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| | GERMAN LANGUAGE - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN LANGUAGE |
 | | It was also natural that the Catholic Lower Rhine (Cologne) and Catholic South Germany held out against it, for to adopt the language of the reformer would have seemed tantamount to offering a helping hand to Protestant ideas. | | | The former of these is, however, on the point of dying out. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GE/GERMAN_LANGUAGE.htm
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| | English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the excessive use of Latinate words is often a sign of either pretentiousness (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of "apprehending the suspect") or obfuscation (as in a military document which says "neutralize" when it means "kill"). | | | Modern scholarship considers most of this story to be legendary and politically motivated. | | | English has lingua franca (diplomatic language) status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries and the United States beginning in the 20th century. |
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http://www.peekskill.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/English_language
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| | Nordfriisk Instituut |
| | Since 1988/89 a board has been established in the State Parliament (Landtag) of Schleswig-Holstein, charged with affairs of the Frisian ethnic group. | | | It has been published since 1965 and presents documantaries, up-to-date information, critical appraisals and new publi-cations. | | | a) What is the meaning of the Frisian slogan "Rüm hart - klaar kiming"? |
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http://www.nordfriiskinstituut.de/englisch.html
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| | Endangered languages in Europe: report |
| | Remarks: the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews; many speakers were murdered by Germans during the Second World War | | | Remarks: Ethnic Rusyns in Vojvodina, Serbia, speak Slovak and not Rusyn. | | | Geographical location: the Russian Federation: large areas across the boundary of southern Russia and northern Caucasia; the Ukraine: Crimea, though most speakers were deported to various places, mainly to Central Asia, after the Second World War; Romania, Dobruja area |
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/europe_report.html
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| | frisian |
| | speakers of the East Frisian Island dialect of Wangerooge died at the beginning | | | speak Frisian, only 60% speak it to a shopkeeper, and only 42% report that they | | | West Frisian is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland. |
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http://www.tiersma.com/FRISIAN/FRISIAN.HTM
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| | Culture of the Frisians |
| | Today there are about 10.000 people in Germany who consider themselves to be Frisians first and German second. | | | This is the birth of the Frisian language. | | | This is probably due to the fact that, when in the years 1811/12 the Frisians were forced to take surnames by the French occupation force, nationalist sentiments drove them to take a name which was manifestation of their being different. |
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http://www.fehmarn-genealogy.com/culture_of_the_frisians.htm
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| | German language |
| | Approximately 71 million German-speaking people live in Germany, and several million under foreign administration. | | | Inge works, and then she had a lot to do. | | | A descendant of the Old High German language, German is a mixture of dialects spoken over Central Europe before German principalities was united in 1871. |
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http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/germ/german.html
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| | Frisian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Frisian is a Germanic language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by around half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. | | | While many of these Frisians live on the mainland, most are found on the islands, notably Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, and Heligoland. | | | Therefore, the New Frisian period is considered to have begun at this point in time, around 1820. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_language
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| | Regional language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are many cases when a regional language can claim greater numbers of speakers than certain languages which happen to be official languages of sovereign states. | | | An official language of a state may also be spoken as a regional language in a region of a neighbouring state. | | | different from the official language(s) of that State |
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http://www.bucyrus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Regional_language
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| | Frisian |
| | Frisian is a West Germanic language (see characterisation of the Germanic language family) which is spoken by about 400,000 people in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. | | | Since the 1950s Frisian may be used in courts, official documents may be drafted in Frisian and there is also the possibility for bilingual place name signs. | | | The Leeuwarden dialect became a sociolect that is now only spoken by the lower classes (see Jonkman, 1993).In recent years, however, there have been "action" to encourage people to use their "Leeuwarders" dialect. |
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http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/Publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/fries.htm
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| | Verbix -- Germanic. Conjugate verbs in 50+ languages |
| | West Germanic: Anglo-Frisian group - the English language and the Frisian language; Netherlandic-German group - Netherlandic, or Dutch-Flemish and the Low German dialects, Afrikaans, the German language or High German, and the Yiddish language. | | | Much of its structure, however, can be deduced by the comparative method of reconstruction (a reconstructed language is called a protolanguage; reconstructed forms are marked with an asterisk). | | | East Germanic (extinct): the Gothic language and some other extinct languages. |
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http://www.verbix.com/languages/germanic.asp
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| | Frisian languages and pronunciation |
| | Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken in Germany and the Netherlands. | | | There are three main varieties of Frisian: West Frisian (Frysk) which is spoken by about 450,000 people in the Netherlands; North Frisian (Friisk) a collection of nine different dialects spoken in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) by about 8,000 people, and Sater Frisian (Seeltersk) with about 2,000 speakers in the German state of Lower Saxony. | | | Frisian house names are popular, particularly on the islands where Frisian is spoken. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/frisian.htm
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| | Encyclopedic information on Frisian language and literature |
| | Frisian literature since World War II has largely broken away from the national movement and many traditional conventions, especially through Anne Wadman's leadership as critic, essayist, and novelist. | | | Frisian Language, language of the historical Frisian people, now an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, with dialects still spoken on the Frisian Islands, and in a few German villages. | | | Frisian literature, as it is known today, began with Gysbert Japicx (also spelled Japiks; 1603-66) in the 17th century. |
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http://www.geocities.com/tseadbruinja/engels/languageliterature.htm
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| | This most recent version of the book was published by the Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy). | | | Most updating was done by Jarich Hoekstra, formerly of the Fryske Akademy and now professor of Frisian at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. | | | Chapter 2 introduces the sounds of Frisian and the phonetic and phonological rules that govern its pronunciation, including the well-known phenomenon of breaking. |
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http://www.tiersma.com/FRISIAN/FRG.HTM
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| | West Germanic language |
| | West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German. | | | There was never a West Germanic proto-language from which all the languges currently in the group seem to have derived. | | | As such the grouping is more of a geographical convenience to categorize languages that share many similarities with each other but also individually compare closely to particular aspects of North Germanic or East Germanic. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/west_germanic_language
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| | It is the primary language of the United States, | | | West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related | | | language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~kuhnwi1/gb/webstuff10am/bill/language.html
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| | Euskal Herria Journal Basque Language and Culture |
| | West Caucasian shows two language groups, one including Abkhaz and Abaza, the other including Adygh and Kabardian. | | | And there are always some enthusiasts who are not willing to acknowledge that some dozens of correspondences“ can be found between any two languages of the world, so they try to point out imaginary macro-families“ or super-stocks“. | | | The Basque language is documented by lengthy texts since the 16th century. |
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http://www.ehj-navarre.org/blessons/mowstr.html
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| | Language general |
| | This hypothesis would explain the strong dialectic variation in modern Frisian. | | | This will concern analogic adaption to the disyllabic verbs, which in West Frisian also lead to appending of -n in the infinitiv. | | | In that way West Frisian will have reconstructed itself to a new language unity. |
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http://www.geocities.com/athens/atrium/6641/language.htm
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| | Frisian Fonts, Frisian OCR, Frisian Reference, Frisian Software - Mac, Frisian Software - Windows, Frisian System, |
| | They are names of Frisian immigrants who are still living, a proof of the fact that literary art among the Frisian immigrants did not come to early fruition. | | | Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge. | | | Perhaps, however, it is not without significance or promise that the name which in point of time comes last is also the most noted. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Frisian.htm?CalledFrom=210325
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| | Language Miniatures 90: The Frisian language |
| | Frisian and English, in other words, in their history have participated in some sound changes that were not shared by the other closely-related German languages. | | | A few words here and there may be recognizable in a sort of shadowy way, but that's far from getting a picture of what it's saying. | | | Of all the world's languages, none is a closer 'cousin' to English than Frisian, spoken today in various forms in Northwestern Europe. |
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http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/miniatures/frisian.htm
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| | English language: History of English |
| | A Light History of the English Language (Video Librarian) | | | Today's English is the continuation of the language of the 5th-century Germanic invaders of Britain. | | | (11th cent.) brought in foreign rulers, whose native language was Norman French; and English was eclipsed by French as the official language. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0857999.html
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| | U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Netherlands: General Information |
| | West Frisian is spoken in the province of Fryslan/Friesland, and in a few border villages in the neighboring province of Groningen. | | | About 450,000 out of 600,000 Friesland inhabitants are able to speak Frisian. | | | The number of Frisian speakers in the relevant part of Groningen may be about 3,000. |
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http://www.us-english.org/foundation/research/olp/viewGeneral.asp?CID=42
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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:FRR |
| | Mooringer has 70% lexical similarity with Standard German, 55% with English, 66% with Eastern Frisian; Föhr has 69% with Standard German, 62% with English, 68% with Western Frisian, 73% with Eastern Frisian, 86% with Mooringer, 91% with Amrum; Sylt has 64% with Standard German, 61% with English, 79% with Mooringer, 85% with Föhr. | | | Not intelligible to Eastern Frisian of Germany or Western Frisian of the Netherlands except to a few educated bilingual speakers of West Frisian. | | | Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=FRR
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| | Yamada Language Center: Frisian Mailing Lists |
| | This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. | | | LOWLANDS-L is an automated worldwide electronic mail list for those who are interested in the languages and cultures of the lowlands adjacent to the coast of the North Sea and of Baltic Sea. | | | This information also available in the Mooring dialect of Bökingharde North Frisian |
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/frisian.html
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| | Scots language |
| | But in the north people spoke Pictish, of which little is known. | | | They settled here, mixing with the Anglian population and creating an ethnic group of Scots. | | | Scots is a product of the mixture of several different languages, and not only Germanic. |
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http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/germ/scots.html
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| | The Frisian Language (Frysk) |
| | It is spoken (by some) in Fryslân (in the Netherlands), the Frisian Islands (between the Netherlands and the UK) as well as some places in Germany. | | | Frisian is the closest living language to English that is distinctly a separate language--not a separate dialect. | | | There are many dialects that are spoken, but it is an endangered language. |
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http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/ericg/frisian.html
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| | Pre-eminent research institute on Frisian language, culture and history. | | | (Mostly in Dutch and Frisian, partly in English). |
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http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/homean/main/clasllen/friso.html
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