Malagasy is an Austronesian language that is spoken in Madagascar. It is an Austronesian language. It is related to languages such as Indonesian, Javanese and Maori. That means that Malagasy is related to languages spoken in Indonesia. This is probably because immigrants from Indonesia came to Madagascar until A.D. 1400. It is the only Austronesian language spoken in Africa.
Malagasy is written using the English alphabet, but without c, q, u, w and x. No accents or other diacritical marks are used. It was invented by David Jones as a replacement for Sorabe (a type of Arabic script). Most letters have their IPA values. However, y and i are both pronounced like /i/ and h is often silent. A few consonant digraphs (tr, dr, ts) are used.
Manoa ahoana - Hello
Veloma - Goodbye
Nenibe - Grandmother
Dadabe - Grandfather
Premier of the Republic of China
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Many national government buildings of the Republic of China are in this district. Some are the Presidential office building, the Executive Yuan building and other government agency buildings.
This district is named after the former President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek.
National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
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There is a library and museum in the monument. It has books and artefacts about Chiang's life and the history of the Republic of China.
National Palace Museum
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Their debut album "Nowhere" was ranked #74 on Pitchfork Media's list of "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s" and was also added to the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". The single "Vapour Trail" was ranked #145 on Pitchfork Media's list of "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s".
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Pekanbaru
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Nash the Slash
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Nash's musical trademark was his face being covered in surgical bandages. He got the name "Nash the Slash" by using the name of the main antagonist of the Laurel and Hardy silent movie "Do Detectives Think?" (1927).
Nash was born in Toronto, Ontario. In 1998, he revealed that he was gay at Toronto's Pride Week. He retired in 2012.
Nash died on the weekend of May 10, 2014 at his home in Toronto, aged 66. The cause of his death was a suspected heart attack.
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The culture of Taipei is said to be started in Shilin district.
Shilin has three universities: Ming Chuan University, Soochow University, and the Chinese Culture University. Some international schools, like the Taipei American School, Taipei Japanese School, and Taipei European School are in this district. The district is also has vocational colleges, four senior high schools, eight junior high schools, and twenty elementary schools.
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Hyer died in Santa Fe, New Mexico from natural causes, aged 89.
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Missiroli died in Turin, Italy from an illness, aged 80.
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The WCC began in 1952 when five schools in and around the San Francisco Bay Area formed the California Basketball Association. The league was then called the West Coast Athletic Conference from 1956 to 1989.
All 10 of its current members were founded by churches; seven are Catholic schools. Only Pacific, which was founded by Methodists, no longer receives money from a church.
The WCC has 10 members. All are located in West Coast states except BYU.
The WCC has one "associate member" that plays one sport in the conference.
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