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  Istriot language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Western Region on the coast of the Istrian Peninsula, especially in the towns of Rovinj (Rovigno) and Vodnjan (Dignano), on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
Its speakers never called it "Istriot", but it had six names after the six towns where it was spoken (in Dignano it was named "bumbaro", in Valle "vallese", in Rovigno "rovignese", in Sissano "sissanese", in Fasana "fasanese" and in Gallesano "gallesanese").
The name Istriot was given by the 19th century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Istriot_language   (154 words)

  
 Romanian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romanian is a Romance language, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, having much in common with languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Romanian is one of the five languages in which religious services are performed in the autonomous monastic state of Mount Athos, spoken in the sketae of Prodromos and Lacu (a sketa being a community of monks; sketae is plural).
The Dacian language was an Indo-European language spoken by the ancient Dacians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanian_Language   (4932 words)

  
 Neapolitan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For geographical, historical, and political reasons, "Neapolitan" is the name given to the Italiano meridionale-interno group of dialects in southern Italy, historically united around Naples during the reigns of the Kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies.
The language as a whole has often fallen victim of its status as a "language without prestige".
It is however an officially recognized ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee language with the language code of NAP.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neapolitan_language   (520 words)

  
 Istriot language ? | Antimoon Forum
Istriot is related to Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian, Piedmontese, Venetian and Lombard; spoken on the western coast of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia.
Istriot language resembles standard Romanian, and traditional Romanian linguists consider it to be a Romanian dialect not italian
Istriot and Istro-Romanian are two separate languages that are often confused for the other.
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 Gallo language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallo is a regional language of France, traditionally spoken in Eastern Brittany.
In contrast to Breton, the Celtic language which is traditionally spoken in the Western territory of the country, Gallo is a Romance language, one of the Oïl languages (closely related to Norman, Picard and Poitevin-Saintongeais among others).
There is some limited intercomprehension with adjacent varieties of Norman language along the linguistic frontier and also with Dgèrnésiais and Jèrriais.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gallo_language   (177 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - Linguistics - Endangered Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Istriot is described as "an archaic Romance language, often confused with Istro-Rumanian.
Remarks: the genetic classification of Istriot is not settled: it is often regarded as an early, i.e.
The third Romance idiom on the Istrian Peninsula, Istriot, is also often confused with Istro-Romania whereas both of these languages are oftentimes also association with the extinguished (?) Dalmatian language and Friulan (Furlan).
www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/languages-istro-italic.htm   (467 words)

  
 Ask Us A Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and co-official with Chinese in the Chinese S.A.R. of Macau and Tetum in East Timor.
The Fala language is another descendant of Galician-Portuguese, spoken by a small number of people in the Spanish towns of Valverdi du Fresnu, As Ellas and Sa Martín de Trebellu (autonomous community of Extremadura, near the border with Portugal).
Many Romance languages possess a present perfect tense, but the Portuguese present perfect has a unique, iterative sense, denoting an action or a series of actions which began in the past and are expected keep repeating in the future.
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 Home > Mill Valley, California, CA, 94941, Mill Valley Real Estate, Mill Valley Yellow Pages, Mill Valley ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
From the 16th century onwards, the language was brought to the Americas, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marianas, Palau, and the Philippines by Spanish colonization.
Spanish ceased to be an official language of the Philippines in 1987, and it is now spoken by less than 0.01% of the population, or 2,658 people (1990 Census), though recently there seems to have been a resurgence in interest in the language among the educated youth.
The sole existing Spanish-Asiatic creole language, Chabacano, is spoken by an additional 0.4% of the Filipino population: 292,630 (1990 census).
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 Istroromanian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is considered by some linguists a dialect of Romanian language, but it bears some independent traits and in fact originated not from Romanian, but from Dalmatian language, spoken several centuries ago in Dalmatia and now extinct.
Istroromanian speakers are isolated as a linguistic island in Istria, the peninsula belonging to Croatia.
The relationship of Istriot with other romance languages of the area (Italian and Friulian) is not still clear.
members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/istro.html   (269 words)

  
 Megleno-Romanian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Megleno-Romanian (known as Vlaheshte by speakers and Moglenitic, Meglenitic or Megleno-Romanian by linguists) is a Romance language, similar to Aromanian, spoken in the Moglená region of Greece, in a few villages in Republic of Macedonia and a village in Romania.
Spoken by the Moglenite Vlachs, it is considered an endangered language.
Megleno-Romanian is a member of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family; more specifically, it is an Eastern Romance language, a language formed after the retreat of the Roman Empire from South-Eastern Europe.
www.anime.co.za /wiki/Megleno-Romanian_language   (568 words)

  
 Language families, groups, subgroups of languages.
Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar
Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala
Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan.
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 The IstroRomanians: News - Language of the Month: Istro-Romanian
This was the case with two Romance idioms - the Friulian dialect of Muggia (the last speaker died in 1889) and the Dalmatian dialect of the island of Krk (the last speaker died in 1898).
At present, this language is facing the danger of extinction.
As in Slavic languages, perfective verbs are often derived from imperfective verbs by prefixation.
www.istro-romanian.net /articles/art051001.html   (1214 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:IST
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
Reported to be an archaic Romance language, often confused with Istro-Rumanian.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=IST   (75 words)

  
 Galician language resources
It's a Romance language, proceeding from the Latin language.
Galician Galician and Portuguese are the two branches of one common dead language which was spoken in Lusitania and Galicia until it broke into two in the 15th century.
GALICIAN: a language of Spain The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Galician.html   (1459 words)

  
 Istriot Language info here at en.33of100e.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Western Region on the seaside of the Istrian Peninsula, peculiarly in the towns of Rovinj (Rovigno) Vodnjan (Dignano), on the upper northern section of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
Its speakers unknow it hollered it "Istriot", but it had six prenomens after the six towns where it was spoken (in Dignano it was named "bumbaro", in Valle "vallese", in Rovigno "rovignese", in Sissano "sissanese", in Fasana "fasanese" in Gallesano "gallesanese").
The sobriquet Istriot was addicted by the 19th century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli.
en.33of100e.info /Istriot_language   (183 words)

  
 Ilirija Forum/Illyria Forum
This language existed until the end of the 19th century, when in 1898 its last speaker died.
It used to be spoken on the Adriatic shores of nowadays Croatia and on the along islands.
We believe the language was in use since Roman colonists came here in the last centuries BC, but the first mentioning about it in linguistic literature appeared only in 1842, later all dialects were recorded, and linguists found several documents written in it in archives of Dubrovnik (former Ragusa).
www.network54.com /Forum/63400/message/1033115814/&pp=x   (553 words)

  
 Phrasebase™ - ROMANIAN LANGUAGE Facts and Information - ROMANIAN Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Region where spoken: Moldavian is in Moldova to the northeast, and Muntenian in Muntenia, or Wallachia in the southeast, other dialects in the north and west, including much of Transylvania.
The Bayash are Gypsies who have lost their language and now speak Romanian based on the Banat dialect with Romani and Hungarian influences.
MEGLENO: Structurally a distinct language from Romanian, Macedo Romanian, and Istro Romanian (F. Agard).
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 Albanian language is most similar to Tocharian??? - www.ezboard.com
Now, however, when it is clear that the Daco-Mysian and Thracian represent two different IE languages, the problem of the origin of the Albanian language and the Albanians themselves appears in quite a new light.
Albanian nation and language are a creation of 19 century Austria and Germany and created to serve their imperialist purposes and also to create a buffer between Serbs and Greeks, traditional allies and strongest Balkan states.
What you have heard about Latin elements in Albanian language (which I am going to put them in here one by one) is that Albanian has been developed alongside a Latin family of language as Dacian is, and that this was somewhere in eastern Balkan and not in the territory where Albania is situated today.
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 Dalmatian Latin - Language of Illyricum!!! - www.ezboard.com
Moreover, he had not spoken the language for 20 years at the time he acted as an informant, and he was deaf and toothless as well.
Neo-Dalmatian is a reconstruction of the now-extinct Dalmatian, or Vegliot, language.
Dalmatian language is an extinct romance language, that was spoken on eastern Adriatic coast.
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 EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
www.everytongue.com   (531 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - Linguistics - Endangered Languages
Shtokavski is the official dialect, but the others are recognized as valid dialects, with a large body of literature.
Istriot - described as "an archaic Romance language, often confused with Istro-Rumanian.
Istro-Romanian - further described as "structurally a separate language from Romanian (F.B. Agard).
www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/languages-status.htm   (492 words)

  
 SVIBOR - Papers - project code: 6-03-261
Summary: In the article the author has described the Istriot dialects insouthern Istria; Istriot idioms are shown in the context of otherIstrian dialects.
The authorpresumes that the Romance language in Istria which formed afterthe decay of Vulgar Latin was the same as the Romance dialects inFriuli in the North and Dalmatia in the South until thesettlement of Slaves, who in the form of a wedge pierced into theRomance tissue, thus considerably weakening mutual contactsinside the Romance population.
The Istriot ornithonyms are a part of wider materials theauthor gathered in Istria and on the island of Krk nearly tenyears.
www.mzos.hr /svibor/6/03/261/rad_e.htm   (643 words)

  
 Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
If we go another one third down the list, and divide the worlds languages into 3 groups, we find that language number 4000 (beginning the last one third of the total sample), ISTRIOT of Croatia (?this was unknown to me), has 1000 speakers (the first 3948 languages on the list have more than 1000 speakers).
However, all scholars consider the language destined to die by about 2020: the new generations are too (psychologically) distant from the last old speakers and there is no grammar or dictionary that is really complete and accurate.
Codopony's efforts in learning the language was extolled as a hopeful example of the possibilities for success in acquiring facility in the traditional language.
www.ogmios.org /117.htm   (3295 words)

  
 The Four Essential Travel Phrases
While on these assignments, some of my colleagues and I decided that there were certain phrases we felt every traveller should know and in as many languages as possible, because you just never know.
David did extensive research on fonts, writing styles and systems, and other esoterica related to languages and linguistics, and presented me with a bound booklet on my birthday in 1995.
As a tribute to all his hard work, I decided that the booklet should become a series of web pages, so that all sorts of people besides me could appreciate all the time and effort he put into this project.
www.travelphrases.info   (351 words)

  
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In the area of Gorizia all the Slovenes speak it as a second or third language.
An ancient language of Central and Southern Italy.
Structurally a distinct language from Romanian, Macedo Romanian, and Istro Romanian (F. Agard).
www.verbix.com /xml/italic.xml   (393 words)

  
 Reanimating the old Latin. | Antimoon Forum
Latin is a solid foundation for most Germanic languages, influencing the Slavic languages and the Big-Bang for the Neo-Latin languages…
If latin would be a solid foundation for Germanic language they would be called romance languages.
These figures are controversial estimates : 'Germanisants' will tell you the percentage of Germanic words is higher than 25 % while 'Latinisants' will tell you 'their' share is higher than 2/3.
www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/8566.htm   (334 words)

  
 General Overview of the Lombard Language
Lombard is a Western Romance language spoken by 10,000,000 in northern Italy (the region of Lombardy, eastern Piedmont, the south-western part of Trentino-Alto Adige, the northern border area of Emilia Romagna) and various places in Sicily (1976), and some other 303,000 in the cantons of Ticino and Grigioni (Graubüunden) in Switzerland (1995).
The traditional orthography is modelled on the French pattern and give a blurred impression of the language phonology.
Accent is free and may fall on the ultimate, penultimate or antepenultimate syllable.
www.orbilat.com /Languages/Lombard/Lombard.html   (285 words)

  
 Pater Noster
the languages for which we present an image of the ceramic tile at the Convent of the Pater Noster.
marks the languages for which we present the Hail Mary and the Lord's Prayer is not available at this time.
If a particular language does not use the Latin alphabet, please mail printed copies by regular mail to: Michael Olteanu, 121 Roundhill Court, Vallejo, CA 94591, USA.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater   (715 words)

  
 European minority languages
The influence of the languages of Ireland and Scotland on linguistic varieties in northern England
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