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 Southeast Asian languages
Southeast Asian languages: The Munda Subfamily - The Munda Subfamily The languages of the Munda subfamily are spoken in parts of N and central India...
Southeast Asian languages: The Mon-Khmer Subfamily - The Mon-Khmer Subfamily Languages of the Mon-Khmer subfamily include Cambodian (or Khmer), Mon (or...
Munda languages - Munda languages, group of languages generally regarded as a subfamily of the Southeast Asian...
www.infoplease.com /id/A0846052   (278 words)

  
 Asian Languages by Countries :: Official and National Languages of Asia
Asian Languages by Countries :: Official and National Languages of Asia
note: in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken, the largest are Iban and Kadazan.
English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/asian_languages.htm   (602 words)

  
 Robert Buswell, Asian Languages and Cultures [UCLA Spotlight]
One of only two scholars currently active in academe to have been fully ordained Buddhist monks, the chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures and 17-year UCLA College veteran has brought one distinction after another to UCLA.
Both of the centers he has established now rank as the largest of their kind in the country: the Center for Korean Studies, founded in 1993, and the Center for Buddhist Studies, founded in 2000.
While maintaining its traditional strengths in Korean, Japanese and Chinese studies, UCLA’s newly christened Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will boast one of the nation’s largest faculties in Southeast Asian and Indic studies and will be the nation’s leader in Indian religion.
www.ucla.edu /spotlight/03/fac1203_buswell.html   (461 words)

  
 Southeast Asian languages: The Annamese-Muong Subfamily
An alphabet based on Roman letters and adapted for Vietnamese, as by adding diacriticals, is generally used today in place of the traditional Chinese-type writing of the past.
The classification of Vietnamese is still disputed; some regard it as a Mon-Khmer tongue, others as a Tai (or Thai) language (see
), and still others as a language unrelated to any other known tongue.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0861219.html   (141 words)

  
 SUB Göttingen - South and Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures, mainly Indology
Ghent University: Department of Languages and Cultures of South And East Asia
Tokyo University: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
Dept. of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia and the Islands
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de /ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindole.htm   (1262 words)

  
 Reference Guide for Buddhist Studies
The CD-ROM version provides an excellent search engine with many useful tools, such as: automatically providing alternative glyphs for common East Asian Buddhist words, comparing variant glyphs and textual variants with the Taishō canon, as well as dictionaries of Chinese glyphs and of Buddhist vocabulary.
Comprehensive study of this important reference tool for East Asian Buddhist textual criticism.
The definitive source for all areas of East Asian Buddhist studies.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/ealc/refguide/refguide.htm   (4072 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Libraries -- Specific Subjects
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Indexes scholarship on English and American Literature, folklore, language and linguistics, and dramatic arts.
University of Minnesota, Institute of Linguistics & Asian & Slavic Languages & Lit...
www.lib.umn.edu /site/rqs.phtml?subject_id=51   (465 words)

  
 UF Department of African and Asian Languages and Literature
UF Department of African and Asian Languages and Literature
I am interested in language in all of its varieties, representations, and
Current areas of research are origins of linguistic
www.aall.ufl.edu /faculty/bios/wehmeyer3.html   (81 words)

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