If you can put aside your desire for perfect order, the variegated weirdness of grammar can be a source of fun rather than exasperation: Spain's manly bridges have nothing on languages with dozens of genders, including the one in Dyirbal, an Australian language, that includes "women, fire and dangerous things".
One can compare the conceptual space based on languages of the world in Haspelmath (2003) and the one based on Xiang dialect in China in Zhang 张敏 (2010).
By mapping multiple languages onto similar word vectors, a blog post from the company details, Facebook's method "can train on one or more languages, and learn a classifier that works on languages you never saw in training".
However, to the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of twin study on languages which have very different linguistic characteristics compared with alphabetic ones, such as Chinese.
It is also unlikely to work on languages and meanings that evolved as they were passed down from one generation to another through oral means.
The emphasis on languages is also crucial, she argues.
There are now 300, most concentrating on technology but others on languages, the arts or sport.
His last tip was on languages, citing Skype, another Index-backed company.
His linguistic work presented much data on languages otherwise little known, notably the Aymaran and Quechuan languages of South America.
Professor Mike Kelly, former Department for Education adviser on languages and head of modern languages at the University of Southampton.
He sees the new site as a "safe haven" for fieldwork on languages that might otherwise be lost.
