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	Bambooweb: English language
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
		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.
		English grammar is based on that of its Germanic roots, though some scholars during the 1700s and 1800s attempted to impose Latin grammar upon it, with little success.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/e/n/English_language.html (2356 words)

	Tamil language Summary
		Tamil is most closely related to Malayalam, spoken in the Indian state of Kerala which borders Tamil Nadu, which linguists estimate separated from Tamil between the 8th and 10th centuries.
		Tamil is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and is one of 22 nationally recognised languages under the Indian Constitution.
		Tamil is a phonetic language and is subject to well-defined rules of elision and euphony.
	www.bookrags.com /Tamil_language (4676 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)

	Etymology of Selected Words of Indian Language Origin
		However words were rarely substituted to English words, as it happened during Old English and Middle English periods, with Latin and French words.
		The words that came from South Indian languages meanwhile took the exact opposite course, with 't' and 'd', being pronounced softly or not at all: as in cheroot (Tamil churuttu/shuruttu).
		This word was probably absorbed to Portuguese, when the Portuguese ruled over Goa, Bombay during the early part of the 17th century, and from Portuguese was absorbed to English.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/themes/indianwords.htm (3061 words)

	KryssTal : The English Language
		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).
		Languages that have contributed words to English include Latin, Greek, French, German, Arabic, Hindi (from India), Italian, Malay, Dutch, Farsi (from Iran and Afghanistan), Nahuatl (the Aztec language), Sanskrit (from ancient India), Portuguese, Spanish, Tupi (from South America) and Ewe (from Africa).
		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)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Indian English
		American English, due to the growing influence of American culture on the rest of the world, has begun challenging traditional British English as the premier brand of English spoken in the Indian subcontinent, though this is largely limited to the youth of metropolitan cities in the last decade or two.
		English words borrowed from French are pronounced in RP with a proper French pronunciation, but in India, such words are sometimes pronounced according to the rules of English pronunciation.
		The word "healthy" to refer to fat people, in North India in general and in Bihar in particular as in "His build is on the healthy side" to refer to a positively overweight person.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Indian_English (6598 words)

	Indian English information - Search.com
		Indian English refers to the dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in the Republic of India (estimates of the total number of speakers of English in India vary from around 10 to 20 percent of the population), and also by Indian diaspora elsewhere in the world.
		American English, due to the burgeoning influence of American pop culture on the rest of the world, has begun challenging traditional British English as the premier brand of English spoken in the Indian subcontinent, though this is largely limited to the youth in the last decade or two.
		Educated native speakers of English pronounce word in their vocabulary borrowed from French with a proper French pronunciation, but in India, such words are sometimes incorrectly pronounced according to the rules of English pronunciation.
	www.search.com /reference/Indian_English (4876 words)

	The Origin of Words
		The New Oxford Dictionary of English states that the word etymology \"is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history\".
		The word\'s origin is late Middle English from Old French ethimologie, via Latin from Greek etumologia, from etumologos student of etymology, from etumon, neuter singular of etumos \'true\'.
		However, there are a few examples of English words that may interest the curious reader of the Anchorman, and I list these now in the hope that many of you will derive the same amount of pleasure as I have over the last half century or so.
	www.lankaeverything.com /vinews/education/20060306165841.php (1053 words)

	Pimsleur languages
		The English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England from Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which in turn developed from languages brought by settlers from northern Germany.
		English has lingua franca (diplomatic language) status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries and the United States beginning in the 20th century.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (with Hindi and 21 other state languages), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and other Asian languages) and South Africa (along with Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and Northern Sotho).
	pimsleur.english-test.net /pimsleur-languages.html (5947 words)

	: kamakoti.org
		Sri Vidyanand Saraswati, in his forward to the English translation of the "Age of Shankar" of Udayavir Sastri, observes, "It is really unfortunate that Indians had to learn their own history from foreign scholars.
		The English translation of a sentence in the Kannada work is as follows: "Having come to Kanchi, in his own ashrama, he (Sankara) absorbed his gross physical frame into the subtle one, became pure, blissful citsvarupa and attained final Siddhi:'
		The word "Kanchidivya kshetre"and the phrase..Srimacchankara-Bhagavatpadacalyanam adhisthane., in the birudavali indicate Sankara's siddhi at Kanchi.
	www.kamakoti.org /peeth/origin.html (10247 words)

	Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Italian has the word ella, cognate of the other words for she, but is considered archaic in most dialects.
		See also List of English words of Portuguese origin, Loan words in Indonesian, Japanese words of Portuguese origin, Borrowed words in Malay, Sinhala words of Portuguese origin, Loan words from Portuguese in Sri Lankan Tamil.
		The name of the Portuguese town of Fátima, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared, is originally the name of one of the daughters of Muhammad.
	pedia.counsellingresource.com /openpedia/Portuguese_language (4644 words)

	The page cannot be found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
		Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
		Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_english_words_of_... (121 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)

	List of English words of Persian origin [Archive] - Irankicks Football Talk
		The word Dervish, especially in European languages, refers to members of Sufi Muslim ascetic religious fraternities, known for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars.
		Musk is the name originally given to a perfume obtained from the strong-smelling substance, secreted in a gland by musk deer, and hence applied to other animals, and also to plants, possessing a similar odor.
		Shah (in Persian: Ø´Ø§Ù), from the Old Persian word khshathra-pava king, popularly referred to as satrap by the Greeks, is the Persian term for a monarch and used by the former rulers of Persia as well as the rulers of the Persian Empire.
	www.irankicks.com /ikboard/archive/index.php/t-33012.html (4293 words)

	Royal Carpet: Carnatic Music Links
		Below the first two listings are four categories of listings to choose from.
		They are given in Tamil font as well as English transliterated and sorted by the Gods they refer to and date added.
		Includes a list of his compositions, an autobiographical sketch and comments by oth´(r)s about this grea¯ composer, and newspaper reviews of his life and compositions.
	www.karnatik.com /links.shtml (4957 words)

	Finnish baby names - Finnish Girl (Female) Names, Finnish Boy (Male) names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Finnish language, spoken by 4.5-5m people mainly in Finland but also by people of Finnish origin in Sweden and other countries, belongs to the Fenno-Ugric group of languages, which is a part of the Uralian family of languages.
		Finnish is a synthetic language: it uses suffixes to express grammatical relations and also to derive new words.
		List of Finnish baby names boys (male) & girls (female) has been compiled from various resources.
	www.babynology.com /finnish_babynames.html (210 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.968: The symbol
		I am not sure about the etymology of this word, but I think the fact that the letter "a" can be recognized in the sign plays a role in the word's origin: something like "a met staart" ("a with tail") could have devellopped to "apestaart", which is phonologically close tot it.
		In English I have always heard it referred to as 'arobase' (pronounced as if "air o' base"), and some computer firm has used this word for some software or for the name of the firm, I don't remember exactly, although I have seen it spelt arobace in that context.
		It is obviously derived from the Spanish word, but it is difficult to know why it has a consonant added (might be derived from the plural of the Spanish word) and although I have heard it used orally it is not in dictionaries, not even in big ones.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/7/7-968.html (6847 words)

	The American Heritage dictionary of the … by American Heritage \| LibraryThing
		A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.
		A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English : from a Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric by Eric Partridge
		List of English words containing Q not followed by U
	www.librarything.com /work.php?book=667409 (349 words)

	APS Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thus we find treated in the first part of the work Egyptian measurement that lay behind the various calculating procedures, the procedures themselves, and the model problems that were gathered together to aid the calculators in their efforts to complete practical measures.
		Rather, the English polymath appears to have functioned in large part as a model for these figures, who appear to have been instrumentally informed by their perceptions of Galton's ulterior purposes in constructing eugenics as he did.
		But the originality and power or Bandinelli's work, and the long shadow it cast over the arts in sixteenth-century Florence and Rome, are as clear today as they were to the artists Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy.
	www.aps-pub.com /inprint.htm (9074 words)

	Linguistic Exploration
		The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word corpus of British English, both spoken and written.
		Most of the databases can be downloaded from a file server and some of the dictionaries and word lists can be searched online here.
		EMILLE will create text corpora of over nine million words each for Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi, Singhalese, Tamil and Urdu, trying to match the range of genres covered by the British National Corpus.
	www.ldc.upenn.edu /exploration (4028 words)

	WFD : News
		We also agree with Venezuela that the list in the chapeau of article 21 should be deleted and referred back to the list included in article 2 when defining communication.
		Words or sentences that are in bold letters are WFD’s new proposals to the chair’s draft.
		Wording of item (b) is good as it is: “Accepting and facilitating the use of sign languages, and Braille, and augmentative alternative communication and all other accessible means, modes and formats of communication of their choice by persons with disabilities in official interactions”.
	www.wfdeaf.org /news.aspx (13295 words)

	List of common English words of Indian origin - bet you didn't know that! \| Charchaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		List of common English words of Indian origin - bet you didn't know that!
		catamaran - from the tamil word 'kattu maram'; kattu=tie, maram=wood
		Mango - borrowed from Malayalam or Tamil - maangai
	www.charchaa.com /list_of_common_english_words_of_indian_origin_bet_you_didnt_know_that (198 words)

	Appreciations
		adhere to the *original* parampara in compiling the information, specifically on sensitive topics.
		Indeed Bhagavan is with us - though we may face so many difficulties, the Veda Vakya does not go astray - satyam eva jayate naanrutam.
		I have checked your webpage it is very interesting and worth spending time to read very useful material especially on Sri Ramana Maharishi.
	www.hinduism.co.za /apprecia.htm (5165 words)

	Talmudism To Tc learning vocabulary
		Alphabetical Plural Word Catagories- A- B- C- D- E- F- G- H- I- J- K- L- M- N- O- P- Q- R- S- T- U- V- W- X- Y- Z
		Word applied: And it is a gross out when you eat with your mouth open
		word 2003 • word document • plural • word origin
	www.wordsplural.com /Talmudism-Tc.php (215 words)

	The American Heritage dictionary of the … door American Heritage \| LibraryThing
		A Dictionary of Modern English Usage door H.
		A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English : from a Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric door Eric Partridge
		Nothing like a glance at a canopic, or a chignon, or a sphenoid or a spinnaker, to understand instantly WHAT it is. There should be a LOT more pictures in Dictionaries, and this one gets that drift.
	www.librarything.nl /work.php?book=10450 (351 words)

	Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary by Inc Merriam-Webster \| LibraryThing
		The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English by H.
		This is the primary dictionary I use for reference.
		Now superceded by the 11th Edition; this edition is better because the 11th includes slang, jargon, and coloquialisms that are not acceptable in scholarly work.
	www.librarything.com /catalog.php?book=9245255 (327 words)

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