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    Agglutinating languages

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    Agglutinative language Jump to: navigation‚ search Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alignment Accusative Ergative Split ergative Philippine Active–stative Tripartite Marked nominative Inverse marking Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object Verb–object–subject OV languages Subject–object–verb Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject V2 word

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    Endangered Languages

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    help us to determine whether a language UP:23/04/2012-09:19:31 WM:23/04/2012-09:19:38 M:LG102-4-FY A:11a5 R:1101631 C:A531A08874E68F858726D2BE7C18B7DAF6AD10B9 is in a dangerous position or not‚ such as acquisition rate by the children‚ attitude of the whole community to the language and effects of other languages that can threaten the language. Moreover‚ being able to have and evaluate such factors is important in order to decide the level of endangerment of a language. Classification of endangerment

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    Language is essential

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    Sociology 101 Language is essential Humans have an innate capacity for language and it ’s quite remarkable. Ever wonder how you learned how to talk‚ or how you transitioned from "goo-goo gaga" to "please pass the potatoes?" Turns out that we are born with a mental module called the language acquisition device which allows us to be open to languages of our culture. While we are just babies‚ our parents are talking and carrying on about their business and we are listening intently

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    Language in Montessori

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    each stage. “Language lies at the root of that transformation of the environment that we call civilization.” (source 3) Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one’s feelings and thoughts. It is through communication that human beings are able to cooperate with each other to solve common problems. It is through communication based on written and oral language in particular that each generation has passed on its accumulating wisdom to the next. “Language‚ we may say‚ grow

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    Language Revitalization

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    Language revitalization‚ language revival or reversing language shift is the attempt by interested parties‚ including individuals‚ cultural or community groups‚ governments‚ or political authorities‚ to reverse the decline of a language. If the decline is severe‚ the language may be endangered‚ moribund‚ or extinct. In these cases‚ the goal of language revitalization is often to recover the spoken use of the language. Although the goals of language revitalization vary by community and situation‚

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    Germanic languages

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    GERMANIC LANGUAGES Classification of Modern Germanic Languages and their Distribution Classification of languages means their placement into families or phyla [‘failə] on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may thus be classified either genetically or typologically. A genetic classification assumes that certain languages are related in that they have evolved from a common ancestral language. This form of classification employs ancient records as well

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    Structure of Language

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    he Structure of Language Language is a system of symbols and rules that is used for meaningful communication. A system of communication has to meet certain criteria in order to be considered a language: A language uses symbols‚ which are sounds‚ gestures‚ or written characters that represent objects‚ actions‚ events‚ and ideas. Symbols enable people to refer to objects that are in another place or events that occurred at a different time. A language is meaningful and therefore can be understood

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    Cinematic Language

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    Ashley Vietri FIL-110 Cinematic Language The term “cinematic language” refers to cinematic techniques and methods employed by film makers to communicate meaning‚ to entertain audiences‚ and to produce a particular emotional response in viewers. This “language” is not necessarily referring to terminology or vocabulary‚ but to the conventions of filmmaking that have been created over time to create filming techniques. As is similar with spoken language‚ the structures and grammar are often spoken

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    Endangered Languages

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    “Endangered languages should be saved” Many languages are at the danger of disappearance. The reason of their extinction could be the decrease in a number of people speaking that language. A 85% of 6000 languages appear to be spoken in 25 countries (NOW 2000). Language extinction is caused by external and internal factors. Internal forces such as community’s negative behaviour to mother language‚ or simply decrease in the number of speakers are mainly derived from factors such as military‚ economic

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    Programming Language

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    ENGENERRING: ITS EVOLUTION‚ DEVELOPMENT‚ SUCCESS AND FAILURES. TOPIC: COMPUTER LANGUAGES NAME: MUHAMMAD ALI RAFIQUE GROUP ID: 17440350/ 7E3B2245 TUTOR: CARRIE HO Table of Contents 1. INDRODDUCTION 1 2. HISTORY 2 3. SCOPE: 4 4 Success of Computer Languages 4 5 EVOLUTION OF ALGOL-60 4 5.1 DESIGIN: STRUCTURE ORGANIZATION 5.2ALGOL-60 PROGRAM ARE HIERARCHICALLY STURCTURED …………….

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