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  • 21North Caucasian languages — North Caucasian Caucasic Geographic distribution: Caucasus Linguistic classification: proposed language family, which is widely disputed; although links with other families have been proposed, none of these has received mainstream acceptance …

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  • 22Tuu languages — Infobox Language family name=Tuu altname=Southern Khoisan (obsolete), Taa ǃKwi region=South Africa and Botswana familycolor=Khoisan family=Traditionally considered Khoisan, it may be one of the world s primary language families child1=Taa… …

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  • 23Khandeshi languages — Khandeshi Spoken in India Region Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh Native speakers 2.5 million  (date missing) Language family …

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  • 24Expression-oriented programming languages — An expression oriented programming language is a programming language where (nearly) every construction is an expression and yields a value. Macro definitions, preprocessor commands, and declarations are often treated as statements in expression… …

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  • 25Tower of Babel — The Tower of Babel ( he. מגדל בבל Migdal Bavel ar. برج بابل Burj Babil ) is a structure featured in chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, an enormous tower intended as the crowning achievement of the city of Babilu, the Akkadian name for Babylon.… …

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  • 26Mythical origins of language — There have been many accounts of the origin of language in the world s mythologies and other stories pertaining to the origin of language, the development of language and the reasons behind the diversity in languages today. These myths have… …

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  • 27Divine language — For specific natural languages considered divine , see Sacred language. For the fictional language in the film The Fifth Element, see Divine Language (The Fifth Element). Language of God redirects here. For the book by Francis Collins, see The… …

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  • 28Babel — Ba bel, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. ] 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. [1913 Webster] Therefore is the name of …

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  • 29Babylonia — • Includes geography, history, and biblical references Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Babylonia     Babylonia     † …

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  • 30Dialectology — (from Greek διάλεκτος, dialektos, talk, dialect ; and λογία, logia) is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated… …

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