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	English language - Gurupedia
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
		English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		List of English words of Hindi origin, List of English words of Urdu origin)
	www.gurupedia.com /e/en/english_language.htm (2597 words)

	Lists of English words of international origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These are lists of words in the English language which are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages:
		List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
		List of English words of Irish origin (List of English words of Gaelic origin, List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lists_of_English_words_of_international_origin (167 words)

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		Longer words may also be formed by compounding.
		As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabulary includes words from many languages.
		The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and the relationships of languages, with its roots no deeper than the 18th century.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/chevychasees/etymology/links.htm (856 words)

	List of English words of African origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of English language words that come from any of the sub-Saharan African languages.
		coffee - disputed; either from the Ethiopian region/Kingdom of Kaffa, where coffee originated, or Arabic kahwa
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_African_origin (99 words)

	Africa Update Archives
		She informs the reader of a wide range of terms that are of continental African origin, and which have become embedd ed in African-American speech in particular and American speech in general.
		African American linguist L. Turner identified African language precedents for the diphthongs, verb tenses, consonants and vowel sounds, tongue position, phoneme, diacritics, and syntactical patterns spoken in the sea island communities of North and Sout h Carolina and Georgia.
		The term rings of African origins, though the American Heritage Dictionary defines "akimbo" as an adjective and adve rb which means "with the hand on the hips and the elbows bowed outward," suggesting that the word is derived from "kenebowe" from Middle English.
	www.ccsu.edu /afstudy/upd4-3.html (6051 words)

	English
		English words that arose in the US A number of words that have arisen in the United States have become common, to varying degrees, in English as it is spoken internationally.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), Cameroon (with French and African languages), Dominica, St. Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (with French Creole), the Federated States of Micronesia, Ireland (with Irish), Liberia (with African languages), Singapore and South Africa (with Afrikaans and other African languages).
		English orthography is historical, not phonological, orthography and diverges considerably from the spoken language.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.net /definition/english... (14524 words)

	Africanisms: Racial Attitudes as Reflected in African Loan Words
		century though, it is the African languages that are perceived as being the “lower” vernaculars.
		If English cultural biases viewed African languages as simply lower vernaculars or even non-languages at all, it is perhaps hardly surprising that, although millions of people were “borrowed” from the continent, few words ever were.
		While the English may not have come to the Africans though, there is no doubt that the Africans came to the English.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362Ward2.htm (1794 words)

	Phrase and word origins
		The word "monkey" is of uncertain origin; its first known usage was in 1498 when it was used in the literary work Reynard the Fox as the name of the son of Martin the Ape.
		Originally the neck of the woods was a narrow strip of woodland connecting a larger area of woodland.
		The origin of "balls to the wall" is thought to come from aircraft pilots who pushed their joysticks ("balls") into the full thrust position (i.e., "the wall"), thereby making the aircraft go as fast as possible (see also "pear-shaped").
	www.yaelf.com /questions.shtml (8665 words)

	The MAAT Newsletter: EBONICS: A Serious Analysis of African American Speech Patterns
		Since many African Americans do not speak standard English, "it is more than reasonable to suggest that in order to effectively and sussessfully teach the culturally and linguistically different Black child in the urban school the English language, the logical place to begin is with the cultural and linguistic experiences of the Black child.
		Hence, the English words except, slept, crept and wept are pronounced /eksep/, /slep/, /krep/ and /wep/.
		Therefore, the English words mask, desk, tusk and husk are pronounced in Ebonics as /mas/, /des/, /tus/, and /hus/; and the English words west, best, test, fast, last, list and mist are pronounced /wes/, /bes/, /tes/, /fas/, /las/, /lis/ and /mis/ in Ebonics.
	www.melanet.com /clegg_series/ebonics.html (2425 words)

	Do You Speak American . For Educators . Curriculum . College . AAE \| PBS
		The concept of an English speaking standard may be understood as more of a political orientation than accurately addressing the various modes of English speaking, watch with their own integrity and claim to centrality within their own speech communities.
		Slang may be defined as a word or phrase that changes rapidly, is used by an in-group, and is often used in the place of common word to refer to a taboo subject such as sex, drugs, or intoxication.
		Listen for this listed feature being used in conversation and on television and describe the speaker using the feature, the context in which the feature was spoken, and any additional details.
	www.pbs.org /speak/education/curriculum/college/aae (5555 words)

	English Word Origins: PART THREE
		Many writers on classical Greek literature, history, or culture prefer the spelling that is closest to the original Greek in sound and appearance and so choose to write the name of the "father of tragedy" in one of the latter two forms.
		The word shibboleth was, as you can see from this context, used by Jephthah, king of the Gileadites, to distinguish the fleeing Ephraimites, who could not pronounce the sh sound, from his own men.
		The word passed into English from this passage and was gradually extended to a more general use, to mean any word, phrase, or sound which can be used as a test to detect outsiders or foreigners.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /luschnig/EWO/part_three.htm (5701 words)

	Africanisms: A History of Linguistic Genocide
		But as English, both as a language and as a political force, began to gain ascendancy in the world geopolitical structure, the pattern of borrowing shifted from its European neighbours to its colonial acquisitions and encounters.
		The Africans from the Senegambia region (Mande speakers) were part of the greatest and most advanced of the Sudanic empires and many were enslaved as artisans and craftsman.
		A Dictionary of Africanisms: Contributions of Sub-Saharan Africa to the English Language.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362/2/Africanates.htm (1858 words)

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		Lists of references in the following topics (These are PRINT references, NOT Links): Bibliographic guides and bibliographies; Specialised Indexes for the History of Science; Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Chronologies; Biographical Sources; Guides to Scientific Periodicals; and Archival and Manuscript Collections.
		Alphabetical list of Yiddish words and expressions, with English equivalents.
	www.waterborolibrary.org /writing.htm (4488 words)

	Amerindian Words in English
		This list may seem exhaustive, but it's not-- the OED lists a few hundred more words.
		On the other hand, some have claimed an African origin for these expressions.
		And on the third hand-- you need a lot of hands in philology-- nasals with negatives and central vowels are suspiciously common across the world (like "mama" or "papa"), and are thus hard to attribute to borrowing.
	www.zompist.com /indianwd.html (149 words)

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	www.arikah.net (461 words)

	Unique Baby Names \| Baby Names List
		Remember, the names you choose will be with your children for his or her lifetime.
		With that in mind, we have compiled a comprehensive baby names list to be sure you consider every possibility.
		Fortunately, we have researched every baby name where the baby name originated and compiled our baby names list for you.
	www.jivebabynames.com (618 words)

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