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Some scholars believed that all human languages were descended from the language of Adam and Eve, a language called Adamic language.

“In the Sanskrit Language (1786), Sir William Jones proposed that Sanskrit and Persian had resemblances to classical Greek, Latin, gothic and Celtic languages. From this idea sprang the field of comparative historical linguistics. Through the 19th century, European linguistics centered on the comparative history of the Indo-European languages, with a concern for finding their common roots and tracing their development.  <h3 style="margin: 6pt 0in 3pt;">Working from a biblical perspective some scholars believed that all human languages were descended from the language of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve" title="Adam and Eve">Adam and Eve</a>, a language called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamic_language" title="Adamic language">Adamic language</a>. Many of these scholars believed that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew language</a> was, in fact, the same as the Adamic language. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820s" title="1820s">1820s</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Humboldt" title="Wilhelm von Humboldt">Wilhelm von Humboldt</a> observed that human language was a rule-governed system, anticipating a theme that was to become central in the formal work on syntax and semantics of language in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">20th century</a>. Of this observation he said that it allowed language to make infinite use of finite means (Über den Dualis 1827). </h3>  About <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880s" title="1880s">1880</a>, scholars in the <country-region w:st="on">United States</country-region> began to record the hundreds of native languages once found in <place w:st="on">North America</place>. The concern with describing languages spread throughout the world, and thousands of languages around the world have now been analyzed to varying degrees. As this work was developing in the early twentieth century, mainly in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>, linguists were confronted with languages whose structures differed greatly from those of known European languages. Scholars decided they needed a theory of linguistic structure and methods of analysis. From such concerns came the field of structural linguistics. Pioneers in it include the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropologists</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas" title="Franz Boas">Franz Boas</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sapir" title="Edward Sapir">Edward Sapir</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bloomfield" title="Leonard Bloomfield">Leonard Bloomfield</a>. When <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical-comparative_linguistics" title="Historical-comparative linguistics">historical-comparative linguistics</a> first met unfamiliar languages, the linguist's first job was to thoroughly describe the language. In Europe there was a parallel development of structural linguistics, influenced most strongly by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure" title="Ferdinand de Saussure">Ferdinand de Saussure</a>, a Swiss student of Indo-European and general linguistics whose lectures on general linguistics, published posthumously by his students, set the direction of European linguistic analysis from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s" title="1920s">1920s</a> on; his approach has been widely adopted in other fields under the broad term "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism" title="Structuralism">Structuralism</a>." During the second World War, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bloomfield" title="Leonard Bloomfield">Leonard Bloomfield</a> and several of his students and colleagues developed teaching materials for a variety of languages whose knowledge was needed for the war effort. This work led to an increasing prominence of the field of linguistics, which became a recognized discipline in most American universities only after the war. From roughly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s" title="1980s">1980</a> onwards, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics" title="Pragmatics">pragmatic</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_functional_grammar" title="Systemic functional grammar">functional</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_linguistics" title="Cognitive linguistics">cognitive</a> approaches have steadily gained ground, both in the U.S. and in Europe." 1 Language Translation, Inc. has been in the foreign language translation business for 17 years, providing document translation services, and other language translation services. Other services include localization of web content, or web content localization, software localization and medical translation. 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