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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Language (I) I-Wak is a language spoken in the Philippines.
		Ica is a Defoid language spoken in Zou province, Benin and in Togo.
		Itneg is a language of the Philippines.on the north-west coast of Luzon.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WI.HTM (1446 words)

	Ivatan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ivatan language, also known as Ibatan, is an Austronesian language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands in the most northern reaches of the Philippines.
		With the islands' proximity to Taiwan, the language is closer linguistically and philologically to Taiwanese aborigine languages than to other Philippine languages.
		The Ivatan language is completely different from the rest of the other Philippine languages, having been isolated and more closer to Taiwanese aborigines, especially the Y'ami group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivatan (148 words)

	'language' @ encyclopaediaOnline: the FREE online encyclopaedia (encyclopedia), dictionary, and grammar reference site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing.
		Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English tongue.
		Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties of expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language.
	www.encyclopaediaonline.com /article.asp?topic=language (369 words)

	Tagalog language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tagálog is one of the major languages of the Republic of the (A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946) Philippines.
		Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish, Fukien Chinese, English, Malay, Sanskrit (via Malay), Arabic (via Malay/Spanish), and Northern Philippine languages such as Kapampangan spoken on the island of (The main island of the Philippines) Luzon.
		This particular (A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols) writing system was composed of symbols representing three (A speech sound made with the vocal tract open) vowels and 14 (A speech sound that is not a vowel) consonants.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ta/Tagalog_language.htm (2404 words)

	Ivatan Language of the Batanes Islands
		Ivatan (Chirin nu Ibatan) is a language spoken by 30,000 people on the Batanes Islands, north of Luzon Island, Philippines, and south of Taiwan.
		Standard Ivatan is based on the Basco dialect.
		Its intelligibility with Itbayaten Ivatan is 64%, and its intelligibility with Basco Ivatan is 31% (SIL).
	iloko.tripod.com /Ivatan.htm (575 words)

	chpt.1
		The language of the tribe is also similar to the ones spoken in the northernmost part of the Philippines.
		Curtis D. McFarland, compiler of one of the few authoritative linguistic surveys of the Philippine languages, A Linguistic Atlas of the Philippines, calls the northernmost languages of the Philippines "Ivatan languages." He probably calls them that because they are related to, and are spoken in, the vicinity of the island of Ivatan.
		An L-simplex is a "language" both in the sense that it can be spoken and understood by all its speakers, and in the sense that it has a clearly defined set of speakers--no speaker of an L-simplex is the speaker of any other language (except of a second language).
	www.uga.edu /~asian-lp/jpn_html/yami/chpt.1.html (7545 words)

	Salita Blog: Yami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
		Yami is the only Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan that is considered part of the vast Malayo-Polynesian subfamily that includes languages as far west as Malagasy and as far east as Hawaiian and Rapa Nui.
		Yami, Ivatan, and Itbayat belong to the Bashiic-Central Luzon-Northern Mindoro (henceforth, BCN) subfamily of the Northern Philippine branch.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2004/08/yami.html (744 words)

	Article on Culture and Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the earliest eyewitness accounts on the Ivatan is that of the British buccaneer William Dampier in 1687.
		Scholars are still debating whether the prehistoric Ivatan came from the northern part of Luzon or from the southern part of mainland China or Taiwan.
		The Ivatan language in spite of its obvious difference from all other Filipino languages, reveals on a closer analysis, an identity of structure in the composition of particles in its root (Hidalgo, 1996).
	www.ncca.gov.ph /culture&arts/cularts/ccta/northern/northern-batanes.htm (1467 words)

	wiki/Ivatan language Definition / wiki/Ivatan language Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		SILSIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development.
		However, the language is not placed in the Formosan languagesThe Formosan languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken by 2% of the population of Taiwan, almost exclusively aboriginals.
		The reason for this was partly due to the existence of an exorbitant number of languages spoken throughout the country.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Ivatan_language (718 words)

	Batanes [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Languages: Ivatan The Ivatan language, also known as the Ibatan, is spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands in the most northern reaches of the Philippines in the Batan Islands, bordering Taiwan.
		The main languages here are Ivatan The Ivatan language, also known as the Ibatan, is spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands in the most northern reaches of the Philippines in the Batan Islands, bordering Taiwan.
		Ivatans were then ordred to dresslike the other FIlipinos, and it didn't took them long to adopt.
	www.wikimirror.com /Batanes (4412 words)

	wiki/Tagalog Definition / wiki/Tagalog Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Being an Austronesian language, it is related to Indonesian, Malay, FijianFijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji.
		It is closely related to the languages spoken in the BicolBicol Region is one of the regions of the Philippines occupying the Bicol Peninsula at the southeastern end of Luzon island.
		Ivatan The Ivatan language, also known as the Ibatan, is spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands in the most northern reaches of the Philippines in the Batan Islands, bordering Taiwan.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Tagalog (5968 words)

	ivatan language translation to tagalog
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	www.century1news.com /language-translation/ivatan-language-translation-to-tagalog.htm (212 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Being an Austronesian languages Austronesian language, it is related to Indonesian_language Indonesian, Malay_language Malay, Fijian_language Fijian, Maori_language Maori (of New Zealand), Hawaiian_language Hawaiian, Malagasy_language Malagasy (of Madagascar), Samoan_language Samoan, Tahitian_language Tahitian,Chamorro_language Chamorro (of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), Tetum (of East Timor), and Paiwan language Paiwan (of Taiwan).
		It is closely related to the languages spoken in the Bicol and Visayas regions such as Bikol_language Bikol, Hiligaynon_language Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray_language Waray-Waray, and Cebuano_language Cebuano.
		Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish_language Spanish, Min_Nan Fukien Chinese, English_language English, Malay_language Malay, Sanskrit_language Sanskrit (via Malay), Arabic_language Arabic (via Malay/Spanish), and Northern Philippine languages such asKapampangan_language Kapampangan spoken on the island of Luzon.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Tagalog_language.html (4578 words)

	English in TutorGig Dictionary
		The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
		The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
		The official name of the database language used by the Pick operating system, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with delusions of grandeur.
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	People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Their language is divided into the Atayal and Sedeg branches and is apparently not closely related to any other aboriginal language.
		Of all aboriginal tongues, the Tsou language has the least in common with the other Formosan languages, suggesting that it was separated from the common ancestral language in the very distant past.
		Culturally, the Yami are closely related to the inhabitants of the Batan Islands of the Philippines, and the Yami language and Ivatan dialect of the Batanes are mutually intelligible.
	www.roc-taiwan.org /taiwan/5-gp/yearbook/2001/chpt02-2.htm (5233 words)

	:: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::
		Their language, also called Ivatan, is peppered with pidgin Spanish and is spoken with the tonal musicality of the Chinese language.
		A staple food in every Ivatan’s dining table is “uvod.” A mixture of fish, camote, ube and other rootcrops molded in small balls and steamed.
		The house is built with a meterthick of lime and stone for its walls and a two-sloped roof made of one-foot thick of cogon grass.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/07/25/TOUR2004072514824.html (1569 words)

	Salita Blog: August 2004
		Tboli is unlike other Philippine languages I've encountered, which is probably why it's not classified in the same family other Philippine languages.
		The language reminds me of Khmer (of Cambodia) or a Slavic language like Czech with complex consonant clusters at the beginning of a word.
		The languages will not disappear as long as it is spoken at home, on the streets, or anywhere in the child's life.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_salitablog_archive.html (1902 words)

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	www.century1news.com /language-translation/language-translation-websites.htm (187 words)

	[Wikipedia-l] Ivatan ISO 639: ivv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I want to request a wikipedia in the Ivatan language.
		It is spoken in Batanes, the northernmost province in the Phils and personally I speak it.
		As mentioned earlier, this is a code that will only be used for the Ivatan language.
	mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-February/037489.html (101 words)

	Language Translation ivatan language translation to tagalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.language-translation.info /ivatan-language-translation-to-tagalog.htm (248 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		} The '''Ivatan''' language, also known as Ibatan, is an Austronesian language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands in the most northern reaches of the Philippines.
		Culture of the Philippines Languages of the Philippines
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Ivatan language.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Ivatan_language.html (208 words)

	Batanes Province
		The aboriginal population, called Ivatan, came from Taiwan, and the Ivatan language is of the Formosan family.
		The Ivatan live in houses built of stone, and shaped so that even typhoon winds can't get a grip on them.
		When high winds threaten, the Ivatan throw rope nets over their crops to protect them.
	www.kykofc.com /kentucky/koc_sites/int/Philippines/batanes.htm (254 words)

	CEOExpress - Web Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Borneo Languages - Iban - A brief list of Iban words and their English definitions.
		Ivatan Language - A brief article on the Ivatan Language, which is closely related to Formosan languages.
		Tausug Language - Synopsis of he Tausug language of the Sulu archipelago, including phonology, morphology, deictics and noun markers.
	www.ceoexpress.com /cgi-bin/podd.pl?dir=/Science/Social_Sciences/Language_and_Linguistics/Natural_Languages/Austronesian/Malayo-Polynesian/Western (244 words)

	China's Ethnic Composition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The aboriginal languages are called "Formosan" to avoid confusion with "Taiwanese," which is the Southern Fukienese dialect of Chinese spoken widely in Taiwan.
		Aborigine languages are still spoken, but native speakers are dwindling in number, and young people are not usually as fluent in their ancestral language as in Mandarin or Taiwanese.
		The vigor of aborigine languages varies according to area; on Orchid Island, for example, Yami is still widely spoken, and if efforts at bilingual education are successful, the language may be able to hold its ground.
	www.taiwaninfo.org /info/yb96/f_html/ch02_2.html (5173 words)

	German - Language Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The High German dialects spoken by Germanic communities in the former Soviet union and Ashkenazi Jews have several unique features, and are usually considered the separate language Yiddish.
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		When Martin Luther translated the Bible (the New Testament in 1521 and the Old Testament in 1534) he based his translation mainly on this already developed language, which was the most widely understood language at this time.
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	www.BatanesOnline.com
		All the children have never reached Batanes but they all speak the Ivatan language fluently.
		Exchange visit is expected of the AIM officers and interested members to arrive in Manila in April 2002.
		Malinao, Bukidnon, the seat of progressive Ivatans or the community of "wakays" who had established their own industries and livelihood, happens to be the province of Congressman N. Acosta, a close contemporary of Congressman Abad.
	www.batanesonline.com /InTheNews/Bukidnon.htm (206 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
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		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)

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