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	Articles - Kutch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The languages spoken predominantly in Kutch are Kutchi and Gujarati.
		Kutchi is a language that draws heavily from its two neighbouring language groups: Sindhi and Gujrati.
		The Kutchi language is written in the Gujarati script; indeed, the languages are so similar that many regard the former as a dialect of the latter.
	www.quickize.com /articles/Kutch (769 words)

	List of national languages of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These languages are entitled to representation on the Official Language Commission, and a candidate in an examination conducted for national government service may opt to take the exam in any of these languages.
		English is the Associate official language and the language to be used while communicating with the states.
		Kutchi — language of Kutch, a region in Gujarat
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_official_languages_of_India (854 words)

	Kutchi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kutchi language (also spelled Kachchhi) is an Indo-Aryan Language spoken in the Kutch region of the Indian state of Gujarat, with about 866,000 speakers.
		Kutchi was originally written using the now extinct Khojki or Khojaki (of Khojas) script.
		Kutchi survives only as a spoken language now as it is written using the Gujarati alphabet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kutchi_language (227 words)

	Memoni language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memoni is an Indo-European language, of the Indo-Aryan family.
		The Memoni language has similarities to Kutchi and Gujarati.
		The Memoni language is spoken in India and Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memoni (71 words)

	Portsmouth Herald World/National News: World's languages dying at an alarming rate, say linguists
		She is the last known speaker of Eyak, a language native to Alaska and one that is expected to become extinct when the 83-year-old Smith passes away.
		When a language dies, linguists, anthropologists and others lose rich sources of material for their work in documenting a people's history, finding out what they knew and tracking their movements.
		Governments can help by removing bans on languages, and children should be encouraged to speak other languages in addition to their native tongues, said Worldwatch's Sampat, who is fluent in French and Spanish and grew up speaking the Indian languages of Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Kutchi.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2001news/6_20_w1.htm (800 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kutch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Kutchi language (also spelled Kachchi) is an Indo-Aryan Language spoken in the Kutch region of the Indian state of Gujarat, with about 866,000 speakers.
		The Kutchi language has not historically been a written language, though in modern times it is occationally written in the Gujarati script.
		Sindhi (Ø³Ù†ÚŒÙŠØŒ à¤¸à¤¿à¤¨à¥à¤§à¥€; sindhÄ«) is the language of the Sindh region of South Asia, which is now a province of Pakistan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kutch (2280 words)

	Everything about Kutch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kutchi is a language descended from Sindhi, a language from Punjab, and Gujrati.
		Language, religion, and caste are major determinants of social and political organisation within the highly diverse Indian population today.
		Gujarati is the chief language of India's Gujarat state, as well as the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
	f.wa.wikimiki.org /de/Kutch (11483 words)

	Everything about Official Languages Of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Varieties of language such as dialects, idiolects and sociolects can be distinguished not only by their vocabulary and grammar, but also by differences in phonology (including prosody).
		An opposite example is the case of the Chinese language whose variations are often considered dialects and not languages despite their mutual unintelligibility because they share a common literary standard and common body of literature.
		Hindi is the predominant language in the states and territories of Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, and Chattisgarh.
	69.sl.wikimiki.org /en/official+languages+of+India (10660 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: The Languages of India
		Kannada -- A prominent Dravidian language spoken in the province of Karnataka.
		Kutchi -- A language spoken in the Kutch region of Gujarat.
		Tulu -- A spoken language prominently spoken in Dakshina Kannada and Udupidistricts on the west-coast.
	www.kamat.com /indica/diversity/languages.htm (991 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Death of the Mother Tongue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She is the last known fluent speaker of Eyak, a language native to Alaska and one that is expected to become extinct when the 83-year-old Smith passes away.
		When a language dies, linguists, anthropologists and others lose rich sources of material for their documentation of a people’s history by finding out what they knew, and tracking their movements.
		Elsewhere, efforts are under way to revive Cornish, the language of Cornwall, England, that is believed to have died around 1777, as well as ancient Mayan languages in Mexico.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_06_29/news3_languageextinction.html (769 words)

	NR Comment on NRO
		The 15 most common languages are now on the lips of half the world's people; the top 100 languages are used by 90 percent of humanity." Sampat's is just the latest nostalgia for "linguistic diversity" (the kissing cousin of "biological diversity") to have surfaced in the academic press.
		Whatever the original number of languages in existence at the end of the Ice Age (estimated in the tens of thousands), we are down to about 6,800 today.
		Michael Krauss, a linguist at the Alaskan Native Language Center, thinks things are even worse than that; he estimates that only 600 of the world's languages are "safe" from extinction, insofar as they are still being taught to children.
	www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment062001a.shtml (882 words)

	On the Media
		Twice the size of New Jersey and sparsely populated, Kutch is isolated from the rest of India largely because it shares a porous border with India's bitter rival, Pakistan.
		She is also one of the rare Kutchi village women who separated from her husband, which she did only recently after getting involved with KVMS.
		Kennedy gives the name of the Kutchi women's group as "Kutch Vikas Mahila Sangathan" whereas it should be "Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan." Similarly the acronym KVMS should be KMVS.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_020703_hope.html (1523 words)

	MONTENEGRO - LoveToKnow Article on MONTENEGRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bee-keeping is practised in the Kutchi districts, and mulberries are grown for silkworms.
		Language and LiteratureThe Montenegrin language is practically identical with the Serbo-Croatian: it exhibits certain dialectical variations, and has borrowed to some extent from the Turkish and Italian.
		The poems of that ruler are accounted among the classics of the Servian language, especially his Gorski Vienatz, or Mountain Wreath, a drama describing the massacre of the Montenegrin Moslems by their Christian kinsmen in 1702.
	www.1911ency.org /M/MO/MONTENEGRO.htm (8789 words)

	Straight answers- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kirti Khatri, Chairman Kutch Sahitya Akademi, On the revival of Kutchi language
		As for the Kutchi language, it has not received much recognition and has only survived as a spoken language.Gujarat Sahitya Akademi has been encouraging regional dialects like Sindhi for a long time but as Kutchi is very close to Gujarati, the Akademi wasn't able to promote it.
		In fact the language was about to go extinct as it was neither used in administration nor as a medium of instruction in schools.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-1174730,prtpage-1.cms (322 words)

	USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): Our planet's languages are dying - Worldview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Meanwhile, my grandparents spoke Kutchi, the language of our ancestors, who came from the deserts of western India.
		After all, they could converse fluently in many of Bombay's working languages, and I sensed from an early age that Kutchi was not useful in any obvious way.
		Kutchi, on the other hand, has perhaps 800,000 speakers--and that number is declining as more and more Kutchi-speaking young people switch to Gujarati or English.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2682_130/ai_84184879 (347 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Languages need at least 100,000 speakers to pass from generation to generation, says UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
		When a language dies, linguists, anthropologists and others lose rich sources of material for their work documenting a people's history, finding out what they knew and tracking their movements from region to region.
		The language nearly became extinct when the United States banned schools from teaching students in Hawaiian after annexing the then-independent country in 1898.
	www.ogmios.org /176.htm (705 words)

	Saraiya Family Blog: Taste for Kutchi
		Coincidentally, this article about Kutchi - a language sometimes mistaken for Gujarati - is written by a person with the last name Suraiya :
		However, as Kutchi doesn't have a script it borrows the Gujarati alphabet to write with.
		It is a robust idiom, though with a limited vocabulary; you mightn't be able to discuss the nuances of neurosurgery in it, but it is sturdy and reliable enough to get you through everyday matters.
	www.saraiya.net /2006/02/taste-for-kutchi.html (147 words)

	Memon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They speak an Indo-Aryan language sometimes called Memoni that is similar Gujarati and Sindhi.
		The Memon language cannot be written (or system of writing it has been lost) there is no clear record of the of the Memon people.
		The Memon language is falling into disuse many parts of the world although there efforts to revive it and to devise method of writing it using the Latin alphabet [3] (http://www.memonworld.net/language_Mustaqbil.html).
	www.freeglossary.com /Memon (465 words)

	Kannada language resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Tamil-Kannada languages belong to the southern branch of the Dravidian language family.
		Kannada Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in Karnataka State in South India, and has a literature that dates from the ninth century.
		Kannada Language Kazakh Language Khmer Cambodian Language Kikukyu Language Kikuyu Language Konkani Language Korean Language Kurdish Language Kyrgyz Language Laotian Language Latin Language Latvian Language...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Kannada.html (1327 words)

	Re: [nukkad] For those interested in spoken langs..others ignore :)
		It was titled 'Last Words: The Dying of Languages' and was published in the May/June 2001 issue of the WorldWatch magazine.
		According to the author of that report, only 600 of the world's languages are considered "safe" from extinction because they are still being learned by children.
		Among the world's 6,800 languages, half to 90 percent could be extinct by the end of the century.
	www.mumbai-central.com /nukkad/oct2001/msg00012.html (894 words)

	Language in India
		Languages are often a subject of casual, though often heated, conversations between Indians, so both groups were very interested in the topic, Also, I found that in both groups, individuals were able to play off each other and, in doing so, delve further into the issues than they would have alone.
		Truth can use any language, and the more universal, the better it is. If metaphysics is India's primary contribution to world civilization, as we believe it is, then must she use the most universal language for her to be universal....
		Her native language is Gujarati (Kutchi dialect), and she also speaks English, Hindi, and Marati.
	www.languageinindia.com /junjul2002/baldridgeindianenglish.html (7119 words)

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		The linguistic repertoire of those who contributed to my language learning environment during those early years was as follows: My Mother used formal varieties of Hindi, Gujararti as well as English in her work as a school teacher.
		Kenya's national language is Kiswahili (Swahili ki-prefix for an abstract or inanimate object), recognised as such for political, cultural and social unity after Kenya's independence (1963) but she uses both English and Swahili as her official languages.
		This was due to my new best friend who spoke Kutchi, a language originating in an Indian state near Gujarat about 200 miles NW of Bombay.
	www.kirklees-ednet.org.uk /subjects/ethnicmin/docs/All_My_Languages.doc (2198 words)

	Kutchi - TheBestLinks.com - Punjabi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Rajasthani, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kutchi - TheBestLinks.com - Punjabi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Rajasthani,...
		Kutch language has its own script known as Khojaki (of Khojas) script but it is no more being used.
		Kutch language was very nearly a kin to Prakrit but has survived only as a spoken language.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Kutchi.html (245 words)

	Gujarati script, pronunciation and language
		The earliest known document in the Gujarātī script is a manuscript dating from 1592, and the script first appeared in print in a 1797 advertisement.
		Gujarātī, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 46 million people in the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, and also in Bangladesh, Fiji, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Réunion, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
		Kachchi, an Indo-Aryan language with about 866,000 speakers in the Indian states of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Orissa, and also in Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan and Tanzania.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/gujarati.htm (287 words)

	Kashmiri language resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		...language Kashmiri language Khasi language Kodava Thakk Kokborok language Konkani language Kristi Kurukh language Kutchi language L Lotha language M Maajhi Madras bashai Madurai Tamil Magadhi language Maharashtri...
		...language of Karnataka) Kashmiri Konkani (official language of Goa) Maithili (official language of Bihar) Malayalam (official language of Kerala and Lakshadweep) Manipuri (Meithei) (official language of Manipur)...
		Kashmiri Kashmiri is an Indo-European language which is a unique language in the Indian linguistic context.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Kashmiri.html (1565 words)

	Now, a course in Kutchi language for teachers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A short course in Kutchi language for non-Kutchi teachers has been introduced in Kutch, Jamnagar and other tribal areas of the state, to enable them to have a good rapport with the predominantly Kutchi-speaking primary school students.
		Talking to Express Newsline, Joshi, who has also written Kutchi Jan (for primary level) and Kutchi Sujan (for higher level) on Friday, said initially eight master-trainers and resource persons were being trained in the Kutchi language, but now the figure had increased to 50 throughout the district.
		He said seeing the success of this experiment, Dr Anwar Bagthriya, a DIET researcher, in his research last year, had recommended it to be replicated in other tribal areas for Bhil and Kokani-speaking people, at a recent state-level seminar.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=105889 (393 words)

	[ all-the-details.be \| Shah Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shah is an Iranian term in Persian language for a monarch (king or emperor), and has also been adopted in many other languages.
		In western languages the term Shah is often used as an imprecise rendering of ShÄhanshÄh (meaning King of Kings), usually shortened to ShÄh is the term for an Iranian monarch and was used by most of the former rulers of the Iranian empires many nationalities of Iranian origin or under cultural influence.
		Shah is a common Indian surname (family name), especially in the Gujarati language and Kutchi language.
	los-angeles-hotel.all-the-details.be /1840s/Shah (1417 words)

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