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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chinese language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Chinese language or Chinese languages (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ, 华语/華語, Huáyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén) is a language or language group forming part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
Chinese is often thought to be a single language, though in fact regional variation between different variants/dialects is comparable to that of, for instance, the Romance language family; many variants of Chinese are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible.
In the sense that the written language is based on Standard Mandarin and the dialects are (for the most part) spoken but not written languages, the situation in China is a complex and interesting case of diglossia.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Chinese_language   (7026 words)

  
 Scottish Gaelic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaelic, a descendant of the Goidelic branch of Celtic and closely related to Irish, is the traditional language of the Scotti or Gaels, and the historical language of the majority of Scotland.
The Gaelic language eventually displaced Pictish north of the Forth, and until the late 15th century it was known in Inglis as Scottis.
The BBC also operates a Gaelic language radio station Radio nan Gaidheal (which regularly transmits joint broadcasts with its Republic of Ireland counterpart Raidió na Gaeltachta), and there are also television programmes in the language on the BBC and on the independent commercial channels, usually subtitled in English.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots_Gaelic   (4659 words)

  
 Greek language Article, Greeklanguage Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
/elini'k{/) is an Indo-European language which has existed from around the 14th century BCin the Cretan inscriptions called Linear B. Mycenaean Greek of this period is distinguished from later Classical or Ancient Greekof the 8th century BC and after, when texts came to be written in the Greekalphabet.
This allowed hiscombined army to communicate and was also taught to the inhabitants of the regions that he conquered, turning it into a worldlanguage The language evolved during the Hellenistic period, and for many centuries was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire.
Greek, like all of the older Indo-European languages, is highlyinflected, for example, nouns have five cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative), three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), and three numbers (singular, dual and plural).
www.anoca.org /modern/ancient/greek_language.html   (1178 words)

  
 Historical Linguistics | Language Translation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Some scholars believed that all human languages were descended from the language of Adam and Eve, a language called Adamic language.
, Wilhelm von Humboldt observed that human language was a rule-governed system, anticipating a theme that was to become central in the formal work on syntax and semantics of language in the 20th century.
Language Translation is a business translation company located in San Diego, California that has been in business for 17 years serving the U.S. with document translation services, conference interpreting and software/website localization services.
blog.languagetranslation.com /public/item/119714   (447 words)

  
 Russian language: Historical Development
The historical development of Russian is not easy to trace because until the 17th cent.
However, within Russia the latter language became sufficiently altered by the vocabulary and pronunciation of spoken Russian to be transformed into a Russian form of Church Slavonic adapted to Russian needs; this change began in early times.
Literary Russian is based on the dialect used in and around the city of Moscow, which became the leading cultural center of the country in the 15th cent.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0860848.html   (361 words)

  
 Charles P. Stevenson Jr Library
This database covers over 2000 journals including all English language historical journals, from 1964 to the present.
- 1969 to present Historical Abstracts is the bibliographic database that covers the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada, see America: History and Life) from 1450 to the present.
It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
www.bard.edu /library/search/azdblist.php   (4013 words)

  
 EnglishLibrary.net | Reference > History
Froissart, J.: Chronicles of the first half of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, 1337-1453
Mencken, H.: The American Language — An Inquiry
University of Toronto: History of the English Language
www.davidappleyard.com /library/history.htm   (219 words)

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