Howmanylanguagesarethereintheworld?TheAmericanmagazine "NewYorkguest"statisticsthat"hundredsofthousands";the "EncyclopediaBritannica"called"nearly1000";theworld's best-sellingbook"theBible"foreignlanguageversionsbythe endof1997reached2197,thelanguageredundanttexttypes, ...
This article examines some of the common rules found in Bantu languages. Some of these rules are general and have been termed 'Laws', because of their regularity of occurrence or geographical spread, as synchronic and/or diachronic processes. In fact, most of them could be justified by one ...
It doesn’t hurt that our science also helps explain why many core practices in science communication are effective. These two different levels are on display right in our title. Broadly, our book is about how to talk science with everybody. More narrowly, we are aware that our specific ...
There are many languages, a number of over 2000 is often given, and many of these have only a limited number of speakers, as Urevbu (1984) already pointed out for Nigeria. Thus, from the perspective of cost and practicality, this is seen as problematic. Yet, as Prah (1998) has ...
This paper examines the vocabularies of rice in Asian languages for evidence of linguistic transfers, concluding that there are at least two independent vocabularies of rice in Asia. This sug- gests at least two independent starts of cultivation and domes- tications of Asian rice. Keywords Rice ...
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Many languages also use English words. For example, they use the words computer, internet and email. However, none of these are the most commonly used English word. Do you know what it is? Okay. Yes, the word is okay. Today’s Spotlight is on the word okay. ...
Moreover, we investigated cognitive function in heat and whether there were semantic differences in different languages expressing thermal sensation and comfort between tropical and temperate indigenes. This project will be expected to provide a clue as to how to prevent the decline in the ability of...
Moreover, we investigated cognitive function in heat and whether there were semantic differences in different languages expressing thermal sensation and comfort between tropical and temperate indigenes. This project will be expected to provide a clue as to how to prevent the decline in the ability of...