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Prof. Charles Adriaan van Ophuijsen [nl; id], who devised the orthography, was a Dutch linguist.He was a former inspector in a school at Bukittinggi, West Sumatra in the 1890s, before he became a professor of the Malay language at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
The Youth Pledge, a pledge made by Indonesian youth on October 28, 1928, defining the identity of the Indonesian nation.On the last pledge, there was an affirmation of Indonesian language as a unifying language throughout the archipelago.
This Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles (though provisions related to accessibility apply across the entire project, not just to articles).
In linguistics, diglossia (/ d aɪ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s i ə / dy-GLOSS-ee-ə, US also / d aɪ ˈ ɡ l ɔː s i ə / dy-GLAW-see-ə) is where two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community.
However, italicization is common in the United States, where authorities including APA Style insist upon it. [ 16 ] Because sic is not an abbreviation, placing a full stop /period inside the brackets after the word sic is erroneous, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] although the California Style Manual suggests styling it as a parenthetical sentence only when used ...
Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate is a book by Geoffrey Sampson, providing arguments against Noam Chomsky's theory of a human instinct for language acquisition.
Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. [10] Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships.
The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /.It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names.Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator.