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Topic: Choco languages


  
  Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
There has been very little historical linguistic research on sign languages, and few attempts to determine genetic relationships between sign languages, other than simple comparison of lexical data and some discussion about whether certain sign languages are dialects of a language or languages of a family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_families_and_languages   (1004 words)

  
 Language families and languages - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Most languages are known to belong to language families ("families" hereforth).
Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic.
open-encyclopedia.com /Language_families_and_languages   (501 words)

  
 Choco languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama.
They are classified by Joseph Greenberg as Nuclear Paezan languages - most closely related to the Paezan and Barbacoan families - while others, seeing his conclusions as over-hasty, prefer to consider them an isolated group.
"Choco I and Choco II ", IJAL 29.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choco_languages   (134 words)

  
 Language families and languages Article, Languagefamiliesandlanguages Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Most languages are known to belong to language families (calledsimply "families" for the rest of this article).
Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of alanguage family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
Thus, provincial dialects of Latin("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin(if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic.
www.anoca.org /america/south/language_families_and_languages.html   (467 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sign language interpreters provided in court, for college students, at important public events, in job training, at social services programs, in mental health service programs, some instruction for parents of deaf children, many sign language classes for hearing people.
The sign language used in the classroom and that used by adults outside is the same.
Mountains.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)") ;; DUTCH-BASED CREOLE LANGUAGES (4 Languages) (subclass DutchBasedCreoleLanguage CreoleLanguage) (documentation ArabicBasedCreoleLanguage "A &%DutchBasedCreoleLanguage is a &%CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the &%DutchLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)") (instance BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage DutchBasedCreoleLanguage) (documentation BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage "The &%BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage is a &%DutchBasedCreoleLanguage of &%Guyana.
cvs.sourceforge.net /viewcvs.py/*checkout*/sigmakee/KBs/People.kif?rev=1.3   (12360 words)

  
 Native American languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Native American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by Native Americans from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America.
The Native American languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language isolates.
The language or languages spoken by these early migrants, and the process by which the current diversity of Native American languages emerged, are a matter of speculation.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Native-American-languages.htm   (1373 words)

  
 The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
ALL Language Project begins with NSDL grant: Rosetta recently received a $1,000,000 grant from the National Science Digital Library program at the National Science Foundation.
We are currently at 1,300 of 7,000 languages and know of sources to get us to around 4,000.
A Rosetta Language Disk is on board the Feb. 26th 02004 ESA Rosetta Mission Launch.
www.rosettaproject.org /live/search/languagesearch   (187 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES (114 Languages) (subclass DeafSignLanguage ManualHumanLanguage) (documentation DeafSignLanguage "A &%DeafSignLanguage is a &%ManualHumanLanguage primarily intended for communication between a deaf individual and a hearing individual or between deaf individuals.") (instance AdamorobeSignLanguage DeafSignLanguage) (documentation AdamorobeSignLanguage "&%AdamorobeSignLanguage is a &%DeafSignLanguage of &%Ghana.
Bible portions 1983-1985.") ;; ASSAMESE-BASED CREOLE LANGUAGES (1 Language) (subclass AssameseBasedCreoleLanguage CreoleLanguage) (documentation AssameseBasedCreoleLanguage "An &%AssameseBasedCreoleLanguage is a &%CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the &%AssameseLanguage.") (instance NagaPidginLanguage AssameseBasedCreoleLanguage) (documentation NagaPidginLanguage "The &%NagaPidginLanguage is an &%AssameseBasedCreoleLanguage of &%India.
Mountains.") ;; DUTCH-BASED CREOLE LANGUAGES (4 Languages) (subclass DutchBasedCreoleLanguage CreoleLanguage) (documentation ArabicBasedCreoleLanguage "A &%DutchBasedCreoleLanguage is a &%CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the &%DutchLanguage.") (instance BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage DutchBasedCreoleLanguage) (documentation BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage "The &%BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage is a &%DutchBasedCreoleLanguage of &%Guyana.
cvs.sourceforge.net /viewcvs.py/*checkout*/sigmakee/KBs/People.kif?rev=1.2   (12614 words)

  
 Chocolate Messiah, "Settlers Leave Gaza"
Supporters cheer under posters during a campaign rally for Chocoist presidential candidate Mahmoud Al-Choqsa, or Choco as he is known as in the West Bank town of Bir Nabala, January 7, 2005.
Boys hold the symbols of India's three major religions, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism, and a cardboard cut out of Choco, leader of the Chocoists, a Universalist cult gaining popularity across the globe, May 29, 2002, at a rally for peace in the country's western-most provence.
Choco has been compared to Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mahatma Ghandi for his non-violent conflict resolution, but unlike Ghandi who advocated hunger srtikes, Choco advises his followers to partake in indulgent celebrations involving consumption of Chocolate in vast quantities.
www.angelfire.com /art/choco   (890 words)

  
 El Choco National Park - DR1 Forums
I explored the El Choco area years ago and am thrilled to know it's been made into a national park.
Just past the Tigermart on the right is a sign for the underground Cuavas del Choco or something like that.
They give guided tours in several languages, and may give tours into the park as well, I have never checked.
www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?t=30334   (937 words)

  
 Constraints Archive - Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Choco is covered by a public licence supporting a liberal use for means of research as well as commercial applications.
It is a strongly typed language, the type system being based on many-sorted logic with parametric polymorphism.
Oz is a concurrent constraint programming language designed for applications that require complex symbolic computations, organization into multiple agents, and soft real-time control.
4c.ucc.ie /web/archive/solver.jsp   (1527 words)

  
 Language Groups
Human languages are the key to understanding cultures and how humans have responded to their respective environments.
There were over 700 languages on the American continent from the Arctic in the North to Tierra del Fuego in the South.
Recent studies have shown that language affiliation is reflected in genetic affiliation being constructed in the genome project.
daphne.palomar.edu /ais100/language_groups.htm   (245 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Colombia
Of those, 79 are living languages and 19 are extinct.
There is a committee on the national sign language, and an organization for sign language teachers.
Ethnic differences are important because of the system of exogamy, and are identified by first language of father.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Colo.html   (2863 words)

  
 BLACKS ATTACKED IN COLOMBIA: RACISM IN LATIN AMERI
Choco was one of the primary areas of Portugese and Spanish slave-raiding before Columbus' official trip to the Americas.
The attack on the Blacks of Choco, Colombia, a region with remnants of people of African slave origins as well as Africans who lived in the region for thousands of years before European colonialism in the area, is really an attack on Black people all around the world.
Languages like Spanish, Portugese, English, French and Dutch were the languages the slave-owning elite of Europe imposed on Blacks in the Americas, but who are we as African people.
www.raceandhistory.com /cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/615   (1453 words)

  
 S T O R I E S
But there is dispute about this - since the Nahuatl language appears not to contain that exact word.
'Choco,' (Mayan for 'hot') slid into use to replace the sound 'caca,' (Nahuatl for 'bitter').
The result was a hybrid of two languages - choco-latl which was socially acceptable when spoken in Spanish, and became the basis for one of the best-known international words.
home.tiscali.cz:8080 /eva.eva/s_t_o_r_i_e_s.htm   (1105 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Colombia
Of those, 80 are living languages and 21 are extinct.
The Guahiban languages may not be within Arawakan.
Dialects: In some traditional ceremonies they use a ritual language which is mostly unintelligible even to those who have learned it.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Colombia   (1522 words)

  
 Faculty Lecture Series - Armin Schwegler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is a non-native, simplified speech and is considered a second language.
The languages spoken in Palenque today are Spanish and Palenquero, also known as "lengua".
The language, known as "habla bantu" or "palo monte", is used in religious practices, somewhat akin to "Voodoo" (wild stuff!).
spirit.dos.uci.edu /sdp/lecture-armin.htm   (911 words)

  
 choco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(Redirected from Choco) Chocó is a department of Colombia.
Double Choco Latte is a GNU Enterprise package that provides basic project management capabilities, time...
Choco is a small collection of macros for SnipSnap...
seekimage.com /choco.php   (330 words)

  
 GulfTech Research And Development
Double Choco Latte is a GNU Enterprise package that provides basic project management capabilities, time tracking on tasks, call tracking, email notifications, online documents, statistical reports, a report engine, and more features are either working or being developed/planned.
Double Choco Latte 0.9.4.3 and earlier are prone to php code execution vulnerabilities which allows an attacker to run php code with privileges of the webserver.
Double Choco Latte is vulnerable to a remote code execution issue that is the result of unsafe eval() calls.
www.gulftech.org /?node=research&article_id=00066-04082005   (405 words)

  
 Language families and languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Proto-Indo-European (not known from written records, since it was spoken before the invention of writing).
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as
Caucasian languages (generally thought to be two separate families, North Caucasian and
www.vacilando.net /index.php?cache=aHR0cDovL2VuLndpa2lwZWRpYS5vcmcvd2lraS9MYW5ndWFnZV9mYW1pbGllc19hbmRfbGFuZ3VhZ2Vz   (483 words)

  
 Wikiversity:School of Linguistics - Wikibooks
The study of human language(s) by scientific method(s) in the spoken, written and preconscious form.
Sub Departments Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
In the scientific practice of linguistics, several distinct areas of study are recognized, each representing a different aspect or level of abstraction.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikiversity:School_of_Linguistics   (327 words)

  
 [No title]
But many of Choco's inhabitants appear to feel the killings in Bojaya are just another consequence of a long history of state neglect of this region of 500,000 people, the majority of whom are descendants of African slaves.
Colombia: violence and deforestation in the Choco region 11/1/99 World Rain Forest: "The Pacific Region of the country, known for its abundance of natural resources and cultural richness, as well as for the constant process of depredation that it has suffered since colonial times (see WRM Bulletin 27) is victim of this type of activities.
The Forcibly Displaced Afro-Colombian Communities of the Cacarica Basin of the Choco, provisionally settled in Turbo, Bocas del Atrato and Bahia Cupica have denounced the illegal and indiscriminate deforestation of their lands by the YIREH cooperative.
afrocubaweb.com /news/colombia/afrocolombia.htm   (5741 words)

  
 Search Results for Choco - Encyclopædia Britannica
Cariban languages, numbering approximately 50, were spoken chiefly north of the Amazon but had outposts as far as the Mato Grosso in Brazil.
Macro-Chibchan languages, which form the linguistic bridge between South and Central America, are spoken from Nicaragua to Ecuador.
In the 16th century, when the Spaniards came to the isthmus, it was occupied by Kuna (Cuna), Guaymí, Chocó, and other American Indian groups.
www.britannica.com /search?miid=1129760&query=Choco   (310 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: Constraint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Constraint-based Languages and Environments for Building Interactive Systems - Page about Alan Borning, a leading researcher in the field.
DeltaBlue Code Archive - For incremental dataflow constraint solver, implemented in varied languages, each in a subdirectory named after the language: C DEC, C SUN4; Common Lisp, Smalltalk.
GUIdeLA: Constraint Language and System for Constructing Graphical User Interfaces - Building a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) with languages like C++ or Java is difficult and time-consuming, because such languages demand specifying many details about the geometric data of layout, the sequence in which items are displayed, the sequence in which events are handled.
dmoz.org /Computers/Programming/Languages/Constraint   (1371 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Panama
[See also SIL publications on the languages of Panama.]
The number of languages listed for Panama is 14.
Dialects: Related languages in order of closeness: Emberá-Catío, Emberá-Baudó, Emberá-Tadó, Epena, Emberá-Chamí, and Wounmeu.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Panama   (227 words)

  
 Panama (from South American Indian) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
group of languages that once covered and today still partially cover all of South America, the Antilles, and Central America to the south of a line from the Gulf of Honduras to the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica.
Estimates of the number of speakers in that area in pre-Columbian times vary from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000.
group of languages spoken in an area of the aboriginal New World that includes central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, parts of Honduras and Nicaragua, and part of northwest Mexico.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-57776?tocId=57776   (845 words)

  
 List of Languages
To proceed with your search, select a language.
You may also specify the type of material and/or the level of instruction you are seeking.
This database is provided in collaboration with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /lmd/cals.htm   (77 words)

  
 WTAworld.com - Canada's PM says Bush is not 'a moron'
Actually disposable, I have to beg to differ - Jean is proficient in two languages, whereas Bush will someday be proficient in one.
Jean is rumoured to speak two languages, although native speakers of both are suspicious.
Unfortunately for the PM's top spokesman, she had her private conversation in the press room where it was overheard by reporters.
www.wtaworld.com /showthread.php?t=46166   (1013 words)

  
 Activities
This activity is also for beginning ESL students and provides students with the opportunity to learn that many languages have a variation of the same name.
Use a transparency of 30 to 50 names from many languages with the language of origin in parentheses.
These activities are excellent language and concept-building opportunities for ESL students of different levels of proficiency.
ksumail.kennesaw.edu /~djohnson/activities2003summer.html   (12594 words)

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