News tagged with aboriginal languages
Poor health among indigenous peoples a question of cultural loss as well as poverty
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The health problems of Indigenous peoples around the world are intimately tied to a number of unique factors, such as colonization, globalization, migration, and loss of land, language and culture. These factors remain even ...
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Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Metabolic syndrome can help identify diabetes risk in Aboriginal Canadians
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Metabolic syndrome is the clustering of risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease, such as obesity, high cholesterol, high glucose and hypertension. Aboriginal Canadians have a 3-5 times higher prevalence of ...
Google adds Malay, Swahili others to automatic translation
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google announced Monday it was adding nine more languages to Google Translate, its automatic translation program.
Do bilingual persons have distinct language areas in the brain?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 08, 2009 |
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A new study carried out at the University of Haifa sheds light on how first and second languages are represented in the brain of a bilingual person. A unique single case study that was tested by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the ...
Lip-reading computers can detect different languages
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have created lip-reading computers that can distinguish between different languages.
Google adds translation to main search engine
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.
Europe's top dailies in 10 languages online
May 26, 2009 |
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The European Commission and a media consortium launched Tuesday an Internet site allowing people to read articles about Europe from the world's top newspapers in 10 languages.
Pacific people spread from Taiwan
Jan 22, 2009 |
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New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago.
The first men and women from the Canary Islands were Berbers
Oct 21, 2009 |
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A team of Spanish and Portuguese researchers has carried out molecular genetic analysis of the Y chromosome (transmitted only by males) of the aboriginal population of the Canary Islands to determine their ...
Google gadget lets websites go multilingual
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Google on Wednesday released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages.
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