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  MARC Code List for Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
While some individual languages are given their own unique code, although linguistically they are part of a language group, many individual languages are assigned a group code, because it is not considered practical to establish a separate code for each.
Ancient languages which are not given unique codes are assigned the code for the major language group to which each belongs, rather than the code for the modern language which evolved from the ancient language.
The entry for a language group is also similar to that for an individual language, with the addition of a list of the individual languages which have been assigned that group code.
www.loc.gov /marc/languages/langhome.html   (1726 words)

  
  Germanic Languages Encyclopedia Article @ Thereupon.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The common ancestor of all languages comprising this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the latter mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age Northern Europe.
All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound shifts of Grimm's law and Verner's law.
During the early Middle Ages, the West Germanic languages were separated by the insular development of Middle English on one hand, and by the High German consonant shift on the continent on the other, resulting in Upper German and Low Saxon, with graded intermediate Central German varieties.
www.thereupon.org /encyclopedia/Germanic_languages   (1920 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Icelandic Sign Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speakers thoughts.
Icelandic Sign Language is distinct from spoken Icelandic; in 1999, the Icelandic Ministry of Education stated that, in the Icelandic basic curriculum, Icelandic Sign Language is the first language of deaf people, while spoken Icelandic is a second language.
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Icelandic-Sign-Language   (487 words)

  
 JISCmail - Mailing Lists
This list is for the announcement and discussion of academic research relating to the regions of Liverpool and Merseyside, in the north-west of England.
A list for the discussion of BSL (British Sign Language) curriculum development in HE The BusinessDiscourseNet is a list dedicated to dialogue and information exchange between scholars from a variety of disciplines, research and teaching traditions, who are interested in the new multidisciplinary field of Business Discourse.
This list is for discussion of research and announcement of events in the emerging field of corpus stylistics - the use of language corpora in the analysis of the language of literature.
www.jiscmail.ac.uk /mailinglists/category/Q1.htm   (1708 words)

  
 Germanic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Germanic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Germanic languages that are descended from Proto-Germanic.
Migrant Germanic settlers spread throughout Europe, mixing with existing local populations (such as Celts, but also Slavs/Vends and Romans), forming the future basis of diverse nations, to various extents connected by linguistic affinity, as well as a common identity, history, and culture.
In 9 AD a revolt of their subject Germanics headed by the suposed Roman ally, Arminius, (along with his decisive defeat of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the surprise attack on unprepared Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest) ended in the withdrawal of the Roman frontier to the Rhine.
enc.qba73.com /link-Germanic_tribes   (3184 words)

  
 West Germanic Encyclopedia Article @ Canst.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Germanic languages in Europe are divided into North (blue) and West Germanic (green and orange) Languages ██ Low Franconian and Low German ██ High German ██ Insular Anglo-Frisian (English, Scots) ██ Continental Anglo-Frisian ██ East North Germanic ██ West North Germanic ██ Line dividing the North and West Germanic languages.
Anglo-Saxons left traces in the English language, and is suspected to have facilitated the collapse of the Old English inflexional system that marked the onset of the Middle English period
Angeln' (or Anglia), from which the name "English" derives, is in the extreme north of Germany between the Danish border and the Baltic coast.
www.canst.net /encyclopedia/West_Germanic   (611 words)

  
 Norse :: Germanic : RSS Feeds : Gourt
North Germanic languages (through the synonym "Nordic languages"), a group of modern languages spoken in Scandinavia and nearby lands
Proto-Norse language, the Indo-European language in use from 100 B.C. to 800 A.D., predecessor of Old Norse
Old Norse language, the Germanic language in use from 800 A.D. to 1300 A.D. Norse art, Scandinavian art of period 400 A.D. to 1066 A.D. and sometimes of the pre-historic period 1700 B.C. to 500 B.C. More on [ Norse ]
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.gourt.com%2FSocial-Sciences%2FLinguistics%2FLanguages%2FNatural%2FIndo-European%2FGermanic%2FNorse.html   (1812 words)

  
 HLW: Appendices: Languages Cited
At first it was not the first language of anybody, but with the growth of cities and marriage between speakers of different first languages, it soon became a language learned by children as a first language.
Eskimo languages are spoken in a large, sparsely populated region extending from the far eastern end of Siberia in Russia, across Alaska and northern Canada to Greenland.
As in other sign languages, there is a strong tendency for signs in ASL to be iconic, that is, to be motivated by their meanings rather than completely arbitrary.
www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Appendices/languages.html   (3920 words)

  
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Nevertheless, because of the trend toward extinction among American Indian languages, their study is increasingly aimed at three goals: (a) interpreting written data on extinct languages, (b) obtaining data from the last speakers of obsolescent languages, and (c) encouraging the maintenance of languages still spoken by substantial communities.
Some languages also specify the instrument of an action, generally by prefixation, as with Pomo phi-de- ‘to move by batting with a stick,’ phu-de- ‘to move by blowing,’ pha-de- ‘to move by pushing with the end of a stick.’ (i) Some languages have constructions called evidentials, indicating the source or validity of the information reported.
The languages concerned are Karuk, classified as Hokan; Yurok and Wiyot, of the Macro-Algonkian phylum; and Hupa and Tolowa, of the Athabaskan family.
www.ncidc.org /bright/almanac_00-4-8.doc   (8728 words)

  
 Evertype: List of Language Lists
This file lists e-mail distribution lists devoted primarily to the linguistic study of individual languages and groups of languages (though a couple of others, in particular lists for language learners, have been included as well).
COMPARLINGAFRIC is opened to topics where comparative linguistics in African languages of the Sahel-Sahara zone are the subject of discussion, such as: Languages and language families of the Sahel-Sahara zone: (Mande, Chadic, Berber, Nilo-Saharan...); genetic relationships; the description of changes in the context of languages of oral tradition; linguistic changes and factors concerning language transformation.
Primarily a list focusing on Taiwan's language and language education reform, language activism, vernacular literature, cultural critique, and relevant issues (plus greeting and announcements).
www.evertype.com /langlist.html   (2386 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of languages Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
More structured lists are also available: Language families and languages, ISO 639 List of languages by writing system, List of languages by tot...
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.
www.ipedia.com /list_of_languages.html   (203 words)

  
 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
The two-letter ISO 639-1 language codes are well known (as ``en'' for English), as are their forms when qualified by a country code (``en-US'').
Language tags that I judge to be not for general use, are bracketed.
Presumably the Philippine language Waray-Waray (Samareño), not the smaller Philippine language Waray Sorsogon, nor the extinct Australian language Waray.
theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca /CPAN/perl/lib/I18N/LangTags/List.html   (879 words)

  
 [No title]
A general program that focuses on one or more modern foreign languages that is not specific as to the name of the language(s) studied; that is otherwise undifferentiated; or that introduces students to language studies at the basic/elementary level.
Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.
Programs may involve multiple languages and language families, not be specific as to the name of the language(s) studied, or be otherwise undifferentiated.
nces.ed.gov /pubs2002/cip2000/ciplist.asp?CIP2=16   (3542 words)

  
 Journal of Germanic Linguistics
Contributions are invited on the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of these languages and dialects, as well as their historical development, both linguistic and textual.
The language of publication is normally English, though manuscripts in German will be considered.
North America, Canada and Mexico: Order by phone (845) 353-7500 or fax (845) 353 4141 or you may phone your order direct (toll free) on 1-800-872-7423.
www.cambridge.org /journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=jgl   (154 words)

  
 The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
Charlotte M. Craig is a Lecturer of German in the Department of German at Rutgers University.
She is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington and former president of the Goethe Society of North America.
From 1988-1991 he served as the Chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale, and in 1999 he was inducted as an Honorary Member of the American Association of Teachers of German.
www.rci.rutgers.edu /~germanic/faculty/visiting   (1339 words)

  
 The Northern- and Lowland-Germanic Conversation Table Home Page
Frisian refers to a people (and their language) who live primarily in the coastal areas of the Netherlands and Germany.
The Frisian language is the closest living language to English that is distinctly a separate language--not a separate dialect.
North Frisian is largely influenced by Danish being in close proximty to Denmark, and there remain about 10 000 speakers of this dialect.
www.rap.ucar.edu /~ericg/germanic.html   (813 words)

  
 languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES.
"Lowlands languages" are those Germanic languages that developed in the “Lowlands": the low-lying areas adjacent to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
So, the list turned out to be a bad fit for me. I wouldn't mind finding something where one could take baby steps in German and in Dutch without being distracted by long analyses of (and in!) Luxembourgish.
The view that Low Saxon and German are inseparable is based on the old Germanization doctrine that until recently denied Low Saxon separate status (despite its origin in Old Saxon), and many people are not yet ready to think outside that box.
www.languagehat.com /archives/001499.php   (1098 words)

  
 Lowlands-L • a discussion group for people who share an interest in languages and cultures of the Lowlands
Also—in celebration of human language globally—we are bringing you translations into other languages, as party guests, so to speak.
For instance, the “Lowlands Talk” project provides short presentations about the languages of the Lowlands area, we offer you a swadesh list of hundreds of words, and a detailed map of the Lowlands region.
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)

  
 Germanic Languages
Thank you for your interest in graduate studies in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Our curriculum is designed in such a way as to give students a comprehensive grounding in German literary history while exposing them to a large variety of specialized “topics” courses that reflect faculty research interests and engage the most recent issues in the field.
On the back of the enclosed brochure you will find a list of additional requirements that must be sent to the Graduate School (along with a $70 application fee), and a separate list of documents that should be sent directly to the German Department.
www.unc.edu /depts/german/graduatestudiesopportunities/letter.html   (876 words)

  
 Collection Development Department-Germanic Languages: Overview of Campus Library Collections
The Germanic languages and literatures collections support teaching and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Department of Germanic Languages and in other departments and programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A list of current print subscriptions in the discipline is available.
A bibliography of German Periodicals, 17th-20th Centuries lists serials that are available to researchers in the Triangle.
www.lib.unc.edu /cdd/crs/hum/german/overview.html   (743 words)

  
 German
German Tutor teaches the German language by providing a vibrant learning experience through the integration of interactive lessons and tests
Mixxer a free educational site for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange.
The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language.
www.accd.edu /pac/lrc/german.htm   (171 words)

  
 Germanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern Scots language (huge influx of Latinate vocabulary, mostly via Norman French, some Scanadinavian influence via Anglo-Danish)
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift.
But such chronological terminology is widely used, for example, by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. (Formally SNDA), Dr.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germanic_language   (1895 words)

  
 Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages:3110148765:Bandle, Oskar; ...
The Nordic language area and the languages in the north of Europe
Nordic, Germanic, Indo-European and the structure of the Germanic language family
Language contact during the Old Nordic period I: with the British Isles, Frisia and the Hanseatic League
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=3110148765   (1045 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 17.2539: Nordic Journal of Linguistics 29/1 (2006)
LINGUIST List 17.2539: Nordic Journal of Linguistics 29/1 (2006)
The Nordic Languages: An International handbook of the history of
While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed
www.linguistlist.org /issues/17/17-2539.html   (141 words)

  
 Germanic Languages
Major area of interest (list all that apply):
Statement of Purpose - Please provide a personal assessment of your German language ability, a brief description of your most important courses and any study abroad programs you may have taken part in, and a summary of your goals in seeking a graduate degree in German (1000 to 1500 words).
You may do this by mail (below), or by sending an attached file to german@unc.edu.
www.unc.edu /depts/german/admissions/gradsup-text.htm   (179 words)

  
 The Lord's Prayer in the Germanic Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
I have prepared this page for the use of classes in linguistics, history of the English language, and Old English.
Textbooks for such courses often discuss the Germanic languages in general terms, without giving more than a small list of cognate words for selected languages.
They may also help to satisfy some linguistic curiosity about Frisian, which textbooks often claim is the most closely related of the Germanic languages to English.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/ballc/oe/pater_noster_germanic.html   (597 words)

  
 New materials in the collections of Northwestern University Libraries
Below you can browse for recent additions to the library collections by Location, Language, Subject or Format from the past three months.
When you get search results, clicking on the TITLE link will take you to NUcat for more information on that particular item.
Pritzker Legal Research Center - new book list
www.library.northwestern.edu /collections/recent   (136 words)

  
 Language – languages in Europe - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Languagelanguages in Europe - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian languages
Icelandic is a member of the North Germanic (Scandinavian) branch of the Germanic languages, a...
encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210064168_27/Iceland.html   (36 words)

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