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	List of Indian languages by total speakers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English is spoken as a second language by somewhere between 50 and 250 million Indians.
		Prior to colonization, Persian played an important role as a language of government, education and trade, due to its mandate by the Muslim rulers.
		The official figure of 'mother tongues' spoken in India is 1,683, of which an estimated 850 are in daily use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Indian_languages_by_total_speakers (255 words)

	List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Only languages spoken natively by more than one million are listed, and then they are listed for secondary locations only when spoken by more than 1% of the population.
		For practical reasons in compiling this list, some listings are not single languages in the sense of being mutually intelligible, such as Chinese or Arabic; while in other cases mutually intelligible idioms with separate national standards or self identification have been listed separately, such as Scandinavian, Hindustani, and Malay.
		For the purposes of this article, a 'native language' is a language a person was raised with, while a 'second language' is a language of instruction or everyday communication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers (2319 words)

	Most Widely Spoken Languages
		Others count both native speakers and secondary speakers (those who use the language regularly or primarily even though it is not their native language).
		Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers but are used almost exclusively in a few countries.
		On the other hand, other languages have relatively small populations of native speakers but are used in many different countries as an official or national language.
	www2.ignatius.edu /faculty/turner/languages.htm (426 words)

	Language Policy -- Endangered Languages
		Rapid shift to English is evident even among speakers of the healthiest indigenous languages such as Navajo, a group that was historically isolated and thus among the slowest to become bilingual.
		More often language death is the culmination of language shift, resulting from a complex of internal and external pressures that induce a speech community to adopt a language spoken by others.
		The languages at the lower end of the prestige scale retreat from ever increasing areas of their earlier functional domains, displaced by higher prestige languages, until there is nothing left for them to be appropriately used about.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/JWCRAWFORD/brj.htm (6029 words)

	American Indian Language Resources
		Alaska Native Language Center Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages.
		Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas The Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas.
		It is reported that less than seventy elderly speakers of the language remain and that of these, only thirty use the language on a daily basis in the Macy area of Nebraska.
	www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/lang.html (1693 words)

	Essentialist Explanations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		German is essentially a language developed by a group of Teutons who gathered in the forest one day to come up with a language that their enemies would have no chance of grasping.
		Modern Hebrew is the language of the Bible and the Talmud, refurbished by a mad pedant and bastardized by 5 million immigrants.
		Jarda is essentially a relexified Zireen language with a vocabulary derived from the raccoon language Kianarthal.
	mercury.ccil.org /~cowan/essential.html (9692 words)

	Information on Native Americans: American Indian FAQ for Kids
		And sometimes speakers of two dialects of English can hardly understand each other at all (especially when they're talking quickly!) So although most linguists consider East Cree and Plains Cree to be dialects of the same Cree language, some people believe they should count as two languages because Cree speakers can't always understand each other.
		Some Native American communities are bilingual, but in most places parents have stopped teaching children their native language.
		Native Americans living on reservations/reserves are citizens of the United States or Canada, obeying federal laws, voting, and serving in the armed forces, but they are also subject to tribal laws and elect tribal leadership.
	www.native-languages.org /kidfaq.htm (2069 words)

	X-Conference Speakers - 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Therefore we reexamine and reevaluate the present assumption that extraterrestrials or their probes are not in the vicinity of Earth, and argue instead that some evidence of their presence might be found in certain high-quality UFO reports.
		Heiser is one of an emerging group of young, brilliant scholars who are reexamining all ancient religious texts, often in their original languages, with an open mind willing to consider and factor in the extraordinary discoveries of the past 50 years.
		As with many others, his interest in extraterrestrial-related phenomena was sparked in 1968 by a strong sighting of a large, classic disc-shaped object hovering in a clear sky with hundreds of witnesses shouting with excitement and pointing upwards in amazement.
	www.paradigmclock.com /X-Conference/speakers.htm (8592 words)

	CFP 2005 > PANOPTICON'05
		She has over 20 years of experience working with a wide range of civil rights and grassroots organizations on issues relating to voting and civil rights.
		More recently, he received a J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was the 2002 Honor Graduate.
		He is a native French speaker, fluent in English, and proficient in Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
	www.cfp2005.org /Speakers.html (11865 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mother Tongue: Books: Bill Bryson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Then he asserts that the language has no definite articles - it does - but then gives a sample of the language in which this definite article he just denied is used twiced (and mispelled once).
		While the birth and growth of the English language is a fascinating subject, it's a shame that it is spoiled in MOTHER TONGUE by an abundance of errors.
		He is rather more like a bemused bystander and observer of how English is used, misused, where funny and odd things in our language come from, why we do or did (or don't or didn't) carry on British spellings and pronunciations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380715430?v=glance (2138 words)

	ShmooCon: Speakers
		She is a world-traveler who speaks multiple languages, and has visited scores of countries around the world, and every continent (yes, including Antarctica).
		Today, as more punch gets packed into 1u than ever, server resources can be further consolidated and abstracted to securely separate complex and sophisticated services in the same hardware server, by running secure virtual UNIX machines.
		All applications and operating systems have coding errors and we have seen technical advances both in attack and mitigation sophistication as more security vulnerabilities are exploiting defects related to application and OS memory and heap usage.
	www.shmoocon.org /speakers.html#acidus (8412 words)

	Glossaries by Language
		The List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature includes, alphabetically and chronologically, the official nomenclature of bacteria and the nomenclatural changes as cited in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, or published, or validated in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1997, 47, 590-592).
		It includes more than 3000 contexts from the fields of business and economics, numerous usage notes and geographical variants from Belgium, France, Québec and the French speaking part of Switzerland.
		Eurovoc - 11 language thesaurus maintained by the EU Eurovoc is a multilingual thesaurus covering the fields in which the European Communities are active; it provides a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions and of their users.
	www.lai.com /glossaries.html (3279 words)

	The Mac Roundup - Apple Macintosh news, rumors, info, tips and deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Apple gets four more years in Maine - In the four year contract, the notebooks will go to 32,000 seventh and eighth grade students, as well as 4,000 teachers in the state.
		News: EU may fine Microsoft â'¬2 million a day - The European Commission is preparing to fine Microsoft up to 2 million per day for failing to comply with an antitrust ruling issued in 2004.
		Intel says more efficient chips are coming soon (Macworld.com) - Macworld.com - Researchers at Intel have found a better way to insulate circuits, enabling them to save energy as they pack more transistors onto each processor.
	www.macroundup.com (10094 words)

	AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest
		If the spelling and language mechanics are correct, then it’s good writing (which is like saying that any code that compiles is good code).
		It excels in matching the native look and feel of programs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It is a mature project, being a well-developed wrapper of the underlying wxWidgets C++ toolkit.
		Spanning almost 3500 pages, the correspondence encompasses letters to and from his first and second wives and children between the years 1912- 1955.This newly released batch of letters fill in details to create a ‘higher resolution’ image of Einstein beyond what was previously known of his personal life.
	alterslash.org /#Claria_Leaves_Adware_Business (11819 words)

	Highest lowest biggest smallest tallest deepest oldest youngest Continents Countries Cities Dependencies Deserts ...
		Numbers shown are the population within the recognized city limits, and do not include people living in the immediate surrounding area outside of the established border of the city.
		For the largest metropolitan areas refer to the list below this one.
		Numbers shown are the population within the immediate surrounding area of the established border of the city, and also include the city limit population figures.
	worldatlas.com /geoquiz/thelist.htm (589 words)

	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005
		Justin is the original inventor of Swarmcast, the first ever "swarming" content delivery network and more recently has unveiled "swarmstreaming", a new swarming technology that allows smooth progressive playback of video and skipping ahead without downloading the entire file.
		George Dyson is a boat designer, writer, and historian of technology whose interests have ranged from the development and redevelopment of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986) to the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines, 1997) and, most recently, nuclear bomb-propelled space exploration (Project Orion, 2002).
		With more than 70 countries currently in the process of establishing local language and jurisdictional versions of Creative Commons licences and Science Commons projects, Le Dieu's role is to ensure that the global creative and innovation domain grows and thrives.
	conferences.oreillynet.com /pub/w/36/speakers.html (8773 words)

	i20Events - Speakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		A native of Manchester, N.H., Bowen is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and received his master's degree from the University of Southern California while serving as a commissioned officer and helicopter pilot with the U.S. Army in Wiesbaden, Germany.
		In 2000, Advertising Age named him to its list of "100 Marketing Executives of the Year" and in 1999 he was included on the publication's "I-20" list of the most influential new media executives.
		In his capacity as manager of e Marketer’s team of business and technology analysts – who are recognized as leading authorities in their respective industry segments – Geoff has become a well-known expert on e-business trends.
	www.i20events.com /speakers.html (14122 words)

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