And while there was an English-language division, Shalhevet competed in Hebrew.
Most of al-Jazeera's 4,700 employees work in its Arabic language division.
Although she has worked in the Tibetan-language division of Qinghai Television for two decades, Jamyang Kyi is better known for her singing and song-writing, especially among overseas Tibetans.
"We do not think that katakana words will disappear from the Japanese language, because there are just too many arriving all the time," said Satoshi Yamaguchi, director of the Japanese language division of Japan's Cultural Agency.
Al Jazeera's Arabic channels, demonised in Egypt to the point that staff in its independently run English-language division are being tried as terrorists, have become lonely pulpits for the Brotherhood.
For an example of how Mr. Ashcroft shuts down public examination, consider the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former F.B.I. translator who says that the agency's language division is riddled with incompetence and corruption, and that the bureau missed critical terrorist warnings.
He suggests the company should also spin out its Java programming-language division, killing another sacred cow.
In his famous Lettre au roi sur la séparation de la Wallonie et de la Flandre ("Letter to the King on the separation of Wallonia and Flanders") published in 1912, the Walloon socialist Jules Destrée argued that the language division in Belgium was irreconcilable, famously stating that "In Belgium, there are the Walloons and the Flemish.
Such works fall into three major language divisions: Castilian, Catalan, and Galician.
Two other Indo-European language divisions were formerly widespread but now are spoken only by a few groups.
