In the Nivkh language of Siberia, each number can be said twenty-six different ways based on the object being counted.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Their documentation can be used in the future as a study tool and for language protection efforts,if needed.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

With a computer,recorder,and camera, this language activist can work toward creating a dictionary of the Ishir language.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

And scientists often have trouble explaining what they do in language that the public can understand.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

And that can only happen if they have a good, solid foundation in their first language."

VOA: special.2010.06.17

"Everything from basic language skills of agreement of subject and verb, use of commas and other punctuation, complete and incomplete sentences, so that we can move from basic writing/language skills to the more sophisticated skills that graduate students, upper level undergraduates and people in the work world use."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

MCC Director Irene Paxia grew up in Italy, and knows first-hand how language barriers can waste precious time in emergencies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

In much of the world, there are not enough coaches who can communicate in sign language.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And scientists often have difficulty explaining what they do in language the public can understand.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

When the program launches in the Philippines in a few weeks, a farmer can call a toll-free number and hear a recording in his or her language that sounds something like this.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

But if you can give them education and language and ways to express themselves, which is why we focus on the arts, that gives them another kind of freedom that otherwise they wouldn't have."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"We are going to determine how much food and other products of daily use are needed, whether an international crew is compatible, how people of different cultures, of different training can find common language and work on performing their tasks."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

But in a published commentary on the research,Simon Fisher, a speech and language researcher at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University cautions that before researchers can develop a drug therapy for stuttering,they will need to learn much more about the precise biochemical mechanism of the disorder.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11