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| | SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES |
 | | The language spoken some time afterwards by the Palestinian Jews, especially in Galilee, is exhibited in a series of rabbinical works, the so-called J erusaleln Targums (of which, however, those on the Hagiographa are in some cases of later date), a few Midrashic works, and the Jerusalem Talmud. | | | The Aramaic portions of the Old Testament show us the form of the language which was in use among the Jews of Palestine. | | | But we are not likely to be far wrong in saying that in the Maccabean age Hebrew had died out among the Jews as a current popular language, and there is nothing to show that it survived longer among any of the nei~hbouring peoples. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm
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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
| | These are the Syriac language (or to use a better term, Syriac dialect because Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic and not a language on its own) of the Christians, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Mandaean, the language of the Mandaean Gnostic sect. | | | The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac). | | | Hebrew was revived as a spoken language to provide a lingua franca for Jews who moved to Palestine in the late 19th century. |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | HRELP - Projects |
| | This highly endangered language is spoken in the Amazon region of... | | | This project will document two related languages of the Jinghpaw group within Tibeto-Burman: Turung, with perhaps 1000 speakers and Singpho, with perhaps 2500 speakers. | | | Koyi Rai is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Kiranti group spoken by about 2000 people in Eastern Nepal. |
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http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects
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| | Kushites built Egypt - EgyptSearch Forums |
| | Hhow knows what the closest living language is to Ancient Egyptian, I read a number of theories from Kkmt-basque, Kmt-Ainu, The click language of the bush men, Hebrew ETC ETC.all claim to have hundreds of linked words. | | | This is why I said I debated him,but,apprently,he did not respond with coherant answers. |
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http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000283.html
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| | Ethnologue: Ethiopia |
| | Yemsa is the primary language of the ethnic group. | | | Sheko is the primary language of the home, religion, and public use. | | | 'Yemma' is the name for the ethnic group, 'Yemsa' for the language. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/ethno/Ethi.html
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| | Qwarenya is extremely endangered, if not actually extinct by now, as only 6 speakers were identified in Israel, none of whom were under 70 years of age, and none of whom used the language in their everyday conversation, but preferred to speak Amharic. | | | My third major stint of fieldwork on Agaw was devoted to what has been called Qwarenya, the original language of the Falashas or Ethiopian Jews, and this variety I had the opportunity to study in Israel amongst members of the community who migrated there from Ethiopia in 1991. | | | Since visiting Ethiopia in 1973-74 for an extended period of research I have been engaged in work on various of the Agaw family of languages, several of which are in an endangered position, and in two instances severely so. |
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http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?lang=3
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| | Afro-Asiatic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed to link Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity with Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg; but his suggestion was largely ignored. | | | All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right. | | | Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages
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| | The Afroasiatic Index Project |
| | Crossing over into Western Asia ( Semitic), they are also spoken in the Middle East through Palestine and Syria, down around the Arabian Peninsula into Yemen and Oman, and up into Iraq. | | | The file format and programs were not specific to the language base being investigated here (i.e., Cushitic and Omotic), and could be used as-is to encode etymological information for sets of related words in other language groups. | | | The predecessor of the Afroasiatic Index Project was the Cushitic Lexicon Project, or Cushlex. |
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http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CUS/AAindex.html
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| | Sources for the Numbers List |
| | Prase 1974 confirms that Ahaggar and Ghat speak | | | This page gives the sources for each language on the Numbers from 1 to 10 page. | | | Sometimes half the work in dealing with a new language is finding out what it is, and relating it to the sometimes wildly varying classifications from Ruhlen, Voegelin, and the Ethnologue. |
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http://www.zompist.com/sources.htm
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| | Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned. | | | This Afro-Asiatic languages -related article is a stub. | | | Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages
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| | FSI Amharic Basic Course |
| | But Amharic is now the language of greatest prestige and anyone who has had any education is able to speak it, even if it is not his mother tongue. | | | Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia, and is the native language of some 6 million people. | | | Basic Sentences and Questions and Answers are found in each unit. |
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http://www.101language.com/fsi-amharic.html
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| | SOAS: Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa: Staff Publications |
| | "The vowel systems of Agaw: reconstruction and historical inferences". | | | "Agaw, Cushitic and Afroasiatic: the personal pronoun revisited", Journal of Semitic Studies, 31(2), 1986, pp 195-236. | | | "Possessive pronoun affixes in Somali and their cognates in other Cushitic languages". |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/Africa/appleyard.html
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| | Aksum - Chs. 4-5. by Dr. Stuart Munro-Hay. |
| | Semiticized Agaw peoples are thought to have migrated from south-eastern Eritrea possibly as early as 2000BC, bringing their `proto-Ethiopic' language, ancestor of Ge`ez and the other Ethiopian Semitic languages, with them; and these and other groups had already developed specific cultural and linguistic identities by the time any Sabaean influences arrived. | | | A number of different tribes and families seem to be mentioned by the inscriptions of this period, but there is no evidence to show whether any of these groups lasted into the Aksumite period. | | | For a long time different peoples had been interacting through population movements, warfare, trade and intermarriage in the Ethiopian region, resulting in a predominance of peoples speaking languages of the Afro-Asiatic family. |
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http://users.vnet.net/alight/aksum/mhak2.html
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| | Other members of this group are Saho-Afar, Somali, Konso, Agaw, Hadiyya and Beja. | | | Oromo is one of the most important languages of Africa, with more than 30 million speakers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia as well as a further approximately 8 million, who use Oromo as a vehicular or trade language. | | | An introduction to the qubee and a phonemic table is provided, followed by a detailed bibliography of published works in Oromo and selected publications in European languages on Oromo. |
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http://www.koeppe.de/katalogE/3-89645-062-X.html
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| | EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page |
| | 90% of the population of the world can find their language on this list. | | | Only 3% of the world do not have a cassette recording of their language. | | | If we can put these cassette tapes onto the internet then 97% of the world can listen. |
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http://www.everytongue.com
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| | yourDictionary.com • Endangered Language Initiative• Nearly Extinct Languages |
| | This is a list of more than 750 languages found designated by Ethnologue as already extinct or nearly extinct today. | | | Of course, there are many more languages besides these in danger of extinction by the end of the century, many as yet undiscovered by Europeans. | | | This list will give you an idea of where the majority of threatened languages are spoken, if not their exact number. |
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http://www.yourdictionary.com/elr/nextinct.html
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| | Staff: Dr David L Appleyard |
| | 'Beja as a Cushitic language', in ed(s) ed G Takács Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Adro-Asiatic) Studies in memoriam W. Vycichl, pp.175-194. | | | Cushitic and semitic languages of Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Horn | | | 'Ethiopian Semitic and South Arabian: towards a re-examination of a relationship', Israel Oriental Studies (Studies in Modern Semitic Languages), 16: 203-228. |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staffinfo.cfm?contactid=154
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| | Ethnologue report for Eritrea |
| | [See also SIL publications on the languages of Eritrea.] | | | Of those, 12 are living languages and 1 is extinct. | | | National or official languages: English, Standard Arabic, Tigrinya. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Eritrea
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| | Robert Hetzron |
| | There over the years Robert always welcomed his friends, and entertained everyone with his conversational expertise and, if you were lucky, by his gourmet cooking as well, and by a short walk down the hill to watch sunset over the Channel Islands. | | | He soon began to write on Gurage languages, which, more than Agaw, connected with his broader and diachronic interests --in Semitic and, more generally, Afroasiatic. | | | As his health failed in recent years, Robert continued to work with energy in all the areas of his interest, and enjoyed the joys and frustrations of editorship in bringing about himself an up-to-date manual of comparative Semitic the need for which he had called attention in his Semitic survey in The World’s Major Languages. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~aos/hetzron.htm
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| | SILESR Language Index |
| | A Summary Report on the Sociolinguistic Survey of the Sehwi Language | | | Sociolinguistic Survey Report for the Jooré, or "Zaoré" Language | | | Sociolinguistic Survey Report for the Vigué (Viemo) Language |
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http://www.sil.org/SILESR/indexes/languages.asp
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| | sanskrit2 |
| | These are from the oldest strata of the language indicating that it was learned while the Iranians' ancestors had not yet left eastern Europe for Asia. | | | The author can only lay claim to the time and effort that has been invested in its compilation. | | | Some of the shared words however are not really Iranian in origin as claimed today but are loan words into Iranian from the ancient languages of Iran like Elamite and early Dravidian which again share many words with early Uralic languages especially with Hungarian. |
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http://member.melbpc.org.au/~tmajlath/sanskrit2.html
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| | SOAS: SOAS: Centre of African Studies: Members: Languages, Literatures & Cultures |
| | Yoruba language, oral and written literature, and culture; application of non-linear theories of phonology to Yoruba; Yoruba dialectology and the standardisation of Yoruba; Yoruba in the diaspora. | | | Hausa Language and Culture, and Islamic religious culture in Nigeria. | | | Ethiopian linguistics, Semitic languages (especially Amharic) and Cushitic languages (especially Agaw languages); the Afroasiatic connections of Cushitic; early Amharic texts; Amharic literature. |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/centreinfo.cfm?navid=700
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| | Bambooweb: L. j. greenberg |
| | 1:...between languages and to establish a consistent relationship hypothesis by reconstructing: 3: *the common ancestor of the languages in question, 4:...f regular changes by which the historically known languages can be derived from that common ancestor. | | | 1:...ade major contributions to the study of Semitic languages. | | | 1:...ited by a common language family, the Bantu language, and in many cases common customs. |
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| | World |
| | We do not support all these languages, but we put them here just for your information | | | AKA-BO If you have any questions or comments about this web site, please send e-mail to info@ethiotrans.com. | | | For more information, please call at ( 619) 255 5530 |
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http://www.ethiotrans.com/world.htm
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| | MavicaNET - Cushitic |
| | Stats: links: 381448, categories: 31617, languages supported: 30 | | | Group of languages belonging to the Hamitic subfamily of the HAMITO-SEMITIC family of languages. | | | Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition; Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996. |
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http://www.mavicanet.com/lite/eng/1462.html
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| | Maarten Mous: Was there ever a Southern Cushitic Language (Pre-) Ma’a? | | | Thomas Zitelmann: The Return of the Devils Tongue — Polemics about the Choice of the Roman Alphabet (qubee) for the Oromo Language | | | Georgi Kapchits: On Subjects and Motifs in Somali Folk-tales — Experience of Cataloguing |
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http://www.koeppe.de/katalogE/3-927620-28-9.html
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| | LaserAmharic in Unicode |
| | In addition, modern and ancient Ethiopic text may differ in the width of the other punctuation (either narrow or wide). | | | LaserAmharic in Unicode provides 6 high-quality, Unicode-encoded Amharic (or Ethiopic) TrueType® fonts in two typestyles (EthiopicU and AmharicU) for typing at least 26 languages in the Hamito-Semitic family of languages which use the Ge'ez script. | | | The fonts also include the Latin 1 character set and additional Latin characters and diacritics covering many other Latin languages. |
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http://www.linguistsoftware.com/lamu.htm
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| | EBALL |
| | Electronic Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics (EBALL) |
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http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/eball/zonex.html
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