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Ugarit

(Encyclopedia)Ugarit o͞ogərētˈ [key], ancient city, capital of the Ugarit kingdom, W Syria, on the Mediterranean coast N of modern Latakia. Although the name of this city was known from Egyptian and Hittite sou...

COBOL

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

FORTRAN

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

LISP

(Encyclopedia)LISP: see programming language.

kinesics

(Encyclopedia)kinesics: see body language.

landsmaal

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

Pascal

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

BASIC

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

Plattdeutsch

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

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...