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sign language

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Manual alphabet sign language, gestural communication used as an alternative or replacement for speech. Sign languages resemble oral languages in every way other than their modality. As with o...

programming language

(Encyclopedia)programming language, syntax, grammar, and symbols or words used to give instructions to a computer. Once the program is written and has had any errors repaired (a process called debugging), it may ...

Provençal language

(Encyclopedia)Provençal language prôväNsälˈ [key]: see Occitan. ...

Persian language

(Encyclopedia)Persian language, member of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian languages). The official language of Iran, it has about 38 millio...

Harper, William Rainey

(Encyclopedia)Harper, William Rainey, 1856–1906, American educator and Hebrew scholar, b. New Concord, Ohio, grad. Muskingum College, 1870, Ph.D. Yale, 1875. The author of many texts on Hebrew language and litera...

Masora

(Encyclopedia)Masora or Massorah məsōˈrə [key] [Heb.,=tradition], collection of critical annotations made by Hebrew scholars, called the Masoretes, to establish the text of the Old Testament. A principal proble...

ALGOL, computer language

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

language of signs

(Encyclopedia)language of signs: see sign language. ...

C, computer language

(Encyclopedia)C: see programming language.

Ada, computer language

(Encyclopedia)Ada: see programming language.