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	Languages & Writing Systems
		Language is a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, communicate.
		The languages of North Asia are those spoken from the Arctic Ocean on the north to South Asia and China on the south and from the Caspian Sea and Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
		Indeed, the history of writing is in part a matter of the discovery and representation of these structural levels of spoken language in the attempt to construct an efficient, general, and economical writing system capable of serving a range of socially valuable functions.
	www.crystalinks.com /languages.html (2993 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Writing Systems
		This simple explanation encompasses a large spectrum of writing systems with vastly different stylistic and structural characteristics spanning across the many regions of the globe.
		And writing was used for religious purpose (divination and communicating with the supernatural world) and socio-political functions (reinforcing the power of the ruling elite).
		While it is true that writing systems appear to develop in agricultural and urban cultures, by no means it is a requirement for civilization.
	www.ancientscripts.com /ws.html (355 words)

	List of languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
		This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans.
		See List of languages by name: Z for about 50 more.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages (906 words)

	Languages for the Java VM
		Aardappel is a new language, which computes by concurrently reducing trees (using a form of tree-rewriting) which sit together in tree-spaces (bags) and communicate amongst eachother (exchanging parts of themselves, in Linda-like fashion), and in general having a jolly good time alltogether.
		Foo is a "new" language, and its interpreter.
		One way of placing it in the "space of languages" is to say that it aims to be as efficient as C, C++, or Fortran, as elegant as and safer than Eiffel, and support higher-order functions and iteration abstraction as well as Common Lisp, CLU or Scheme.
	www.robert-tolksdorf.de /vmlanguages.html (10520 words)

	Undeciphered scripts
		In some cases the writing systems have been deciphered but the languages they were used to write remain a mystery.
		Neither the script nor the language it was used to write are known, however Asko Parpola of the University of Helsinki in Finland claims to have partially deciphered the script and believes it probably respresents a Dravidian language.
		The language it represents is Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/undeciphered.htm (516 words)

	Computing Languages List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The algorithmic language has three different kinds of representations- reference, hardware, and publication, and the development described is in terms of the language are represented by a given set of symbols and it is only in the choice of symbols that the other two representations may differ.
		LISP 70- a descendant of MLISP and MLISP2.
		It was invented for writing purposes and was later used as a basis for defining a general-purpose language.
	www.hypernews.org /HyperNews/get/computing/lang-list.html (17532 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Egyptian
		The inventory of signs is divided into three major categories, namely (1) logograms, signs that write out morphemes; (2) phonograms, signs that represent one or more sounds); and (3) determinatives, signs that denote neither morpheme nor sound but help with the meaning of a group of signs that precede them.
		For some reason this system had taken a life of its own, and often now people actually think it is how Egyptian words were pronounced.
		This is due to the fact that the writing system does not record vowels, and therefore different words with the same set of consonants (but different vowels) can be written by the same sequence of glyphs.
	www.ancientscripts.com /egyptian.html (1031 words)

	Fallen Tower
		Aluric: an incomplete alien language containing 70 sounds, 7 noun/adjective cases, a complex but logical tense system, and a vocabulary drawn from roots present in many languages and expandable by means of numerous affixes.
		CycL: a formal language whose syntax derives from first-order predicate calculus (the language of formal logic).
		Laadan: language developed with idea that existing human languages are inadequate to express the perceptions of women It has a number of very interesting features: i.e., Speech Act Morphemes and Evidence Act Morphemes (reminds me of Korean and Japanese) and an interesting pronoun system.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Pagoda/5961/lingvoj.HTM (3972 words)

	Regents' Testing Program
		Following is a complete list of the essay topics approved for use on the Regents' Test.
		Partners in marriage often write their own detailed marriage contracts, covering such matters as the number of children they wish to have and the management of money.
		Many people consider the Social Security system necessary for the economic well-being of the United States, yet this system may be headed for bankruptcy.
	www.gsu.edu /~wwwrtp/topics.htm (8905 words)

	Top20Languages.com - Online Directory for Languages.
		Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
		Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name.
		Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.
	www.top20languages.com (1045 words)

	1723 in science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The year 1723 in science and technology included many events some of which listed here.
		See also: 1722 in science other events of 1723 1724 in science list of years in science
		Uml'99 - The Unified Modeling Language: Beyond the Standard : Second International Conference Fort Collins, Co, Usa, October 28-30, 1999 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1723)
	www.freeglossary.com /1723_in_science (303 words)

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