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  Language family -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Although deaf sign languages have emerged naturally in deaf communities alongside or among spoken languages, they are unrelated to spoken languages and have different grammatical structures at their core.
Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
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 Languages In the United States Encyclopedia Article @ nvsales.com ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog(Filipino/Pilipino), Persian, Russian, Vietnamese and Thai appear in official state documents, and the DMV publishes in 47 languages.
Normally the fewer the speakers of a language the greater the degree of endangerment but there are many small Native American language communities in the Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico) which continue to thrive despite their small size.
A language isolate, the Keres are the largest of the Pueblo nations.
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 Vowel Harmony Encyclopedia Article @ Oughta.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In languages with vowel harmony, there are constraints on what vowels may be found near each other.
Languages that primarily have prefixes (and no suffixes) usually have only regressive harmony — and vice versa for primarily suffixing languages.
Altaic language use the existence of vowel harmony in Korean to support their argument.
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 Extinct Language Encyclopedia Article @ Canst.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Such is the case with Latin; an extinct (dead) language but the parent of the modern Romance languages.
Hebrew is an example of a formerly extinct liturgical language that has been revived to become a living language.
There have been other attempts at language revival (such as Manx and Cornish), but the success of these attempts has been subject to debate, as it is not clear they will ever become the common native language of a community of speakers.
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 Native American Languages Encyclopedia Article @ TexasBase.com (Texas Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a result, many relationships between languages and language families have not been determined and some of those relationships that have been proposed are on somewhat shaky ground.
Southeast; however, many of these languages became extinct from European contact and as a result they are, for the most part, absent from historical record.
Eskimo-Aleut languages are extreme examples), although this is not characteristic of all North American languages (contrary to what was believed by 19th-century linguists).
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 Indigenous languages of the Americas - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages) are spoken by indigenous peoples from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Greenland, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas.
The language or languages spoken by these early migrants, and the process by which the current diversity of indigenous languages in the Americas emerged, are a matter of speculation.
The languages of the Pacific Northwest are notable for large consonant inventories and complex phonotactics (for example, some languages have words that lack vowels entirely).
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 Languages In the United States Encyclopedia Article @ Overtook.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Greek are still widely spoken among populations descending from immigrants from those countries in the early 20th century, but the use of these languages is dwindling as older generations die out.
Native Americans who still speak their native languages, but these populations are dropping and the languages are almost never widely used outside of reservations.
California, have amended their constitutions to make English the only official language, but in practice, this only means that official government documents must at least be in English, and does not mean that they should be exclusively available only in English.
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 Native American languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'''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 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.
Native American languages vary greatly in the number of speakers, from Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl with millions of active speakers to a number of languages with only a handful of elderly speakers.
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 Languages In the United States Encyclopedia Article @ TXbase.com (TX Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Throughout the world, thousands of languages are at risk of disappearing, but researchers are documenting and recording these linguistic links to history.
French, the fourth largest foreign language, is spoken mainly by the small native
British colonization and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population.
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 SOUNDOVER.COM: Language Families
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language.
The Indo-European languages are a group of several hundred languages and dialects, including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Asia, which belong to a single superfamily.
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 Languages In the United States Encyclopedia Article @ Worshipped.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
English the national language of the United States.
Tahitian language which is spoken by another 120,000 people of Tahiti.
de facto official language: the language in which government business is carried out.
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 The Bipartite Stem Belt
In all of the languages which have this category some or all of the members can have reference to the shape of an instrument, and the category is traditionally referred to as "instrumental prefixes".
But in all languages for which I have data some members of the category can also refer to the shape of a Theme argument, and in the more elaborated systems characteristic of our area bound stems referring to manner of motion also occupy this same positional slot.
The core languages are characterized by the fact that a majority of the verb stems of the language are bipartite, consisting of a LP and a second element.
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 ancientlanguages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The language of diplomacy and culture from the 3rd Millennium BC to the early 1st Millennium.
A language of the coast of the Netherlands, and the North Sea coast of Germany.
A language spoken in Lithuania, Poland and Byelorus.
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These languages are characterised by elaborate systems of consonants, which include: series of glottalized stops and affricates, labiovelars, multiple laterals, and uvular stops in contrast to velars.
Northwest Coast languages also have lexically paired singular and plural verb stems (that is, a lexical root may be required with a plural subject which is entirely different from the root used with a singular subject).
Their presence in Ethiopian Semitic languages (some with all of these, others with somewhat fewer) might seem to reflect several different diffused traits (SOV counted as one, Noun-Postposition as another, and so on), and might be taken as several independent pieces of evidence supporting the existence of the linguistic area.
www.linguistics.utah.edu /Faculty/campbell/CampbellArealLingEnc.doc   (3199 words)

  
 American Indians
One influential classification grouped all of the languages of North America into six stocks, but recently specialists have questioned the validity of studying such larger units of relationship before the histories of the individual families are understood.
The affinities of the native languages of the Americas are presumed to reach back across the Bering Strait but date back to a very remote period in the past.
MOLALE (spoken language extinct): Washington and Oregon in the valley of the Deschutes River, later west into the Molala and Santiam River valleys, and to the headwaters of the Umpqua and Rogue rivers.
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The Alsean (also Yakonan) language family consists of two closely related languages that were spoken along the central Oregon coast.
The name Alsea is derived from the Coosan name for them, alsí or alsí·, and Marys River Kalapuyan name for them, alsí·ya.
There may be a distant relationship between the Alsean languages, Siuslaw, and the Coosan languages.
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 Language families and languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Waikurian) (8) Iroquoian languages (11) Kalapuyan languages (3) Kiowa-Tanoan languages (7) Maiduan languages (4) Mayan languages (North America and Central America) (31) Muskogean languages (6) Na-Dené languages (40) Oto-Manguean languages (North America and Central America) (27) Palaihnihan languages (2) Plateau Penutian (a.k.a.
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 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.
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 Coosan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Coosan (also Coos or Kusan) language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast.
Melville Jacobs (1939) says that the languages are as close as Dutch and German.
The origin of the name Coos is uncertain: one idea is that it is derived from a Hanis stem gus- meaning 'south' as in gusimídži·č 'southward'; another idea is that it is derived from a southwestern Oregon Athabaskan word ku·s meaning 'bay'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coosan_languages   (342 words)

  
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Native American languages and families in the United States The Native American languages with the largest numbers of speakers are Navajo (c.
Names of ‘extinct’ languages are preceded by the symbol †; those with fewer than ten speakers are listed as ‘moribund’; those with 10-100 speakers as ‘obsolescent’; and languages with more than 100 speakers with no special indication.
Many of these families have languages also in Canada or Mexico, but here only branches and languages represented in the US are included.
www.linguistics.utah.edu /Faculty/campbell/sociolx_USA.doc   (767 words)

  
 The Ultimate Coosan languages Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Melville Jacobs (1939) says that the languages are as close as Dutch and High German.
Miluk was spoken around the lower Coquille River and the South Slough of Coos Bay.
In 1916 Edward Sapir suggested that the Coosan languages are part of a larger Oregon Penutian genetic grouping.
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 Penutian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name is based on the words meaning 'two' in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages (which is pronounced something like [pen]) and the Utian languages (which is pronounced something like [uti]).
Miwokan and Costanoan languages have been grouped into an Utian language family by Catherine Callaghan.
Kroeber, Alfred L. The Chumash and Costanoan languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penutian_languages   (1016 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 10.1776: Bantu, World Atlas of Ling Structures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unfortunately there are a few languages about which we have no source(s) of information available at the moment.
We are looking for (articles on the) grammar(s) of these languages, or for a (near native) speaker of one of these languages.
To the (near native) speakers of these languages we will then send a copy of our questionnaire they can fill in an mail back to us.
www.linguistlist.org /issues/10/10-1776.html   (283 words)

  
 Language families and languages - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Most languages are known to belong to language families ("families" hereforth).
The common ancestor of a family (or branch) is known as its "protolanguage".
Caucasian languages (generally thought to be two separate families, North Caucasian and Kartvelian)
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 Ask Us A Question - Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels in some ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ask Us A Question - Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels in some languages
Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels in some languages.
Vowel harmony appears in many Uralic and almost all Altaic languages.
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 penutian_languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hokan languages (another influential and promising hypothetical language family)
Dixon, Roland R.; & Kroeber, Alfred L. The native languages of California.
Dixon, Roland R.; & Kroeber, Alfred L. Relationship of the Indian languages of California.
www.toptraveleasterneurope.com /wiki/?title=Penutian_languages   (912 words)

  
 American Indian Tribal List: Native American Tribes and Languages
We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting American Indian tribal languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
Vocabulary lists from the languages of various American Indian tribes.
Our site is designed to present information about American Indian tribes and their languages contextually--language by language and tribe by tribe.
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 LINGUIST List 16.162: Coosan Linguistics; OT Approaches to L2 Syntax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Qs: Coosan Linguistics; OT Approaches to L2 Syntax
We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question.
I am interested in the Coosan languages (Hanis and Miluk), once spoken
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