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	Afrikaans
		Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
		Afrikaans was considered a Dutch dialect until the late 19th century, when it began to be recognised as a distinct language, and it gained equal status with Dutch and English as an official language in South Africa in 1925.
		Afrikaans is linguistically closely related to 17th and 18th century Dutch dialects spoken in North and South Holland and, by extension, to modern Dutch.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Afrikaans (2219 words)

	sociology - English language
		English is descended from the language spoken by Germanic tribes that migrated to the land that would become known as England.
		English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua, St.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (with Hindi and 21 other state languages), Ireland (with Irish), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and other Asian languages) and South Africa (along with Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and Northern Sotho).
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/English_language (2913 words)

	English language : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		English is the first language in Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, New Zealand, Antigua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/English_language.htm (2819 words)

	English
		English is descended from the language spoken in the English Isles by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who came to the British Isles around 450 AD and drove the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants to areas that are
		English loanwords now appear in many languages, especially in the fields of technology and culture, and international terminology is dominated by English words.
		English spread from Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries to North America, the Caribbean, and northern Ireland; and in the 18th and 19th centuries to South Asia and Africa.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/English.html (1303 words)

	English language - Gurupedia
		The closest undoubted living relatives of English are Scots and Frisian.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), Cameroon (with French and
		List of English words of Hindi origin, List of English words of Urdu origin)
	www.gurupedia.com /e/en/english_language.htm (2597 words)

	Afrikaans information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Afrikaans was considered a Dutch dialect until the late 19th century, when it began to be recognised as a distinct language, and it gained equal status with Dutch and English as an official language in South Africa in 1925.
		Afrikaans is linguistically closely related to 17th and 18th century Dutch dialects spoken in North and South Holland and, by extension, to modern Dutch.
		Afrikaans is more widely spoken than English (and is, in fact, spoken by a majority of residents in two of South Africa's nine provinces), so children may not have objected to the use of Afrikaans, per se.
	www.school-explorer.com /Afrikaans (2686 words)

	cars - English language
		English is descended from the language spoken by Germanic tribes that migrated to the land that would become known as England.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (with Hindi and 21 other state languages), Ireland (with Irish), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and other Asian languages) and South Africa (along with Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and Northern Sotho).
		English is the most widely used "second" and "learning" language in the world, and as such, many linguists believe, it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/English_language (2909 words)

	KryssTal : The English Language
		It is listed as the official or co-official language of over 45 countries and is spoken extensively in other countries where it has no official status.
		Because the English underclass cooked for the Norman upper class, the words for most domestic animals are English (ox, cow, calf, sheep, swine, deer) while the words for the meats derived from them are French (beef, veal, mutton, pork, bacon, venison).
		English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, which is a large collection of languages with a common ancestor.
	www.krysstal.com /english.html (1199 words)

	THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- OLD ENGLISH NOTES: (ANGLO-SAXON)
		English is the most widely spoken of the Western Germanic languages, both in number of native speakers and in geographical distribution.
		Old English, the ancestor of Modern English originated from the very similar dialects that were spoken by the Germanic tribes which invaded the Celtic island of Britain as of 449 A.D.
		Yet the English spelling does have this one advantage that for instance the word national is easily recognized as a deriviation of nation, even though the first vowel in national is pronounced differently from the one in nation.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Column/1122/OEHIST.htm (4913 words)

	List of English words of Afrikaans origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars.
		Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa.
		There are almost innumerable borrowings from Afrikaans in South African English, including braai (a shortening of braaivleis, a barbecue), dorp (a small town), kraal (a corruption of the Portuguese curral, an enclosure for cattle), laager (a defensive circle of wagons) and lekker (a slang word for 'nice' or 'good').
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Afrikaans_origin (258 words)

	English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	Top 20 English
		English is a West Germanic language that originated from languages brought to Britain during the first half of the first millennium by Germanic settlers from various parts of north-west Germany.
		English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua and Barbuda, St.
		English is the most widely learned and used foreign language in the world, and, as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	top20english.com (4637 words)

	List of English words of Dutch origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of words of Dutch language origin.
		However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Middle Low German equivalents instead or as well.
		The noun was originally adopted as in Dutch, with 'skates' being the singular form of the noun; due to the similarity to regular English plurals this form was ultimately used as the plural while 'skate' was derived for use as singular."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Dutch_origin (524 words)

	Autological Words
		In other words, an autological word is a word that describes itself, and a heterological word is a word that does not describe itself.
		Note: in parts of this dodgy list, there is a trend for altering an actual word in a way which is described by the original word.
		The French word 'adjuster' was adjusted to form 'adjusted', the Old French 'ajoster' was adjusted to form 'adjuster', and the Latin word 'juxta' was adjusted to form 'ajoster'.
	www.segerman.org /autological.html (1147 words)

	testing testing one 2 三 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		English is also the most widely used language for young backpackers who travel across continents, regardless of whether it is their mother tongue or a secondary language.
		English is the most widely learned and used foreign language in the world, and as such, some linguists believe that it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of 'native English speakers', but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures world-wide as it grows in use.
		English as a lingua franca for Europe is a new variant of the English language created to become the common language in Europe, spoken in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
	reply-to-ruoyi.blogspot.com /2006/04/english-language.html (4206 words)

	Wordorigins.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is a borrowing from Portuguese meaning a military command and used specifically to denote a party of men conducting a military raid or expedition, especially one by European colonists in southern Africa against native Africans.
		Afrikaans also borrowed the word from the Portuguese using it in the phrase on commando, referring to militia service.
		The word again rose to prominence in the 1899-1902 Boer War, when it was used to refer to Boer militia units fighting the British.
	www.wordorigins.org /Words/LetterC/commando.html (255 words)

	20th century loanwords
		Words are generally 'loaned' when two different cultures come into contact with each other.
		New objects or attitudes coming from abroad need new words, and often the loaners adopt the original word as their own.
		Your task is to collect words from abroad that have not yet made their way into the English language.
	www.bl.uk /learning/langlit/changlang/activities/lang/twentieth/loanwords.html (489 words)

	English Resources [English Online]
		The Kiwi English Project was a web based research project carried out in 2000 to ascertain what regional differences, if any, there are in the colloquial language young New Zealanders use.
		Calliope uses knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology to understand the origin and meaning of new words and better understand certain words in the English language.
		A collection of over 3000 words that are troublesome for readers and writers, grouped according to the way they are often confused.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/links/english_resources.html?sub_type=Language (1273 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.1596: Lang Description/Socioling: Mesthrie (2002)
		Afrikaans: considering origins, by Roberge There is still no unanimity on understanding the processes by which Afrikaans arose, a topic in which racial presuppositions sometimes conflict with the data.
		From second language to first language: Indian South African English (ISAE), by Mesthrie ISAE is not simply Indian English spoken in SA, rather it developed in SA not in India.
		Black South African English (BSAE), by de Klerk and Gough BSAE arose from the environment where Black students were taught English mostly by Black teachers who were not native speakers.
	linguistlist.org /issues/14/14-1596.html (2385 words)

	Carolyn's Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		English words use the Roman or Latin alphabet, which is one of many alphabets.
		Because many good "spelling bee words" have definitions that relate to the various sciences, it is important for spellers to explore this language of origin and to learn its signature in words.
		Some sources indicate that around one-fourth of the words in the English language were "born" as English words, but these represent a very large proportion of the words we use in our writing and speaking: Words whose origin is English are many of our basic, everyday words.
	www.spellingbee.com /glance/snapshot.shtml (2715 words)

	Irish (Gaelic) Afrikaans translation
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	www.translatorscafe.com /cafe/translations/Irish_(Gaelic)/Afrikaans (282 words)

	KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English
		This is a collection of tables listing words from the many languages that have contributed words to English.
		For some languages the word list is complete; for others (French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish) only a selection of borrowed words is given as there are so many.
		Word from around the world that one day may enter the English language.
	www.krysstal.com /borrow.html (385 words)

	Present-Day English(es)
		Any language which is closely related to another in a portion of its vocabulary or structure could, when looked at from the perpective of the other language, be said to be a debased, corrrupt or ridiculous version of the other language.
		One characteristic of pidgins is the lack of inflectional morphology.
		Many Tok Pisin words, especially those referring to aspects of flora and fauna, are not of English origin.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/pde.html (1305 words)

	Building Your German Vocabulary
		An introduction to the Germanic Languages with emphasis on the origin of English.
		A list of 1000 common German words which you should learn.
		The languages are: Afrikaans, Bavarian/Austrian, Dutch, English, German, Low Saxon (Low German) of Eastern Friesland, Luxembourgish, Mennonite Plautdietsch, Northern Low Saxon (Low German), Scots, Swiss German (from both Zurich and Bern), Westerlauwer Frisian, and Westphalian Low Saxon (Low German).
	www.disknet.com /indiana_biolab/ger210.htm (563 words)

	Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - ZA Südafrika, l'Afrique du Sud, South Africa, Zuid Africa - Ismen, Ismes, Isms
		wikipedia - List of English words of Afrikaans origin
		Several words from the Afrikaans language have been absorbed into English, primarily from British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars.
		There are almost innumerable borrowings from Afrikaans in South African English, including "braai" (a shortening of braaivleis, a barbeque), "dorp" (a small town), "kopje" (a hillock), "kraal" (a corruption of the Portuguese curral, an enclosure for cattle), "laager" (a defensive circle of wagons) and "lekker" (a slang word for 'nice' or 'good').
	www.etymologie.info /~e/z_/za-ismen_.html (568 words)

	Dialects of English
		English was imposed upon the Irish, but they have made it their own and have contributed some of our finest literature.
		As with the English of the Scottish Highlands, the English of the west coast of Ireland, where Gaelic is still spoken, is lilting, with pure vowels.
		Many common words refer to the traditions of the bushman or bushie -- the early explorers and settlers of the outback (wilderness).
	webspace.ship.edu /cgboer/dialectsofenglish.html (3577 words)

	Fun with Words
		For a look at some curious word origins from A to Z, Etymologically Speaking is the site to visit.
		The National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement is funded by the US Department of Education and focuses their research on ways to improve students' English and literacy achievement in schools across America.
		The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is an organization devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.
	www.easternct.edu /depts/edu/units/words.html (1753 words)

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