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	Language information - The world speaks Pro-Tran
		It is intended to assist you in deciding which languages to use for your website translation.
		The result is around 4500 languages, which we separate into "primary" and "secondary".
		Languages are classified as "primary" if they are spoken by more than one million persons.
	www.pro-tran.com /en/Sprachen-Informationen/Sprachen-Informationen.html (0 words)

	Endangered languages - Lost worlds. - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		So each language embodies the memory of hundreds of generations: and so, when the time comes that a language is lost, the community of speakers is in very truth a shadow of its former self: each of them bears an immense burden of responsibility, keeping open the pathways of a million ancestors' thoughts, almost alone.
		Languages are the creatures of tradition, passed from generation to generation.
		If a way can be found to confer respect on the language traditions that remain, so that their holders are inspired to carry them on even as they become familiar with other languages of international communication, the next century will witness a dialogue as stimulating as humanity has ever known.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-81764844.html (3172 words)

	African languages at AllExperts
		The main subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic are the Semitic languages, the Cushitic languages, Berber, and the Chadic languages.
		The Nilotic languages, having expanded substantially with the Nilotic peoples in recent centuries, are a geographically widespread language family and have a large population.
		The vast majority of languages of this family is tonal.The Bantu family comprises a major branch of Niger-Congo, as visualized by the distinction between Niger-Congo A and B (Bantu) on the map above.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/af/african_languages.htm (1792 words)

	Click consonant
		Clicks are in all the Khoisan languages of southern Africa and in the neighbouring Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, etc.) of the Bantu family, which borrowed them from Khoisan (there are some 80 languages in both groups).
		Clicks also occur in Sandawe and Hadza, two languages (or rather language groups, once believed to be branches of Khoisan) in Tanzania, and in Dahalo, a South Cushitic language spoken in Kenya.
		The only non-African language known to employ clicks as regular speech sounds is Damin, an "alternative code" used by speakers of Lardil (Australia) -- actually an elaborate kind of language game.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cl/Click_consonant.html (363 words)

	Unique Facts about Africa: Rawandan Genocide
		Language contact (resulting in borrowing) and, with regard to specific idioms and phrases, a similar cultural background have been put forward to account for some of the similarities.
		Tonal languages are found throughout the world, notably in Asia, Africa, Austronesia, the indigenous languages of America, and South-America (Mexico and Brazil).
		Tonal languages are furthermore found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Africaweb/factfile/africauniquefact19.htm (564 words)

	African languages - ikiW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Language policies that are being developed nowadays are mostly aimed at multilingualism.
		For example, all African languages are considered official languages of the African Union (AU).
		Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	african-languages.ikiw.net /en/African_languages (192 words)

	Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - KE Kenia, Kenya, Kenya - Sprache, Langue, Language
		ethnologue - Fundi - Language of KE (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=swh
		ethnologue - Nika - Language of KE (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nyf
		ethnologue - Somali - Language of KE (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=som
	www.wortherkunft.de /~e/k_/ke-sprach.html (4847 words)

	ubykh.htm
		For linguists, the growing number of vanishing languages is a looming disaster that threatens to diminish the world's cultural diversity and erase a monumental human achievement.
		Meanwhile, 60 percent of existing languages have 10,000 speakers or fewer, said David Harmon, who analyzed the 'Ethnologue survey and is a member of Terralingua, a society dedicated to language preservation.
		It was the language of the Industrial Revolution and remains the language of the world's biggest economy and remaining superpower.
	www.uwm.edu /~vaux/ubykh.htm (1615 words)

	LISTSERV 14.4
		Culture: Language is bound up in culture - if a nation loses a language, it may also lose its links with a tradition of jokes, music and literature.
		Many minorities who are looked down upon, discriminated against, or persecuted by a dominant group are willing to give their language up, or make sure their children don't acquire it, in exchange for a more secure life.
		Professor Ladefoged remembers speaking to a speaker of the almost-extinct Dahalo language in rural Kenya; the man was glad his sons could only speak the more prestigious Swahili: ''He was proud his sons had been to school and knew things he did not.
	listserv.linguistlist.org /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=lgpolicy-list&D=1&F=&S=&P=11449 (469 words)

	Australian Information from Wikipedia
		Note, however, that while these words often represent a dental click and may be pronounced as such, they are also frequently pronounced as /tÉªsk/ or /tÊt/, and in such cases cannot be said to be dental clicks.
		The dental clicks are common in Khoisan languages and the neighboring Nguni languages (e.g.
		In the Nguni languages, the tenuis click is denoted by the letter c, the murmured click by gc, the aspirated click by ch, and the nasal click by nc.
	www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Dental_click (539 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Peter Ladefoged, a phonetician with a good record in recording endangered languages, famously remarked that he was not entitled to query the judgement of speakers of Dahalo, a rapidly dying Cushitic language, in choosing not to pass their language on to the next generation.
		Their relationship with the language will not be the same, or even a direct descendant of, that of the community which seems to be giving it up; paradoxically, it is likely be much harder for them to achieve familiarity with the language.
		To the extent that they succeed in this, the language is preserved and even enriched for those who were minded to abandon it: their choice, in dropping their language, becomes reversible -- so in effect there life-chances, their options and those of their children, are increased.
	www.ogmios.org /31.htm (691 words)

	Dahalo language at AllExperts
		Dahalo is an endangered South Cushitic language spoken by about 400 people in Kenya.
		It is suspected that the Dahalo may have once spoken a Sandawe-like language, and that they retained clicks in some words when they shifted to a Cushitic language.
		Dahalo has pitch accent, normally with zero to one high-pitched syllables (rarely more) per root word.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/da/dahalo_language.htm (410 words)

	AFRICAN FIRST PEOPLES: THE BUSHWO/MEN
		The Khoisan languages comprise the smallest phylum of African languages.
		They are notable for the use of click consonants as phonemes, including the Kung-ekoka language, which has in excess of 50 click consonants and over 140 separate phonemes, and the !X�� language with its giant phoneme inventory and strident and pharyngealized sounds.
		The only other languages using clicks as phonemes are Nguni Bantu languages (a separate phylum) such as Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa, Sesotho (also spoken in South Africa and Lesotho), the South Cushitic Dahalo language, and an artificial ceremonial language called 'Damin', spoken by some Australian Aborigines.
	www.khoisanpeoples.org /indepth/khoi-san-language.htm (1233 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:DAL
		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).
		Near the mouth of the Tana River, Lamu and Tana River districts, Coast Province.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=DAL (0 words)

	Epiglottal consonant help - Wiki at Help.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was the case for Dahalo, for example.
		Epiglottals are primarily known from the Mideast (in the Semitic languages) and from British Columbia ("pharyngeal trills" in northern Haida), but may occur elsewhere.
		It is likely that several of the Salish or Wakashan languages of British Columbia reported to have "pharyngeals" actually have epiglottals, and the same may be true of some of the languages of the Caucasus.
	www.help.com /wiki/Epiglottal_consonant (348 words)

	BBC - Voices - Your Voice
		Language is a part of how we are, and to suggest that the world would be better if we all spoke one language is as absurd as to suggest that we should all have the same colour eyes.
		Professor Ladefoged remembers speaking to a speaker of the almost-extinct Dahalo language in rural Kenya; the man was glad his sons could only speak the more prestigious Swahili: ''He was proud his sons had been to school and knew things he did not.
		Languages are in their way a bit like species of animals, 99.9% of which have become extinct since life began, and it wouldn't be a suprise if a similar statistic didn't apply to languages, which come and go, although there's no real way of knowing- they don't leave fossils.
	www.bbc.co.uk /voices/yourvoice/language_ecology.shtml (2967 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Click consonant
		The release of the more forward closure produces what in many cases are the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza, clicks are more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejective stops.
		Clicks occur in all the Khoisan languages of southern Africa and in several neighbouring Bantu languages, such as Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Phuthi and Ndebele), Sesotho, Yeyi of Botswana, and the Mbukushu, Kwangali, and Gciriku languages of the Caprivi Strip, which borrowed them from Khoisan languages.
		Some Khoisan languages are typologically unusual in allowing mixed voicing in non-click consonant clusters, such as dt͡s’k͡x’, so it's not unexpected that they would allow mixed voicing in clicks as well, and this can be taken as evidence that these clicks are also clusters.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Click_consonant (1910 words)

	Ethnologue: Kenya
		In Somalia the Ajuran speak a variety of Common Somali as mother tongue, and the Garre apparently speak a language related to Somali.
		"The language is remembered by a few old men married to Kikuyu women and living in Kikuyu communities" (Dimmendaal 1989).
		They have maintained their language in spite of change in economy and pressure from other languages.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Keny.html (3645 words)

	Безѹмниѥ » Blog Archive » Professional responsibility? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Last summer I was working on Dahalo, a rapidly dying Cushitic language spoken by a few hundred people in a rural district of Kenya.
		The farmer could have insisted that his sons use the language in the home—and the sons could have some appreciation of their heritage, which is an obligation in nearly every moral code in the world—and yet his children could still have an education outside of the home.
		Speaking a minority language can indeed be perceived as a stigma, but I believe it is a linguist’s duty to fight such dangerous myths and superstitions, not support them.
	www.christopherculver.com /wordpress/wp-trackback.php?p=133 (862 words)

	NYTimes - 4/7/96
		He and other linguists say that languages are disappearing rapidly and that it's important to record their sounds and other features before it's too late.
		People have had to adopt the languages of their employers or rulers; young people have turned away from traditional ways, and many formerly isolated groups now have radios (and even televisions, with which those who can't get actual broadcasts may nonetheless enjoy videos).
		Ladefoged recalled a speaker of Dahalo (the language of a few hundred people in rural Kenya) who was pleased that while his sons understood Dahalo, they didn't speak it.
	www.princeton.edu /~browning/news/endlg1.html (1120 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Only 1.34% of the world do not have a cassette recording of their language.
		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 (0 words)

	The Department of Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It emphasizes language as a social institution and how values and goals of both public institutions and private groups shape, and are shaped by language and its use.
		Although language, culture, and cognition have traditionally been considered distinct fields, it is becoming increasingly apparent that they are in fact intimately intertwined.
		The object of this course is to introduce students to the theoretical underpinnings of and methodology for studying language change in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and the functions of linguistic forms.
	www.colorado.edu /linguistics/Fall05CourseDescription.html (2284 words)

	A Summary of the Cushite Peoples of Eastern Africa
		The Beni-Amer group, speaking Tigre (a Semitic language related to Amharic and Tigrinya), or bilingual in To Bedawie, and often trilingual in Arabic, are associated with the Tigre, as an upper caste, but Tigre tribes are not considered Beja.
		Literacy is in the Standard Somali of the North and Mogadishu, which must be learned as a separate language by Maay speakers, and thus is not a suitable evangelization medium.
		It may be more than one language; the dialects form a continuum Standard Somali is difficult or unintelligible to Maay speakers, except for those who have learned it through mass communications, urbanization, and internal movement.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/articles/cushite.html (4925 words)

	Swahili language resources
		The Bantu language with the largest number of speakers is Swahili (G 40), while those with the most native speakers are Shona and Zulu.
		Swahili is primarily a Bantu language with some Arabic elements; it is written in the Arabic alphabet.
		Like the language, the Swahili culture was a mixture of the two cultures...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Swahili.html (1220 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Language extinctions have probably always been part of the history of Man, as peoples strayed onto others’ territory, and tribes clashed or merged.
		A global common language is within reach: most likely on current form to be English — although Mandarin Chinese still has three native speakers for every one of English; and in modern conditions a couple of generations can change the world, and its prospects, beyond recognition.
		If a way can be found to confer respect on the language traditions that remain, so that their holders are inspirited to carry them on even as they become familiar with other languages of international communication, the next century will witness a dialogue as stimulating as humanity has ever known.
	www.ogmios.org /181.htm (2912 words)

	Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Population and culture: Tribes and languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Paranilotic languages in Kenya are divided in three groups: Teso, Maasai and Kalenjin.
		The Nilotic languages, also spoken in Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, belong to the family of Nilo-Saharian languages.
		Finally, Cushites are mainly shepherds speaking Somali or Galla, languages that belong to the Afro-Asian family of tongues that originated in northern Africa and the Middle East.
	www.kenyalogy.com /eng/info/pobla4.html (209 words)

	human beings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Guarani, the dominant language of Paraguay, and the only Amerindia language to have this status to the present day, succeeded at the expense of the decay of several other native languages in that country.
		Maybe for the world at large, even for science, and certainly for Judaism as such, the death of the Dahalo language means nothing.
		But we should not forget that for the Dahalo remaining speakers it means their self-identity, their pride, their culture.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/philos/dascal/papers/human.htm (311 words)

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