
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