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artificial languages
artificial languages languages that are invented by one or more human beings as opposed to languages that develop naturally among peoples. Examples of artificial languages are Volapük, Esperanto , and Ido . See international language . ... Read more
Gaelic
Gaelic , or Goidelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Goidelic
Goidelic , or Gaelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Iranian languages
Iranian languages group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian family of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
universal language
universal language a language intended to further communication and goodwill among peoples speaking different languages without necessarily replacing their native tongues. See international language . ... Read more
Hamitic languages
Hamitic languages subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages. See Afroasiatic languages . ... Read more
grammar
grammar description of the structure of a language, consisting of the sounds (see phonology ); the meaningful combinations of these sounds into words or parts of words, called morphemes; and the arrangement of the morphemes into phrases and sentences, called syntax. School grammars for the speaker... Read more
Assamese
Assamese , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Gujarati
Gujarati , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Cornish
Cornish language belonging to the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages . Bibliography: See P. B. Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (1974). ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "synthetic language"

SYNTHETIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language SYNTHETIC. A term in LINGUISTICS for a language in which words tend to be composed out of two or more grammatical...x2019;, past , first person , plural . English has such synthetic words as unfindable (unfind-able) and repainted (re...
LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...a word: analytic languages (ideally, one morpheme...word) are opposed to synthetic languages (two or more morphemes...in a polysynthetic language, such as Inuit...languages are a variety of synthetic language in which...the sentence. Many languages have some ...
grammar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...sentence. One method of language classification is based on structure; languages are classified according...per word, while in synthetic languages one word represents...some Native American languages, a single word may...see semantics ) in a language is usually not part...
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...being, with a distinctive language of a separate and independent...into South Africa a highly synthetic language like Nederlands." For Hertzog...of the English and Dutch languages, Lord Milner, the British...I want only one official language in South Africa!" Hertzog...
Madeirans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...tourists. Linguistic Affiliation. The language of the Madeiras is Standard European Portuguese (SEP), which follows Romance Language Family conventions (inflective, synthetic, and stress-timed) and is the norm against...
MacDIARMID, Hugh
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808), prompted him to experiment with a Synthetic Scots, first for short lyrics, then for extended...His success in revitalizing poetry in the language has been marked.
Ukraine
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...Indo-European language of the Eastern...its grammar is synthetic, conveying information...Ukrainian and Russian languages, is a by-product...Ukrainian and Polish languages existed in western...spoken as a native language by 87 percent of...as their native language. The use of native ...
W. V. Quine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the implications of viewing language as a logical system. He disputed...Kant, between analytic and synthetic statements. He argued that...adjustments are made elsewhere in a language's system of reference...to "ontic commitments" in language systems, i.e., their...
Azoreans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...States. linguistic Affiliation. The language of the Azores is Standard European...Portuguese (SEP). SEP follows Romance Language Family conventions, is spoken by...and is classified as inflective, synthetic, and stresstimed (Brazilian Portuguese...
Stuart Davis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...dimensional space on that surface." He experimented with the geometric visual language of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in his own painting The President (1917) and tried synthetic cubist devices in the more pictorially ordered Lucky Strike (1921...

Dictionary entries related to "synthetic language"

synthetic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...imitate a natural product: synthetic rubber. ∎...insincere: their tears are a bit synthetic. ∎  Logic...xA0; Linguistics (of a language) characterized by the use...x2022; n. (often synthetics ) a synthetic material or chemical, esp...
analytic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...denial would be a self-contradiction. Compare with synthetic . ∎  Linguistics (of a language) tending not to alter the form of its words and to...express grammatical structure. Often contrasted with synthetic .
Everything but the Girl
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...of jazz-inflected pop (Eden, The Language of Life, Worldwide ), Thorn began lending...has honed its sound, undergirding the synthetic patina of electronic music with solid...skills. SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY: The Language of Life (Atlantic, 1990); Amplified...
Meyer, Kurt Heinrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...accustom himself to lecturing in French, a language with which he was unfamiliar, he was...cellulose and chitin, the permeability of synthetic membranes, and the thermodynamics of...Picken and published as Natural and Synthetic High Polymers (New York, 1942; 2nd...
Analytical Philosophy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...philosophy characteristic of much English-language philosophy of the twentieth century...were subordinate to the elucidation of synthetic unities, such as the unity of consciousness...appeal to intuitive reflection concerning synthetic a priori ethical truths; and one of...
Cubism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...Cubism’ had entered the English language. The word is undoubtedly apposite for...Analytical Cubism (1909–11) and Synthetic Cubism (1912–14). In the...everyday ephemera—ushered in Synthetic Cubism. This reversed the compositional...
Chile
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...50-year economic boom. By the 1920s synthetic nitrates were replacing saltpetre and dependence...others (mainly European) 1.6% Languages: Spanish (official); also Amerindian languages (mostly Araucarian) International Organizations...
Beck
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...music, the agile rhymes and rhythms of hip-hop, or the synthetic programming tools that allow him to weave and splice samples...strung together; others recognize Beck's intent to play with language and create a jumbled, free-form poetry over guitar, drum...
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot, Abbé De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...psychology . Condilliac ’ s philosophy od science as language occupies a midpoint in the evolution of scientific epistemology...at the evidence that would be simpler and easier than the synthetic mode of proof. Instead, Condillac advocated an analytic...
Nencki, Marceli
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...emigrate. For about a year Nencki studied philosophy and ancient languages at the University of Berlin before transferring to the Medical...modern views of the utilization of carbon dioxide in certain synthetic processes that occur in the animal body. Speculating on the...

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On language structure.(RETROSPECT)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 4/1/2005; ; 461 words ; The great languages of the world were not planned...found. Neither the structure of languages nor their growth is planned...of popular acceptance of the synthetic languages is typical. Language is an outgrowth of the necessity...
A woman-Made language: Suzette Haden Elgin's Laadan and the Native Tongue trilogy as thought experiment in feminist linguistics.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...androcentric, or to invent new languages that would allow women to...strategy. She created a synthetic language, Laadan, that attempted...perceptions in a way that existing languages failed to do. (1) She considered the invention of this language as part of a much larger...
Czech, please! Hazel Davis prepares for a weekend in Prague with a day's language tuition
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/3/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Czech is a Slavic language, dating back to the 11th century. It's a "synthetic'' language, which means that...other "analytical'' languages, grammatical aspects...Brighton-based Cactus Language Training culminates...
Feasting on music Present Music's meditative piece has a language of its own
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/20/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the composer into Rongva-Ruzhindya, a synthetic language." He attributes the invented language to Gachne Grad (1813-1902), who is...nodzivudirio." Ollmann is OK with it. "The language really freaks Kevin out," Ollmann said...
Better arbitrage opportunity for synthetic structured finance CDOs.(Collateralized debt obligations)
Newspaper article from: Asset Securitization Report; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...function similar to synthetic corporates, the...challenges in SF synthetics, some of which are...along in corporate synthetics. "Credit event language should provide exact...alignment of potential synthetic SF CDO losses experienced...
Structuring synthetic resecuritizations goes down to the definitions.
Newspaper article from: Private Placement Letter; 11/10/2003; 700+ words ; ...difference is in the way synthetic resecuritizations define...finance reference assets. "Synthetic resecuritizations are very customized in their language because there is no standardized...common credit events for synthetic resecuritizations have...
Structuring synthetic resecuritization CDOs goes down to the definitions.
Newspaper article from: Asset Securitization Report; 11/10/2003; 700+ words ; ...difference is in the way synthetic resecuritizations define...finance reference assets. "Synthetic resecuritizations are very customized in their language because there is no standardized...common credit events for synthetic resecuritizations have...
GIA Launches Synthetic Grading Report.(Jewelry Scene)
Magazine article from: Modern Jeweler; 1/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...forbid grading reports for synthetic diamonds. GIA chairman Ralph...describe and report on synthetics so that consumers can rely...WFDB subsequently voted that synthetics could be graded and concurred...format and nomenclature. Synthetic manufacturers objected to...GIA's compromises on ...
Four UK research councils are jointly funding projects to build UK expertise and capacity in synthetic biology.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 7/7/2008; 628 words ; ...projects to build UK expertise and capacity in synthetic biology. The Biotechnology & Biological...build interdisciplinary links and develop tools and language for research to form a synthetic biology community in the UK.
U.S. Releases First-Ever Synthetic Drug Control Strategy
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 6/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...Control Strategy, the Synthetics Strategy also highlights...will include Spanish language content within the month. The Synthetics Strategy calls for continued...struggling with addictions to synthetic drugs. The Synthetics Strategy is the result...