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  [Anglic languages] | [All the best Anglic languages resources at karaoke.velocityincome.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
From the above arises the concept of Anglic languages (also called Anglian languages), one of the two branches of Anglo-Frisian languages, itself a branch of West Germanic.
Anglic also refers to the two Anglian dialects of Old English namely Northumbrian and Mercian.
Anglic was also a simplified form of spelling intended to make the language more accessible to an international audience.
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  Anglo-Frisian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anglo-Frisian languages (also known as Ingvaeonic languages, North Sea Germanic languages or sometimes Insular Germanic) are a group of West Germanic languages consisting of Old English, Old Frisian, and their descendants.
The Anglo-Frisian languages are distinguished from other West Germanic languages partially by the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law and by the palatalization of Proto-Germanic *k to a coronal affricate before front vowels: cf.
English cheese and Frisian tsiis to Dutch kaas and German Käse, or English church and Frisian tsjerke to Dutch kerk and German Kirche.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-Frisian_languages   (175 words)

  
 English Language Encyclopedia @ 216.92.11.9 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The English language belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
English is also the most widely used language for young backpackers who travel across continents, regardless of whether it is their mother tongue or a secondary language.
English is the language most often studied as a foreign language in the European Union (by 89% of schoolchildren), followed by French (32%), German (18%), and Spanish (8%).
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 English Language Encyclopedia @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Apart from English-lexified creole languages such as Tok Pisin and Bislama, the nearest living relative of English is Scots (Lallans), spoken mostly in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland.
It is also, by international treaty, the official language for aircraft/airport and maritime communication, as well as being one of the official languages of both the European Union and the United Nations, and of most international athletic organizations, including the Olympic Committee.
English as a lingua franca for Europe is a new variant of the English language created to become the common language in Europe, spoken in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
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 Scots language Online Research :: Information about Scots language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anglic languages speakers were actually established in Lothian by the 7th century.
A model of Language revival to which many enthusiasts aspire, is that of the Catalan language in areas spanning parts of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, particularly as regards the situation of Catalan in Catalonia itself.
Ulster Scots language, spoken by the descendants of Scottish settlers as well as those of Irish descent in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Irish Republic, and sometimes described by the Neologism "Ullans", a conflation of Ulster and Lallans.
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 English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English is a West Germanic language dominant in the United Kingdom as well as many former territories of the British Empire (both outside and inside the current Commonwealth of Nations) such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and others, particularly those in the Anglophone Caribbean.
English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany (Saxons, Angles) as well as Denmark (Jutes).
The Scots language developed largely separately from the same origins, but following the Acts of Union 1707 usage converged and whether it is a language in its own right or an English dialect better described as Scottish English is disputed.
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 Anglic207   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the Danelaw with the Anglo-Saxons left traces in the English language, and is suspected to have facilitated the collapse of Old English grammar that resulted in Middle English from the 12th century.
During this early period it assimilated some aspects of the languages that it came in contact with, such as the Celtic languages and the two dialects of Old Norse from the invading Norsemen who were occupying and controlling the Danelaw in northern and eastern England.
The language was further altered by the transition away from the runic alphabet (also known as futhorc) to the Latin alphabet, which was also a significant factor in the developmental pressures brought to bear on the language.
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 English language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Celtic languages are a branch of the indo-european languages....
The norman language is a romance language, one of the oïl languages....
A foreign language is a language not spoken by the indigenous people of a certain place: for example, english is a foreign language in japan....
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: English language
English is a West Germanic language which is the dominant language in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Republic of Ireland, many Commonwealth nations including Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, and other former British colonies, particularly in the Anglophone Caribbean.
It is also an important or official language in many countries formerly under British or American rule, such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines.
English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th Century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany.
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 English language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England from Old English (Anglo-Saxon), the language of the Anglo-Saxons of northern Germany.
Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland (Fryslân), in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.
Although English is not an official language of the United States federal government, it is for 27 of the 50 state governments (Hawaii also designated Hawaiian as an official language).
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 Everything about Anglic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Though never the language of the church, which was always Latin, it lost status as a language of courtly life, literature and documentation, being largely supplanted by Anglo-Norman.
The English language belongs to the western subbranch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
It can also marginalise populations whose first language is not the global language, and lead to a cultural hegemony of the populations speaking the global language as a first language.
6.sr.wikimiki.org /en/Anglic   (11491 words)

  
 The Works of David Brin
Abdicator - Anglic term used to describe a religious Galactic grouping which believe in the existence of ancient ethereal races that occasionally take physical form and undergo regular Uplift procedures, without ever revealing their true nature.
Anglic - language spoken by Earthlings; a derivative of English.
Unlike Galactic languages, Anglic allow the use of metaphors.
www.gayspermbank.com /brin/uplift.html   (2807 words)

  
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A Consideration of The Demarcation of the Anglic Language Varieties of Northern Scotland in a Context of Linguistic and Cultural Identity.
Its role as the language of some of Scotland's greatest poets contrasts sharply with the stigma attached to it as the language of the uneducated, and with the efforts which the upwardly mobile expend in expunging it from their own speech and that of their children.
Whereas academic study in Gaelic encompasses all the elements which one would expect of language study, academic study of Scots is almost totally passive, concerned with the study of texts as literature, and of oral material from a descriptive linguistic standpoint.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /wirhoose/but/wan/anglic.htm   (4229 words)

  
 Freelance Traveller/the RICE Archives - Kurishdam - Lecture Hall and Library - An Outline of Jump Physics
The languages of this second group become widely known not as primary languages for a large number of planets, but as second languages for an entire region of space.
Here, the mandated language was Terran Anglic, a language that was itself a pidgin (based on English) resulting from a commercial and technological advantage possessed by North America at the time that global communication and commerce became practical for the majority of the population, instead of for just a few large corporations.
Galanglic, as the official language of the Regency government, is used and understood almost everywhere in the Spinward States.
www.freelancetraveller.com /features/culture/reference/langs.html   (1078 words)

  
 Languages in David Brin's Uplift universe
This is a supplement to the notes about languages included in the information about character creation.
Primal, of course, is the pre-sentient language used by fallow dolphins.
On the one hand, Galactic languages have been described as being perfectly logical and uniform; the paradoxical statement "This sentence is a lie," or "I'm lying now" simply does not make grammatical sense in any Galactic language.
www.amadan.org /GURPS/T5G_lang.htm   (961 words)

  
 Anglic
This adjective is then used as the name of their particular variant of anglic (except in the case of English, which I'm trying to render capable of conforming to this pattern).
The primary import of this is that, when it comes to classifying the Anglic languages, the only clade which includes the English and Scottish vernaculars is the whole group – these two were already evolving separately before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
While Educated English has become the international language of science and English has become the international language generally, the local variations in how English is spoken by the general population are separate from the variations in how it is spoken by the educated classes.
www.short-fuze.co.uk /~eddy/bits/anglic.html   (2223 words)

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