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 | | It was a dramatic confrontation which, because of the technical superiority of the European, involved the imposition of the "Western" Christian model to the detriment of Amerindian cultural values and, at the same time, of the language of the conquistador. | | | This leads us to an examination of the consequences of the various contact situations which arose as a result of the European presence on the American continent. | | | However, Guarani has survived in resemanticized, diglottic form until today as the generally spoken language of a national community, Paraguay. |
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http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/latinamer.html
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| | Atlas of the Languages of Suriname, Reviewed for Kacike by Janette Bulkan Forte |
| | The reader can marvel at the complex indigenous world in which very dissimilar languages are spoken by neighbouring groups, a phenomenon that is as true of coastal Amerindians (Arawaks and Kari’na and the now extinct Warao) as of the interior peoples. | | | As in the case of immigrant groups elsewhere, the use of the ‘home language’, in any politeness style, itself expresses a sense of community, an echo of close politeness. | | | Atlas, Carlin presents an excerpt from an almost extinct “pidgin language that was based on Ndyuka, itself a creole language” which evolved in order to facilitate trading between the Maroons, and the Trio, Wayana, and Caribs” (24-25). |
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http://www.kacike.org/ForteAtlas.htm
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| | Links to the Amerindians of Guyana: Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink |
| | Oxfam, “Amerindian Communities in Guyana are Mapping their Future,” by Michelle Beveridge, from the Internet Archive: | | | a concise sample of select Amerindian legends in Guyana, concerning the Kaieteur Falls, flood myths, and wars with the Caribs. | | | This is the front page of the APA, and features, reports, a newsletter, press releases, documents, and information about the APA. |
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http://www.centrelink.org/Guyana.html
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| | Setting the Record Straight: Are Native American Languages Primitive? |
| | Q: Do Amerindian languages come from outer space, the spirit world, or the lost island of Atlantis? | | | A: No. The people I have seen making these claims usually do not present any linguistic or historical evidence, instead citing a dream they had or something an alien told them. | | | Next question: When did Native Americans come to America? |
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http://www.native-languages.org/iaq7.htm
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| | Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. | | | Many of the proposed (and often speculative) groupings of families can be seen in Campbell (1997), Gordon (2005), Kaufman (1990, 1994), Key (1979), Loukotka (1968), and in the Language stock proposals section below. | | | Many proposals to group these into higher-level families have been made by some linguists, but several of these have not been generally accepted. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerindian_Languages
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| | Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept NaturalLanguage |
| | an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia | | | the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects | | | a language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas |
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http://icosym-nt.cvut.cz/kifb/wordnet/_natural_language.html
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Languages |
| | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence | | | Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language | | | Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood) |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2098.html
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| | Cultural Readings - Related Essays - Slive |
| | This Guarani vocabulary was printed by the Jesuits' mission press in Paraguay, which operated between 1700 and 1727. | | | [item 9], listing 23 Amerindian languages for the Americas which had been documented by 1629.) | | | Champlain's account of his voyages to Canada, and his review of other earlier French expeditions to the Americas, is considered the principal source for the early decades of French expansion to the New World. |
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http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/index/slive.html
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| | Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These studies also provide surprising evidence of smaller-scale, contemporaneous migrations from Europe, possibly by peoples who had adopted a lifestyle resembling that of Inuits and Yupiks during the last ice age. | | | In the French language, the term Amérindien has been coined, and the English term Amerindian (sometimes abbreviated Amerind) is sometimes used in the social sciences to refer collectively to all indigenous peoples of the Americas or their cultures. | | | English, like other natural languages, has traditionally ignored this principle, exerting its privilege to invent its own ethnic terms, such as German, Dutch, and Albanian, and disregarding the self-appellations and preferences of the subjects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerindian
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| | Edward Sapir, January 26, 1884—February 4, 1939 By Regna Darnell and Judith T. Irvine Biographical Memoirs |
| | Sapir undoubtedly learned German as a child, but the language of his home was Yiddish; he read Hebrew with his father, a cantor, beginning when he was seven or eight. | | | Although Sapir was born in Lauenberg, Pomerania (Prussia), in what is now Lebork, Poland, his parents, Jacob David and Eva Seagal Sapir, were Lithuanian Jews. | | | Amerindian studies could no longer be seen as the core of anthropology as they had been for the first half of the century. |
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http://stills.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/esapir.html
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| | Amerindian languages |
| | Amerindian Peoples Association This is the official website of Guyana's Amerindian Association, featuring reports, newsletters, and information about the APA. | | | Caribbean Amerindian Webring This is the "ring hub" for a series of inter-linked Websites focusing on Caribbean Amerindian and related issues. | | | It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Amerindian". |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Amerindian_languages.html
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| | Reflections on Amerindian Heritage Month |
| | Year after year, Amerindian Heritage Month is planned and organised by people who know nothing about Amerindians or Amerindianism. | | | This theme should not be for Amerindian Heritage Month, September 2002 only. | | | THE month of September is set aside for Amerindians to showcase their culture. |
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http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news022/nc210018.htm
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| | Welcome to the LOT pages |
| | The Amerindian languages, many of which have been 'discovered' only fairly recently, are rarely described at levels of detail which could be considered as satisfactory. | | | A restricted number of discussants will be accepted, who will not give a presentation but who have contributed to the topics of the meeting in their work. | | | However, in the case of many Amerindian languages, whose speakers are bilingual more often than not, it can be shown that not only their lexicons but also aspects of their grammars are being affected. |
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http://www.let.uu.nl/LOT/News&Events/Newsletters/2004/2004-06-04.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Demographics of Guatemala - Encyclopedia Article |
| | However, the Peace Accords signed in December 1996 provide for the translation of some official documents and voting materials into several indigenous languages (see summary of main substantive accords). | | | Protestantism and traditional Maya religions are practiced by an estimated 40% and 1% of the population, respectively. | | | Though the official language is Spanish, it is not universally understood among the indigenous population. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/d/demographics-of-guatemala.html
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| | Amerindian Languages for Cavers |
| | In Belize English is the official language, but 180,000 citizens speak Creole, 130,000 speak Spanish, 22,000 speak any one of the Mayan languages and 3,000 speak German. | | | Guatemala has a population of 14 Million people, 60% speaking Spanish and 40% speaking one of the 23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi (Q'eqchi), Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca. | | | Much of this cultures remained, including religion and languages, or was revived. |
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http://www.showcaves.com/english/gt/Language.html
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| | And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology by Michael D. Levin |
| | Her book is the story of how Boas moved the centre of American anthropology from the Bureau to the universities and the intellectual transformations he and his students initiated as they took up the research concerns of the Bureau and made them their own. | | | By examining the research, institutional politics, and scholarly relationships among anthropologists, mainly in the United States, between 1879 and the 1920s, Darnell shows how the Americanist tradition moved from the evolutionary perspective of Lewis Henry Morgan (Ancient Society 1877) to an analytical approach to languages and cultures emphasizing their grammar and specific histories. | | | Reviewed in University of Toronto Quarterly by MICHAEL D. The classification of Amerindian languages is a thread of inquiry and debate that ties together the Americanist tradition in anthropology. |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/701/boas92.html
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| | Ethnologue, Languages of the World |
| | Books about languages and cultures of the world for education, research, and reference. | | | This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: | | | Over 12,000 citations spanning 70 years of SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com
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| | Ethnologue report for Guyana |
| | [See also SIL publications on the languages of Guyana.] | | | Of those, 16 are living languages and 1 is extinct. | | | The number of languages listed for Guyana is 17. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Guyana
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| | Ethnologue report for Suriname |
| | [See also SIL publications on the languages of Suriname.] | | | Of those, 16 are living languages and 1 is a second language without mother-tongue speakers. | | | The number of languages listed for Suriname is 17. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Suriname
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| | Move to put Amerindian languages in schools |
| | As for learning difficulties, seminar Chairman, Ian Melville stated that support and motivation would be the key to good teaching and education. | | | Also mentioned were the various methods that could be used to introduce native languages to different regions. | | | She hopes that one, if not two, native languages will be brought into the school curriculum. |
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http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news304/ns3112512.htm
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| | Internet Resources |
| | Numbers in Amerindian Languages-- part of a sute that Mark Rosenfelder maintains with the numbers 1 to 10 in over 2,200 languages (including proto-languages) | | | Language Resources -- links to various sites on specific languages and on linguistic research projects, maintained by the editors of the LINGUIST list. | | | Linguist Resources-- comprehensive list of web resources for linguists, under the general headings: The Profession, Research Support, Publication, Pedagogy, Language Resources, Computer Support. |
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http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/ssila/Links/generallinks.stm
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| | According to some historians there were over hundred (700) languages spoken throughout the Inca Empire. | | | Most emperors and Indians spoke different languages but at the they settled down for Quechua and Aymará. | | | The expansion of the Inca Empire Tawantinsuyu) demanded the independence of the languages they decided that for administrative purposes Quechua be the main language. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Amerindian_language
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| | All.info: Arts and Humanities / Language / Amerindian Languages / |
| | You are in: Arts and Humanities / Language / Amerindian Languages / | | | The phrase book is a compilation of materials from the course Introduction to the Cree Language developed in the IMPACTE programme at Brandon University and first taught in the winter of 1972. | | | All.info: Arts and Humanities / Language / Amerindian Languages / |
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http://www.all.info/directory/Arts_and_Humanities/Language/Amerindian_Languages
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| | Caribbean Amerindian Language Resources |
| | -- a 'tree' showing the member languages of this family. | | | - An overview of the Amerindian languages spoken in Guyana, the number and locations of the speakers of each, and their relationships to overall language families, is presented here by the Summer Institute of Linguistics Ethnologue database. | | | - An overview of the Amerindian languages spoken in Suriname, the number and locations of the speakers of each, and their relationships to overall language families, is presented here by the Summer Institute of Linguistics Ethnologue database. |
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http://www.centrelink.org/Languages.html
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| | Amerindian languages - Definition up Erdmond.Com |
| | Books and Others to the Term: "Amerindian languages". | | | A copy of the license is included in the section entitled | | | Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America (Indigenous Languages of Latin America, 1) |
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http://www.erdmond.com/Amerindian_languages.html
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| | ATHAPASKAN LANGUAGE - Definition |
| | [n] a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) | | | American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Apache, Chipewyan, Chippewaian, Chippewyan, Hupa, Indian, Mattole, Navaho, Navajo |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/Athapaskan+language
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| | Amerindian Words in English |
| | And on the third hand-- you need a lot of hands in philology-- nasals with negatives and central vowels are suspiciously common across the world (like "mama" or "papa"), and are thus hard to attribute to borrowing. | | | Place names from Amerindian languages are legion; I'll just note one: Chicago, from |
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http://www.zompist.com/indianwd.html
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| | FAMSI - Map of Guatemala |
| | Mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino) approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2% | | | Spanish, Amerindian languages (more than 20 Amerindian languages including Quiché, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca) |
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http://www.famsi.org/maps/guatemala.htm
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