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| | Languages of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Though Catalan-Valencian, Galician and Basque are not nation-wide official languages in Spain, as co-official languages in the respective regions they are eligible to benefit from official use in EU institutions under the terms of the 13 June 2005 resolution of the Council of the European Union. | | | On 11 December 1990, the use of Catalan was the subject of a European Parliament Resolution (resolution A3-169/90 on languages in the (European) Community and the situation of Catalan (OJ-C19, 28 January 1991). | | | Simultaneous interpreting between all official languages is always arranged for sessions of the European Parliament and the European Council. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union
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| | Who were Illyrians |
| | Indo-European is the name of a family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken over most of Europe and in much of Southwest and South Asia; from the second half of the 15th century the Indo-European tongues have spread to most other inhabited parts of the world. | | | Bopp demonstrated in 1838 that the Celtic languages were Indo-European, as had been asserted by Jones. | | | The principal language of the Italic group is Latin, originally the speech of the city of Rome and the ancestor of the modern Romance languages: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc. The earliest Latin inscriptions apparently date from the 6th century BC, with literature beginning in the 3rd century. |
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http://www.geocities.com/iliria1
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| | European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Supporters of the European Union argue that the growth of the EU is a force for peace and democracy. | | | The European Union or the EU is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 European countries, known as member states. | | | European NAvigator - Thousands of multimedia documents on the history of Europe |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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| | Microsoft Official --> Info and Comparisons |
| | The official languages of some former colonies, typically French or English, are not the national languages or the most widely spoken language. | | | Many in the Official IRA later called the Provisional IRA the "rosary brigade" because of their Catholic and romantic nationalist ideology. | | | The Officials were known as the "Stickies" because they used stick-on orange lilies at parades to commemorate the Easter Rising, the Provisionals were known as "Pinheads" because they used pinned on lilies. |
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http://www.crashdatabase.com/computers/91/microsoft-official.html
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| | Dail Debates Official Report - 29-11-01 |
| | Such is the express wish and intention of the European Union, its member states and Switzerland. | | | The European Communities and Swiss Confederation Bill, 2001, is a short, technical Bill, the main purpose of which is to give the force of law in the State, once they are ratified, to seven sectoral agreements which have been signed between the European Union and Switzerland. | | | Because of Switzerland's strategic location in Europe, surrounded as it is on all sides by member states of the European Union it is both appropriate and necessary that relations between the EU and Switzerland should be close and harmonious and conducted on a sound legal footing. |
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http://www.irlgov.ie/debates-01/29nov/sect2.htm
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| | We have been told that the French State is not making any moves to come to the aid of the Flemish language in the cultural domain. | | | The ambiguous relationships between the teaching of Dutch as a foreign language and regional Flemish is leading to some lack of understanding between employees in the cultural and educational sectors, on the one hand, and Flemish activists, on the other. | | | Dutch is taught as a modern foreign language at the universities of Dunkerque and Lille. |
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http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/neerlandes/an/i1/i1.html
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| | Databases and Internet Resources on the Legislation and Jurisdiction of the European Union |
| | Official publications and other documents published by the European Institutions, for ex-ample General Report on the Activities of the EU, the Situation of Agriculture in the EU, Report on Social Developments, Report on Competition Policy, the monthly Bulletin of the EU | | | The Decisions of the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice are congruent with the English edition of the "European Court Reports" (ECR). | | | ECLAS is the free-of-charge database of the Commission's central library and contains references of the EU's official publications as well as of the publications and documents of many intergovernmental organizations, commercial, academic and government publishers and selected journal articles of lasting interest. |
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http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~mbank/study3.htm
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| | Cover Pages: Markup Languages for Names and Addresses |
| | complexity is added by the fact that people frequently do not use their 'official' name... | | | This project includes identifying and defining international name and address information in consultation with the CEN, UN/EDIFACT subcommittees, UPU Standards Board, members of the UPU Direct Marketing Advisory Board (DMAB) and other interested member nations and parties... | | | Mabel Grein of the USPS (United States Postal Service, Information Technology) has been involved in several address database projects (UN/PROLST, ECCMA) and is an editor of the ADIS 01-1 specification. |
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http://xml.coverpages.org/namesAndAddresses.html
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| | European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Common Foreign and Security Policy was also established as the second of the three pillars of the European Union. | | | Supporters of the European Union argue that the growth of the EU is a force for peace and democracy. | | | The European Communities are one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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| | EUROPA - Education and Training - Languages in Europe |
| | According to a Eurobarometer study the official languages of the Union are spoken as mother tongues by the following percentages of the population of the European Union: | | | While it is the mother tongue for 16% of the European population, a further 31% of the EU citizens speak it well enough to hold a conversation. | | | When asked what two languages they find the most useful besides their mother tongue, most of the respondents (69%) answered English, with 37% answering French and 26% answering German. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/index_en.html
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| | European Languages |
| | Overseas study is strongly encouraged and students of European languages have the option of studying at a tertiary institution in Europe. | | | The European Union is the largest trading unit in the world and has a greater economic potential than any other domestic market. | | | At Macquarie University, the aim of the units of study is to develop proficiency in a European language and to provide an understanding of the society and culture of the countries where it is spoken. |
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http://www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/intro.htm
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| | European Day of Languages 2006 |
| | The European Day of Languages was created during the European Year of Languages in 2001, a Council of Europe initiative with the European Union. | | | Under the guidance and stewardship of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 2005 will be celebrated as The Year of Languages in the United States. | | | The goal of The Year of Languages (YOL) celebration is to advance the concept that every citizen of the United States should develop proficiency not only in English, but in other languages as well. |
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http://www.ecml.at/edl?l=E
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| | European Union: Legal use of the flag |
| | There are probably similar pages in the different official languages of the European Union. | | | Permission to use the European emblem does not confer on those to whom it is granted any right of exclusive use, nor does it allow them to appropriate the emblem or any similar trademark or logo, either by registration or any other means. | | | the emblem is not used in connection with objectives or activities which are incompatible with the aims and principles of the European Community or of the Council of Europe. |
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http://flagquest.com/FOTW/flags/eun-law.html
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| | Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures |
| | The Department for Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and the Ohio State University have many opportunities and resources available for all students interested in Russia and Eastern Europe. | | | A weekly language overview of Russian language newspapers and periodicals essential to following events in Russia and the former Soviet Union. | | | The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary unit in the College of Humanities dedicated to the study of Europe and its neighbors from the end of the Roman Empire through the seventeenth century. |
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http://slavic.osu.edu/resources.cfm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Misc. Balto-Slavic |
| | Ukrainian is spoken in the country of Ukraine, and also widely used elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. | | | Some linguists consider Baltic and Slavic to be two separate sub-branches of Indo- European, no more closely related to each other than to Germanic, Hellenic, or Italic. | | | We call this language "Modern Macedonian" to distinguish it from the ancient language also known as Macedonian, which was also an Indo-European language, probably related to Greek. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/obalslvh.htm
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| | www.asinah.net Start |
| | We has built a strong reputation as an outstanding mortgage information portal serving the lending needs of real estate professionals, builders and individual homebuyers throughout the United States, Canada and the European Union. | | | We are pleased to announce the launch of our Hotel Web Directory, a MySQL powered database, that list contact details of over 14500 hotel properties from 89 countries. | | | The historic hotel building, under heritage protection, dates back to 1895 and was completely refurbished this year with the aim of restoring its original splendor. |
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http://united-states.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of...
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| | Brussels Belgium Your Information Authority and Brussels Belgium Reference Guide |
| | Located in the centre of Brussels, capital of Belgium and of the European Union, the SBS emerged quite naturally as leader in management training in Belgium and soon acquired international renown... | | | Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Webmaster: Thos Swallow Other Languages: English Fran?ßais Username: Password: Type: Alumni Friends/Members Current President Remember Me: This site is dedicated to all... | | | Hotel Information (pdf 116kb) City Guide Brussels Belgium hotel: Radisson SAS Hotel, Brussels- First class Art Deco hotel for both business and leisure travelers, located in the very heart of the... |
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http://www.expatsinbrussels.com/brusselsbelgium_2
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| | Nordic Council -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | In the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s there were plans to develop the Nordic cooperation into an organisation similar to the (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) European Economic Community. | | | Sweden and Finland joined the (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) European Union in 1995. | | | The Nordic Council uses (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland) Swedish, (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark) Danish and (A Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway) Norwegian as its working languages. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/N/No/Nordic_Council.htm
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| | Pimsleur languages |
| | Spanish is one of the official languages of the United Nations, the European Union and the African Union. | | | It is one of the official languages of the European Union. | | | German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the world's major languages. |
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http://pimsleur.english-test.net/pimsleur-languages.html
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| | France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined. | | | This concept of a Nation agreed upon is opposed to the German concept of a Nation based on ethnicity and race, and it was responsible for much of the conflicts between France and Germany in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. | | | Contrary to what many people believe, the name of the former French currency, the franc, does not come from the name of the country. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
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| | Indo-European Resources |
| | European Year of Languages a year long celebration of the languages of Europe sponsored by the European Union and the Council of | | | MinLa – Minority Languages of the European Union | | | European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages – an organization supporting minority languages of Europe |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~duanmu/ling211/pie.htm
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| | Indo-European Resources |
| | European Year of Languages a year long celebration of the languages of Europe sponsored by the European Union and the Council of | | | MinLa Minority Languages of the European Union | | | European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages an organization supporting minority languages of Europe |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~duanmu/ling211/pie.htm
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| | Languages of Member States of the Union |
| | In accordance with European law, Maltese was accepted because it was a national official language of Malta, because Malta was willing to translate the acquis to Maltese, and because the Government of Malta made a request to the Union that Maltese be an official working language of the Union. | | | Though Irish is an official language in Ireland, it is not an official language of the European Union. | | | Ireland did not object to recognition as official languages being granted to languages with fewer speakers than Irish has according to the censuses, and there is no evidence that this country’s representatives made any complaint that it would cost too much to increase the number of official languages in that manner. |
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| | Urban Dictionary: latin |
| | Latin people (Latinos) is an expression mistakenly used only referring to South American people, which should include Western Europeans who inherited the language and some Roman culture. | | | This word, however, does not describe them since technically, Spaniards, French people, Italians, and Portuguese people are all "Latin" too. | | | The language was widely spoken by the Romans and neighboring tribes, and was used as an universal language in the European Middle ages for the educated class. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=latin
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| | · A week of the languages spoken in the countries of the European Union organized by the University of Veliko Turnovo "Sts. | | | The capacity of the local non-governmental organizations will be used in cooperation with ethnic cultural centres and Sunday schools for celebrating the European Year of Languages (EYL). | | | · The national initiative for launching the European Year of Languages: a scientific session on the topic of: Cultural and Language Diversity in the Name of Goodwill. |
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| | Dying Languages: Globalization, Culture and Technology |
| | European languages in danger of disappearing include the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and Brittany in France; several Lappish languages in Scandinavia; various Romani (Gypsy) tongues, and numerous indigenous languages in the former Soviet Union. | | | Source: Unesco's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing | | | While language activists claim Irish is above politics, its close association with the I.R.A. and Sinn Fein does little to garner acceptance by Unionists. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~gfh6/vanishing.html
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| | INDO-EUROPEAN EXPANSIONS AND GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH |
| | In the modern period, the colonial powers now constituting the formidable European Union have pushed their languages to the top of the international language order—English, French, and German in particular. | | | century geographical "discoveries." The attempt here is to recapitulate a smattering of the history of the Indo- European language family to facilitate the interpretation of the genesis, spread, dominance, and decline of languages within the framework of the world system theory, which, despite its economic-materialist emphasis, has a remarkable congruence with Eastern philosophy. | | | Economic supremacy of the United States has ensured the hegemony of English over the other European languages, particularly French, which had greater prestige until World War I. The economic strength of Japan has promoted the learning of Japanese internationally. |
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http://www.mnstate.edu/gunarat/languages.htm
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