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  List of official languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, Gwichʼin, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
Pakistan (with English, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Siraiki, Balochi)
The official language is decided by a majority of the states whose official languages are declared; English is the first language by custom and majority.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_official_languages   (832 words)

  
 Essentialist Explanations
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that.
English is essentially Plattdeutsch as spoken by a Frisian pretending to be French.
Newyorkese is English with a Dutch accent and a grudge.
mercury.ccil.org /~cowan/essential.html#English   (9692 words)

  
 Main Page - Langmaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, ISBN 0766195767, was written by the renowned linguist Edward Sapir, who writes in the preface, "This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it...
Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests—the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art.
Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created, and is a minimalist virtuoso performance, a haiku of a language compared to the sonnet of Sindarin.
www.langmaker.com   (1272 words)

  
 List of programming languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Categorical list of programming languages – by general usage and context
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_programming_languages   (89 words)

  
 Ari Luiro: Chess Pieces in 72 Languages
Sometimes a language uses a loan word, which does not necessarily mean the ordinary king, eg.
Words for chess queen in European languages are generally feminine, with a few exception.
Artificial languages are not included, the only exception is Esperanto because of its extensive use.
www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Metro/9154/nap-pieces.htm   (2925 words)

  
 Learn Spanish
List of 66 phrasal verbs translated to Spanish with translations.
List of almost all the vocabulary connected with the church.
Visit the English Spanish Cultural ExchangeThis is a penpal exchange between native Spanish speakers and native English speakers.
www.lingolex.com /spanish.htm   (535 words)

  
 List of languages - Simple English Wikipedia
This list of languages is alphabetical by English name.
Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages   (174 words)

  
 Lowlands-L • a discussion group for people who share an interest in languages and cultures of the Lowlands
“Lowlands languages” are those Germanic languages that developed in the “Lowlands” the low-lying areas adjacent to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Also included are those languages that descended from autochtonous Lowlands languages and are used elsewhere; for example, Afrikaans, Lowlands-based emigrant languages, pidgins and creoles, and also English and Scots.
Also, we present to you a list of offline material (books, dictionaries, magazines) who deal with (one or more of) the language varieties of the Lowlands, and a long list of internet links.
www.lowlands-l.net   (324 words)

  
 Numbers in Over 5000 Languages
Their ears may not be attuned to the language; or there may be dialectal variation, or even sound change.
There is nothing inherent in the language variety to tell us what it is. Linguists sometimes use "language" to refer to a mutually intelligible group of dialects (but note that intelligibility can be partial).
For non-African languages, a macron indicates length and is indicated :.
www.zompist.com /numbers.shtml   (926 words)

  
 KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English
The English language has an enormous amount of words that have been borrowed (or loaned) from other languages.
The extinct Language of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires in
A precursor of the English language spoken in
www.krysstal.com /borrow.html#hindi   (432 words)

  
 Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them.
These are linguistically diverse languages deserving of individual attention, and it is very difficult to make accurate generalizations about them as a group.
www.native-languages.org   (1052 words)

  
 English Courses/Course List - Cicero Languages International, UK
Cicero offers a wide range of courses including full and part-time general English, English for business, academic year course, exam courses and holiday courses such as the summer course for children and the Christmas and New Year course.
This course enables students to combine a course of full-time general English with one hour per week....
For clients who wish to combine general English group tuition with one-to-one tuition in order to co....
quality-english.com /schools/xq/asp/i.473738087548149/qx/courselist.htm   (686 words)

  
 Awesome Library - English
Provides tools for translators, including dictionaries to support 58 languages, a language translation search engine, a translation engine, and a search for context.
Provides information about geographic distribution, languages of special interest, language by country, language families, names of languages, and more.
Provides language course locations by selected language, with 70 options, and then by institute, city, or country.
www.awesomelibrary.org /Classroom/English/Languages/Languages.html   (830 words)

  
 Online Dictionaries and Translators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
199 languages are currently listed in the dictionaries.
These dictionaries must be a spoken language or dialect.
Please use the form on our contact webpage if you know of any additional dictionaries we should list or of any broken links to any of the dictionaries.
www.word2word.com /dictionary.html   (57 words)

  
 List of Wikipedias - Meta
1.8 0 articles in language (other than main page)
The first list, ordered by size, is the complete list of all 229.
The second list is ordered by local language name.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/List_of_Wikipedias   (297 words)

  
 Dictionary refdesk.com - My Facts Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Each language has about two dozen commonly used phrases - in the language, in English translation, and as a sound file.
We Do Languages Come From - We don't ask ourselves where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France, English in England, Chinese in China, Japanese in Japan, and so forth.
Yet if we go back only a few thousand years, none of these languages were spoken in their respective countries and indeed none of these languages existed anywhere in the world.
www.refdesk.com /factdict.html   (2456 words)

  
 List and Glossary of medical terms: English
The first possibility is by browsing through the alphabetical list of technical and popular medical terms: this list contains all the technical and popular terms in an alphabetical order, in the language you have chosen.
The list is divided into several parts, in order to reduce the size of the pages and to speed up file transmission.
The reason for this detour is the expectation that dictionaries in the other languages will also be available in the future.
users.ugent.be /~rvdstich/eugloss/EN/lijst.html   (323 words)

  
 The Online Books Page: Archives and Indexes
Below we list some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized.
List of public domain titles (compiled by a third party; incomplete, but only includes fully accessible titles)
The University of Virginia's Western European Literature listing also lists a number of major collections in languages other than English.
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu /archives.html   (2359 words)

  
 MLA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.
MLA style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing.
In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date.
owl.english.purdue.edu /owl/resource/557/01   (968 words)

  
 The Alternative Dictionaries
The Alternative dictionaries are a collection of various forms of "bad language" from many languages.
The requirements are less strict for minor languages.
Note that the previous version of the system had far fewer requirements, and that the quality of these entries may vary.
www.notam02.no /~hcholm/altlang   (223 words)

  
 yourDictionary.com.Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal
There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world.
New languages and dictionaries are constantly being added to yourDictionary.com; as a result, we have the widest and deepest set of dictionaries, grammars, and other language resources on the web.
If you cannot find the language resources you want on line, yourDictionary now offers 25,000 language resources on tape, video, CD ROM, and in traditional book form for children and adults in cooperation with WorldLanguage.
www.yourdictionary.com /languages.html   (231 words)

  
 Companion Card - List All Languages in English
The Companion Card Cardholder Handbook is available in 15 languages, and they include information about the Cardholder Application Form.
The following is an English translation of each of the above pages.
This form is written in English and must be completed in English.
www.companioncard.org.au /cc/cclang.htm   (476 words)

  
 English * Italiano
were not found when I checked on the date listed in italics after the icon.
It's meant to be particularly useful to translators working with English and Italian: therefore it concentrates on Italian and English language resources, especially dictionaries and glossaries, but there are also links to other resources which can be useful to translators in all languages.
Since the Internet has an English language bias, English language resources are easier to find.
www.iol.ie /~mazzoldi/lang   (422 words)

  
 BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages.
Bible book list for your default version (New International Version).
New International Version is currently set as your default Bible version.
Listen to this chapter Audio is taken from the Listener's Bible narrated by Max McLean.
www.biblegateway.com   (261 words)

  
 Modern Language Association (MLA): Format, Bibliography, Style, Convention
Founded in 1883 by teachers and scholars, the Modern Language Association promotes the study and teaching of language and literature.
A new version of the MLA Language Map is now available.
Read forthcoming-meetings listings and professional announcements (formerly in PMLA)
www.mla.org   (48 words)

  
 FCIC - Multilanguage Gateway
Here are some helpful links to Federal resources in other languages.
When you click on these links, you will be leaving our website, so don't forget to bookmark us.
This service is provided by the Federal Citizen Information Center of the U.S. General Services Administration.
www.pueblo.gsa.gov /multilanguage/multilang.htm   (1009 words)

  
 alphaDictionary * Free English Online Dictionary
Now Dr. Goodword has a forum where he and his friends can speak their minds about language.
British potato farmers ask the OED to remove couch potato from the dictionary.
Dr. Goodword explains what slang is all about: how it fits into our speech and lives.
www.alphadictionary.com   (193 words)

  
 Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)
Where two codes are provided (22 languages total) the bibliographic code is given first and the terminology code is given second.
Multiple codes for the same language are to be considered synonyms.
www.loc.gov /standards/iso639-2/englangn.html   (225 words)

  
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The following is a list of Christmas Carols and a link to the lyrics.
If you know of any others please let me know and I will include them.
(Venezuelan) Cantemos with English Translation: We Are Singing
www.angelfire.com /me/music17/carols.html   (665 words)

  
 E. L. Easton - English Online
Peering through their hole in the wall, they saw Cat running away in fear.
"Ah, see the benefit of knowing another language!"
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled...
eleaston.com   (62 words)

  
 Online Language Dictionaries and Translators
Romanian < - > German < - > English Dictionary
Romanian < - > Hungarian < - > English Dictionary
Urdu < - > Hindi < - > English Dictionary
www.word2word.com /dicf.html   (70 words)

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