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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (D-Daf) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daai Chin is a language spoken in Myanmar.
		Daasanach is a Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
		Daba is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WD.HTM (114 words)

	Dagbani language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dagbani is a language spoken by some half million people in Ghana, where it is the most common language in the Northern regions.
		The language is minimally tonal, but also inflective, with special endings modifying basic noun roots.
		It is a Gur language; a branch of the Niger-Congo language family, with 23 consonants and 7 vowels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dagbani_language (119 words)

	The Politics Of Language: The School System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Language is the product of human beings communicating with one another; and communication between people is also the basis and process of evolving culture.
		Language thus serves as the collective memory of a people’s historical and cultural experiences (Nugugi wa Thiongo’s Decolonising the Mind).
		A manifestation of his opposition to European culture and the English language in our national life can be found in his 1915 play, “The Blinkards.” He wrote this play in Fanti to ridicule and to berate the abrofosem class in their blind copying of European culture.
	www.newsrunner.com /ghanaweb/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=25726 (2210 words)

	Regional News of Thursday, 26 May 2005
		He said the policy of WAEC to make Ghanaian Language compulsory for the students, affected the results of some of them who did well in many subjects but performed badly in the Ghanaian Language partly due to the lack of tutors or textbooks.
		He said students who did not speak the language or did not have tutors for it could not cope with the teaching and studying of the subject.
		Mr Afakpui observed that the few teachers of Dagbani in the Zabzugu/Tatale District were not ready to accept postings to non-Dagbani areas, which was further compounding the already existing problems in the area.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/regional/artikel.php?ID=82334 (268 words)

	Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Texts and Sources: Languages
		Twi, is the language prevalent in the Gold Coast countries between the rivers Asini and Tanno on the W. and the Volta on the E., and extends even beyond this river; its southern boundary is the sea-coast, while the upper course of the Volta, and the Kong mountains are its northern limits.
		Tshi is one of the Sudanic languages prevailing in the area between Senegal and Eastern Nigeria.
		The Ga, or Accra language, a comparatively young dialect, and the cognate and older dialects of Adangme and Krobo, W. of the lower Volta and in some parts E. of it.
	www.ama.africatoday.com /languages_m.htm (2326 words)

	Niger-Congo languages - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa 's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages.
		They may constitute the world's largest language family in terms of distinct languages, although this question is complicated by ambiguity in what is a distinct language.
		The Yoruba and Igbo languages, spoken in Nigeria.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Niger-Congo_languages (641 words)

	Interpreting Services - Interpreters - Interpreter - Russian - English - French - Japanese - Arabic - Italian - German ...
		The two activities are very similar in that they both involve the understanding of language and of the underlying meaning, but then their ways part.
		A witness with only a superficial knowledge of the language can become seriously confused and his credibility lost if he is uncertain of the meanings of questions or if he guesses at the meaning of a question.
		There is demand for other languages as well, so if you have a different expertise, especially in a more obscure language, you might be able to develop a market niche.
	www.businessenglish.de /dolmetsch.htm (4653 words)

	Preface and introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is one of the languages officially recognized by the Ghanaian government, thus it is also taught in schools.
		Fisch (1912) tried to describe the main grammatical features of the language, and his work written in German early this century is certainly the first published material on Dagbani.
		The Dagbani language can be divided into two main dialects: the eastern one which is spoken around the traditional capital of DagbaN (Dagomba land), Yendi, and the western dialect spread in the Tamale area.
	user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /~olawsky/hp-phint.htm (911 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An official language is something that is given a unique status in the countries, states, and other territories.
		The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England.
		In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital â€” although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ghana (4247 words)

	Knut J. Olawsky (Düsseldorf) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dagbani is a Gur language (Western Oti-Volta) spoken in Northern Ghana.
		With its 500,000 speakers it is one of the languages recognized to be taught in Ghanaian schools.
		In this talk the hypothesis is defended that the morpheme is the relevant unit for the description of tonal distribution on lexical categories, which leads to the view that each morpheme has exactly one H or L tone.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /DGfS/Jahrestagungen/dgfsabst/node107.html (189 words)

	TravelBlog \| Languages \| Dagbani Information
		The Language information on TravelBlog will continue to increase, we hope to have more detailed information on Dagbani soon.
		But in the meantime, the chances are that the 101 Languages of the World software package may include Dagbani.
		Languages of the World teaches you to use real language, in context, using the widest variety of interactive activities available from any multi-language learning product today.
	www.travelblog.org /World/dagbani-language.html (218 words)

	Ethnologue: Ghana
		Understood somewhat as a second language by speakers of nearby languages.
		It is an official literary language with Wali.
		An official literary language used for primary and secondary education, mother tongue authored literature, textbooks, grammars.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Ghan.html (3008 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Gur & Kwa
		You have reached the page on the Gur and Kwa sub-branches of the Niger-Kordofanian language family, 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.
		Gur and Kwa are two of the sub-branches of the Western Sudanic sub-branch of the Niger- Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages.
		Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; it is one of the 4 national languages of Nigeria.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/gurkwah.htm (1177 words)

	Ga - UPSID Language Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		segfr(n, [voiced, dental_alveolar, sibilant, fricative], [breton, lithuanian, bulgarian, romanian, farsi, pashto, e_armenian, cheremis, kirghiz, khalaj, japanese, katcha, dagbani, senadi, ewe, igbo, ga, tarok, swahili, doayo, songhai, kanuri, logbara, yulu, amharic, hebrew, socotri, shilha, tuareg, awiya, kullo, dizi, hausa, mabuiag, sui, malagasy, changchow, burmese, kunimaipa, chipewyan, mazahua, dakota, bribri, apinaye, lak, burushaski]).
		segst(n, [voiced, labial_velar, plosive], [kpelle, dan, temne, dagbani, senadi, tampulma, bariba, ewe, ga, lelemi, birom, tarok, amo, doayo, gbeya, zande, logbara, yulu, iai]).
		segst(n, [voiceless, labial_velar, plosive], [kpelle, dan, dagbani, senadi, tampulma, bariba, ewe, ga, lelemi, efik, birom, tarok, amo, doayo, gbeya, zande, logbara, yulu]).
	www.langmaker.com /db/ups_ga.htm (2431 words)

	Introduction: Some remarks about Dagbani and its orthography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is necessary to list the aspects of Dagbani orthography which appear to be problematic with respect to their way of writing.
		The disadvantages are: Every learner may have his own ideolect; the structure of the language is not represented by the writing; The problem of how to separate lexical units is not resolved by phonetic writing.
		The given alphabet of Dagbani includes some letters which are not necessary for the structural representation of the language.
	web.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /~olawsky/hp-ortin.htm (647 words)

	ghanacrisis
		The language belongs to the More-Dagbanli sub-group of Gur languages.
		Although later censuses placed less emphasis on the ethnic and cultural composition of the population, differences of course existed and had not disappeared by the mid-1990s The major ethnic groups in Ghana include the Akan, Ewe, Mole-Dagbane, Guan, and Ga-Adangbe.
		Despite the cultural differences among Ghana's various peoples, linguists have placed Ghanaian languages in one or the other of only two major linguistic subfamilies of the Niger-Congo language family, one of the large language groups in Africa.
	accracrisis.blogspot.com /2004_01_01_accracrisis_archive.html (2609 words)

	Ghana Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		here are about six languages that are used on the national radio and television.
		Even though English is the official language, it is only used in government and business circles in the cities and urban areas.
		It is a trade language for most Ghanaians.
	www.library.yale.edu /~fboateng/lang.htm (98 words)

	INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the more than 75 spoken languages and dialect around 50 are also written and are accepted as a true language.
		Today, English is the official language and is widely used throughout the country, especially in the south en central parts of the country.
		Although English is the official language, in every region one will encounter people who cant speak another language than the native language and this percentage is significantly higher in the northern and poorer part of the country.
	www.bekijkdesite.nl /ghana/Engels/informatiee.html (2305 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:MAW
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 15%.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=MAW (73 words)

	[No title]
		He is the founder and director of the Tamale Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies (TICCS), an institution of the Catholic Church in Northern Ghana established in 1983 which works in close cooperation with the University of Development Studies.
		He has a long history of involvement in language training beginning with the language supervision of new missionaries in the early 1970’s and founding the Divine Word Language Centre at Abetifi in the late 1970’s.
		Since then he has learned Dagbani and has contributed to a Dictionary in that language and is in the process of writing two books on Dagomba proverbs.
	www.ticcs.com /worddocs/Staff.doc (2112 words)

	Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English is the official language in Ghana en the English that most people in Ghana speak is very simple, direct en short.
		Although English is the official language of Ghana, most Ghanaians have as mother tongue one of the approximately 75 local languages, that Ghana is blessed with.
		Most widely spread are the Twi and Fante, that dominate the south and the middle of the country.
	www.bekijkdesite.nl /ghana/Engels/taale.html (301 words)

	Bibliography of the Ramseyer Collection
		Bibles in languages other than English are arranged alphabetically by language, according to the names standardised by the United Bible Societies in Scriptures of the World (New York, 1986).
		The Number of the language is given as standardised in the United Bible Societie's The Book of a Thousand Tongues (London, 1972), after the abbreviation BTT.
		Alternative names of the language are given, as well as a geographic usage indication, if that is not evident from the name.
	www.d.umn.edu /lib/bible/bibliog (538 words)

	RCLT - La Trobe University
		However, based on lexical and grammatical comparison with the small amounts of data on languages supposedly related to Urarina, it has been hard to find any similarities of Urarina with any of the language groups mentioned in the literature to date.
		Understandably, this has a devastating psychological effect on speakers of native languages in general and on the Urarina language community in particular.
		As a result, some groups of ethnic Urarina have ceased using their language in a number of villages on some tributaries of the Río Chambira.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /rclt/StaffPages/olawsky.htm (987 words)

	mnrpcv.org - Welcome in Many Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are 70 other languages that say it differently.
		As you may notice, there is no difference between the Romanian and the "Moldovan" phrase, as there actually is no such language as Moldovan.
		The notion of "Moldovan" language was introdauced by Stalin in 1940, when he forced the Romanian population in what was "the Soviet Republic of Moldova" to use the Russian script in writing the Romanian language.
	www.mnrpcv.org /WelcomeLanguages.html (502 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mission: Analysis of the Dagbani Grammar, with particular emphasis on phonology and morphology.
		A publication is planned in cooperation with the Dagbani Dictionary Committee, Tamale (Ghana).
		Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, 27
	user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /~olawsky/hp-cv.htm (790 words)

	Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1)
		This section currently includes 210 languages grouped into language families so that you can see the similarities and differences between them.
		Languages of North America (Cakchiquel, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Cree, Greenlandic Inuktitut, Mi'kmaq, Ñahñú, Nahuatl, Navajo, Ojibwe, Zapoteco)
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	www.omniglot.com /udhr (295 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Electronic Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Death of language 1 : 391; 4 : 1988-1993; 8 : 4028
		Discourse - pragmatic distinctions in languages, and thetic/categorical distinction 9 : 4605
		Distorted language, as manifestation of psychopathological phenomena 6 : 3392
	www.elsevier.com /homepage/sal/ellei/data/subject/d.html (3056 words)

	Dagbani Bibles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dagbani is one of the languages of Ghana (Africa).
		You can purchase the Dagbani New Testament on audio cassette from Faith Comes By Hearing.
		The "JESUS" Film, based on the Gospel of Luke, has been translated into Dagbani.
	www.ethnicharvest.org /bibles/dagbani.htm (87 words)

	Togo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Listed here are the primary and alternate names of the languages of Togo.
		Find other materials available for languages in this country from the Minority Language Resource File.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	catalog.globalrecordings.net /show_country.php/TO (114 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Nanumba are located in eastern Ghana, primarily in the northern part of the Bimbila district, between the White Volta and Oti Rivers.
		Their language, also called Nanumba, is identical to a Gur language known as Dagbani.
		The Nanumba currently have one missions agency working among them; however, very few evangelistic materials are available in their native language.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code4/267.html (759 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Dagomba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New Testament in Dagbani was translated and printed by the Assemblies of God in 1974.
		The center for Ghana Institute of Linguistics and Literacy (GILLBT), where the Bible is used substantially in Dagbani literacy programs, is based in the city of Tamale.
		Pray that the arrival of the Scriptures in their heart language some time in the year 2004 will bring revival.
	www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgID=27&fun=1 (571 words)

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