Tribal leaders began petitioning the folks at Apple to include Cherokee on its official list of languages supported by Apple products such as iPhones, iPods and iPads.

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You can also see a list of supported languages and check which processors are supported (this is especially useful if you have an ARM-based device running Windows RT and aren't sure it will run the same apps as an x86-based Windows 8 machine).

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By its own lights, the movement, using 14 languages and engaged in a mind-boggling list of causes, has had some spectacular successes.

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Languages can be either ancient or modern, drawn from a list of 172 course options, ranging from classical Greek to Japanese and Urdu.

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There is active 3D television with goggles and loaner blu-ray discs, surround sound, multiple wireless tablets that control everything from lights to curtains to room service menus - in seven languages, internet radio with thousands of choices, free international phone calls, the list goes on and on.

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One of the earliest of these refers young people to a list of "facilitating subjects" - English, maths, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, history and languages.

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