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Culture destroys languages.

The Tatoeba Project, which can be found online at tatoeba.org, is working on creating a large database of example sentences translated into many languages.

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

In order to study computational linguistics it's necessary to know various languages, however, one also has to be familiar with the use of computers.

Interlinguistics deals with communication across language barriers, and explores how planned languages like Esperanto and Volapük are used in these situations.

Lojban is designed to be unambiguous in orthography, phonology, morphology, and grammar. Lojban semantics, however, must support the same breadth of human thought as natural languages.

Languages that would have never found themselves together in a traditional system, can be connected in Tatoeba.

The command of communication skills in multiple languages is essential to any company providing goods and services on the world market.

What would happen if two powerful nations with different languages - such as United States and China - would agree upon the experimental teaching of Esperanto in elementary schools?

The equal rights and survival of languages can be assured only if the European Union accepts a neutral, easy-to-learn bridge language for interethnic communication, introducing it step by step.

Esperanto, with its 130-year history and abundant literature, can be mastered in one tenth of the time required for learning one of the widespread national languages.

When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages.

There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.