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| | NOVA Transcripts In Search of the First Language PBS |
 | | This theory claims to identify an ancient superfamily of languages from which many of today's language families have descended. | | | The nineteenth-century theories about it would argue that it was either the people at the bottom of the heap who were changing it because of laziness and ignorance, or the people at the top, because they had such prestige. | | | By looking for connections among all the language families of the world, they try to reconstruct a mother tongue, possibly spoken from forty to a hundred thousand years ago. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2120glang.html
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| | Language Family Information for the Numbers List |
| | It's spoken by the majority (88%) of the population of Paraguay-- most of which is mestizo, not pure Amerind-- and has a secure place in Paraguayan society. | | | This doesn't at all mean (as hasty observers conclude) that the people can't count past 3. | | | Modern Egyptian does not descend from Ancient Egyptian but from Arabic. |
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http://www.zompist.com/families.htm
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| | The Australian Language Family |
| | Linguists then use these selective samples of the lexicons in the hopes of finding cognates that would support the theory of genetic relationship. | | | New phonemes may enter this auxiliary speech and forms that would be found in day to day conversations are abandoned. | | | Until it was settled by the English in the late 1700ís it had remained a very secluded society and so had its languages. |
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http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/australia.html
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| | Iranian Language Family |
| | This period is marked by the rise of Islam in the former Sasanian lands and influence of foreign languages such as Arabic and Turkish on Iranian languages. | | | Kurdish speaking people occupy lands in modern countries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, with afew, scattered tribes living in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. | | | Usually, an Achamenid administrator dictated a correspondence in his language to a scribe. |
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http://www.iranologie.com/history/ilf.html
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| | Germanic Languages |
| | The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland. | | | Gothic was the East Germanic language of the Germanic speaking people who migrated from southern Scania (southern Sweden) to the Ukraine. | | | Vandalic was the East Germanic language of the Germanic speaking people who invaded Gaul, Iberia, and Africa. |
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http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html
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| | Finno-Ugric language family |
| | In the twenties of XX century very many ideas were realized in the national policy by the national intellectuals, which were supported by the Communist Party's structures: | | | Tsypanov from the Syktyvkar State University for his self-instruction book of the Komi language, published in Syktyvkar in 1992. | | | The ethnonyms, or names of the peoples, their ethnic groups (the greek 'ethnos' - 'population' and 'onima' - 'name') are of great importance by the interpretation the of history of peoples and their languages. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2282/finno.html
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| | Languages : Indo-European Family |
| | Kurdish is spoken in Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq by the Kurds. | | | Ladino was the language spoken by Spain's Jewish population when they were expelled in 1492. | | | Avestan is the extinct language of the Zoroastrian religion. |
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http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_indoeuro.html
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| | Ilocano (Ilokano) Language |
| | Ilocano remains a regional langauge with no political power or use in education past the early elementary years. | | | This is undoubtedly due to the historical prestige of the language and the accessibility of its speakers. | | | Because of the importance of Ilocano in Northern Luzon, it has been called the "National Language of the North." Many ethnic groups from the northern regions of the country are more at home in their second language, Ilocano, than the national language of the country, Tagalog (Pilipino). |
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http://iloko.tripod.com/Ilocano.html
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| | American Indian Language Resources |
| | The Linguistic Society of America's Statement on Language Rights (1996) | | | The Eyak A history of the language and people | | | Pawnee Language Revitalization (127 speakers according to the 1990 census) |
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http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/lang.html
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| | Nilotic Family |
| | Some Nilotic groups had intensive contact with Cushitic (Afro-Asiatic) peoples, and with Niger-Congo peoples. | | | This has been especially true for groups in the Sudan, northern DRC, and Uganda; many speakers of Western Nilotic languages are now found in Europe and the United States, as well as in refugee camps throughout East Africa. | | | Presently, there are two competing theories about the internal structure of the Nilo-Saharan language family (Ehret 2001, Bender 1997), but both place the Nilotic family within the Eastern Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan. |
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~dlpayne/Nilotic/NiloticFamily.htm
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| | Sign Language / Family Village |
| | A video series of the signs and introductory concepts of American Sign Language (ASL). | | | This organization creates stories that are written in sign language and thus can be read in sign language. | | | A sign language video series for hearing infants and children that teaches them basic American Sign Language (ASL) in a fun and memorable way. |
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http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/general/signlanguage.html
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| | World Language Mapping System: Worldwide language areas and points for GIS |
| | For comments on this web site, write webmaster@gmi.org. | | | To find a specific language, zoom into the map until language names are visible, then use Acrobat's Find (ctrl-F) function to move to the part of the map containing the language you are looking for. | | | Maps Produced with the World Language Mapping System and Seamless Digital Chart of the World |
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http://www.gmi.org/wlms/users/huffman
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| | Caucasian Language Family |
| | All are believed to have been in the area for many thousands of years. | | | Caucasian languages are spoken by about 8.5 million people. | | | This means that the direct objects of transitive verbs appear in the nominative case, while the subjects are in an oblique case. |
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http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/march/CaucasianLanguageFamily.html
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| | Uralic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While the internal structure of the Uralic family has been under debate since the family was originally proposed, two subfamilies, Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, are consistently recognized as being distinct from one another. | | | The name of the language family refers to the location of the family’s suggested Urheimat (homeland), which is often placed close to the Ural mountains. | | | The Untenability of the Finno-Ugrian Theory from a Linguistic Point of View by Dr. László Marácz, a minority opinion on the language family. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
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| | KryssTal : Language Families |
| | This family are a scattered group of languages in Asia. | | | A family based around the Caucas Mountains between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. | | | The study of languages and their relationships gives us information about how people have migrated during historical times. |
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http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html
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| | ABKHAZIA.ORG - The Abkhaz Language |
| | Like all members of the family Abkhaz is characterised by: | | | Therefore, at a time when Russian was the predominant second language (Mingrelian a third for many Abkhazians) such provisions in this Programme only served to reinforce the suspicions about Kartvelian intentions towards Abkhaz language and culture that had been harboured since the middle years of the century. | | | This policy was only reversed after the deaths of Stalin and Beria and explains why Bagrat' Dz'anas'ia's Abkhaz-Georgian Dictionary, completed in 1938 and thus utilising the Georgian alphabet, was only published in 1954. |
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http://www.abkhazia.org/lang.html
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| | Algonquian Language Family (Algonkian Indian Languages, Algic, Algonquian Indians, Algonquians) |
| | Algonquian Indian languages are not related to Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, or other Semitic languages; this data was faked. | | | Though these languages are most properly known as 'Algic' to linguists (Wiyot and Yurok are not considered closely related enough to qualify as Algonquian, and the broader category Algic includes them as well), 'Algonquian' (also spelled 'Algonkian') is the general term most often used by the Native American people who speak them. | | | Algonquian Language Family (Algonkian Indian Languages, Algic, Algonquian Indians, Algonquians) |
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http://www.native-languages.org/famalg.htm
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| | Germanic |
| | The pre-history of the Germanic language family, and therefore also of Dutch, is the subject of comparative historical linguistics. | | | Germanic forms one branch in the history of the so-called Indo-European language family. | | | There are a number of ways in which Germanic differs systematically from the other Indo-European languages. |
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http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/Publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/germaans.htm
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| | The Uralic Language Family |
| | The Uralic language family, to which Finnish belongs, consists of over 30 languages, which are spoken by approximately 23 million people. | | | A lot of research has been dedicated towards reconstruction of the parent language of the Uralic languages and identification of its habitat. | | | According to Campbell (1995), studies of word roots for deciduous trees and terms of apiculture suggest the place of origin to the west, rather than east of the Urals. |
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http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF97/paivir/finnish/uralic.html
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| | Indo-European Language Family |
| | Since Sir William Jones' pronouncement that similarities among languages such as Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and Gothic were so striking as to suggest that they were sprung from a common, no-longer existing source, scholars now view relationships among such languages as established. | | | Views concerning the breakup of the initial language family into groups are often related to hypotheses about where the Homeland was. | | | There has also been much subsequent debate about the branchings or groupings of families within Indo-European. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html
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| | Mande Language Family |
| | The starting point for language locations is based on the Global Ministry Mapping System 1997, but extensive revisions have been made to that in the process of preparing this work. | | | No political statement is intended by any language or international boundaries placed on any map. | | | Boundaries between speech varieties can change if the people move or abandon their language for another one, though large changes don't usually happen very rapidly. |
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http://www.sil.org/silesr/2000/2000-003/silesr2000-003.htm
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| | The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL) |
| | XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation. | | | Antenna house released XSL Formatter V4.0 Alpha2 that conforms to the specification of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 along with the publication of W3C Canditdate Recommendation. | | | The W3C XSL Working Group as published Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 as a Last Call Working Draft for general review. |
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http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL
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| | The Turkic Language Family |
| | Traditionally, the Turkic languages are classified according to the word for foot (Samoilovich 1922), which divides the Turkic language family into two main branches. | | | The very similar vernaculars Karachay and Balkar have been grouped together as dialects of one language, although the speakers of these dialects are geographically separated. | | | In general, the Turkic language family is fairly homogeneous, and some Turcologists refer to the vernaculars of this family as dialects, rather than as separate languages. |
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http://home.arcor.de/marcmarti/yugur/language/lanhist.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Macro-Chibchan |
| | You have reached the page on Macro-Chibchan languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. | | | None of the languges in this family have received much publicity; perhaps you may have heard of Guaymi (spoken in Panama) or Miskito. | | | It is now extinct, but was in use in the 1500's and early 1600's when various explorers and missionaries encountered it and mentioned it in their writings. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/mchibflh.htm
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| | Indo-European Language Family |
| | This lesson should be taught after Europe has been extensively introduced. | | | Students will consider how language can be a source of unity as well as for conflict. | | | To identify the languages of Europe with their respective sub-language families. |
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http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/1997/language.htm
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| | Computer Languages History |
| | The Development of the C Language by Dennis Ritchie | | | There is only 50 languages listed in my chart, if you don't find "your" language, see The Language List of Bill Kinnersley (he has listed more than 2500 languages). | | | Very early C compilers and language by Dennis Ritchie |
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http://www.levenez.com/lang
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| | AsTMa [ AsTMa* Language Family ] |
| | This document gives an overview over the AsTMa* language family, a set languages for Topic Map authoring, constraining, manipulation and querying. |
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http://astma.it.bond.edu.au/astma-family.dbk
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| | OBJ Family: OBJ3 CafeOBJ Maude Kumo FOOPS Eqlog |
| | Kumo, a proof assistant for first order hidden logic, which also generates websites that document its proofs. | | | The OBJ module system ideas are a further development of ideas pioneered in the Clear language, which was joint work of Joseph Goguen and Rod Burstall in the 1970s. | | | All the OBJ languages are rigorously based upon a logical system; more precisely, they are logical languages, in the sense that their programs are sets of sentences in some logical system, and their operational semantics is given by deduction in that logical system. |
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http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/goguen/sys/obj.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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| | live — About the Rosetta Project |
| | Donate Rosetta is a non-profit member supported project. | | | The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages. | | | Try the Advanced Search for more precise search options. |
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http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/browsebyfamily
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| | Language Family Maps |
| | This page contains links to a number of maps showing distribution of language families. | | | The maps for parts of North America are based on, though not identical to, Map of North American Indian languages by Carl and Florence Voegelin, published in 1966 by Rand McNally. | | | Map of Language Families of Europe (large version) |
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http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/family.maps
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| | Exploratorium Magazine: Language |
| | Learn how to find the histories and origins of words. | | | Examine words from different languages and determine which two languages are the most closely related. | | | The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features. |
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language
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| | Indo-European Language Family |
| | Latin is well preserved, not only in older original texts of many different genres from the periods before, during and after the Roman Empire, but also in the Medieval Latin of the monasteries. | | | The Italic languages of Italy included Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the more familiar Latin, which survived them all and was succeeded by the Romance languages of today (e.g., Spanish, French, Italian, and Rumanian). | | | Because of the heritage of the Roman Empire and the spread of Latin as the language of Christianity in western Europe, Latin has impacted English, an otherwise Germanic language, in many ways. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/Italic.html
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| | Sign Language - Portal and Favorite Website |
| | Signing Time - Signing Time is a sign language video series for hearing infants and children that teaches them basic American Sign Language (ASL) in a fun and memorable way. | | | SignTyme - Easy-to-understand interactive book set designed to teach children how to communicate with their hands. | | | The Deaf Resource Library - an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States. |
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http://www.signlanguage.org
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| | The Caml language: Home |
| | It has been developed and distributed by INRIA, France's national research institute for computer science, since 1985. | | | It features a powerful module system and a full-fledged object-oriented layer. | | | Caml is a general-purpose programming language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind. |
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http://caml.inria.fr
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| | Aryan Language Family |
| | The relationship of the languages is determined by resemblances between them. | | | These are of two kinds: Resemblances of vocabulary and of grammatical structure. |
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http://www.hinduism.co.za/aryan.htm
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| | Guides by Language Family |
| | See also our page of sites of interest for more than one language. | | | We encourage users to adhere by any usage agreements packaged with the font. |
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/famguides.html
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| | IBM Software - IBM REXX Family - Family Overview |
| | The Compiler for REXX on zSeries is a high-level language compiler that provides significant benefits during program development and when running the program. | | | IBM Software - IBM REXX Family - Family Overview | | | With REXX for CICS, it is now practical to perform end-user computing, prototyping and application development directly within the CICS environment. |
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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx
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