English has become one of the most popular languages in the world and is recognized as the most widespread language for communication in education, technology, business, diplomacy, science, and sports, as well as the high-tech and service-oriented industries, and many other fields (Zhang 2011).
As an extension of C++, a widespread language in HPC, the PObC++ language has been designed and prototyped, incorporating the ideas of OOPP.
UML is a widespread language used in both industry and academia, despite the fact that its semantics is still informal and allows ambiguities.
In order to be able to integrate as much existing services as possible a widespread language has to be used.
Written in the Hebrew alphabet, it became one of the world's most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century.
The author, who speaks one of the country's more widespread languages, Kiswahili, has helped others achieve his own goal of moving on from "knowing more about how people in Congo were dying than about how they lived".
But it is also hunting and harvesting parallel corpora from the web in less widespread languages – such as Tamil, Armenian and Basque – wherever it can find them.
On this map produced by Ms Manrubia and Mr Axelsen, areas that are dominated by widespread languages or uninhabited areas are indicated in green.
The widespread protests over language reveal the deep resentment that many Tibetans feel over policies formulated by the Han, China's dominant ethnic group, that Tibetans say are diluting their culture.
The concept is well-known from relational databases where the theory of Relational Algebra has been very successfully implemented in the widespread declarative query language SQL.
