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  Chol language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chol is a Maya language used by Chol ethnic group in Mexico especially Chiapas.
It is derived from the Classic Maya language.
It is closely related to the Chorti language, spoken by people of eastern Guatemala.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chol_language   (82 words)

  
 Native American Languages 4
Chol was the main language during the Classic period of Maya civilization, from about AD 300 to 900.
It includes Nahuatl, the language of the ancient civilizations of the Toltecs, which lasted from the 10th to 13th centuries, and the Aztecs, which lasted from the 14th to 16th centuries, and their modern descendents.
Quechua was the language of the ancient Inca civilization, which flourished from the mid-1400s to the mid-1500s.
www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/lang4.htm   (977 words)

  
 Chol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chol is a Maya ethnic group of northern Chiapas in southeastern Mexico.
According to the Mexico 2000 Census, there were 140,806 speakers of Chol in Chiapas.
This page was last modified 07:16, 21 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chol   (62 words)

  
 Mesoamerica Online
Prominent languages such as English or Spanish, he says, are "more economically effective for their users." Parents are more likely to want their children to speak Spanish instead of a local dialect, for example, because it will help them advance later in life.
The language plays a special role in the study of hieroglyphics because it is almost directly descended from Classic Maya, the language on the inscriptions.
What Hopkins observed in the stories of Chol speakers demonstrated that the pattern was, in fact, a five-thousand-year-old Maya narrative style, passed down for generations in the Chol language.
www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2005-09/mesoamerica.html   (972 words)

  
 LatinoLA - Comunidad - News & Information About Your Community
While Yucatec is the dominant language spoken in northern Guatemala, Belize and the Mexican states of the Yucatán Peninsula (Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán), the Western Maya language group is the dominant tongue in Chiapas.
The Tzeltal language is concentrated in twenty of Chiapas’ 111 municipios.
The Chol language, with 140,806 speakers five years of age and older in the 2000 census, is spoken by 17.39% of Chiapas’ total indigenous population and is the third most common native language in that state.
www.latinola.com /story.php?story=2316   (3362 words)

  
 The Kurdish People: an Analysis by language, geography, religion and ethnicity
Each language tends to borrow terms from the dominant language in their geopolitical sphere, thus Kurmanji in Turkey has borrowed more from Turkish, while Sorani speakers in Iran and Hawrami speakers have borrowed from Persian, while Sorani speakers in Iraq tend to borrow Arabic terms.
The respective speech forms classified by SIL as dialects of the various languages, however, remain mutually intelligible among themselves, while the broader languages are characterized as not mutually intelligible.
Language will be a primary identifying factor among the Kurdish people, and thus a primary factor in considering communication strategy within the community.
endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/articles/kurds.html   (2455 words)

  
 Chol --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Chol language is closely related to Chontal, spoken by neighbouring people to the north, and to Chortí, spoken by people of eastern Guatemala.
Although little is known of Chol culture at the time of the Spanish Conquest (early 16th century), Mayan linguists consider it highly probable that the language of the...
They are linguistically closely related to the Chol, to the south, and to the Chortí, of eastern Guatemala.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9082302   (456 words)

  
 Data Sources Listed by Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Each entry concludes with a) a list of the Mayan languages from which data has been excerpted, and b) the exact format of the date under which the language material is entered in the Comparative Vocabulary.
Where data has been excerpted from a facsimile or other form of reproduction, rather than from the original document, this is indicated by means of a slash (/) separating the date of the original from the date of the copy.
Though he had not yet worked out his Linguistic Survey forms, which he introduced in 1935 for the purpose of regularizing vocabulary sampling, nor adopted the IPA transcription system (this, too, he did in 1935), the data is sensitively recorded by an excellent linguist.
maya.hum.sdu.dk /mayabiblioauth.html   (8558 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Maya language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although the Spanish language (and in Belize the English language) is the official language of the area today, dialects of Maya are still spoken as a primary or secondary language by over 3 million Maya people in the region today.
The group is sometimes known as the Mayance languages, a coinage that reflects the belief that the current Maya languages bear the same relation to the speech of the classical Maya civilization as the Romance languages have to the speech of the Roman civilisation.
The Huastec language, spoken in east-central Mexico, is part of the Mayan language family, although it is distant both linguistically and geographically from the rest of the language family.
www.ipedia.com /maya_language.html   (462 words)

  
 Data Sources Listed by Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The purpose of this index is to show which sources have been used for each of the 31 languages included in the database.
For each language, the 4-letter language code used in the database is also supplied.
Chol 1907), one or the other of two devices has been adopted.
www.hum.ou.dk /projekter/maya/mayabibliolang.html   (398 words)

  
 Quia - Class Page - Mayan Language Module
Language influences the way we perceive and remember and, generally, it predisposes us to look at the world in a certain way.
The Mayan language was spoken in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.
After you have read and examined the information presented in the previous websites about the Maya and their culture and civilization, try to think of words that might be highly important in Mayan culture and everyday life (like the snow example for the Eskimos).
www.quia.com /pages/maya.html   (1279 words)

  
 Off-line recordings you can order - List 2 - EveryTongue.com
Xinan Guanhua, a dialect of Chinese, Mandarin language
Brazilian Portuguese, a dialect of Portuguese language
Rongmahbrogpa, a dialect of Tibetan, Amdo language
www.everytongue.com /list2-no-web.htm   (360 words)

  
 The Free Press, Mankato, MN - Sudanese in need of necessities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chol explains what a Sudanese family finds when they walk through the door of their first unfurnished apartment.
Chol said anyone who has items that would be useful to a refugee family can call the Southern Sudanese Community Association at (507) 385-1147 from 9 a.m.
Peter Chol, secretary general of the Southern Sudanese Community Association, and Dhoal Wicthiel, a board member for the association, are hoping area residents have some spare household goods to contribute to Sudanese refugees who have recently moved to the area.
www.mankatofreepress.com /features/local_story_302222355.html?keyword=topstory   (729 words)

  
 · IN-FORUM ·   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chol Deng Chol, 26, was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison and five years of supervised probation for sex crimes against two teens.
Chol apologized at his hearing Monday for what happened, but he said the contact was consensual.
Chol is among a group of young orphaned men in Fargo who escaped the war in Sudan and became known as the "Lost Boys." If he stays here, Chol could be a leader for his people, Homan said.
www.in-forum.com /articles/index.cfm?id=94984§ion=news   (544 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)

  
 Language Log: Making Yucatec Maya "cool again"
Mayan languages this might refer to, but now the situation has been clarified — sort of — by Gibson himself.
The Yucatecan languages (Yucatec, Itza, Lacandon) are part of a northern branch that split off about 3000 years ago from the lines that formed the southern Mayan languages.
The descendents of Ch'olan are Cholti (extinct), Chorti, Chol, and Chontal.
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002631.html   (1330 words)

  
 TRANS Nr. 15: John B. Haviland (Ciesas, Mexico / Reed College, US): Indians, languages, and linguistic accommodation in ...
Here the areas in which Tzotzil, Tseltal, and Chol are spoken are shown as partially overlapping and partially contiguous colored areas on a map of the southeastern part of Mexico, principally the state of Chiapas.
The centers of large populations of Chol speakers continue to be the "traditional" townships of Tila, Salto de Agua, Palenque, and Tumbalá, although there are significant pockets of Chol speakers in Ocosingo, Huitiupán, and Yajalón.
One of San Cristóbal's two radio stations broadcasts in Indian languages in the early hours of the morning, and the main locutores or announcers are well-known personalities throughout the Indian highlands, spoken of as familiar friends and celebrated for their linguistic abilities in even remote villages.
www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/06_1/haviland15.htm   (4719 words)

  
 A Brief Introduction to Tamil Language & Culture - தமிழ் மொழி
Moreover, the huge number of Tamil speaking people cutting across countries, the birth and growth of the language, the letters, the rules, the sound variations and the origin of special characters, symbols for Tamil calendar, Tamil numbers, time, land and cultural divisions, and coinage of words have also been dealt with....
All the south Indian languages belong to a single group known as the family of Tamil language.
The Dravidian family of languages are further subdivided into southern, central and northern Dravidian languages.
www.tamilnation.org /literature/geetha.htm   (2216 words)

  
 Death of a Dream - Page 4
Slawomir's crew was very good and anticipated what he wanted, and he had an interpreter whenever he needed to try to explain something.
In the scene where the men from the village are deciding with the priest whether to sacrifice themselves, run or fight, the actors spoke Tzotzil and the extras spoke Chol.
Language wasn't really our problem, but rather the lack of time.
www.theasc.com /protect/mar98/guns/pg4.htm   (936 words)

  
 Automated Reasoning Group Old HOL System
CHOL is a user interface for HOL built by Laurent Théry using the Centaur system.
To this end, the formal logic is interfaced to a general purpose programming language (ML, for meta-language) in which terms and theorems of the logic can be denoted, proof strategies expressed and applied, and logical theories developed.
The language ML has now achieved status as a programming language in its own right, although it was originally designed as the proof management language for LCF.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /Research/HVG/HOL/HOL.html   (2689 words)

  
 GeoNative - Guatemala - Maya
Their language (no clear affinity to established language families) is either dead or in the verge of extinction.
The language of the Classical Maya civilisation was of the Cholan sub-family of Mayan languages.
Ch'orti' is the present-day Guatemalan language closest to that spoken by the builders of Tikal, Uaxactun...
www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/mayagua.html   (756 words)

  
 About the Authors
His research interests are in the areas of language learning, dialect geography, semantics and lexicography, and in developing computational aids for teaching and doing linguistic field work, language analysis, and academic publishing.
Prior to this position she did fieldwork in the Attie language project in Cote d'Ivoire (1975-1983) and in the Lyele language project in Burkina Faso.
Louw, Johannes P. He was the Senior Lecturer in Bantu Languages at the University of South Africa, and later became the Chairman of the Department of Greek at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
www.sil.org /LinguaLinks/AuthorsAL.htm   (4036 words)

  
 Decoding the Maya Message
As such, the inscriptions offer the key to understanding the culture of the prehistoric Maya, a society so culturally and developmentally ahead of its time, that it is thought to rival that of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
The Chols, descended from an Indian culture considered to be the most literate and articulate in the Pre-Columbian western world, have kept up their ancestors' narrative traditions, handing down stories from antiquity.
FSU anthropologists Kathryn Josserand and Nick Hopkins study the Chol's language from its appearance in 200 A.D. to modern day.
mailer.fsu.edu /~research/RinR/Language.html   (1806 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:ctu
Diccionario Chʼol de Tumbalá, Chiapas, con variaciones dialectales de Tila y Sabanilla.
The Christian movement among the Chols of Mexico, with special reference to problems of second generation Christianity.
Review of: Chol texts on the supernatural, by Arabelle A. Whittaker and Viola M. Warkentin.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ctu   (177 words)

  
 Carol Frieze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
AVENUE, a Language Technologies Institute (LTI) project is devoted to developing Machine Translation Systems for indigenous languages; languages which do not have electronic resources.
AVENUE is currently working with a team of Mapuche people in Chile to advise them through their language standardization process as well as to develop an MTS for Mapudungun (the language of the Mapuche people).
The purpose of AVENUE is to allow indigenous communities to have direct access using their native language to government and public health care issues that affect them (for more info, see http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rmvega/Avenue/).
www.cs.cmu.edu /~cfrieze/mapuche/mapuche.html   (297 words)

  
 EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
www.everytongue.com   (531 words)

  
 LEISURE CAMBODIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Chol Mlobb is a rite of passage and means to enter the shadow (Chol means enter and Mlobb refers to the shadow).
This has been the crux of linguistic philosophy and their quest to locate the meaning of language.
Quality tourism results in a high level of tourist satisfaction and at the same time, protects the environment and culture of an area.
www.leisurecambodia.com /Leisure_Cambodia/No.15/No.15.html   (352 words)

  
 MayaMayan Home Page
The word Mayan is technically correct only for the language.
To make it all the more confusing, one of the languages is
Today, in normal American usage, Mayan is accepted as the adjective, though scholars prefer to keep to the Maya.
mayamayan.homestead.com   (77 words)

  
 fsu.edu | latin american & caribbean studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Professor Josserand conducted her dissertation research, on the Mixtec languages and their dialects.
Professor Chavez-Hernandez has presented research on Spanish language subject headings, Hispanic reference sources, and collection development for Hispanic/Latino populations at a number of workshops and conferences, most recently at the ALA Annual Conference in June of 2004.
The collision of languages and temperaments that is characteristic of the immigrant experience makes for the inexplicable plot twists and inevitable humor that careens through Fernández's work.
www.fsu.edu /~lacs/programfacultyprofile.html   (2299 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Mayan
You have reached the page on Mayan Languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
Such languages as Chol, Tzeltal, Jacaltec, Kekchi, Pocoman, Cakchiquel, Mam, Quiche, and Kanjobal are all Mayan.
The Popul Vuh was the sacred book of the Mayans, and was originally written in Mayan hieroglyphics; it was transliterated into the Latin alphabet in the 16th century.
www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/mayanlh.htm   (1431 words)

  
 bredstr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After checking through many of the Maya dialects, it has been decided that there was a "proto-chol" language in ancient times.
That is like saying that the Lithuanian language is the source of the "proto-european" languages.
It has been claimed that some of these inscriptions are long and unique versions of the Primary Standard Sequence.
www.bonus.com /contour/lords_of_the_earth/http@@/www.mayalords.org/mayafldr/bredstr.html   (1117 words)

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