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  Language School Explorer - Information about Caucasian_languages
The term Caucasian languages is loosely used to refer to a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than seven million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
The reality of the North Caucasian family is not yet widely accepted; many of the cognates that have been claimed between its branches may actually be loanwords.
Urartian was the language of Urartu, a powerful state centered in the area of Lake Van in Turkey, that existed between 1000 BC or earlier and 585 BC.
www.school-explorer.com /info/Caucasian_languages   (807 words)

  
 Celtic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Later, however, in the course of the Roman conquest, Celtic speech tended to yield to Latin, and by the 5th cent.
Today the Celtic languages that have survived into the modern era are limited almost entirely to the British Isles and French Brittany, where these tongues are spoken by a total of about 2 million people.
An official language of Ireland, Irish is spoken natively by approximately 75,000 people; roughly a third of Ireland’s population can speak and understand it to some degree.
www.bartleby.com /65/ce/Celticla.html   (1068 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Human Race
He took as the normal type the skull of the Caucasian race, which is distinguished by harmony of the individual parts, none being unduly prominent: with roundness (mesocephaly) are united a massive high forehead, narrow cheek-bones, round alveolar arch, and an orthognathous upper jaw.
To this race belong the inhabitants of Malacca in Asia and the natives of the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The Ethiopian race includes the inhabitants of Africa except the Caucasian Africans in the north; the skull is dolichocephalic, the forehead full, the cheek-bones prominent, the nostrils wide, the alveolar arch narrow and prominent, the jaws prognathous, and the lower jaw large and strong.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12620b.htm   (5485 words)

  
 HDE 19: Lecture 6
Although many species have evolved sophisticated mechanisms for communicating, humans are the only animals with a true language.
Switzerland is multinational state, neutral; speak four languages (German, Italian, French and Romansk--like Latin); Swiss lowlands.
Hispania was the name of the Roman province of the Iberian Peninsula in Lusitania.
entomology.ucdavis.edu /courses/hde19/lecture6.html   (5658 words)

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