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This document describes the structure, content, construction, and semantics of language tags for use in cases where it is desirable to indicate the language used in an information object. It also describes how to register values for use in language tags and the creation of user-defined extensions for private interchange. This document, in combination with RFC 4647, replaces RFC 3066, which replaced RFC 1766.

When asked to describe the scenes in speech, the speakers used the word orders typical of their respective languages. [...] But when asked to describe the same scenes using only their hands, all of the adults, no matter what language they spoke, produced the same order –– subject, object, verb (woman knob twists).

Harrison, of Swarthmore College, and Anderson, of The Living Tongues Institute, are the stars of Ironbound Films’ The Linguists—an exciting and edifying documentary that follows their quest to document (and save) some of the world’s many endangered languages. GOOD phoned these two intrepid linguists to hear their takes on the importance of language revitalization, the value of intellectual diversity, and the sometimes humbling experience of adventure science.

With Flex 3, localization support will become much more Flexible! Here’s how:

Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.

The auditory bones of 530,000-year-old skulls indicate that an early human species called Homo heidelbergensis may have heard sounds much the way people do today.

This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to determine which is the best at extracting the text.

This is a project to make LeaRNing Japanese simple and inexpensive with accelerated training and home immersion.