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	African Languages - MSN Encarta
		Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
		Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic.
		Beja and Oromo rank as the principal languages of the Cushitic subgroup, with Beja spoken in Sudan and Eritrea, and Oromo in Ethiopia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html (1767 words)

	Afroasiatic languages - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BC The language is also preserved in inscriptions from ancient Phoenician colonies, especially Carthage, whose language was a variant of Phoenician known as Punic.
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium BC At that time the indigenous languages of Ethiopia were Cushitic, and these languages strongly influenced the imported Semitic tongues.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-afroasia.html (2136 words)

	Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Peoples ~a HREF="/et_00_00.html#et_02_04"
		Speakers of East Cushitic languages are found in the highlands and lowlands of the center and south, and other Cushitic speakers in the center and north; Omotic speakers live in the south; and Nilo-Saharan speakers in the southwest and west along the border with Sudan.
		Gemu-Gofa is a language spoken by perhaps forty autonomous groups, estimated at 295,000 in 1970 in the Gemu highlands.
		Language policy changed under the Mengistu regime, which attempted to reverse the trend by dropping Amharic as a requirement in schools for non-Amharic speakers.
	memory.loc.gov /frd/etsave/et_02_04.html (5506 words)

	Hamitic Races And Languages - LoveToKnow 1911
		By the term is meant a brown people with frizzy hair, of lean and sinewy physique, with slender but muscular arms and legs, a thin straight or even aquiline nose with delicate nostrils, thin lips and no trace of prognathism.
		Neither medieval reports on the language spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands (fullest in A. Berthelot, Antiguites canariennes, 1879; akin to Shilha; by no means primitive Libyan untouched by Arabic), nor the modern dialect of Siwa (still little known; tentative grammar by Basset, 1890), have justified hopes of finding a pure Libyan dialect.
		All these Cushitic languages, extending from Egypt to the equator, are separated by Reinisch as Lower Cushitic from the High Cushitic group, i.e.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hamitic_Races_And_Languages (2290 words)

	HEC refs
		The influence of Sidamo on the Ethiopic languages of Gurage.
		The diachronic derivation of the verb in northern Highland East Cushitic.
		A note on the relative chronology of the Cushitic verb and genetic classification of the Cushitic languages.
	www.msu.edu /~hudson/HECrefs.htm (2312 words)

	Cushitic Branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
		Cushitic people, who live around the Horn region of Africa, a peninsula in East Africa, and today comprise the Somali, Afar, Oromo and several other tribes, are thought to be the offspring of the Biblical Cush, mentioned in the Genesis.
		Oromo is a trade languages used for official government purposes, by the public media, in commerce, in the educational system up to the eighth grade, and in a variety of literature.
		Cushitic languages are written in several scripts, among them Roman-based alphabets, Ethiopic script, and Osmanya.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/cushtic.html (506 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	www.phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2844 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		This may entail that language programs which also fulfill cultural revitalization aims, if judged solely on their efficacy of transmitting language, may not be as successful as they might if they solely concentrated on language.
		Related to the interconnectedness of language and culture and the emphasis on language programs that serve a larger cultural purpose is the existence of the 'in-between generation', brought up explicitly by Emmon Bach.
		Even though the language is still spoken by several thousand people in Nigeria and neighbouring Benin, he considers the language as having reached a vulnerable stage by being replaced mainly by Hausa and, to a lesser extent, Zarma.
	www.ogmios.org /65.htm (3952 words)

	Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach"
		Not only are the languages spoken by most Ethiopians genetically related, but (as Ferguson 1970 and 1976 has shown) the phenomenon of diffusion of traits over a large area has resulted in even more sharing of common features than one would expect among languages of three coordinate branches of a super-family.
		The conquering Semitic-speakers spoke a language which was perhaps only four to seven centuries removed from a common origin with Giiz, the classical language of the Aksum Empire and of Medieval Ethiopian religion and literature.
		Harari is one of the remnants of a probable East Gurage continuum extending from the present East Gurage area south of Addis Ababa to Harer.
	www.abyssiniacybergateway.net /info/bender.html (1976 words)

	Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic.
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 25 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 15 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million speakers.
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned; the Omotic languages are now considered an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cushitic_languages (323 words)

	Language
		Saho is a language, belonging to the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, previously known as Hamito-Semitic language.
		According to one theory, the languages of the Afro-asiatic family are thought to have first been spoken along the shores of the Red Sea.
		The Afro-asiatic languages including Saho, in addition to a common source for their most ancient vocabulary, as well as other syntactic similarities, what binds the branches of the Afro-asiatic family together is their consonantal root system.
	www.allsaho.com /language.html (769 words)

	East Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		East Cushitic languages are spoken mainly in Ethiopia but also in Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti.
		The most prominent East Cushitic language is Oromo, with about 21 million speakers.
		In the internal classification of East Cushitic, the most common major division is between Highland East Cushitic and Lowland East Cushitic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Cushitic_languages (180 words)

	The Qabena and the Wolane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Qabena language belongs to the group of Highland East Cushitic languages.
		Speakers of Qabena consider Alaba as the language with which verbal communication is the least difficult.
		Linguistically, Wolane is one language or language variety belonging to the East Gurage group, which is a sub-branch inside Transversal South Ethiopic.
	www.cfee-fces.org /code/cra_mey.htm (2090 words)

	Slavic and Eastern Languages Collection - Boston College
		The mainstay of the department remains its many courses in Russian language and culture, followed by a fairly even balance of courses in Slavic languages and culture, Chinese language and culture, Japanese language and culture, Celtic languages and culture, the English language (especially as a second language), and linguistics.
		Some audiovisual materials dealing with language are bought for the library, but it is not an area of large emphasis because a language lab on campus also acquires audiovisual materials on language learning.
		Russia and Eastern Europe, peripheral Western Europe, and the Far East are the main geographical focal points of the department, with also some emphasis on the Near East, although a geographically broad range of languages are considered for linguistic analysis both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
	www.bc.edu /libraries/resources/collections/s-slaviceastern (1168 words)

	Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium
		B.C. At that time the indigenous languages of Ethiopia were Cushitic, and these languages strongly influenced the imported Semitic tongues.
		B.C. from the Sumerians (see Sumer), whose language was not a Semitic tongue.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Afroasia.html (2033 words)

	Linguistics
		Language is said to be lateralized and processed in the left hemisphere of the brain.
		A non-standard dialect is associated with covert prestige and is an ethnic or regional dialect of a language.
		The Dravidian languages of Tamil and Telugu are spoken in southeastern India and Sri Lanka.
	www.ielanguages.com /linguist.html (8167 words)

	The Afroasiatic Index Project
		Afroasiatic languages are a group of related languages spoken by various communities from a large area in West African centered around Lake Chad (Chadic), all the way across North Africa (Berber) into Egypt (Egyptian), Ethiopia, and Somalia, and down the Great Rift Valley to the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (Cushitic / Omotic).
		The purpose of the Cushitic Lexicon Project was to provide interested investigators with access to the comparative lexical information contained in cognate sets existing within the 80 odd members of the Cushitic and Omotic language families.
		Presumably, if they were used on another language family, differences in goals and methods would lead to changes in the structure and presentation of the data.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/PROJ/CUS/AAindex.html (1375 words)

	Gene B. Gragg
		Cushitic and Afroasiatic Comparative Linguistics, Historical and Computational Linguistics, Unaffiliated Languages of ANE (Sumerian, Hurrian, Urartian).
		Gene Gragg has been involved in both linguistics and languages of the Near East since the time when, as a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago (1962-66), he became interested in applying linguistic rigor to the study of Ancient Near Eastern languages.
		In this context he has designed the interface and wrote application programs (Perl, for the most part) for a web-based reference archive of comparative-historical information on the Afroasiatic languages (more than 300 languages are referenced in the database).
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/nelc/facultypages/gragg/index.html (740 words)

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		Afar Afar is an East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea.
		Among the lowland East Cushitic languages are Afar, Saho, Oromo (Galla) and Somali.
		They represent McCarthyÕs analysis as shown in (61), where, for languages with nonconcatenative morphology, different morphemes are on different planes and these morphemes are connected through their attachment to a skeletal morpheme.
	roa.rutgers.edu /files/189-0497/roa-189-fulmer-1.doc (18150 words)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		A Cross-Disciplinary Bibliography on Visual Languages for Information Sharing and Archiving: Abstract: This bibliography offers citations for people who are interested in learning more about visual language, new types of communicating and archiving information with emphases on novel technologies and theoretical works in these multidisciplinary areas.
		The language of particular creative writers and literary genres is, of course, touched upon to a greater or lesser extent in critical writings, but these are not dealt with here as such.
		Second Language Acquisition Bibliography (SLABIB): The Second Language Acquisition Bibliography (SLABIB) compiled by Vivian Cook consists of circa 4500 references to diverse aspects of SLA research/ L2 learning.
	linguistlist.org /sp/Bibs.html (2182 words)

	African Languages - Krio, Pidgin, Lingala, Oromo (ASC)(MSU)
		No formal dialect survey of these languages has come to our attention, but Dwyer states (personal communication, 1983) that Krio and the Cameroon and Nigerian Pidgins are mutually intelligible, although they should be definitely taken as separate languages as far as materials are concerned.
		Oromo belongs to the Lowland East Cushitic family (Oromo subgroup) and is spoken in the southern half of Ethiopia as well as mostly in Eastern Province, Kenya.
		Oromo is a significant regional first language and is spoken by the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language5.htm (531 words)

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		native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population
		Hindi the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people
	www.daml.org /2001/12/factbook/languages (208 words)

	The languages of Tanzania
		This endeavour was conceived in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics (FLL) of the University of Dar-es-Salaam (UDSM).
		First it seeks to produce a language atlas showing the geographical location of the Tanzanian languages, number of speakers for each language, and the genetic classification of the languages in question.
		Dept of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University.
	www.african.gu.se /research/lot.html (319 words)

	Search OLAC Archives - East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All linguists are no doubt familiar with the difficulty of finding information relevant to their research.
		The Open Language Archives Community is dedicated to collecting information about language resources and making it available from a single search.
		Baniata - written elsewhere as 'Banyata', a Papuan language spoken in the lower two thirds of...
	www.language-archives.org /tools/search/?query=East (769 words)

	MiddleEastLanguageFamilies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Egyptian Languages: Ancient Egyptian and its descendant, Coptic - of the six branches, this one has the oldest surviving evidence.
		South Semitic Division - the various languages of Ethiopia - classical Ethiopic (Geez), Tigre, Tigrinya, Amharic, Harari.
		The Cushitic Languages: including Oromo, Somali, Agaw, Bedawi, Burji, Daasanach, Komso, Saho-Afar.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~fisher/hst372/MiddleEastLanguageFamilies.html (153 words)

	CIA -- The World Factbook 2000 -- Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) spoken by 35% of the population
		French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
		English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
	permanent.access.gpo.gov /lps35389/2000/languages.html (1565 words)

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