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Linguistic diversity is greatest in South America, where many languages spoken in remote jungle and mountain regions remain unrecorded and unclassified. There are probably over 500 different languages still spoken, with perhaps 14 million speakers. The various languages of the Quechua group alone have 5 million speakers.
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Google Multiple languages can be used with the Mono platform. The Mono project provides some compilers (C#, Basic, JScript) and there are both open source and commercial compilers that can be used with Mono.
Unrelated languages whose speakers are in daily contact often come to share various grammatical traits, which can then be called areal features of the region. In the Pacific Northwest, for instance, there are several unrelated genetic groups with strikingly similar, unusually complex consonant systems. Many languages of the Tupian family of South America have nasalization as an attribute, not just of vowels or consonants, but of whole syllables, and this feature has been borrowed by some unrelated neighboring languages.
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There are many languages spoken on the African continent - by some estimates, there are over 3000 indigenous languages alone. Broadly, African languages are divided into four major sub-groups: Afro-asiatic, Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan.
In Australia's multicultural society parents can provide much of the impetus for the development of languages education in Australian schools, from maintaining their own language backgrounds to ensuring their children thrive in today's - and tomorrow's - global village. more
Friendster has implemented multi-language support on a single domain -- Friendster.com -- to promote communication and interaction among users who speak different languages. A large percentage of friend networks on Friendster cross borders and continents, requiring multi-language support to be implemented in a single, global Web site.
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