Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Hazaragi language


In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Hazaragi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hazaragi is a dialect of Persian, the primary difference with Standard Persian (spoken in Iran and Afghanistan) being that there is a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolian vocabulary.
It is spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and in parts of Pakistan, such as Quetta as well as by a large refugee population found in northeastern Iran.
Hazaragi is spoken by more than 2 million people.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hazaragi   (120 words)

  
 persian language - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Over this period, the morphology of the language was simplified from the complex conjugation and declension system of Old Persian to the almost completely regularized morphology and rigid syntax of Modern Persian, in a manner often described as paralleling the development of English.
Human languages, and the alphabet used to represent those languages in written form, are two different concepts, and alphabets are not intrinsic to human languages, so a shared writing system does not imply a broader relationship.
The Persian language was crucial in the formation of a common language of the central, north and northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Persian-language   (1428 words)

  
 Language Family Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
Although deaf sign languages have emerged naturally in deaf communities alongside or among spoken languages, they are unrelated to spoken languages and have different grammatical structures at their core.
Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Language_family   (1344 words)

  
 Persian Language Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prior to British colonization, Persian was also widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent throughout the Middle Ages and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors.
In Tehran the Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a center that evaluates the new words in order to initiate and advise their Persian equivalents.
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has argued in an official pronouncement [6] that the name "Persian" is more appropriate, as it has the longer tradition in the western languages and better expresses the role of the language as a mark of cultural and national continuity.
216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Persian_language   (1679 words)

  
 Persian language - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dari is the local name for the eastern dialect of Persian, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, including Hazaragi — spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan.
Guilaki, or Gilaki — spoken in northern Iran, mainly in the province of Guilan.
Dzhidi or Judæo-Persian — a collection of languages or dialects spoken by the many varied and ancient Jewish communities throughout the former greatest extent of the Persian Empire, one of the many Jewish languages.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Persian_language   (1330 words)

  
 Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - AF Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan - Sprache, Langue, Language
ethnologue - Northeastern Kazakh - Language of AF (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kaz
ethnologue - Northwestern Pakhto - Language of AF (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pbu
ethnologue - Uighur - Language of AF (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=uig
www.etymologie.info /~e/a_/af-sprach.html   (2743 words)

  
 Persian language - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prior to British colonization, Persian was also widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent throughout the Middle Ages and became the official court language under the Mughal emperors.
Persian is a member of the Indo-European family of languages, and within that family it belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch.
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature as well as many lexicographers have announced that “Farsi” is not the appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English.
www.godseye.com /wiki/index.php/Persian_language   (1725 words)

  
 The Origins of the Hazaras
First, the relation between Hazaragi and the major languages that have influenced Hazaragi, such as Farsi, Mogholi, and Turkish, and the extent of the influence of each of these on Hazaragi; and second, the particular characteristics and origin of Hazaragi itself.
Upon this basis, one can maintain that Farsi is the only language of the area, covering Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union(Heravi, 1983;73), and that within their political (as opposed to cultural) boundaries, each of these peoples has a different dialect.
Hazaragi is composed of 80% Farsi, 10% Moghol and 10% other languages.
members.tripod.com /~ismat/language.htm   (263 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dari, is a language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Bahrain and
Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a center that evaluates the new words in order to initiate and advise its Persian equivalent.
Previously, the Persian language used two different alphabets: a modified version of the Aramaic alphabet, and a native Iranian alphabet called Dîndapirak.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Persian_language.html   (1336 words)

  
 Afghan Languages @ AfgBoy.Com
Dari is taught in schools; radio Afghanistan broadcasts are promoting a standardized pronunciation of the literary language which is based on the old dictional tradition of the country, with its archaic phonetic characteristics.
HAZARAGI 1,403,000 in Afghanistan (1989), 9% of the population (1989); 70,000 in Pakistan (1993); 283,000 in Iran (1993); 1,756,000 or more in all countries.
Pashto was declared the National Language of the country during the beginning of Zahir Shah's reign, however, Dari has always been used for business and government transactions.
www.afgboy.com /afghanistan/languages   (580 words)

  
 Official Language Policy in Afghanistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Unlike the policies of the previous government, the communist regime declared the languages of seven major ethnic groups as national languages.
After the fall of the communist regime in 1992, due to constant fighting, issues, such as language policy, were non-existent; in part, various factions did fight each other because of linguistic differences.
“From among the languages of Pashto, Dari, Uzbeki, Turkmani, Baluchi, Pashai, Nuristani, and other languages spoken in the country, Pashto and Dari are the official languages of the state.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /salrc/afghanistan/lgpolicy/JanAfg.html   (660 words)

  
 Talk:Persian - Wiktionary
Calling the language just Persian (instead of Western Farsi for Iran) is the correct use of the word in English.
Any U.S. college or university that offers the language as a course calls it 'Persian.' If you encounter a course entitled 'Farsi,' that indicates that it’s a crash course for tourists or businessmen, and/or that the instructors are not professional educators.
There are many closely related languages and dialects in and around Iran, and linguists resort to all sorts of tricks to differentiate one from another, including using the word 'Farsi' with assorted adjectives.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Talk:Persian   (845 words)

  
 Free information of Afzel.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Afzelius was born at Larv in Westrogothia in 1750.
He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany.
From 1792 he spent some years on the west coast of Africa, and in 1797-1798 acted as secretary of the Swedish embassy in London.
www.qcat.org /en/Iranianlanguages   (198 words)

  
 Open Directory - Test:World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chamorro is one of the national languages of Guam and of the Northern Mariana Islands.
A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the north of Myanmar and in Yunnan in China.
The Ladin language is a language of raetoromanian origin, and spoken in parts of Trentino-Alto Adige.
dmoz.org /Test/World/desc.html   (1439 words)

  
 Persian language Did You Mean persian_language
Mazerooni, or Mazandarani, spoken in northern Iran mainly in the province of Mazandaran.
a collection of languages or dialects spoken by the many varied and ancient Jewish communities throughout the former greatest extent of the Persian Empire, one of the many Jewish languages of Persian Jews.
One should note that despite their shared standard alphabet, Persian and Arabic are entirely different languages: they are not closely genetically related (they belong to separate genetic language families, namely, Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic) and naturally have different phonology and grammar.
www.did-you-mean.com /Persian_language.html   (1456 words)

  
 Persian language - Gurupedia
It should be noted that human languages, and the alphabet used to represent those languages in written form, are two different concepts and alphabets are not intrinsic to human languages.
As such, Persian and Arabic are two entirely different languages from different linguistic families, with different phonology and grammar.
When the Mughal conquest of India had resulted in a vast Islamic empire, especially in the North and middle areas, a new hybrid language began to form around the 10th and 11th centuries CE, one that would eventually be known as Urdu ("tent" in Turkish in allusion to the army barracks of visiting troops).
www.gurupedia.com /f/fa/farsi.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Teach Welfare Society (HIB)
It functions for the spread and development of basic education, social awareness, social developmental activities and attainment of the knowledge of foreign language.
With the steady efforts of the Society the language classes were then developed and preceded with the establishment of a stable and well organized language center.
Because the main concern was the educational problem of the poor people of the area, free admission was offered to the students who were in no financial position to afford fee elsewhere.
www.hazarapress.com /educational_centre/teach.htm   (747 words)

  
 ISO 639-3 Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It extends the alpha-3 code in ISO 639-2 with an aim to cover all known languages.
It is, therefore, a superset of ISO 639-1 and of the individual languages in ISO 639-2.
The inventory of languages is based on three sources: the individual languages contained in 639-2 are the basis, this was extended by modern languages from the Ethnologue 15th edition, and by historic varieties, ancient languages and artificial languages from the Linguist List.
216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/ISO_639-3   (520 words)

  
 THE MIDDLE EAST HANDBOOK - PEOPLE GROUPS
Their language is different to all other Turkic languages and belongs to the Bulgar group of the western Turkic languages.
The northern Tigre speak the Semitic Tigre language, are mainly nomads, and live in the arid lowlands of north and east Eritrea and southeast Sudan.
Their language is classed with Mingrelian in the Zan (Colchian) branch of the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages, and is related to Georgian and Svan.
www.angelfire.com /az/rescon/MEHBKPPL.html   (10314 words)

  
 Hazaragi language resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hazaragi is spoken on a daily basis in: Afghanistan
Hazaragi language Hieroglyphic Hittite High Alemannic German Highest Alemannic German Hindko language History of Urdu Homeric Greek Homshetsi language Høgnorsk I Indo-Iranian languages Iron (idiom) Ishara...
A Ashkun language B Brahui language D Dari (Afghanistan) H Hazaragi language K Karakalpak language Kyrgyz language M Moghol language P Persian language Pushtu language R Russian...
mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Hazaragi.html   (1213 words)

  
 Language
However, the term family is not restricted to any one level of this "tree"; the Germanic family, for example, is a branch of the Indo-European family.
Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html   (454 words)

  
 Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - TJ Tadschikistan - Sprache, Langue, Language
ethnologue - Korean - Language of TJ (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kor
ethnologue - Lithuanian - Language of TJ (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lit
ethnologue - Uzbek, Northern - Language of TJ (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=uzn
www.etymologie.info /~e/t_/tj-sprach.html   (806 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Tajikistan
The language is close to Mesopotamian Spoken Arabic.
Tajiki is used as their literary language in Tajikistan.
Speakers are bilingual in Tajiki, which is used as literary language.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Taji.html   (609 words)

  
 March-April 1990
They call their language "hazaragi," though it is also refered to as Afghan Persian.
This language appears to be related to Dari, and thus the Hazara currently must rely on the Dari translation of the New Testament which was just completed in 1982.
Their language, dakhini, is an archaic derivative of Urdu; though it is now quite distinct from Urdu.
www.missionfrontiers.org /1990/0304/ma909.htm   (625 words)

  
 [ information-center.be | Hazara Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One theory states that the Hazara seem to have mainly Mongolian origins with some Caucasoid admixture, as evidenced by physical attributes and parts of their culture and language.
It is commonly believed that the Hazara are descendants of the army of Genghis Khan, which marched into the area in the 12th century, but there are also beliefs holding Hazaras as descendents of the Koshanis
Hazaragi is categorized in the Indo-European language family, and 16% to 20% of Afghans speak it.
information-center.be /Hazara.html   (972 words)

  
 List of Southwestern Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Southwestern Iranian languages include some 16 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Western Iranian language family.
Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
This page was last modified 12:30, 16 June 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Southwestern_Iranian_languages   (83 words)

  
 International Teams Muslim Ministries
The traditional language is Hazaragi, an unwritten dialect containing elements of Farsi, Moghol, Arabic, Urdu and Turkish.
Because only five percent of the population is literate, audiocassettes have been made of Genesis, Acts, some of the epistles and parts of the gospels.
For more workers to the Hazara; people who can learn the language as well as help in practical ways in the areas of development and medical services.
mm.iteams.org /asia/hazara.php   (1126 words)

  
 Link Service: Quetta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The spelling of 'Quetta' is an erroneous English derivation from kwatta meaning 'fort' in the Pushtu language.
The city is dominated by a Pashtun majority and a Balochi minority with an eclectic smattering of smaller groups.
Pushto, Balochi, Persian language (Hazaragi dialect), Brahui, Sindhi language, Punjabi and Urdu languages are spoken in large parts of Quetta, giving the city a very multicultural feel.
saint.bris.le.vineux.it.wiki2.info /en/Quetta   (1121 words)

  
 The Definitive Guide to Persian language XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Persian is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and in Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere.
In Afghanistan, the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan does the same for Afghan Persian(Dari).
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (as detailed here) as well as many lexicographers have announced that “Farsi” is not the appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English.
www.xxxx.com /s/Persian_language   (1586 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.