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	English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua and Barbuda, St.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (with Hindi and 21 other state languages), Ireland (with Irish), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin and Tamil), the Philippines (along with Tagalog), Israel (along with Hebrew and Arabic) and South Africa (along with 10 other languages, including Zulu and Afrikaans).
		English is the most widely-learned and -used foreign language in the world, and, as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_language (3988 words)

	English Language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes (the Frisians, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) that migrated to the land that would become known as England.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (Hindi and English in addition to 21 other state languages), Ireland (with Irish), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and other Asian languages) and South Africa (along with Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and Northern Sotho).
		English is the most widely used "second" and "learning" language in the world, and as such, many linguists believe, it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers", but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /english_language.htm (2812 words)

	English language
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings).
		English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		English is the first language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Gibraltar, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom (British English) and the United States of America (American English).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/en/english_language.html (2464 words)

	English in Switzerland
		English was generally and doubtlessly identified as a foreign language.
		English has definitely changed its status, it has moved from the fringe to the centre, from the status of a foreign language to that of an additional language with lingua franca functions, i.e.
		English might then be the language to join these two national languages in the repertoires of the citizens, where it would probably occupy the L2 slot, leaving the second national languages to the uncomfortable L3 slot, where they would be no more than "half languages".
	duermueller.tripod.com /ECH.html (3737 words)

	Foreign language influences in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Considering that all new words generally start off as slang, no word really just enters the English language immediately, all words come from different languages.
		French words for the meat of an animal, noble words (this comes from the influence of the Norman language), words referring to food - e.g.
		Nearly 30% of English words (in an 80,000 word dictionary) may be of French origin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English (304 words)

	English language - GrokPedia Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		English spread worldwide with the rise of British colonialism, from the British Isles to Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, New Zealand, the United States and elsewhere.
		English is the second most popular "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002.
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
	www.grokpedia.com /en/e/en/English_language.htm (2615 words)

	Ingrid Kerkhoff, Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Language acquisition is the discovery of ho to perform, the complex mapping between acoustic patterns and sequences of articulatory gestures on the one hand and the perceptural/motoraffective processes these "mean" to others.
		The Black English of the inner cities characteristically retains such locutions as "He busy" (He is busy) as opposed to "He be busy" (He is busy indefinitely) and "She been said that" to express action markedly in the past (she had said that).
		English commentators in the 18th century noted the "astounding uniformity" of the language spoken in the American colonies, excepting the language spoken by the slaves.
	www.inter-lingua.org /glossary/GLS-Glossary.htm (9449 words)

	ASL - foreign language
		The issue of what is meant by a "foreign" language is apparently the basis for the refusal of CAS to accept ASL in satisfaction of this requirement, although no such argument would extend to exclusion of signed languages used outside of North America, which also are not accepted.
		The acquisition of signed languages by deaf children parallels the acquisition of spoken languages by hearing children; there are many parallels in the loss of signed and spoken languages due to brain injury.
		The ad-hoc exclusion of ASL in the category of foreign languages is unjustifiable on intellectual grounds, and blatantly discriminatory.
	www.bu.edu /asllrp/fl (8875 words)

	Foreign language influences in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Considering that all new words generally start as slang no word really just enters English language immediately all words come from languages.
		French words for the meat of an noble words (this comes from the influence the Norman language) words referring to food e.g.
		English in Contact With Other Languages: Studies in Honour of Broder Carstensen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
	www.freeglossary.com /Foreign_language_influences_in_English (360 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.08.11
		Such perceptions of and attitudes towards languages, especially Greek and Latin as they appear in English literature, are the center of H's relatively short but copiously inclusive and, at times, perspicuously incisive study.
		H argues that "language choices are sometimes statements of allegiance to values" (21), and the book frequently assesses those values.
		Certain major works of English poetry have explored "the alien value, desired or threatening, of Greece" (105) by adopting compound epithets, privative adjectives, or meters that were perceived as Greek.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-08-11.html (1591 words)

	Welcome to BYKI.com! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Originally designed for learning language vocabulary, Before You Know It is used for language study and much more.
		Language students use it to learn words and phrases in more than a dozen languages.
		Students use it to memorize anything for a test, from chemistry formulas and biology definitions to dates in history and the names of capitals in geography.
	www.byki.com (249 words)

	Foreign Influences on Old English Vocabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(Outside of place names the influence of Celtic on Old English is negligible.) Place Names: Thames, Kent, York, Avon, Dover, Cumberland.
		(First to fifth centuries A.D. Around fifty words came into the language through Germanic contact with Rome before the invasion and settlement of Britain.) a.
		The initial influence was in the Danelaw, or the northern and eastern areas of England settled by the Danes.
	www.towson.edu /~duncan/forinfoe.html (401 words)

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