Lang
Encyclopedia
Lang may refer to:
Australia
Austria
Canada
China
Indonesia
United States
- Lang (surname)Lang (surname)Lang is a surname of independent Germanic and Asian origin. It is similar to Lange and Long, as they all carry the same meaning.-American:*Andrew Lang, , basketball player*Anton Lang, American natural scientist...
- "Langue" was Ferdinand de SaussureFerdinand de SaussureFerdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics...
's term for what in contemporary linguistics is referred to as "competency (linguistics)" or "I-language" (both ChomskyChomskyChomsky Khomsk ") is a Belarus'-origin surname, and may refer to:* Aviva Chomsky , American historian* Carol Chomsky , American linguist and wife of Noam Chomsky* Elsie Chomsky, American educator...
), referring to an idea of an internal cognitive "language" as distinct from surface forms —natural spoken language.
Places
Antarctica- Lang Island (Antarctica)Lang Island (Antarctica)Lang Island is an island 1 mi long and 0.4 mi wide, lying midway between Abrupt Island and the Oygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and called by them Langøy...
, East Antarctica
Australia
- Lang Park, a stadium in Brisbane
- Dunmore Lang CollegeDunmore Lang CollegeDunmore Lang College is a residential college of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Its motto is "Learning Leadership and Service".The college is a non-profit organisation, affiliated with the university...
, Macquarie University, Sydney
Austria
- Lang, AustriaLang, AustriaLang is a municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria.It is divided into the villages Göttling, Lang, Langaberg, Dexenberg, Schirka, Stangersdorf and Jöß....
, a town in the district of Leibniz in Styria
Canada
- Lang, SaskatchewanLang, Saskatchewan-External links:********-Footnotes:...
, a village
China
- Mount Lang, in Inner Mongolia
Indonesia
- Lang IslandLang IslandLang Island lies in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, in Indonesia. It is one of the Krakatoa Islands, near the famous volcano...
, Sunda Strait
United States
- Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal ArtsEugene Lang College The New School for Liberal ArtsEugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School university. It is located on-campus in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue.-History:...
, New York City
Computing
- S-Lang, a programming language created in 1992, the core package of the Java programming language
- LANG, environment variable in POSIXPOSIXPOSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
standard that sets multiple locale parameters - The
LANG
attribute in HTML, for identifying the language of content