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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Camunic language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Camunic is an extinct language once spoken by the Camunni tribe that dwelt in the Val Camonica, Brescia, Italy.
The language is of unknown classification, though the Etruscan and Rhaetic languages are thought to be related.
Camunic writing is found mainly on rocks in a variety of the Old Italic alphabet.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Camunic-language   (195 words)

  
  Camunic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Camunic is an extinct language once spoken by the Camunni tribe that dwelt in the Val Camonica, Brescia, Italy.
The language is of unknown classification, though the Etruscan and Rhaetic languages are thought to be related to it.
Camunic writing is found mainly on rocks in a variety of the Old Italic alphabet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camunic_Language   (114 words)

  
 Etruscan Language
A third language, Camunic, sparsely recorded in NW Italy and written in the Etruscan alphabet, may possibly also have been related, but the evidence is too sparse to allow any safe conclusions.
The language continued to be used in a religious context until late antiquity; the final record of such use relates to the invasion of Rome by Alaric, chief of the Visigoths, in 410 CE,(1) when Etruscan priests were summoned to conjure lightning against the barbarians.
The apparent isolation of the Etruscan language had already been noted by the ancients; it is confirmed by repeated and vain attempts of some to assign it to one of the various linguistic groups or types of the Mediterranean and Eurasian world.
www.mysteriousetruscans.com /language.html   (1671 words)

  
 Language Isolate Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Language isolates may be seen as a special case of unclassified languages, being languages which remain unclassified even after extensive efforts.
Neither should isolates be confused with isolating languages, languages in which morphemes generally exist in the form of full-fledged words, as opposed to synthetic languages.
Some linguists have claimed similarities with various languages of the Caucasus, especially because of their ergative case system, but such resemblances are superficial, as a quarter of the world's languages are ergative.
216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Language_isolate   (1095 words)

  
 Etruscan language - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Etruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region ofEtruria (current Tuscany) and in what isnow Lombardy (where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls), in Italy.
Neither language was ever written, and suggestive echoes in Romanplacenames (see toponymy) and tribal designations have not been very fruitfulyet.
The only related language is a language once spoken on the island of Lemnos, beforethe Athenian invasion (6th century BC), where a stone tablet writtenwith a script related to Etruscan was found.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Etruscan_language   (1238 words)

  
 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.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html   (462 words)

  
 ancientlanguages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The language of diplomacy and culture from the 3rd Millennium BC to the early 1st Millennium.
An ancient language of Iran, and the language of the Median Empire.
A language of the coast of the Netherlands, and the North Sea coast of Germany.
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 Etruscan language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Etruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region of Etruria (current Tuscany in Italy).
Due to its isolation, no significant certain translations from Etruscan into modern languages have been produced yet, however we can be fairly certain of how the language was pronounced as the Etruscan speakers wrote using a variant of the Greek alphabet.
Etruscans on the Web: Language links here are divided between 'Mainstream' with the professional linguists, and 'Alternative,' where you can read up on connections between Etruscan and Ukrainian, Turkish or Slovenian.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/e/et/etruscan_language.html   (433 words)

  
 Etruscan alphabet and language
The Etruscan language was spoken by the Etruscans in Etruria (Tuscany and Umbria) until about the 1st century AD, after which it continued to be studied by priests and scholars.
The language was used in religious ceremonies until the early 5th century.
Etruscan is related to Raetic, a language once spoken in the Alps, and also to Lemnian, once spoken on the island of Lemnos.
www.omniglot.com /writing/etruscan.htm   (354 words)

  
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The language written is the local dialect, but the script is an ideographic script.
The language(s) is not Indo-European, and is not understood.]]} {north-iberian, description, [[This script seems to have been derived from the South Iberian script, although this is not known for certain.
www.ontopia.net /omnigator/docs/i18n.ltm   (931 words)

  
 Wikipedia: List of languages
Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans.
Only some major languages are listed here, see List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/list_of_languages.html   (112 words)

  
 Info Facts - Languages of the world - Language > Welcome
A language is a system of arbitary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols which communicate thoughts or feelings.
Human spoken and written languages can be described as a system of symbols (sometimes known as lexemes) and the grammars (rules) by which the symbols are manipulated.
There is no defined line between a language and a dialect, but Max Weinreich is credited as saying that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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