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	Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A language family is a group of genetically related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language.
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_families_and_languages (1626 words)

	Kawésqar language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kawésqar (also Qawasqar, Alacaluf, Halakwulup, Kaweskar, Alakaluf, Kawaskar, Kawesqar, Qawashqar, Halakwalip, Hekaine, Kaueskar, Aksanás) is a language isolate spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people.
		Originally there were several distinct dialects, and one of these, Kakauhua, is sometimes listed as a separate language.
		The language family containing these two languages is known as Alacalufan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alacalufan_languages (246 words)

	Language families and languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
		Ainu language or languages (Russia, Japan) (like Arabic or Japanese, the diversity within Ainu is large enough that some consider it to be perhaps up to a dozen languages while others consider it a single language with high dialectal diversity)
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Language_family (824 words)

	Ebook More Info -Aramaic language - Free For You. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As the language grew in importance, it came to be spoken throughout the Mediterranean coastal area of the Levant, and spread east of the Tigris.
		It was the language of the city-states of Damascus, Hamath and Arpad (Syria).
		Nabataean Aramaic is the language of the Arab kingdom of Petra.
	aramaic.language.en.lmoney.org (5764 words)

	SOUNDOVER.COM: Language Families
		The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language.
		The Indo-European languages are a group of several hundred languages and dialects, including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Asia, which belong to a single superfamily.
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	Patrick Manning \| Homo sapiens Populates the Earth: A Provisional Synthesis, Privileging Linguistic Evidence \| Journal ...
		The languages of Australia and the Indo-Pacific phylum centered in New Guinea appear to have come into existence with the settlement of these regions some 50,000 years ago—they were the only language groups spoken in those regions until the recent arrival of Austronesian speakers.
		Working with existing languages to identify their relationship through the closeness of their grammatical patterns and the proportion of their cognate words, he assembled languages with a common ancestor, and then assembled the ancestral languages to postulate a more distant ancestor, and so forth.
		The map of Eurasiatic languages, as proposed by Joseph Greenberg, covers such an immense area that one is readily tempted to view it as reflecting a rapid move to occupy all of northern Eurasia, stemming from a single region in the tropics.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/17.2/manning.html (13014 words)

	The Languages of the Andes - Cambridge University Press
		Greenberg’s (1956) classification of the languages of the Andes
		Greenberg’s (1987) classification of the languages of the Andes
		Languages such as Allentiac, Muisca and Puquina, which have long been extinct, are known from premodern sources only, and the interpretation of the symbols used to represent them remains tentative.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052136275X&ss=fro (2596 words)

	Language family - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		However, it is possible to recover many of its features by applying the comparative method — a reconstructive procedure worked out by 19th-century linguist August Schleicher.
		This is not known from written records, since it was spoken before the invention of writing, but sometimes a protolanguage can be identified with a historically known language.
		Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic.
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	Articles - Language families and languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A group of sign "languages" known as manually coded languages are more properly understood as signed modes of spoken languages, and therefore belong to the language family of the spoken language; one example of such a signed language is Warlpiri Sign Language.
		Auslan, NZSL and BSL are usually considered to belong to a language family known as BANZSL, and Japanese Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Korean Sign Language are thought to be members of a Japanese Sign Language family.
		Other languages, such as Nicaraguan Sign Language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, and Providence Island Sign Language are known to be isolates.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Language_families_and_languages (966 words)

	Wikiversity:School of Linguistics - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Besides the above languages that have arisen spontaneously out of the capability for vocal communication, there are also languages that share many of their important properties.
		The study of the use of language in a social context.
		Computational linguists often use large bodies of digitized text or speech called corpora as a basis for teaching computer programs the proper use of a language, or to compare the use of a language in one context to it's use in another context.
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	The Definitive Guide to Language family XXXX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The common ancestor of the languages belonging to a language family is known as its protolanguage.
		Language contact is common, making clear family classifications difficult.
		It occurs between sign languages, between signed and spoken languages (Contact Sign), and between sign languages and gestural systems used by the broader community.
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	languagehat.com: DEAD AND DYING LANGUAGES.
		But the sense of loss over the language ignores the question of whether or not the people involved are any happier.
		In both synchronic and diachronic views the boundaries between languages are often fuzzy to the point of invisibility, but that doesn't mean that there are no distinctions among them.
		Language extinction matters not because language doesn't change, but because we're seeing a massive die-off and a catastrophic loss of diversity in an unprecedentedly short time.
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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Language families and languages
		In the following, each "bulleted"?title=item is a known or suspected language family.
		A group of sign "languages"?title=known as manually coded languages are more properly understood as signed modes of spoken languages, and therefore belong to the language family of the spoken language.
		The same report suggested a "cluster"?title=of sign languages centered around Czech Sign Language, Hungarian Sign Language and Slovakian Sign Language.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Language_families_and_languages (1616 words)

	Language families and languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Proto-Indo-European (not known from written records, since it was spoken before the invention of writing).
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as
		Caucasian languages (generally thought to be two separate families, North Caucasian and
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	Ethnologue: Chile
		Data accuracy estimate: A2, B. The number of languages listed for Chile is 12.
		Of those, 10 are living languages and 2 are extinct.
		Their name for their language is 'Háusi Kúta'.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Chil.html (573 words)

	Language families and languages - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Creole languages, pidgins, and trade languages" class="as-lk">Creole languages, pidgins, and trade languages
		According to the Ethnologuehttp://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp, the largest language families are:
		# Ainu language or languages (Russia, Japan) (like Arabic or Japanese, the diversity within Ainu is large enough that some consider it to be perhaps up to a dozen languages while others consider it a single language with high dialectal diversity)
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=18190 (763 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > World Language Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sep 27 2004, 05:48 AM Ethnologue language family index
		i think its understandable Austronesian would have a large number of divergant languages as our ancestors sailed their own seperate directions and settled islands far away from each other and had time to develop local things, but as i read austronesian has suprisingly preserved the syntax and structure etc.
		here is a map of the location of the language families of Africa.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t18750.html (226 words)

	The Ultimate Language families and languages Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Ultimate Language families and languages Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		According to the Ethnologue[1], the largest language families are:
		Makaton - for children and adults with learning disabilities in the United Kingdom - constructed language
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Language_family (728 words)

	language families and languages Information Center - language families and languages
		language families and languages Information Center - language families and languages
		Burushaski (Pakistan, India) (sometimes linked to language families and languages Yeniseian)
		Back to the top of language families and languages.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_H_-_M/language_families_and_languages.html (863 words)

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	SYNOPTIC OUTLINE OF CONTENTS
		The first is a single alphabetic listing of languages, language families, and language areas.
		The second is an alphabetic list of language families, each with its internal hierarchical composition; it also includes names of language areas, with cross-references to the relevant families.
		Schizophrenia and Language (ANDRE ROCH LECOURS, RENEE BELAND, and GEORGES AIRD)
	www.udel.edu /billf/synoptic.html (997 words)

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	Linguist List - Show languages in Subgroup
		Project Goals include recommendations, access to the OLAC metadata server, and information on the 10
		endangered languages for the showroom of best practice.
		Project Organization includes our work plan, timeline, and contributing institutions and project members.
	emeld.org /features/get-familyid.cfm?CFTREEITEMKEY=AL (75 words)

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		Afro-Asiatic Alacalufan Algic Altaic Amto-Musan Andamanese Arauan Araucanian Arawakan Arutani-Sape
		Caddoan Cahuapanan Cant Carib Chapacura-Wanham Chibchan Chimakuan Choco Chon Chukotko-Kamchatkan Chumash Coahuiltecan Constructed Language Creole
		Macro-Ge Maku Mascoian Mataco-Guaicuru Mayan Misumalpan Mixe-Zoque Mixed Language Mosetenan Mura Muskogean
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