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The personal website of Robert Beard, devoted to the study of morphology, especially Beard's theory of 'Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology'. It is linked to an index of on-line dictionaries and grammars, and several pages of linguistic fun. The site is maintained at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837 by Professor Robert Beard.

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Welcome To The First Edition of The Modern Taino Dictionary The Dictionary Of The Spoken Taino Language (Para El Diccionario en la version de Espa ol favor TOQUE AQUI) The Wisdom Of The Cemi', We Are Tainos Not Arawaks THE TAINO LANGUAGE PROJECT: This Taino Dictionary Is Under reconstruction. This is a project of the Taino Inter-Tribal Council Inc., We appreciate and do invite comments from the ...

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An introduction to Language Families. The Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, Malayo-Polynesian, Niger-Congo are the main families discussed.

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LFG98 CONFERENCE The University of Queensland, Brisbane Workshop on Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian Languages Wed 1 July, afternoon, Emmanuel College Convenors: Simon Musgrave Prof. Peter K. Austin A number of Western Austronesian languages have more than one construction for clauses with two-place verbs. Word-order and/or case-marking varies, as does the form of the verb, but ...

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I n E n g l i s h Links Etusivu = Main page (in Finnish) Esittely = Introduction (in Finnish) Henkil t = Persons (in Finnish) Julkaisut = Publications (in Finnish and in English) Kokoukset = Meetings (in Finnish) Jasenpalvelut = Member services (in Finnish) Palautteet = Feedback (in Finnish) Takaisin yl s = Up Introduction and contact information THE FINNO-UGRIAN SOCIETY is one of the oldest and ...

Last changed 5 August 2002 Australian languages The best collection of links relating to Australian languages is in the WWW VL - Aboriginal Languages of Australia, and includes for instance the AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA) catalogue (23 September 1997 version). AIATSIS bibliographies are the best; and for current material see also the lists of the Recent ...

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Welcome to the Maya Site This fully searchable database is constructed from materials published in John Dienhart's 3-volume work: The Mayan Languages- A Comparative Vocabulary (Odense University Press, 1989). It contains more than 40, 000 entries for 31 Mayan languages. Please read the guidelines we have provided on how to cite any material which you wish to use from this database. This site also ...

Finno-Ugrian languages Classification of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic) languages, with present numbers of speakers and areas of distribution (last updated 26 October 1998) Tapani Salminen tasalmin@cc.helsinki.fi 1994-1998 Sami languages ( Lappish ) South Sami 500 Norway, Sweden Ume Sami 20 Norway (extinct), Sweden Pite Sami 20 Norway (extinct), Sweden Lule Sami 2, 000 Norway, Sweden North ...

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Knowing Words in Indo-European Languages The first systematic theory of the relationships between human languages began when Sir William Jones, Oriental Jones, proposed in 1788 that Greek and Latin, the classical languages of Europe, and Sanskrit, the classical language of India, had all descended from a common source. The evidence for this came from both the structure of the languages -- ...

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Copyright 2002 NLThomas All Rights Reserved There is now a second URL for the People's Paths the original Cherokee language version http://www.YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net/mainindex.html English translation version http://www.thePeoplesPaths.net/mainindex.html First People's Language Resources! || Teaching/Study American Indian Languages || || Non-Comercial Resources || || Commercial Resources || || ...

SUL Linguistics home Pidgin and Creole Languages A Guide to Green Library collections Contents I. Introduction II. Getting Started III. Classification and Subject Headings IV. Overviews and Introductions V. Theories, Problems, Controversies VI. Bibliographies & Indexes/Abstracts VII. Theses VIII. Maps, Catalogs, Checklists IX. Periodicals and Newsletters X. Monographic Series XI. Dictionaries ...

The Japanese Language Research Center Osaka Shoin Women's College Japanese Version Modified March 29, 2001 Information in English The Center Dennis Preston in Japan report.Report to the Japanese Science Foundation. DB-West (Japanese Linguistics and Literature Database Association) The Center Staff Student Research Projects 1996 Related links Information in Japanese The Center DB-West (Japanese ...

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The Kamanakao Association: dedicated to developing and maintaining the language and culture of the Wayeyi people of Botswana.

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CC: Pidgin Carriers (19 July 1998) When two groups of humans who don't share a language come together, they generally try to communicate. Often, the result is a pidgin a simplified language that combines features of the groups' languages while leaving out the more difficult parts, allowing the groups to speak to each other. This sort of lingua franca is often used to conduct trade. (The word ...

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Numbers in Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages Pidgins and Creoles Arabic-based Turku way tinen talata arba kamza site saba tamani tise ashara Nubi wai tinin talata arba khamsa sita saba tamanya tisa ashara Motu-based Hiri Motu ta rua toi hani ima tauratoi (sikisi) hitu taurahani (et) taurahani-ta gwauta Zulu-based Fanagalo wan tu tri fo fayif sikis seven eyit nayin ten Naga-based Naga ...

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PIDGINS AND CREOLES INTRODUCTION Can you guess what language this is These lines are taken from a famous comic strip in Papua New Guinea: Sapos yu kaikai planti pinat, bai yu kamap strong olsem phantom. Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi. Inap yu ken helpim mi nau Fantom, em i go we Translation: 'If you eat plenty of peanuts, you will come up strong like the phantom.' 'Phantom, you are a true ...

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Declan's Korean Language Page - information and links on learning the Korean language. Sections on the history of the Korean alphabet and writing system, Hangul, and a synopsis of Korean grammar. Also Korean language learning links and more general Korean-related links including Korean history, Korean broadcasting and discussion boards. Includes a section on how to install (installing) and use ...

Next: Sociolinguistic Factors Up: No Title Previous: No Title Pidgin and Creole Languages Originally thought of as incomplete, broken, corrupt, not worthy of serious attention. Pidgins still are marginal: in origin (makeshift, reduced in structure), in attitudes toward them (low prestige); in our knowledge of them. Some quick definitions: Pidgin language (origin in Engl. word `business' ) is ...

Chinese Romanization Guide Learn and convert between Chinese Romanizations Chinese Romanization Introduction A romanization system is a method of using letters of the Roman alphabet (ABCD...) to recreate the sounds of a language whose writing system may or may not use the Roman alphabet. A Chinese romanization system would thus be a method of using the Roman alphabet to pronounce Chinese ...

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The Siouan Languages Bibliography Page last updated: 06/13/2001 Welcome to the Siouan Languages Bibliography, a work in progress! The purpose of this web site is to bring together in one place a searchable bibliography of all the linguistic and language related work done on the Siouan-Catawban languages. This project would not have been possible without the effort of a lot of people. The basis ...

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Archives of CREOLIST ` N.B.: This is a Mirror of the CREOLIST List at CREOLIST@LING.SU.SE, whose archives are at http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/. It exists only to provide a web-searchable archive of the material posted there. If you wish to subscribe to it, you can do so here. The CreoLIST Mailing List (Mirror) Search the archives Manage the list (list owners only) July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 ...

The Chinese-Korean Convertor (CKC) can convert Chinese Character (CC) to the corresponding Romanized Korean Spelling (RKS), or reversely convert RKS to the corresponding CC.

BACK to HOMEPAGE The Udi Language: A grammatical description with sample text Author: Wolfgang Schulze Date: 01/2001 Contents Basic Structure of the Udi Online Grammar Prolegomenon General information Phonetics/phonology Morphology Morphosyntax and Syntax Lexicon Sample texts Bibliography Excursus: Frequency of phonemes Typological features Morpheme identifier Prolegomenon Sample of spoken Udi ...

Painting by Frank Howell) ...on the Passing of Elders You sit still among us, Brother, your person retains its usual resemblance, and continues similar to ours, without any visible deficiency, except that it has lost the power of action. But whither is that breath flown, which a few hours ago sent up smoke to the Great Spirit Why are those lips silent, that lately delivered to us expressive and ...

National Indigenous Languages Directory FATSIL's National Indigenous Language Contacts Directory aims to support national networking and improve communication between community and language interest groups. It includes contacts and profiles for Language Centres, Universities, TAFEs, and other relevant bodies and individuals. It is currently being updated for 2001. ACT | NSW | NT | Qld | SA | Tas ...

101 words that ancient Austronesian and/or Malayo/Polynesian seafarers may have used in Merina, Malay, Maanyan, Tagalog, Ilokano, Cebuano, Bunun, Chamoru, Tongan, Samoan, Maori, and Hawaiian.

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Home | Tour | Kids Work | Culture | Photos | Guestbook | Links | Contact Welcome to the Yindjibarndi Online dictionary. We currently have two sections - Body parts and animals. All sounds are in the wav format, and have been reduced in size. The largest file is 10kb, with most being 4 - 5kb. Click the link, then choose Run from current location Body Bits Ear Face Foot Hair Hand Nose Head Thigh ...

A brief list of useful Korean travel phrases Brought to you by your friends at If you want translations for this language, contact the person who contributed these phrases to our website: Fred Lyu (USA) These translations indicate how to say the word phonetically. Please translate a phrase for me! hello = AHN-NYUNG HA-SEH-YO goodbye = AHN-NYUNG-HEE GA-SEH-YO please = (No direct translation. Has ...

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Mti hauendi ila kwa nyenzo A log can only be moved with the proper tools. . 141 Joe Brown Hall Phone: (706)-542-2133 Fax: (706)-542-2155 moshi@arches.uga.edu The African Languages Program is a unit in the Department of Comparative Literature. For the time being, 3 languages, Swahili, Yoruba and Zulu, are being taught at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Swahili has a ...

The World's Top Twenty Spoken Languages The table below presents speaker estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions). The first column lists the languages on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers they have. The second column gives population estimates for those countries where the language has official status. Note that the totals do not always ...

Many Tongues - Ancient Tales, Michael E. Krauss, September 1988, pp. 144-150 from Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell, Smithsonian Institution. Used with permission of the publisher, for educational purposes only. Many Tongues Ancient Tales Michael E. Krauss Table of Contents Language Families Asian-American Comparisons Historical and ...

4.7 Post-contact languages of Western Australia Western Australian Aboriginal English Kriol Introduction This section deals with languages that have developed in Western Australia since the arrival of non-Aboriginal people. Whenever a group of people take over another group's land it is likely that a new language will develop. This happened when the French invaded Britain in the eleventh ...

Language Created on: 25 januari 2001 Mari language family tree (1) Veps language table (2) Danish language family tree (3) Danish language distribution in Europe (4) Romance languages family tree (5) Romance languages map (6) language areas of the Italic and neighboring languages, 250 BC (7) Sorbian family tree (8) distribution of Slavic languages in Europe (9) cultural and linguistic areas of ...

Literatures and Materials of Ainu Language: for Learners Compiled by Suzuko Tamura (Waseda University) Supplemented by Osami Okuda (Sapporo Gakuin University) mail to the page editor September 2, 2001 (update history) Literatures and Materials in Japanese (Japanese font set required) Contents 1. Literatures 2. Video/Audio Materials 3. Links to the Internet 1. Literatures (Some of the following ...

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The Kutthung, or Kattang, dialect was spoken amongst the Australian Aborigines living along the southern bank of the Karuah river and the south shore of Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia. It was at one time spoken amongst the tribes lying between Port Stephens, West Maitland and Paterson. The adjoining tribes were the Gummigingal, inhabiting the territory on the north shore of Port ...

The history of kanji and how they became used in Japanese writing.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SALISH AND NEIGHBORING LANGUAGES The 37th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages will be August 14, 15, 16, 2002 hosted by Western Washington University and Northwest Indian College and will take place at the Western Washington University campus in Bellingham, Washington Papers on all aspects of the study, preservation, and teaching of Salish and ...

The Abkhaz Language 1. Abkhaz belongs to the small North West Caucasian language-family whose other members are Circassian, the virtually extinct Ubykh and Abaza. There may well be a distant genetic relationship with the remaining two North Caucasian families (North Central Caucasian and North East Caucasian, or Daghestanian), but no such link can be demonstrated with South Caucasian ...

Telis tank is the producer of the big scale R/C models of modern tanks, ships, helicopters and the others military technique.

The Spoken Word Keeping The Aboriginal Language Strong Christobel Swann is a Conservationist with a difference. She is working as an Aboriginal Linguist in Alice Springs to conserve a part of our national heritage which most Australians are ignorant of - Australian Aboriginal Languages. In 1788, there were about 250 separate Aboriginal languages spoken in Australia, plus dialects. Today, only ...

Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory1 Joan Bresnan Stanford University Proceedings of the LFG98 Conference The University of Queensland, Brisbane Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Editors) 1998 CSLI Publications http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/ Pronouns in pidgins Pidgins arise in certain contact situations as a conventionalized means of communication between groups of adult speakers ...

Department of Finno-Ugristics E-mail: fgroszt@nytud.hu Staff BAKRO-NAGY, Marianne senior research fellow, head of department CS CS, Sandor senior research fellow MOLN R, Zoltan research fellow OSZKO, Beatrix research fellow SAL NKI, Zsuzsa research fellow SIPOS, Maria research fellow Current project Uralic Etymological Database (Cs cs, Sandor Molnar, Zoltan Oszk , Beatrix Salanki, Zsuzsa ...

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Hunza Proverbs Etienne Tiffou ISBN 1895176298 $19.95 paper November 1993 ix + 252 pages 2 maps About the Book Etienne Tiffou has provided here a critical review of proverbs and riddles in the Burushaski language of the Hunza Valley, site of the legendary Shangri-la. Each entry is accompanied by linguistic and ethnologic commentaries. There are over 550 proverbs, riddles and manners of expression ...

Archives of INDO-EUROPEAN ` N.B.: This is a Mirror of the INDO-EUROPEAN List at INDO-EUROPEAN@XKL.COM. It exists only to provide a web-searchable archive of the material posted there. If you wish to subscribe to it, you can do so here. The INDO-EUROPEAN mailing list (Mirror) Search the archives Manage the list (list owners only) August 2001 July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April 2001 March 2001 ...

John Batchelor made his mind to work for the Ainu as follows. The first was to teach Ainu Christianity, the second was to make them know the generosity, mercy and light of the God, the third was to inform Japanese people of Ainu religion and language because they did not now know them. Batchelor came to Hakodate from Hongkong when he was 23. One day when he had a chat with the students he had ...

Anderson, Gregory D.S. 1997. Burushaski Phonology. Alan S. Kaye & Peter T. Daniels (eds.). Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Including the Caucasus). Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 1021-41 Backstron, Peter C. 1992. Burushaski. Peter C. Backstrom & Carla F. Radloff. Languages of Northern Areas. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies and Summer Institute of Linguistics. (Sociolinguistic ...

Burushaski Sample: Translation: I shall tell the story of a man called Faqir Ali. He had a son, his name was Derbesho. He was staying at the Shishper grazing ground. One day he took the goats off to graze in the direction of Hunumun Mun. Leaving the goats in the pasture, he laid himself down. When he had lain down and had gone to sleep, a call came: Derbesho! Derbesho! He woke up. On waking up ...

A paper by Robert Austerlitz, describing some features of these languages, which, despite an enormous geographic range, share certain characteristics of syntax, morphology, and phonology.

Endangered Languages of the Pacific Region by Osamu Sakiyama 1. Linguistic Background The languages that are currently spoken in the Pacific region can be divided broadly into three groups: the Australian and New Guinean languages formed by people who participated in the region s earliest migrations over a period of 20, 000-30, 000 years starting several tens of thousands of years ago, and the ...

SOCIOLINGUISTICS Chinese Linguistics Page Wenze Hu & Hongyin Tao Feminine Accent in the Beijing Vernacular (Hu, Mingyang) (English) Current Trends in Sociolinguistics (Xu, Daming, Tao, Hongyin, and Xie, Tianwei) (GB, Text) The Sound Value of W in Beijing Dialect, 1991, Selected Writings in Linguistics Beijing: Renmin Daxue Chubanshe, pp244-245. (Hu, Mingyang) (Doc, GB, SilIPA) GENDER DIFFERENCES ...

Facts and myths about Uralic studies: a review article of Jazyki mira: Ural'skie jazyki. Moskva: Nauka, 1993. -- 398 pp. (Otvetstvennye redaktory: Ju. S. Eliseev; K. E. Majtinskaja) by Tapani Salminen (Helsinki) tasalmin@cc.helsinki.fi Ural'skie jazyki is the first volume in an ambitious publishing project dealing with all of the world's languages. It is a synchronic survey of a basically ...

Nenets Mailing Lists search our site FINNUGR-L Discussion of the languages of Finno-Ugric language family. To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the mailing list, send a message to finnugr-request@mander.berkeley.edu. Please include your real name, location, and preferred email address if it's different from the site you are sending the message from. (Copyright) 1999. Please do not mirror or use ...

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LINGUIST List 5.221 Thu 24 Feb 1994 Sum: Burushaski Editor for this issue: Directory , Sum: Burushaski Message 1: Sum: Burushaski Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:44:36 Sum: Burushaski From: pmfarrell@ucdavis.edu Subject: Sum: Burushaski Thanks to everyone who responded to the request for information on Burushaski posted on LINGUIST by Dr. Farrell. Here is a list of the references I have found so ...

All the Japanese Slang You Can Stand Too! -from the world of anime and the real world. I hope that this page will benefit your learning. I will do my best to keep it going for a very long time. Check out the links on the Jisho page because I have included other websites that really offer learning opportunities. This is not going to be a fancy site, but it should save you many hours of searching ...

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Ann Gibbons Science Magazine Vol. 274 #4 October, 1996 pp. 31-33 The Peopling of the Americas New genetic data suggests that the earliest Americans came from Asia in one or two waves-not more-challenging an earlier synthesis of linguistic, dental, and genetic data. Six years ago, D. Andrew Merriwether was a master's student in the lab of geneticist Douglas Wallace at Emory University in Atlanta, ...

PIDGIN and CREOLE Background Information This page was designed for a psycholinguistics class project at the University of Oregon. The goal is to get information about some creole and pidgin languages, look at some history of particular languages, and tie them into a main theme. Grammar and innateness in relation to the topics will be looked at. Definitions Pidgin and creole are languages that ...

Australian Indigenous languages ...