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Pascal

(Encyclopedia)Pascal: see programming language. ...

LISP

(Encyclopedia)LISP: see programming language.

landsmaal

(Encyclopedia)landsmaal: see Norwegian language. ...

kinesics

(Encyclopedia)kinesics: see body language.

Plattdeutsch

(Encyclopedia)Plattdeutsch: see German language. ...

BASIC

(Encyclopedia)BASIC: see programming language. ...

Hebrew literature

(Encyclopedia)Hebrew literature, literary works, from ancient to modern, written in the Hebrew language. The rise of Zionism, particularly reflected in the writings of Ahad Ha-am (Asher Ginzberg), gave Hebrew ...

Komi

(Encyclopedia)Komi kōˈmē, kôˈ– [key], Finnic people of the northeastern part of European Russia. There are two traditional branches of the Komi—Zyrians and Permyaks. The Zyrians are now officially called K...

Latvian

(Encyclopedia)Latvian or Lettish lĕtˈĭsh [key], a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages). The mother tongue of close to 3 million persons livin...

synonym

(Encyclopedia)synonym sĭnˈənĭm [key] [Gr.,=having the same name], word having a meaning that is the same as or very similar to the meaning of another word of the same language. Some are alike in some meanings o...

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