SOUTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES

Native American Languages, indigenous languages of the native peoples of North, Middle, and South America

South America. The precise number of languages originally spoken cannot be known, since many disappeared before they were documented. In North America, around 300 distinct, mutually unintelligible languages were spoken when Europeans arrived. Of those, 187 survive today, but few will continue far into the 21st century, since children are no longer learning the vast majority of these. In Middle ...

Present-day South American climate

Article history: This paper documents the m Received 25 April 2007 Accepted 13 October 2007 Available online 9 September 2008

Reproduction in South American Camelids

All camelids (including the Bactrian [2 humps] and Dromedary [1 hump] old world camels) have a diploid number of 74 chromosomes. Interbreeding can occur between any of these species, producing fertile offspring. In llama and alpaca are occasionally interbred, producing an animal with longer but coarser fibre length than Alpaca. These are known as Huarizo. Using artificial insemination between o...

Reproduction in South American Camelids

Named Entity Recognition for South Asian Languages

Much work has already been done on building named entity recognition systems. However most of this work has been concentrated on English and other European languages. Hence, building a named entity recognition (NER) system for South Asian Languages (SAL) is still an open problem because they exhibit characteristics different from English. This paper builds a named entity recognizer which also i...