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	Native American languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The language or languages spoken by these early migrants, and the process by which the current diversity of Native American languages emerged, are a matter of speculation.
		(The language spoken by the Aleut people) Aleut was first written by missionaries the (An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) Cyrillic Alphabet, and later in the (The alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe) Roman alphabet.
		The languages of the Americas often can be grouped together into linguistic areas or (additional info and facts about Sprachbund) Sprachbunds (also known as convergence areas).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/native_american_languages.htm (2568 words)

	How Many Indigenous American Languages are Spoken in the United States? By How Many Speakers?
		Language scholars believe that prior to the arrival of Columbus, approximately 300 languages were spoken in North America; since then, the number of indigenous languages has dropped considerably.
		It is difficult, however, to determine a precise census of speakers of these languages, and Krauss suggests that reasons for this difficulty include confusing US Census language definitions and biased responses by some respondents.
		NCBE is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) and is operated by the George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Center for the Study of Language and Education.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~jcamacho/363/nativetoday.htm (437 words)

	The educational encyclopedia, languages of the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alphabets of Europe a source of linguistic data for the indigenous languages of Europe.
		Clip art collection for foreign/second language instruction collection of clip art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors.
		History of Indo-European Languages migrations and cultural diffusion carried the Indo-European protolanguage from the homeland, which the authors place in the Transcaucasus, and fragmented it into dialects.
	users.telenet.be /educypedia/education/languages.htm (536 words)

	AllRefer.com - Zaire - Other Indigenous Languages \| Zaire Information Resource
		The vast majority of languages spoken in Zaire are Bantu derivatives.
		Adamawa-Eastern languages are spoken in the entire northern portion of Zaire, interspersed in the east along the Uele River with Central Sudanic languages.
		Crude estimates of the number of speakers of these language divisions have cited 80 percent of the population as speakers of Bantu languages.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/zaire/zaire57.html (272 words)

	Ethnologue, Languages of the World
		Over 12,000 citations spanning 70 years of SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages.
		Books about languages and cultures of the world for education, research, and reference.
		Computer resources including an extensive library for language researchers and software tools and fonts.
	www.ethnologue.com (74 words)

	2005 Population Figures for Zacapa, Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Garifuna and English are the main languages (but Spanish is spoken as well).
		...several indigenous languages (see summary of main substantive accords).
		Though the official language is Spanish, it isn't universally understood among
	travel.synabu.com /cities/Z/Zacapa,_Guatemala.html (310 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		Less than 20 languages are strong, and even these are endangered: the others have been destroyed, live in the memories of the elderly, or are being revived by their communities.
		Created and maintained by David Nathan, Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, (and formerly University of Tsukuba, Japan and University of Sydney).
		The Aboriginal Languages of Australia Virtual Library was founded on 6 January 1996.
	www.dnathan.com /VL/austLang.htm (291 words)

	My Directory Listing - Languages
		Mellonath Daeron - The language guild of the Forodrim, the Stockholm Tolkien Society.
		Himalayan Languages Project - Ongoing linguistic research on languages indigenous to the Himalayan region.
		Languages of the World - A description of major world languages and language families, with links.
	www.mydirectorylisting.com /Languages/index.htm (1543 words)

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