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Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, lying west of the Straits of Gibraltar. Ancient Greek dialect that was the language of ancient Athens. Its closest relative was the Ionic dialect of Euboea. www.britannicaindia.com /britannica_browse/a/a52.html   (1875 words)

African Languages - MSN Encarta Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Bambara, spoken in Mali, is the principal language in this subgroup. Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic. ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html   (1766 words)

African Languages - Printer-friendly - ninemsn Encarta Of these, the Kordofanian languages number only 31, all with small populations; they are found in a small area of the Nuba hills in southern Sudan, surrounded by languages of the Nilo-Saharan family and by Arabic. North of the Bantu language area, in the north of the Republic of the Congo and adjacent territory, is a branch of the Volta-Congo subfamily, the North branch. Along the Atlantic coast, from Liberia to the desert north of Dakar, are several languages of the Atlantic branch. au.encarta.msn.com /text_761565449___6/African_Languages.html   (623 words)

Wolof verbs conjugation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Wolof is a member of the West Atlantic sub-branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Common to West Atlantic languages are derivitive verbal suffixes, used in Wolof to mark tense, mode, aspect, and negative/affirmative distinctions. Despite the considerable geographic spread of Wolof speakers, the language is relatively unmarked by dialectal differences. www.verbix.com /languages/wolof.shtml   (173 words)

Language Although the Khoisan languages, spoken by some hunting and gathering or cattle-raising peoples in southern Africa, make up only a fraction of the languages of Africa, they are of special interest because of their unique use of 'click' consonants. Languages of the Niger-Kordofanian and Nilo-Saharan families, spoken by the majority of Saharan and sub-Saharan peoples, generally do not permit consonant sequences like those in such English words as struts or prints. In a tone Language, distinctions in pitch are as important in the makeup of words as are distinctions in consonants or vowels. www.ntz.info /gen/n00328.html   (1203 words)

03.11.98 - Incredible Journeys of Our Native Tongues Her research has shown that language diversity is so great in the Americas that the approximately 150 distinct Native American language families would have required at least 35,000 years to develop. Languages of the Americas share grammatical features that are rare elsewhere, which gives the hemisphere a distinctive “signature,” said Nichols. A sharp linguistic break between languages east and west of the Pacific mountain ranges leads Nichols to conclude that post-glacial migrations from Siberia created a Pacific rim linguistic population that is distinct from the rest of the American languages. www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/1998/0311/linguistics.html   (854 words)

Atlantic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia These languages are generally spoken along the Atlantic coast from Senegal to Liberia, though nomadic Fula speakers have spread eastward and are found in significant concentrations across the Sahel, from Senegal to Nigeria and Cameroon. Fula and the Wolof language of Senegal are the largest Atlantic languages with several million speakers each; other significant members include Serer and the Jola dialect cluster of Senegal and Temne in Sierra Leone. Many Atlantic languages exhibit consonant mutation, a phenomenon in which the intitial consonant of a word change depending on its morphological and/or syntactic environment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantic_languages   (574 words)

"I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell" In English and in most of the other languages of the Christian world we have two words, "Christianity" and "Christendom." Christianity is a religion, a system of belief and worship with certain ecclesiastical institutions. I know in my heart that the English language is the finest instrument the human race has ever devised to express its thoughts and feelings, but I recognize in my mind that others may feel exactly the same way about their languages, and I have no problem with that. It is surely significant that far more attention was given to Arabic, the classical and scriptural language of Islam, than to Persian and Turkish, the languages of the current rulers of the world. www.theatlantic.com /issues/2003/05/lewis.htm   (3452 words)

atlantic.html She will talk about teaching Atlantic history in both theory and practice, given the constraints of synthesizing the four continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean for a bright student population unfamiliar with many aspects of the histories contained within the Atlantic world in the early modern period. By the end of the semester her students were able to discern patterns within the Atlantic world, to assess the experiences of the different populations contained therein, and to explain important transformations within the Atlantic. Second, although the "documented" Atlantic world was initially born with European exploration and conquest in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the study of the Atlantic world is not the study of European expansion. www.mtsu.edu /~jhwillia/atlantic.html   (1989 words)

Akan language resources Southeast and south of Nafaanra and Ligbi, the Akan language Abron (or Bron, Brong) is spoken. The Akan language is one of the primary government-sponsored languages in Ghana. Escaped slaves in the interior of Suriname still use a form of this language, including the custom of naming children the day of the week that they were born e.g. www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Akan.html   (1627 words)

LINGUIST List 15.1878: Historical Linguistics: Vennemann (2003) calls the language of these toponyms Atlantic and assumes that it is the language of the seafarers who influenced the Indo-European languages of the Atlantic littoral of Northwestern Europe from c. Moreover V. overlooked that the smoke denoted by the cited root /q!-t!-r/ is not a general smoke, it is a smoke, an odour of (burning) sacrifice or a smell of alloeswood or incense. degree in the Oriental languages from the University of Pennsylvania. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/15/15-1878.html   (7722 words)

E-MELD School of Best Practice: Documentation Projects This language shift is very interesting because our preliminary research reveals that the community kept the language for centuries and did not shift to any other language. Egbokhare is a native speaker of the Emai language of southern Nigeria. It is a polysynthetic language, with as yet under-analyzed tone and stress patterns that vary by dialect. emeld.org /school/case/projects/index.html   (3743 words)

Languages. The World Factbook. 2003 Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) spoken by 35% of the population French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north) English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic www.bartleby.com /151/fields/37.html   (1758 words)

Atlantic languages spoken in Nigeria The Atlantic languages are, as their name suggests, spoken along the Atlantic coastline of West Africa from the mouth of the Senegal River as far as Liberia. The largest Atlantic languages are Fulfulde, spoken by several million people scattered over much of West-Central Africa; Wolof, with nearly two million speakers in Senegambia; the Diola cluster, with nearly 400,000 speakers in the Casamance province of Senegal; Serer, with 600,000 speakers in Senegal; and Temne, with over 600,000 speakers in Sierra Leone (Wilson 1989). The remaining languages are spoken by ethnic groups verying from 250,000 to a few hundred speakers and most of them are very little described. www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/atlantic.htm   (184 words)

Language families, groups, subgroups of languages. Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan. www.planetservices.it /english/language-family-groups.htm   (715 words)

UCL Centre for Human Communication Lesley Cavalli is a practising speech and language therapist and lecturer with a specialist interest in the areas of voice, head and neck cancer and swallowing difficulties. Shula Chiat studies language processing in normally developing children, in children with phonological disorder or specific language impairment, and in adults with acquired aphasia; psycholinguistically based therapy with children and adults who have speech/language impairments. The underlying neural basis of paediatric speech and language impairment in populations with developmental and acquired neurological impairment. www.chc.ucl.ac.uk /people/?q=acad   (2775 words)

SILEBR 2003/001 — Review of “An introduction to pidgins and creoles”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Studies of the role that language universals play in pidginization and creolization have focused attention on the nature of universals and thus contributed to grammatical theory. One of the features that is typical of Creole languages is the use of free or unbound morphemes for the tense, mode, and aspect characteristics of the verbal system as well as other grammatical markers. It would be very useful for Creole linguists and those who study language contact phenomena and I consider it an important contribution to the study of Creole languages. www.sil.org:8090 /silebr/2003/silebr2003-001   (946 words)

Atlantic-Congo languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the classification of African languages, Atlantic-Congo is an early branch of the Niger-Congo phylum. Atlantic-Congo comprises the Atlantic languages and all other Niger-Congo branches except Mande and Kordofanian, which are believed to have split off even earlier than Atlantic. The biggest subordinate branch (in terms of number of languages) is Volta-Congo; the other branches of Atlantic-Congo are Dogon and Ijoid. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantic-Congo_languages   (93 words)

UCLA Wolof Home page More than 20 African languages are reported in Terminologies Nouvelles, though Ethnologue includes dialects and non-African languages to arrive at the number of 36 for the languages spoken by groups living within Senegal's boundaries (Mbodj 1994; Ethnologue 1996). Additionally, Wolof and five other prominent African languages have been made "national languages", a status which allows them to be used in schools where the majority of students speak one of these six as a native language (Malherbe 1989). The North Atlantic sub-group to which Wolof belongs is home to some of the most exentsive and elaborate noun class systems in natural languages, including those of Wolof's sister languages, Fula and Seereer-Siin. www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/aflang/Wolof   (756 words)

LINGUIST List 2.255: The Survival of Immigrant Languages In any case as far as the Atlantic creole languages are concerned the onle form in which African languages have survived is as ritual languages. Another sense in which African languages have survived in some sense is found in those cases in which significant numbers of African loanwords have survived in Creole languages, indicating that these languages must have been spoken in their new homelands by at least several generations of slaves. WRT "immigrant groups which have maintained their original languages for as much as three or four generations" (Elise Emerson Morse-Gagne), there are plenty of them, and not limited to Amish communities (Margaret Fleck's response, 2.252). www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/2/2-255.html   (1003 words)

The Gambia Totally surrounded by Senegal except for its Atlantic coast, the country occupies the lower and central Gambia River valley and is one of Africa's smallest nations. North and south of this riverine strip are higher flats called banto faros, a Mandingo phrase meaning 'beyond the swamp.' Near the Atlantic the flats are often flooded with salt water, rendering them unsuitable for agriculture. The dominant Mandingo agriculturalists (462,000) and the Seranuleh traders (99,000) speak West Atlantic languages; Mande-speakers include the pastoralist Foula (198,000) as well as the Wolof (176,000) and Jola (110,000) cultivators. www.bansanghospitalappeal.com /bansang/id75.htm   (917 words)

Ethnologue report for Senegal The number of languages listed for Senegal is 36. Southwest Senegal along the coast, south of Diouloulou, and surrounding the town of Kafountine. Bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Kalisseye Inlet, on the east by the Diouloulou Marigot Estuary, and on the north by the Senegal-Gambia border. www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Senegal   (1605 words)

Scuba Diving in Canary Islands We are situated next to Los Cristianos and Las Americas transport is free of charge to our center and it takes 5 minutes. Languages available are, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, English, Swedish. All materials and exams are in the language of your choice..... www.atlantic-divers.com /languages.htm   (44 words)

MAPLS in conjunction with NJPLS at Maryland Yakker's parsers are implemented in a safe language, to prevent buffer overflows, and they have a simple construction, so they can be safely adapted to languages such as C. Using Yakker, I will demonstrate how to build a validating IMAP proxy from RFC 3501 and less than a dozen IMAP-specific lines of code. The analysis is context-sensitive, implemented using context free language reachability. Flow-effect types are a novel form of type that combine the notion of temporal ordering inherent in type effect systems, with subtype constraint systems which focus on unordered data-flow. www.cs.umd.edu /projects/PL/mapls2005.html   (969 words)

Web resources for Atlantic languages The Atlantic languages are generally divided into three groupings (cfr Wilson 1989): On the theoretical status of base and reduplicant in Northern Atlantic (PDF). African language literature as a weapon against African language marginalization (PDF). goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/atlantic.html   (768 words)

Languages by Countries :: Official Languages of the Americas and the Caribbean Languages by Countries :: Official Languages of the Americas and the Caribbean ___ Official and Spoken Languages of the Countries of the Americas and the Caribbean. The Languages of the Americas and the Caribbean page was last modified on: Wednesday, 06-Dec-2006 20:52:52 CET www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/american_languages.htm   (211 words)

Web resources for Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages: a classification and description of Africa's largest language family. On the manifestation of stress in African languages (PDF). Noun class, gender, and the lexicon-syntax-morphology interfaces: a comparative study of Niger-Congo and Romance languages (PDF). goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nigercongo.html   (299 words)

Custom Application Development - Raleigh NC Atlantic BT offers programming services in most major web technologies and platforms. If you're not sure which technology is the best for your application, give us a call and we can make a suggestion based on your requirements. Copyright © 1998 - 2007 Atlantic Business Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. www.atlanticbt.com /programming/custom_app.asp   (84 words)

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