Chinese languages, principal language group of eastern Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese exists in a number of varieties that are popularly called dialects but that are usually classified as separate languages by scholars. More
In the early 21st century, Indo-Iranian languages were spoken by nearly one billion individuals, most of whom resided in a broad region of southwestern and southern Asia. Speakers of modern Iranian languages number between 150 and 200 million; Persian, Pashto, and Kurdish are the most widely ...
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" ...
2.A language that a nonnative speaker is in the process of learning. 3.ComputersThe computer language, often a machine language, into which a document written in another computer language is to be translated. In all senses also calledobject language. ...
Australian languages,aboriginal languages spoken on the continent of Australia. The Australian languages do not appear to be related to any other linguistic family. The exact number of these languages and their dialects is not known, but has been estimated at about 200; of that number about 20 ...
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Where in the world is the largest number of different languages spoken Most linguists would probably plump for New Guinea, an island that has 830 recognized tongues scattered around its isolated, jungle-covered valleys. But a place on the other side of the world runs it close. The five boroug...
1 I]B Volume 7 Number 7 March 1997 students experienced these classroom environments, how they and the teachers interpreted the carefully-designed tasks, which of the aims were achieved with which students and why. Nevertheless, this is a book which makes it clear that there are no easy answe...
There are thousands of languages in the world. Each language is the most important to those who speak it as their native(本国的)language. Chinese is spoken by the largest number of people. But it seems that English is one of the world’s most widely used languages.People use a language...
different words for animal sounds. In short, the phonemic system of a particular language puts a boundary around how onomatopoeic words can be formed. (5) To put it another way, our animal sounds are really “interpretations” filtered through the limited number of phonemes our languages ...