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	Behind the Name: Languages Referenced by this Site
		It is one of the Romance languages descended from Latin.
		French is one of the Romance languages that are descended from Latin.
		The Gaelic language of the Celts of Ireland.
	surnames.behindthename.com /languages.php (1157 words)

	Romance languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The invention of the press apparently slowed down the evolution of Romance languages from the 16th century on, and brought instead a tendency towards greater uniformity of language within political boundaries.
		The Romance languages include 47 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken in Europe and western Asia; this language group is a part of the Italic language family.
		Lingua Franca, influenced by the Romance languages of the Western Mediterranean and Arabic.
	enc.qba73.com /link-Romance_languages (5923 words)

	RBC RADIO - Languages of India
		Languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in northern and central regions.
		The ancestors of this language are the Indo-Aryan.
		It is the official language of the State of Orissa, where the Oriya speaking population comprises around 82% of the total population.
	www.rbcradio.com /knowlanguages.html (1706 words)

	Romance languages, Romanian
		The Romance languages are a group of closely related vernaculars descended from the LATIN LANGUAGE, a member of the Italic branch of INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES.
		From the evidence of Latin grammarians, popular playwrights, and inscriptions, it is apparent that in Republican Rome the spoken language of the lower classes was undergoing modifications in pronunciation and grammar that ultimately were to differentiate it from the written language and the language of the privileged.
		The dialect of Paris gradually became the national language, however, because of the political prestige of the capital and today is accepted as the model for the French language.
	www.angelfire.com /md/Orastie/Romance.html (1462 words)

	Romanian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Romanian is a Romance language, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, having much in common with languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
		All the four dialects are offsprings of the Romance language spoken both in the North and South Danube, before the settlement of the Slavonian tribes south of the river - Daco-Romanian in the North, and the other three dialects in the south.
		The Dacian language was an Indo-European language spoken by the ancient Dacians.
	www.school-explorer.com /Romenian (5062 words)

	Romanian Information Center - romanian girls
		Romanian (limba română IPA /'limba ro'mɨnə/), the official language of Romania, is an Eastern Romance language.
		It is also noteworthy that Romanian was the only Romance language that was not under the cultural influence of the Roman Catholic Church, instead being influenced romanian prime minister roman by the Eastern romanian romanian art orphanages cornici romanian nun Orthodox Church, Slavonic, Greek and Turkish cultures.
		All the romanian clothing romanian words four dialects are offsprings of the Romance language spoken both in the North and South Danube, before the settlement of the Slavonian tribes south of the river - Daco-Romanian in the North, and the other three dialects in the south.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Romanian.html (3041 words)

	Eastern Romance languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Romance languages, sometimes known as the Vlach languages, are a group of Romance languages that developed in Southeastern Europe from the local eastern variant of Vulgar Latin.
		In addition, in the Soviet Union the Moldovan language was officially introduced, to draw a distinction between the Romanian and Moldovan nations, an attempt that had eventually failed.
		The languages that are part of this group have some features that differentiate them from the other Romance languages, notable being the grammatical features shared within the Balkan linguistic union as well as some semantic peculiarities, such as lume ("world") being derived from Latin lumen ("light"), inimă ("heart") being derived from Latin anima ("soul"), etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Romance_languages (356 words)

	LoLA: Preliminary List of Languages and Linguistic Groups in Los Angeles
		The following languages of Los Angeles are enumerated according to their places in the genealogical classification that is used simply as an accepted system of reference.
		Some languages with a limited number of speakers and/or not described by previous investigators are not identified individually, but are put together with an indication of a general linguistic group as a common label.
		The mixture of languages and the elements of the Korean-English pidgin.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /languagesofla/lolalangs.htm (2000 words)

	Celtic Culture > Languages > Gallo, language of Brittany
		While the Breton language is spoken in western Brittany and belongs to the family of Celtic languages, the Gallo language is spoken in eastern Brittany and belongs to the family of Romance languages.
		As a Romance language, the vocabulary and syntax of Gallo derives from Latin.
		Gallo was replaced by French as the language of record and the courts, leading progressively to a situation of diglossia where French became language of the dominant minority and Gallo and Breton remained the unofficial languages of the majority.
	www.celtia.info /culture/languages/gallo.html (955 words)

	European Languages
		You may have noticed that a few languages spoken on the European continent are not included in the Indo-European family of languages.
		The western languages generally use /s/ as a plural marker, though it is silent in spoken French, while the eastern languages use vowels.
		The Slavic languages are spoken in Eastern Europe and Russia and are the harder of the three language groups analyzed to learn.
	www.ielanguages.com /eurolang.html (1526 words)

	Languages in the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries , Reference Department, Davis Library
		Many languages employ some version of the Roman alphabet which is used in English, although with occasional modified forms in order to accommodate sounds that do not appear in English.
		Language dictionaries with a specific linguistic focus or on a special language topic might be cataloged somewhat differently.
		There is a language lab on the lowest floor of Dey Hall, but its use is restricted to students enrolled in language classes.
	www.lib.unc.edu /reference/hum/languages.html (2488 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)

	Istria on the Internet - Linguistics - Endangered Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Istriot is described as "an archaic Romance language, often confused with Istro-Rumanian.
		Remarks: the genetic classification of Istriot is not settled: it is often regarded as an early, i.e.
		The third Romance idiom on the Istrian Peninsula, Istriot, is also often confused with Istro-Romania whereas both of these languages are oftentimes also association with the extinguished (?) Dalmatian language and Friulan (Furlan).
	www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/languages-istro-italic.htm (467 words)

	Princeton University Romance Languages and Literatures: Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		A Senior Thesis of this sort would be based in substantial part on foreign language sources, and it would display effective competence in utilizing the language for which the student is requesting certification as an indispensable research tool.
		Ideally, of course, such a thesis would be concerned with a country (or countries) in which the language involved is spoken.
		This may be done through a Romance Languages and Literatures-approved study abroad program or through a similarly approved summer program ofwork and/or study (e.g., Princeton in France).
	www.princeton.edu /~romance/certificates.html (646 words)

	Verbix -- Romance languages: conjugate Asturian verbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Asturian is a Romance language derived from Latin.
		It is spoken nowadays in the Princedom of Asturias, in Spain.
		Asturian belongs to a wider linguistic group called Asturian-Leones,which was the language of the ancient kingdom of León.
	www.verbix.com /languages/asturiano.shtml (155 words)

	The Individualist: Indo-European languages
		Italic languages, including Latin and its descendants (the Romance languages), attested from the 1st millennium BC.
		Geographically, the "eastern" languages belong in the Satem group: Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic (but not including Tocharian and Anatolian); and the "western" languages represent the Centum group: Germanic, Italic, and Celtic.
		Archaic Proto-Indo-European languages occur in the Balkans, in the Danube valley (Linear Pottery culture), and possibly in the Bug-Dniestr area (Eastern Linear pottery culture).
	www.dadamo.com /wiki/wiki.pl/Indo-European_languages (2192 words)

	Jewish languages dying out \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		There are two major dialects: Eastern Yiddish includes languages from Poland, Lithuania, White Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the Baltic States, while Western Yiddish includes those which were used in the Netherlands, Alsace, Switzerland and Germany.
		In Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish: A European Heritage, Haim Vidal Sephiha and Nathan Weinstock explain, Judeo-Spanish is a language of fusion based on 15th century Castilian, coloured by hispanic Arabicisms, and after the Spanish Inquisition of 1492, by Moroccan Arabicisms, Turkisms, Italianisms, Hellenisms, and Slavisms.
		The Rosetta Project, a collaborative endeavor by language specialists and native speakers around the world, are creating an archive of the world's languages.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/379_jewish_languages_dyi.htm (748 words)

	African Studies Center \| K-12 Guide, Languages
		This is an on-line classification of world languages, including African languages and ethnology derived from the Ethnologue: Languages of the World by Barbara F. Grimes (ed.), and the World Genetic Tree of Languages, by Joseph E. Grimes, B. Bright and Bernard Comrie.
		Dogon is a group of languages in the Niger-Congo language family (roughly analogous to the Romance languages in Indo-European), spoken in Mali and Burkina Faso.
		Nyakyusa is one of the relatively few Bantu languages that doesn't make use of tones, but it also differs substantially from surrounding languages in terms of vocabulary.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /K-12/menu_EduLANG.html (444 words)

	International Programs: Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		SAS strives to ensure that the study of language is connected to the study of culture, institutions, and history.
		Foreign language proficiency is a prerequisite for the educated mind.
		Asian and Middle Eastern Studies covers Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Tibetan, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay, and Thai in Asia; and Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Uzbek in the Middle East.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /internatl/languages.html (239 words)

	The argument that Moldavian/Moldovan is one of ten living Romance languages is made by, among others, Vasile Stati in ...
		The argument that Moldavian/Moldovan is one of ten living Romance languages is made by, among others, Vasile Stati in his recent volume Dicţionar Moldovenesc-Românesc ‘A Moldovan-Romanian Dictionary’ (2003)
		The more commonly held view is that there are only nine living Romance languages, and that Moldovan is a subdialect of the Daco-Romanian dialect of a greater Romanian, which is spoken primarily in the Moldova region of Romania and the Republic of Moldova, two linguistic regions which in fact form a speech continuum (
		Yet there is more to it than this, and an examination of the dictionary’s word stock sheds light not only on the methodology used by Stati in compiling his dictionary, but also on the process by which language varieties can be manipulated for social and political purposes.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/slavic/bss-15/abstracts/Dyer.htm (365 words)

	Amazon.com: The Romance Languages: Books: Martin Harris,Nigel Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Filling a critical gap in modern Romance language scholarship, and providing a theoretically strong, factually reliable reference source for future generations of linguists, this book surveys the structure and evolution of the Romance language family.
		A systematic balance of diachronic and synchronic approaches, it is the most comprehensive treatment of Romance languages available for both general reference and specialized linguistic investigation, examining Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, Rhaeto-Romance, and Romance-based pidgins and creoles.
		The treatments of each Romance language, by scholars of established reputation in that language, cover all main features, including phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis.
	www.amazon.com /Romance-Languages-Martin-Harris/dp/0195208293 (1640 words)

	Andover - World Languages - German
		LN - "Not only is German an important language to knoow, but it's interesting and different from the traditional Romance languages most kids take - French and Spanish."
		It is the second language studied by millions of people across the world, including the USA, Eastern Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan.
		In fact 68% of Japanese students and 9.5 million Russians study German as a second language.
	www.andover.edu /languages/german.htm (497 words)

	http://ase.tufts.edu/bulletin/middle eastern studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Middle Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary program that encourages breadth and significant immersion in one or more Middle Eastern cultures.
		The program gives students an opportunity to study the history and culture of the Middle East and of areas of the world whose territories were part of Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilizations in premodern and modern times.
		Students who have demonstrated language competence through 21-22 by a placement test must take two more advanced language courses, or two semesters of a second Middle Eastern language, or two other courses listed below in section b for a total of ten courses.
	ase.tufts.edu /bulletin/middleeasternstudies.htm (269 words)

	Digital Librarian: Languages
		Foreign Language Instructional Technology Group - University of Virginia forum for the discussion and promotion of foreign language education.
		Foreign Language Teaching Forum - Integrated service for FL teachers located at SUNY Cortland provides foreign language teaching methods including school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design.
		Linguist List - "Dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world.
	www.digital-librarian.com /languages.html (2681 words)

	Asian and Near Eastern Languages & Literatures
		Faculty often offer expertise in related social, cultural and literary traditions; most have extensive experience conducting research and traveling in countries where these languages are spoken.
		A major in Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures opens up career opportunities in diplomacy, business, law, journalism, and higher education.
		In addition to movies, male-male romance is a popular theme in a variety of other Japanese pop culture media, including book-length graphic novels and comics, known as manga, and an array of animated cartoons and television action series, known as anime.
	news-info.wustl.edu /group/page/normal/15.html (471 words)

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		I have been teaching Spanish language, literature and culture at Eastern for almost eight years now.
		Eastern has the privilege of having a chapter, Nu Chi, of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
		As Eastern’s advisor to the chapter of the Society, I have set up information packages that include membership information, awards and scholarships news, and the contact information for Nu Chi alumni.
	www.easternct.edu /personal/faculty/chank (1155 words)

	XULA :: Department of Languages
		Languages: German, English, French, and conversant in Levantine Arabic.
		I find the traditional classroom where "hands-on" and "interactive/communicatives" most conducive to learning a language.
		My mission is to help my students realize the importance of a well-rounded person, and since our body is God's Temple, to try to achieve physical, emotional, mental and spiritual balance.
	www.xula.edu /languages/faculty/scheider.html (204 words)

	J. Eugene Smith Library
		Given by Dr. Ann M. Curran, Professor Emeritus, Eastern Connecticut State University, from 1953 to 1986, in loving memory of her father, mother, and brother (Eugene E. Curran, Sr.; Winifred Moriarty Curran, and Eugene E. Curran, Jr.).
		Curran also gave her brother’s large collection of books to the library.
		Mead was a Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Connecticut between 1949-84.
	www.easternct.edu /smithlibrary/library1/namedroom.htm (388 words)

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