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unusual facts about Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation



85th Scripps National Spelling Bee

Nandipati received a $30,000 cash prize, an engraved trophy from the E. W. Scripps Company, a $2,500 savings bond from Merriam-Webster, a $5,000 scholarship from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation, $2,600 in reference works from Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and an online language course and Barnes & Noble Nook from Middlebury Interactive Languages.

AbsInt

The company was founded in 1998 as a technology spin-off from the Department of Programming Languages and Compiler Construction of Prof. Reinhard Wilhelm at Saarland University.

Ahoada West

Thus there are three (3) distinct languages namely Ekpeye, Engenni and Ogbogolo.

Association des anciens amateurs de récits de guerre et d'holocauste

It publishes and circulates texts and writings from mainly French and German Holocaust deniers in different languages on the internet, including Robert Faurisson, Germar Rudolf, the right-wing politician and former NPD member Günter Deckert, and Argentine Norberto Ceresole.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Benito Arias Montano

León de Castro, professor of Oriental languages at Salamanca, to whose translation of the Vulgate Arias had opposed the original Hebrew text, denounced Arias to the Roman, and later to the Spanish Inquisition for having altered the Biblical text, making too liberal use of the rabbinical writings, in disregard of the decree of the Council of Trent concerning the authenticity of the Vulgate, and confirming the Jews in their beliefs by his Chaldaic paraphrases.

Bernardino Baldi

He pursued his studies at Padua, and is said to have spoken about sixteen languages during his lifetime, though according to Tiraboschi the inscription on his tomb limits the number to twelve.

Bicol

Bikol languages, the languages spoken in the Bicol region in the Philippines

Biju

It is highly likely that Viju is an affectionate version of the name Vijaya, which means Victory in Sanskrit and several Indian languages.

Brittonic

Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic

Conservative Judaism

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $500,000 to the faltering JTS.

Danish phonology

Danish is a Scandinavian language related closely to Swedish and Norwegian, and more distantly to Icelandic and Faroese as well as to the other Germanic languages.

Edinburgh Institution

Stewart's Melville College, formerly Edinburgh Institution for Languages and Mathematics

Erromanga language

Terry Crowley states that there would have been three different languages prior to European contact.

Fe'fe' language

In was one of the four languages selected for option at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along with Duala, Basaa, and Banjun).

Fredric Alan Maxwell

He is the author of Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft an unauthorized biography of Steve Ballmer (Morrow, 2002; HarperBusiness, 2003) which has been translated into six languages.

Ghain

Ghayn, the corresponding letter in the Cyrillic orthographies for several Central Asian languages

Human Rights Service

In 2009, Bruce Bawer also joined HRS to "contribute essays", "translate major HRS articles into English" and "solicit, edit, and translate columns by international commentators from a range of languages into both English and Norwegian".

IVG

Abortion, in languages such as French, Italian, and Portuguese where "voluntary interruption of pregnancy" translates with this abbreviation

Japanese pronouns

Some linguists suggest that the Japanese language does not have pronouns as such, since, unlike pronouns in most other languages that have them, these words are syntactically and morphologically identical to nouns.

John Heckewelder

He studied carefully the languages, manners, and customs of the Indians, particularly the Delawares, and after he had become a member of the American Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia, several of his contributions of Indian archaeology were published in their transactions.

Joseph Bach

Without the aid of a teacher he studied several foreign languages; after which he attended the University of Prague, remaining there 12 years.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Khandeshi languages

Borrowing and bending the words from Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, Ahirani has created its own words not found in any of these languages.

Larry Wall

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Since leaving Haiti, this polyglot vagabond (he juggles seven languages) has lived in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Florence, and has traveled wherever his steps have taken him ... in the renewed echo of his native land.

Malabika Sarkar

She was also a member of the University Grants Commission Panel of Experts in English and Foreign Languages and a panel member of NAAC.

Milieu

Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Musasa

Musasa language, a language related to the Eastern Indic Bihari languages group

Nakamura Kichiemon I

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Nakamura Kichiemon I, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 2 languages and 80+ library holdings.

Nicknames of Houston

The first words transmitted by Neil Armstrong from the moon, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed", are written in 15 languages on bronze plaques placed along the main entrance of Tranquility Park in downtown Houston.

Portals network programming api

In light of emerging partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages, several new features have been added to the Portals API as part of Portals 4.

Proto-Algonquian language

It has merged with the reflex of *r in all Algonquian languages except for Cree and the Arapaho group.

Proto-human

Proto-Human language, a designation of the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages

Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus, originally called Quanta, is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages.

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791 is a book (ISBN 0-7710-6658-9) by Canadian historian Dr. Hilda Neatby published in 1966 in both the French and English languages as part of The Canadian Centenary Series.

Ranade Institute

Built in 1910, the building contains the University of Pune's Department of Communication & Journalism and Department of Foreign Languages.

Romanian subdialects

First, according to many linguists, the Romanian language (in the wider sense) is already divided into four dialects: Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian; these, according to other linguists, are separate languages.

Saharan languages

The Saharan languages are a small family of languages spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria.

Sunil Shanbag

In 2012, Shanbag was invited to perform a Gujarati adaptation of All's Well That Ends Well as part of the Globe to Globe festival in London, in which all 37 of Shakespeare's plays were performed in 37 different languages at Shakespeare's Globe.

Takalani Sesame

It incorporates all of South Africa's 11 national languages, including Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda.

Tale for a Deaf Ear

Tale for a Deaf Ear is an opera in one act with music and lyrics by Mark Bucci, sung in three languages and based on a story by Elizabeth Enright that appeared in the April 1951 edition of Harper's Magazine.

Toma Sik

The International Institute of Social History keeps a vast collection of papers from Toma Sik in several languages, such as Hebrew, Hungarian, and English.

Travis CI

It supports building software in numerous languages, including C, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala.

Tuamotuan language

Pa‘umotu is closely related to the languages of eastern Polynesian including Hawaiian, Māori, Cook Islands Māori and Rapa Nui, the language of Easter Island.

Tyrsenian languages

If these languages could be shown to be related to Etruscan and Rhaetic, they would constitute a pre-Indo-European family stretching from (at the very least) the Aegean islands and Crete across mainland Greece and the Italian peninsula to the Alps.

Wasta

Roughly equivalent words in other languages include Sociolismo in Cuba; Blat in Russia; Guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang; in Brazilian-Portuguese it is called "Pistolão", or in the slang "peixada".

Yolŋu languages

Yolŋu Matha is a cover term for the languages of the Yolngu (Yolŋu), the Indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.


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