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African Languages - MSN Encarta Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic. It is also the protolanguage of other Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew. ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html   (1747 words)

African Languages - ninemsn Encarta Languages of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa. Languages spoken farther to the south-east, including Maasai in Kenya, have long been called Nilo-Hamitic; recent investigations, however, appear to prove that these tongues have no direct relationship to languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, but are most closely related to the Nilotic languages. The ancient Egyptian language, which has no living descendant, forms another branch of the Afro-Asiatic family on its own (see Coptic Language). au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html   (1277 words)

Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonal languages appear in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 240 languages and over 307 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia. Many people regard the Ongota language as Afro-Asiatic, but its classification within the family remains controversial, partly for lack of data. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages   (1200 words)

Chad - Afro-Asiatic Languages Chadic languages stretch from the western borders of Nigeria to Ouaddaï Prefecture, and Arabic-speaking populations are scattered throughout the Sahel. The first cluster of languages is closely associated with water--the lake, the delta, the Chari and Logone rivers, and their adjacent floodplains. The numbers of speakers of these languages are small, probably because their peoples have been absorbed by more numerous neighbors through intermarriage or emigration. countrystudies.us /chad/20.htm   (1410 words)

Languages : Afro-Asiatic Family It is the language of the Quran and of Islam. Coptic, is the liturgical language of the Egyptian Coptic Church. This language family originated in the Sahara area before it became a desert and spread to the Horn of Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. www.krysstal.com /langfams_afroasia.html   (598 words)

Canaanite languages - in the Phoenician languages: Ahiram inscription,sarcophagus of Eshmunazar[1], Kilamuwa inscription, the Byblos inscription All of them became extinct as native languages in the early 1st millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as a spoken, everyday language in the 19th century by Eliezer Ben Yehuda. The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. psychcentral.com /psypsych/Canaanite_language   (338 words)

Cushitic - Search Results - MSN Encarta Cushitic, subgroup or branch of languages of the Hamito-Semitic or Afro-Asiatic language family (Afro-Asiatic Languages). ca.encarta.msn.com /Cushitic.html   (67 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Hamitic The Hamitic languages comprise one branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. updated 1-29-2002 Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic) comprises the Egyptian sub-branch of the Hamitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. You have reached the Hamitic Languages page 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. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/hamitch.htm   (1218 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. You have reached the second page on Semitic 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. It was the language of the Ugaritic civilization in the ancient Near East. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/semite2h.htm   (1306 words)

Tuareg languages - The Tuareg languages have very heavily influenced Northern Songhay languages such as Tasawaq, whose speakers are culturally Tuareg but speak Songhay varieties; this influence includes points of phonology and sometimes grammar as well as extensive loanwords. Tamahaq - Language of the Kel Ahaggar, spoken in Algeria and in the north of Niger by approximately 57 000 people. Tayart Tamajaq language - Language of the Kel Ayer (sometimes spelled Aïr), spoken in Niger by approximately 250 000 people. psychcentral.com /psypsych/Tamasheq   (776 words)

Semitic languages Akkadian is a Semitic language, belonging to the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, also called Hamito-semitic language. The AFRO-ASIATIC FAMILY, or the HAMITO-SEMITIC FAMILY of languages encompasses nearly all the languages of the Near East and northern Africa. With the use of the cuneiform writing system (borrowed from the Sumerians, a non-Semitic language), with signs values that stand for syllables, Akkadian is the only Semitic language in which the vowels are explicitly spelled. xoomer.virgilio.it /bxpoma/akkadeng/semitic.htm   (468 words)

Fourth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages The Fourth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages is to be held 25 - 27th June, 1998, in London, England, organised by The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). The aim of the Conference is to promote research in theoretical linguistics in relation to Afro-asiatic languages. The editorial committee hopes to undertake the publication of a collection of papers based on the presentations at the colloquium, a volume in the series Studies in Afro-Asiatic Grammar (Holland Academic Graphics). www.umich.edu /~aos/afroas.html   (197 words)

Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /Language and Linguistics /Natural Languages /Afro-Asiatic Centre of African Studies Call for abstracts The Fourth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages is to be held 25 to 27 June 1998 in London, England, organised by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Forthcoming events The Fourth Conference on Afro-asiatic Languages is to be held 25 to 27 June 1998 in London, organised by SOAS. Linguist List Archive: 4.793 Second Conference On Afroasiatic Languages www.omniseek.com /srch/{70230}   (398 words)

Glenn Humphries' tree of indo-european languages This does not include languages in the families known as Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asiatic, African, Ural-Altaic (Asiatic), American Indiginous, Andamanese, Caucasian, or Oceanic. Other languages which were influential to the develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather that what the speakers of the language called their language. This is a simplified diagram of the relationship of various modern and obsolete languages showing their development throughout history from various older languages, mostly now extinct. glenn.humphries.com /indoeuropean.htm   (360 words)

LANGUAGES A rather unsytematic collection of data on the language that is the mother tongue of the majority of inhabitants of Taiwan. Tariq Rahman, Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, TX Scholarly article claiming to demonstrate that the language of the prehistoric Indus Valley Civilization belonged to the Dravidian family. Official home page of Lojban, an artificial language designed in the late 1980s as a further development from a language called Loglan, with the particular design requirements of being culturally neutral, based on the principles of logic, having an unambiguous grammar and suitable eventually for communication between people and computers. www.tundria.com /LANGLANG.HTM   (2134 words)

Languages Caddoan languages The Caddoan languages are a Nebraska. Aymaran languages The Aymaran languages are a Argentina. Amto-Musan languages Amto and Musan are 2 languages spoken in the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/languages.html   (2134 words)

GLOW 20 Workshop "Morpho-Syntax and Phonology of African and Afro-Asiatic Languages" RABAT 03.22.97 (ResearchIndex) GLOW 20 Workshop "Morpho-Syntax and Phonology of African and Afro-Asiatic Languages" RABAT 03.22.97 GLOW 20 Workshop "Morpho-Syntax and Phonology of African and Afro-Asiatic Languages" RABAT 03.22.97 (ResearchIndex) The Life Of Yers In Slavic And Elsewhere: An Argument For Empty.. citeseer.ist.psu.edu /696499.html   (278 words)

LINGUIST List 14.59: Ebonics/Writing Instruction, Afro-Asiatic Query It also seems that Greenberg in his Afro-Asiatic chapter in "Languages of Africa" attempts to link the so called Nilo-Hamitic (Maasai) languages with the so called Hamitic (Somali) languages into a larger family. Is it possible to connect Semitic to languages in the Chadic or Omotic family which are geographically separate from Semitic? This idea has been championed by Gregerson (1977 Language in Africa)and more recently by Roger Blench (The Niger-Saharan hypothesis III: further evidence and the issue of verbal extension). www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-59.html   (612 words)

Web resources for Afroasiatic languages in Africa Swedish contributions to African linguistics, with a focus on Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic languages (PDF). There are some 250, maybe more, Afroasiatic (aka Afrasian, Erythraic, Lisramic, Hamito-Semitic) languages spoken in Africa. The Afro-Asiatic languages: classification and reference list (PDF). goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/afroasiatic.html   (119 words)

MavicaNET - Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) Afro-Asiatic Languages, formerly known as Hamito-Semitic languages, principal language family of northern Africa and the Middle East, consisting of about 250 languages. The Afroasiatic Index Project is a scholarly initiative that aims at creating an etymological database of Afroasiatic languages. The Afro-Asiatic page 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. www.mavicanet.com /lite/pol/1030.html   (174 words)

African Languages - Related Items - MSN Encarta , formerly known as Hamito-Semitic languages, principal language family of northern Africa and the Middle East, comprising about... African Languages - Related Items - MSN Encarta encarta.msn.com /related_761565449_1/Afro-Asiatic_Languages.html   (26 words)

Afro-Asiatic Languages An etymological database of the Afro-Asiatic languages with a history of the project. Explores the linguistic methods used by Afrocentric linguists to document the relationship between Black African languages and their sister languages in Africa and Asia. Features cataloging tools and general reference sources for the Hebrew language with history of the language, introduction to the alphabet, Hebrew-English dictionary, online Hebrew keyboard. www.joeant.com /DIR/cat/11190   (216 words)

Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List Lrahran is one of the alien languages of the Commonwealth. Lifehomese is one of the alien languages of the Commonwealth. DiLingo is the gutteral utteral, the paradigm of rhyme, the pox of vox. www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk /~jrk/conlang.html   (216 words)

Category:Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of "A.1" East Chadic languages (division 1) List of "A.1" East Chadic languages (division 2) List of "A.2" East Chadic languages (division 1) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Afro-Asiatic_languages   (216 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 It belongs to the East Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. It was the language of the Ugaritic civilization in the ancient Near East. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/semite2h.htm   (216 words)

LoLA: Preliminary List of Languages and Linguistic Groups in Los Angeles Some languages with a limited number of speakers and/or not described by previous investigators are not identified individually, but are put together with an indication of a general linguistic group as a common label. The mixture of languages and the elements of the Korean-English pidgin. The following languages of Los Angeles are enumerated according to their places in the genealogical classification that is used simply as an accepted system of reference. www.humnet.ucla.edu /languagesofla/lolalangs.htm   (216 words)

World Encyclopedia: Afro-Asiatic languages @ HighBeam Research Afro-Asiatic languages (Hamito-Semitic) Only family of languages common to both Asia and Africa. Search for more information on HighBeam Research for. highbeam.com /doc/1O142:AfroAsiaticlanguages/Afro-Asiatic+...   (104 words)

Languages > Afro - Asiatic Languages > Arabic > Australian Books Languages > Afro - Asiatic Languages > Arabic > Australian Books Australian Books > Languages > Afro - Asiatic Languages Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order. www.netstore.com.au /books/2C.shtml   (206 words)

Alphabetical Index to Sections 408 Language, Treatment of with respect to kinds of persons www.anthus.com /CyberDewey/Dewey_index.html   (178 words)

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