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| | Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tonal languages appear in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). | | | The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 240 languages and over 307 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia. | | | Many people regard the Ongota language as Afro-Asiatic, but its classification within the family remains controversial, partly for lack of data. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages
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| | Berber languages: Information From Answers.com |
| | Tamazight (the Berber language/s) is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family (formerly called Hamito-Semitic.) Traditional genealogists often considered the Berbers as Arabs that immigrated from Yemen; for this reason, some considered Tamazight to derive from Arabic. | | | Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco), Kabyle (Algeria) and Tachelhit (central Morocco). | | | This state of affairs was protested by Berbers in Morocco and Algeria - especially Kabylie - and is now being addressed in both countries by introducing Berber language education and by recognizing Berber as a "national language", though not necessarily an official one. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/berber-languages
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| | Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List |
| | Fergiartisch is a language spoken on the continent of Fergiartu. | | | Atlantean is the language of Atlantis in Disney's animated film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". | | | Gevey is spoken on the continent of Ewlah on the planet Kallieda, colonised by humans some thousands of years ago and cut off from human civilisation for most of that time. |
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http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html
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| | onesauce Websites About Science Social Sciences Linguistics Languages Natural Afro-Asiatic Hebrew |
| | Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew | | | The Camouflaged Influence of English on Israeli (a.k.a. | | | Since the demise of Hebrew About as a one-stop shopping area for 2,000 reviewed links and informative articles about the Hebrew language, the Editor of Judaism About has restored some of the main links and files in response to browser demand. |
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http://www.onesauce.com/C135923P1.html
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| | African Languages - ninemsn Encarta |
| | Languages spoken farther to the south-east, including Maasai in Kenya, have long been called Nilo-Hamitic; recent investigations, however, appear to prove that these tongues have no direct relationship to languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, but are most closely related to the Nilotic languages. | | | The ancient Egyptian language, which has no living descendant, forms another branch of the Afro-Asiatic family on its own (see Coptic Language). | | | Languages of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa. |
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http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html
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| | Chad - Afro-Asiatic Languages |
| | Buduma-Kouri is spoken by two groups of lake people who intermarry despite some social differences. | | | Arabic also has been important because it is the language of Islam and of the Quran, its holy book. | | | More devout Muslims, the Kouri believe that they are descendants of Muslim migrants from Yemen and that they are related to the Kanembu, whose medieval empire sponsored the spread of Islam in the region. |
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http://countrystudies.us/chad/20.htm
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| | ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition - List of Supported Languages |
| | Official language of Ukraine, spoken also in Russia and Byelorussia. | | | Spoken in 83 countries worldwide by some 100000 people, some 30000 books had been published in Esperanto. | | | Official language of Russian Federation, spoken also in all CIS states and baltic states. |
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http://www.abbyy.com/finereader7?param=28558
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| | Language Profiles Source: UCLA Language Materials Project, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. | | | Tariq Rahman, Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, TX Scholarly article claiming to demonstrate that the language of the prehistoric Indus Valley Civilization belonged to the Dravidian family. | | | This seems to be the "official website of the Ido language" |
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http://www.tundria.com/LANGLANG.HTM
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Hamitic |
| | updated 1-29-2002 Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic) comprises the Egyptian sub-branch of the Hamitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | The Hamitic languages comprise one branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | It is also the language of the Coptic Christian Church. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/hamitch.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 |
| | updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. | | | Canaanite was spoken in Biblical times in the land then called Canaan, now Israel. | | | An Arab farmer found a tablet in his field in 1928 which shortly led to the discovery of Ugarit, and a number of tablets written in Akkadian, Mitanni, and Sumerian, as well as Ugaritic. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semite2h.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 |
| | It belongs to the East Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. | | | Canaanite was spoken in Biblical times in the land then called Canaan, now Israel. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semite2h.htm
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| | LoLA: Preliminary List of Languages and Linguistic Groups in Los Angeles |
| | Western Apache speakers in LA (Athabascan family, possibly included into Na-Dene group with controversial further connections beyond American Indian). | | | The role of the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) church for the Greek ethnic group. | | | The spoken Hebrew as the language of the people coming from Israel. |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/languagesofla/lolalangs.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Hamitic |
| | updated 1-29-2002 Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic) comprises the Egyptian sub-branch of the Hamitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | The Hamitic languages comprise one branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | updated 8-8-2003 The Berber languages (Afro-Asiatic) comprise one sub-branch of the Hamitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/hamitch.htm
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| | List Of Languages By Total Speakers [Definition] |
| | Romania also has a stretch of sea coast on the Black Sea.... | | | Arabic has been a literary language for over 1500 years, and is the liturgical language of Islam.... | | | This is a list of languages by number of first-language speakers. |
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http://www.wikimirror.com/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers
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| | Jewish-Languages Mailing List: February 2003 |
| | Tamar Liebes (Hebrew University) Language Policy in Israel Organizers: Prof. | | | Subject: call for papers - Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society | | | The topics include: language and identity; language and education; language and mass communication; language policy; language and immigration; language preservation; language and social stratification; language and gender; language and conflict; cultural contact and language contact; processes of language acquisition; language and ideology, and many other subjects. |
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http://www.jewish-languages.org/ml/200302.html
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| | Afro-Asiatic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). | | | The Ongota language is often considered to be Afro-Asiatic, but its classification within the family remains controversial (partly for lack of data). | | | The Semitic languages are the only Afro-Asiatic subfamily based outside of Africa; however, in historical or near-historical times, some Semitic speakers crossed from South Arabia back into Ethiopia, so some modern Ethiopian languages (such as Amharic) are Semitic rather than belonging to the substrate Cushitic or Omotic groups. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages
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| | GoForIt.com's Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Afro-Asiatic: Arabic |
| | Linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and role in society and history of Gulf Arabic. | | | Overview of the Arabic language, and extended set of files of readings and A/V files concerning the language. | | | Resources for teachers/students of Arabic, information on the organization, academic journal on Arabic linguistics, an Arabic mailing list and some related links. |
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http://search.goforit.com/default?p=84290
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| | Languages : Afro-Asiatic Family |
| | It is the language of Judaism and of the Old Testament of the Bible. | | | It is the language of the Quran and of Islam. | | | Syriac, a liturgical language of the early Christian church. |
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http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_afroasia.html
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| | African Languages - MSN Encarta |
| | The dominant language of this group, Tamarshak (also spelled Tamasheq), is spoken by the Tuareg people. | | | It is also the protolanguage of other Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew. | | | Dialects form when groups of people who speak the same language move apart, and their languages change in different ways. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html
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| | List of 75 Languages of Iran |
| | Oghuz-Uzbek in Uzbekistan is reported to be a dialect of this \USE Not a literary language, but the government broadcasts in Quchani \R Different from Khorasani, a local Persian dialect in Khorasan \REL Muslim \DAT 25/Nov/1998 \XXX KMZ | | | Below is a list of 75 language groups as reported in the book 1998 Ethnologue. | | | Zargari may be a dialect used by goldsmiths (also see Balkan Romani in Iran). |
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http://www.everytongue.com/iran/all-languages.htm
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| | Afro-Asiatic language |
| | The North African languages include ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Berber, while the Asiatic languages include the largest number of speakers – modern Arabic – as well as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac. | | | There are two main branches, the languages of North Africa and the languages originating in Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Arabia, but now found from Morocco in the west to the Gulf in the east. | | | The scripts of Arabic and Hebrew are written from right to left. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005913.html
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| | Semitic languages |
| | Akkadian is a Semitic language, belonging to the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, also called Hamito-semitic language. | | | The AFRO-ASIATIC FAMILY, or the HAMITO-SEMITIC FAMILY of languages encompasses nearly all the languages of the Near East and northern Africa. | | | A Semite is one who speaks a semitic language. |
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http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bxpoma/akkadeng/semitic.htm
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| | Canaanite languages - |
| | Modern Hebrew language - State of Israel, reconstructed, revived, a live descendent | | | The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. | | | All of them became extinct as native languages in the early 1st millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as a spoken, everyday language in the 19th century by Eliezer Ben Yehuda. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Canaanite_language
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| | Languages |
| | Illyrian languages Illyrian languages are a group of Venetian language in the urban areas. | | | Languages in the United States 0.045% The English-Only movement seeks to establish English as the only official language... | | | Semitic languages The Semitic languages are the northeastern subfamily of the Asia. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/languages.html
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| | Cushitic - Search Results - MSN Encarta |
| | Cushitic, subgroup or branch of languages of the Hamito-Semitic or Afro-Asiatic language family (Afro-Asiatic Languages). |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Cushitic.html
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| | Tuareg languages - |
| | Verbs carry information on the subject of the sentence in the form of pronominal marking. | | | Tamasheq - Language of the Kel Adrar (also known as Adagh or Ifoghas), spoken in Mali by approximately 270 000 people. | | | The Tuareg languages have very heavily influenced Northern Songhay languages such as Tasawaq, whose speakers are culturally Tuareg but speak Songhay varieties; this influence includes points of phonology and sometimes grammar as well as extensive loanwords. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Tamasheq
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| | LINGUIST List 14.59: Ebonics/Writing Instruction, Afro-Asiatic Query |
| | It also seems that Greenberg in his Afro-Asiatic chapter in "Languages of Africa" attempts to link the so called Nilo-Hamitic (Maasai) languages with the so called Hamitic (Somali) languages into a larger family. | | | Is it possible to connect Semitic to languages in the Chadic or Omotic family which are geographically separate from Semitic? | | | This idea has been championed by Gregerson (1977 Language in Africa)and more recently by Roger Blench (The Niger-Saharan hypothesis III: further evidence and the issue of verbal extension). |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/14/14-59.html
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| | Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /Language and Linguistics /Natural Languages /Afro-Asiatic |
| | Forthcoming events The Fourth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages is to be held 25 to 27 June 1998 in London, organised by SOAS. | | | Linguist List Archive: 4.793 Second Conference On Afroasiatic Languages | | | Centre of African Studies Call for abstracts The Fourth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages is to be held 25 to 27 June 1998 in London, England, organised by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). |
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http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{70230}
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| | Glenn Humphries' tree of indo-european languages |
| | This does not include languages in the families known as Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asiatic, African, Ural-Altaic (Asiatic), American Indiginous, Andamanese, Caucasian, or Oceanic. | | | Other languages which were influential to the develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather that what the speakers of the language called their language. | | | "Parent" languages are to the left; "descendant" languages are indented to the right under the appropriate "parent" language. |
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http://glenn.humphries.com/indoeuropean.htm
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