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  Iranian languages - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The Iranian language group is part of the generally agreed-upon superstock of the Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages, and as Gathic Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit, along with Greek and Hittite, are the first languages to be written.
The imperial period of the Iranian languages is that of the Persian Empire, particularly the Achaemenid dynasty.
He then adds that Dari is the official language of the royal courts and the language of Khorasan and Balkh and eastern Iran; Parsi is the language of the Moobeds of Fars; Khuzi is the unofficial language of the royalty and comes from Khuzestan; and Seryani originates in Mesopotamia.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/r/a/Iranian_languages.html   (923 words)

  
 Dardic and Nuristani languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Though Dardic and Nuristani languages are considered by the majority of linguists as two separate groups of languages, they are very close in structure and in vocabulary, and can be described together.
Dardic languages Khowar and Kalasha preserved the augment prefix, which existed in Vedic and Ancient Greek languages.
Many languages have no writing at all: this is explained by the fact that the majority of their speakers are illiterate peasants.
indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/indo/dardic.html   (517 words)

  
 Phonemic Sound Chart for Khowar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Above is a chart of the 39 consonants in the Khowar language.
In many languages of the Middle East, the velar unvoiced fricative is written "kh", as in Khomeini.
Dards, Dardistan, and Dardic: an Ethnographic, Geographic, and Linguistic Conundrum
www.ishipress.com /khochart.htm   (224 words)

  
 Dardic languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Dardic languages are the languages of the Dards.
Their relationship to the other subfamilies of this family is not yet settled.
Dardic languages, See also, External links, Dardic languages, Lists of Indo-European languages, Languages of Pakistan and Languages of Afghanistan.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Dardic_languages   (105 words)

  
 Dardic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dardic languages are the languages of the Dard people.
Labelling the Dardic languages as a linguistic sub-family poses a few problems since these languages are not related to each other genetically besides being Indo-Iranian.
The term Dardic is thus more of a geographical reference to a collection of more or less Indo-Iranian Language Isolates than an actual familial designation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dardic_languages   (156 words)

  
 List of languages spoken in Nepal
The number of languages listed for Nepal is 125.
The Khaling dialect is distinct from the Khaling language.
However, the language is still very much alive in Sikkim where it is used as the language of instruction for primary education in some schools.
www.infoclub.com.np /nepal/detailsoflanguages.htm   (5354 words)

  
 Indo-European languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anatolian languages, earliest attested branch, from the 18th century BC; extinct, most notably including the language of the Hittites.
Tocharian languages, extinct tongues of the Tocharians, extant in two dialects, attested from roughly the 6th century.
Satem languages lost the distinction between labiovelar and pure velar sounds, and at the same time assibilated the palatal velars.
www.tocatch.info /en/Indo-germanic_languages.htm   (2178 words)

  
 Nuristani
The Nuristani languages are said to represent the third and by far the smallest branch of the Indo-Iranian languages.
The languages are spoken by tribal peoples in an extremely isolated mountainous region of the Hindukush, one that has never been subject to any real central authority in modern times.
These are influenced by, and sometimes classified as a Dardic languages but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one.
www.governpub.com /Languages-N/Nuristani.php   (535 words)

  
 Konkani language facts - SE, India
Konkani is the foremost spoken language in Konkan and along the western ghats.
Konkani is the only language in Southern India which has been influenced by Paisachi.
Sindhi, Punjabi and Nepali are the other languages on which Paisachi exerted a great influence.
www.shaktienterprise.com /languages/facts/konkani.php   (52 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 10.718: Languages in Contact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hello; I would like to thank you all for your suggestions to my recent query regarding Languages in Contact bibliography; Below is a copy of my list.
Spiro Hamilothoris 5/11/99 Languages in Contact Bibliography 1990-98 African 1- Joseph E. Holloway, The African Heritage of American English.
Volume 1 includes papers relating to the history of linguistics and phonology (both historical and synchronic), the second volume is devoted to historical morphology and syntax.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/10/10-718.html   (2241 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for India
Considered to be dialects of one language with Chaudangsi and dialects in Chhanguru and Tinker districts of Nepal.
A separate language from Muria, Maria of Garhichiroli, Dandami Maria, and Koya.
Arunachal Pradesh, Kameng District, Thrizino circle, 15 villages, mainly in villages of Dijungania, Jamiri, Puragaon; between Monpa on the west and the Tani languages on the east.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=India   (7527 words)

  
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Figure 2 lists what the participants indicated as their first languages, and Figure 3 shows what they indicated as the language they most prefer to use or are most comfortable with.
Languages from this group which, according to the 1981 Census of India, are spoken by more than 50,000 speakers are listed in Figure 6 (Moseley and Asher 1994, p.206; this reference used for Figures 7-9 also).
The official language is not always the majority language of the state; for example, many of the north-eastern states use English for this purpose.
www.ling.upenn.edu /~jason2/papers/natlang.htm   (15467 words)

  
 Hindi language resources
The term used to refer to the language is "Hindi", regardless of the mix of Persian or Sanskrit words used by the speaker.
...language Hindi language Maithili language Marathi language Nepali language Oriya language Pali Punjabi language Romany language - the language of Gypsies Sindhi language Singhalese language Urdu Dardic languages :...
As drafted, English ceased to exist as an official language (on par with Hindi) in 1965, after which it was intended to continue as an "associate additional official...
www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Hindi.html   (1159 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Indo-Iranian pt. 4
You have reached the fourth page of Indo-Iranian languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
Languages on this page so far are Dardic Languages, Gaddi, Garhwali, Indic Languages (Branch), Kalasha, Khowar, and Shina.
updated 8-7-2003 The Dardic languages (Indo-Hittite) comprise one sub-branch of the Indic sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo- Hittite family of languages.
www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/indirn4h.htm   (526 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library Indo-Hittite
You have reached the Indo-Hittite language family page which is just one part of the"Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library at The University of Montana.
The Indo-Hittite family of languages is more commonly called Indo-European, but since one branch of the family also has that name, the name Indo-Hittite will be used for the family in this work, to avoid confusion.
Some of the languages comprising the Indo-European branch are: Bengali, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kashmiri, Latin, Marathi, Norwegian, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Rajasthani, Romany, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh.
www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/indohih.htm   (214 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 11.294: Reactions to Languages Listed in ISO 639
The Klingon Language Institute (www.kli.org) and its quarterly journal _HolQeD_ (http://www.kli.org/study/HolQeD.html ; ISSN: 1061-2327; catalogued by MLA) are the centers of study of this language, originally developed by Dr. Marc Okrand.
It is the sole minority language native to Portugal, and is spoken in the North-West.
Toda, Kota, and Kuruba (maybe several separate languages), found along the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, should also be included, since their phonemic systems are distinctive and there is a fair amount of scholarship on them, both past and present.
www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-294.html   (5518 words)

  
 Financial Library - Indo European Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
However, it is a linguistically distinct language since it does not directly derive from any of the other Indo-European languages.
The languages are written in eleven major writing...
For a modern version of the hypothesis of European origin of PIE see the Paleolithic Continuity Theory (proposed by Italian theorists) that derives Indo-European from the European Paleolithic cultures.
www.financiallibrary.com /indo-european-languages.htm   (2486 words)

  
 Ruhlen: Classification and List of Languages of the World
Languages are given in capitalized lower-case letters, groups in all capitals.
The number of languages in each group is shown as [extant+extinct] after the name of the group.
The tree is condensed, with ungrouped siblings listed together as branch ".0".
www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/Linguistics/Ruhlen/ruhlen.html   (4340 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 10.718: Languages in Contact
Language Contact in a Plantation Environment : A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Languages, No 5); Jeff Siegel / (Hardcover) Published 1987
Language of Inequality (Contributions to the Sociology of Language 36); Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes (ed.) (hardback) Published 1985
Languages in Contact and Conflict : Contrasting Experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/bibliogs/contact.htm   (2634 words)

  
 Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
At the 1995 meeting of the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation in New Orleans, Louisiana, a survey was proposed on endangered languages with which the members of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) have worked or are working.
However it alone is not an accurate indicator of the language situation of the given population.
The resource list was initially compiled by Dr. Anthony (Tony) Woodbury of the University of Texas at Austin for the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, Linguistic Society of America.
www.ogmios.org /54.htm   (4188 words)

  
 Sources for the Numbers List
Sometimes half the work in dealing with a new language is finding out what it is, and relating it to the sometimes wildly varying classifications from Ruhlen, Voegelin, and the Ethnologue.
Dialects I have but not in the list: 835, so the grand total is about 5612.
In html listed as C Pahari since there's only one difference (a lengthened vowel on '6') from Garhwali A d.Central Paha:ri, R, V. Dalby's v.
www.zompist.com /sources.htm   (2727 words)

  
 Kliment Voroshilov ...
List of Dardic languages : List of Pashayi languages,List of Dardic languages,Asia,Kashmiri language,List of Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages,SIL,Gawar-Bati language,Grangali language,Dameli language,Southwest Pashayi language
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