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 Ethnologue: Chad
It was the language of the ancient Bagirmi kingdom.
Language use is vigorous even though the majority use Shuwa Arabic as second language.
Distinct from the Muskum language in Mouskoun village.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Chad.html   (5929 words)

  
 The Congo Expedition: Regions, Languages and Tribes
In a 1977 study of the languages of Africa by David Dalby this region is referred to as part of a fragmentation zone, because of the interpenetration of many language groups.
The Bantu-speaking peoples include the Bua in the west, the Budu and Bali in the south, the Angba (Mongelima) in the southwest, and the Lese in the southeast.
The problem is compounded in northeastern Congo by the fact that linguistic, cultural, and political boundaries, let alone the later boundaries imposed by colonial authorities, are not congruent.
diglib1.amnh.org /articles/anthro/excerpt4.html   (421 words)

  
 Bibliographic Standards:UKMARC Manual
Where one spoken language is written in two different sets of characters, both languages have been included in the list but only one code has been assigned.
An ancient language form that does not have a unique code will be assigned the code for the major language group to which it belongs instead of the code for the modern form.
Language codes are arranged in two alphabetical sequences, by language and by language code.
www.bl.uk /services/bibliographic/marc/marcappbb.html   (381 words)

  
 The Hail Mary in Various Languages
Utshiokwe is a language from the Belgian Congo.
Xosa is a language from the Capa Colony of Africa.
Luo is one of the languages spoken in Kenya.
campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm3.html   (1990 words)

  
 Boston University Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The study of the classical languages at BUA ties together many strands of our curriculum.There is no better way to appreciate a culture than to learn its language; therefore, students at BUA come into contact with the ancients most intimately by learning ancient Greek or Latin.
Furthermore, the study of the classical languages fosters an appreciation of detail that will help students in their other courses, and it develops a vocabulary base that will help them in future work, whether in the humanities or sciences.
Selection of a language may be limited by a student’s Academy or University schedule.
www.buacademy.org /academics/departments.html   (4530 words)

  
 E T H N O P O E T I C S :: Endangered Languages. Endangered Poetries
The disappearance of languages and the disappearance of poetries are part of the same phenomenon the darker side, in their endangerment, of the struggle to achieve a global sense of cultural diversity.
The following account and the partial list of the world's languages that follows might be pondered in relation to Bernard Heidsieck's great sound poem, Vaduz [presented elsewhere on Ubuweb], in which the names of countries and cultures form a series of concentric circles with the capital of Lichtenstein at their center.
Researchers are fighting against time to save decades of data on the world's endangered languages from ending on the digital scrap heap.
www.ubu.com /ethno/discourses/rothenberg_endangered.html   (666 words)

  
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Overview Damshian Bua is a land that although not highly populated is full of successful commerce.
Its abundance in the Bua makes it a inexpensive treasure as its uses are as plentiful as its abundance.
Half-elves find the Bua to be a suitable home due to its tolerant outlook, but as with anywhere, purebred elves tend to look down upon their half-brethren and give them a "hard time".
home.everestkc.net /dragonshope/DamshaBua.htm   (1733 words)

  
 pronouns and numerals in Ema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Since Spring 2004, I am documenting my language in UH Language Documentation Project and Ryoko Hattori has been working with me. In Spring 2004, I presented the 300 Ema basic vocabulary of the Swadesh wordlist for Austronesian languages.
Last semester, Ryoko and I approached the linguistics department to have my language to be documented in Field Method Class, a class to train graduate students for language documentation skill through in class data elicitation from a native speaker of underdocumented language.
I was successfully chosen to be a language consultant to the class.
www.ling.hawaii.edu /~uhdoc/ema/html/emaindex.html   (450 words)

  
 Samuel Lipoff
I was a member of the class of 2000 whose twenty-one members comprise the fourth graduating class to have enrolled for all four years of high school.
Although BUA is a private school, it is unlike most private schools in that it does not make money.
I'd be happy to answer and questions about BUA that you might have, and provide more detail about my perspective concerning this really unique school, whether you're an interested student, or the partent of one.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~lipoff/academics/buacademy.html   (772 words)

  
 Laal language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Laal language is a still-unclassified language spoken by 749 people (as of 2000) in three villages in the Moyen-Chari prefecture of Chad on opposite banks of the Chari River, called Gori (lá), Damtar (ɓual), and Mailao.
It may be a language isolate, in which case it would represent an isolated survival of an earlier language group of central Africa.
It is sometimes grouped with one of those two language families, and sometimes seen as a language isolate.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Laal_language   (1735 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Chad
Of those, 132 are living languages and 2 are extinct.
A pidginized variety of this, commonly called 'Bongor Arabic', is spoken as a second language by many people in the Mayo-Kebbi and other parts of south Chad.
The Laka language is considered by some to be a dialect of Ngambay.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Chad   (4432 words)

  
 Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0
The essential role of the markup language is to provide authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-capable platforms.
The essential role of the markup language is to give authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech output such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-capable platforms.
A Conforming User Agent is a Conforming Speech Synthesis Markup Language Processor that is capable of accepting an SSML document as input and producing a spoken output by using the information contained in the markup to render the document as intended by the author.
www.w3.org /TR/speech-synthesis   (11479 words)

  
 The Daltaí Boards: Salutation to close a letter
Of course they will sometimes use words from one language speaking in the other if they happen not to know the word they want in the language they are speaking.
I find there are ideas that I can express better in one or other of the languages, but the principal strength from my point of view is that speaking a range of languages exposes me to a range of ideas.
This grammatical thing is tricky no matter what language!) However, I did find that since they did most of their writing in french, I often had to correct their english grammar as they would frequently frame their sentences in english "backwards".
www.daltai.com /discus/messages/12465/12340.html?1048998044   (856 words)

  
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There is another part of the standard ISO 639-1 that consists of two-letter codes for languages.
Future development of language codes will be based on the name in the native tounge, unless another language code is requested by the country or contries using the language.
ISO 3166 country codes may be used together with a language code to denote the area where the term, or language is used.
anubis.dkuug.dk /i18n/iso-639-2.txt   (246 words)

  
 Web resources for Adamawa languages
There are some 40-60 Adamawa languages, most of which are very poorly documented.
A practical study of the orthography of compound words in the Karang language (PDF).
A sociolinguistic survey of the Mambay language of Chad and Cameroon (PDF).
goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/adamawa.html   (273 words)

  
 Published subjects for languages in ISO 639   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The identifiers are URIs based on the bibliographic three-letter codes in ISO 639 ("Codes for the representation of names of languages").
An alpha-2 code is a two-letter code used to identify a language in ISO 639.
The third column specifies the subject identifier for each language or language group, based on the terminology code.
psi.oasis-open.org /iso/639   (392 words)

  
 Debra Aarons home page
Undefended Accused and the Language of the Magistrates' Court.
Workshop on Sign Language Structure, arranged by the Deaf Community of Cape Town, The Bastion, Cape Town (with P. Akach), October 1996.
B.A., 1978, Honours in English Language and Literature, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (January - December, 1977).
www.bu.edu /asllrp/debbie.html   (1778 words)

  
 The Mary Page
Shona is one of the main languages spoken in Zimbabwe.
Tetum is the official language (with Portuguese) of the Republic of East Timor, a 97% Catholic country with a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
Xosa is a language from the Cape Province in South Africa.
campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm03.html   (2141 words)

  
 Published subjects for languages (based on ISO 639)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is a set of published subjects for languages based on the ISO 639 codes for languages, published and maintained by the OASIS GeoLang TC.
The concept of 'language' included in this published subject set is that of the class implicitly defined by ISO 639-2 as the set of entities to which the ISO 639 Maintenance Agency might assign a language code.
The concept of 'language group' included in this published subject set is that of the class implicitly defined by ISO 639-2 as the set of entities to which the ISO 639 Maintenance Agency might assign a collective language code.
psi.oasis-open.org /geolang/iso639   (325 words)

  
 Heiltsuk Words
Though we hope to add a set of 100 common words for each language eventually, complete with phonetic lettering and possibly even audio, that will have to wait until we get a grant of some kind.
All the nouns are singular and all the verbs are 3rd person singular ("he or she sings") because many Native American languages don't have a separate infinitive ("to sing") the way English and French do.
If you would like to know a Heiltsuk word that is not currently on our page, you can take part in our American Indian translations fundraiser or visit our main Heiltsuk language site for more free resources.
www.native-languages.org /heiltsuk_words.htm   (193 words)

  
 Bua languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bua language (7,708 speakers in 1993), north of the Chari River around Korbol and Gabil (after which the group was named); mutually comprehensible with Fanian.
Tucker and M. Bryan, The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa, Handbook of African Languages, part III, Oxford University Press for International African Institute, 1956.
I, Frank Cass and Co:London 1912 (1st ed.)/1968 (2nd ed.) Gives Barth's unpublished vocabulary of Bua on pp.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bua_languages   (888 words)

  
 APPENDIX A:_LANGUAGE CODES
An ancient or old language form that does not have a unique code will be assigned the code for the major language group to which it belongs instead of the code for the modern form.
In the case of the modern and the older forms of some languages, the initial letters of each part of the language name were used to form the code.
If, as a result of such additions, there are codes both for individual languages and for the language group, the agency should indicate the options chosen in its Documentation to Accompany Exchange Tapes.
www.ifla.org /VI/3/p1996-1/appx_a.htm   (3278 words)

  
 Major in CLC / German
It includes accounting (the language of business), economics (the underlying theory beneath business study), finance (the major tool for evaluating business decisions), and international business operations, a course which introduces students to the interaction of business and international matters.
The language foundation courses will enable you to reach an intermediate level of proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in German.
These courses bring together the separate strands developed in the business and language foundation courses.
spider.georgetowncollege.edu /languages/German/clcmajor.htm   (519 words)

  
 www.richard-quinn.com
As you know, sometimes it is necessary to store a table of the names and codes of all the possible languages spoken or used in the world today.
Here it is, you can copy and paste this script into SQL Query Analyzer, choose the database you want to have the table created in, and hit run.
Warning, if you already have a table named "languages" it will be trashed.
www.richard-quinn.com /quinn-pages/iso_langauges_sql_server.html   (446 words)

  
 [No title]
Classes last 15 weeks and begin at very reasonable rates.
Here is an email URL to serve BUA's students & faculty from anywhere in the world in 17 languages.
BUA Students & Alumnists Register For Free International Email:
www.geocities.com /dblhbaseball/BUA.html   (169 words)

  
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This is a extract of ISO/DIS 639-2 Draft International Standard, titled "Code for the representation of names of languages, Part 2: Alpha-3 code" with a termination of the vote 1996-10-23.
Typed in by Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk 1996-12-03 There are two sets of alpha-3 language codes, one for terminology use (ISO 639-2/T) and one for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B).
All languages with two-letter codes also have tree-letter codes.
anubis.dkuug.dk /i18n/iso-639-2-dis.txt   (216 words)

  
 CLC
The Commerce, Language, and Culture major is a joint venture of the Business Department and Foreign Language Department.
Note 1: The exact timing of the language classes depends on how proficient the student is when she/he begins language study at Georgetown College.
Copyright © 2000-2006 Material on these pages should not be used in any other format without permission.
spider.georgetowncollege.edu /bua/HandBook/hbclc.htm   (326 words)

  
 Top20Languages.com - Online Directory for Languages.
Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name.
Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.
www.top20languages.com   (1041 words)

  
 ISO 639 and ISO 639-2: The Code Lists
Note that this document provides the technical contents of ISO 639 and ISO 639-2, but is not official.
The ISO 639-2 Registration Authority provides the Official 639-2 Code List of 3-letter codes and language names.
This list states the ISO 639 Alpha-2 code elements, the ISO 639-2/T Alpha-3 code elements, the ISO 639-2/B Alpha-3 code elements, and the language names given in the standards (639 variants in parentheses).
www.evertype.com /standards/iso639/iso639-en.html   (205 words)

  
 Alphabetic Codes for the Representation of Languages Names - Languages Abbreviations, Languages identification codes
List of English and French names of Languages with ISO 639-2 Alpha-3 as well as some of the Alpha-2 codes arranged alphabetically by English name of language.
Where two codes are provided (22 languages total) the bibliographic code is given first and the terminology code is given second.
Multiple codes for the same language are to be considered synonyms.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/language_code.htm   (276 words)

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