31.   In response to the attacks on Afghanistan, the BBC World Service has boosted short-wave transmissions to the region and expanded its offerings in local languages.

32.   In these community schools, teachers can use local languages for instruction through the third grade.

33.   Instead of training in English, programs should use experienced journalists who speak the local language and understand local problems.

34.   It was good and responsible employment that drew on his training in management and his fluency in French, English and several of the local languages.

35.   Its members left behind a note in the local Telugu language saying the attack was to protest the American bombing of Afghanistan and threatening more such actions.

36.   Local languages replaced Latin.

37.   Many Afghans are accustomed to listening to the British Broadcasting Corp. and the Voice of America, which offer news in the local languages.

38.   Mrs. Mandela did not speak the local African language, Sotho, and the white townspeople were known to be ultra-conservative Afrikaners.

39.   Most residents also speak Papiamento, a melodic local language combining Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indian, African, Dutch and English.

40.   On the factory floor, local languages prevail.