Search
Search results
Displaying 421 - 430
Baluchi
(Encyclopedia) BaluchiBaluchibəl&oomacr;ˈchē [key], language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages.Ellis, William
(Encyclopedia) Ellis, William, 1794–1872, English missionary, pioneer of printing in the Pacific. Sent in 1816 to Polynesia as a nonconformist missionary, he set up at Tahiti the first printing press…Gujarati
(Encyclopedia) GujaratiGujaratig&oobreve;ˌjəräˈtē [key], language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages.machine translation
(Encyclopedia) machine translation, in computational linguistics, publishing, and other fields, the use of computers to conduct large-scale translation operations. The electronic translation of one…Old English
(Encyclopedia) Old English: see type; English language; Anglo-Saxon literature.Chinook, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia) ChinookChinookshĭn&oobreve;kˈ, chĭ– [key], Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. Altogether twelve main tribes spoke Chinook languages; all were in the Columbia…case
(Encyclopedia) case, in language, one of the several possible forms of a given noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicates its grammatical function (see inflection); in inflected languages it is…Afroasiatic languages
(Encyclopedia) Afroasiatic languagesAfroasiatic languagesăfˌrōāˌzhēătˈĭk [key], formerly Hamito-Semitic languagesHamito-Semitic languageshămˈĭtō-səmĭtˈĭk [key], family of languages spoken by more…American Indian and Alaska Native Languages Spoken at Home by Persons 5 Years and Over in Households: 2000
More than 350,000 people in America speak American Indian or Alaska Native languages at home. This is how the languages break down. The data was published as part of the…symbolic logic
(Encyclopedia) symbolic logic or mathematical logic, formalized system of deductive logic, employing abstract symbols for the various aspects of natural language. Symbolic logic draws on the concepts…