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  Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While Russian became a required subject of study in all Soviet schools in 1938, in the mainly non-Russian areas the chief language of instruction was the local language or languages.
This practice led to widespread bilingualism in the educated population, though among smaller nationalities and among elements of the population that were heavily affected by the immigration of Russians, linguistic assimilation also was common, in which the members of a given non-Russian nationality lost facility in the historic language of their group.
The concessions granted national cultures and the limited autonomy tolerated in the union republics in the 1920s led to the development of national elites and a heightened sense of national identity.
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 Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : L
The irony of this project is that many African languages will be not be scribable on the Internet because virtually no software applications or operating systems, and relatively few fonts, are available which support necessary encodings for all or most of the characters necessary to represent African languages (most of which use extended Latin alphabets).
Loglan (Loglan ~ Logical language) A synthetic, algorithmic language, originally developed in the 1950s, which uses the Latin (Roman) alphabet and whose vocabulary and grammar are designed to be syntactically unambiguous.
The language is called algorithmic because one of the sources of words is algorithmic construction of new words from other words.
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 Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative •• Türk Öykürleri Sandığı
These were recorded on the scores of stelea, written in their unique alphabet and language, and erected in the region of Orkhon-Yenisey.13 This information is corroborated in earlier written sources, in the Byzantine and Chinese chronicles, the Turks' Western and Eastern neighbors, respectively.
The language of the Turks became the third major language of the Islamic world by the 10-11th centuries --the language of the military and, in sizeable number of cases, of imperial rule:35 In the East, the Ghaznavids (dynasty r.
Thus language alone was no sure indicator of ethnicity, for the educated came to be versed in the major languages of the Islamic world at --Arabic, Persian and later, Turkish.
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 Curriculum Vitae
Language Aspects of Ethnic Patterns and Processes in the North Caucasus.
Summer 1968 - Summer language study program in Leningrad, USSR, with extensive travel through the Soviet Union.
Summer 1967 - Field research on ethnic and religious landscapes in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Greece, (including trip to Ukraine and Moldavia in the USSR).
www.geog.uoregon.edu /wixman/cv.htm   (4352 words)

  
 Top20Uzbekistan.com - Your Top20 Guide to Uzbekistan!
Toshkent viloyati, Samarqand viloyati), 1 autonomous republic [respublika], respublikasi in compound, Qoraqalpog'iston Avtonom Respublikasi, Karakalpakistan Autonomous Republic, and 1 independent city [shahar] or [shahri] in compounds, the Tashkent city, Toshkent shahri; Names are given below in the Uzbek language, although numerous variations of the transliterations of each name exist.
Other ethnic groups include Russian 5.5% (this number indicates the total of the remaining Russian-speakers), Tajik 15%, Korean 4.7% (these may also be attested as Russian-speaking population), [KazakhsKazakh]] 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, and Tatar 1.5%.
Uzbek is the official state language; however, Russian is the de facto language for interethnic communication, including much day-to-day technical, scientific, government and business use.
www.top20uzbekistan.com   (3014 words)

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