In some, remaining speakers of the local language numbered in the hundreds when the project began.
The query was also used to obtain patients' medical record numbers, demographics, preferred language, number of chronic medical conditions, number of visits to the clinic in the past 12 months, primary care provider, and contact information.
All family background covariates parental education, native language, number of children in 1940, five categorical variables for socioeconomic status in 1939, and county of residence in 1939 cancel out in within sibling analysis.
In addition to different basic characteristics of medical education, MLE systems in ASEAN countries are diverse in many aspects including language, number of steps in the process, as well as methods of examination.
"When we were writing them, it was a matter of just recording names and using language, letters, words, numbers.
The named dialects of these languages number many thousands more, not to mention the variant names for those languages and dialects.
Speakers of modern Iranian languages number between 150 and 200 million; Persian, Pashto, and Kurdish are the most widely spoken of these languages.
Speakers of modern Indo-Aryan languages number more than 800 million persons; Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Urdu are the most widely spoken of these languages.
Speakers of Khasian languages number about 900,000, most of whom speak Khāsi; other languages of the group include Amwi (War), Synteng (Pnar), and Lyng-ngam.
It is widely believed that the world's languages number about seven thousand, with half of those predicted to die off by the end of this century.
