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 Tuareg languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tuareg languages have very heavily influenced Northern Songhay languages such as Tasawaq, whose speakers are culturally Tuareg but speak Songhay varieties; this influence includes points of phonology and sometimes grammar as well as extensive loanwords.
Tamahaq - Language of the Kel Ahaggar, spoken in Algeria and in the north of Niger by approximately 57 000 people.
Tayart Tamajaq language - Language of the Kel Ayer (sometimes spelled Aïr), spoken in Niger by approximately 250 000 people.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamasheq_languages   (705 words)

  
 List of languages article - List of languages Language families languages 639 List languages writing system - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Languages   (191 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Berber languages
Nonetheless, it is used in Western languages by many Berber writers, such as the Kabyle Professor Salem Chaker of INALCO in Paris.
Subclassification of the Berber languages is made difficult by their mutual closeness; Maarten Kossmann (1999) describes it as two dialect continua, Northern Berber and Tuareg, and a few peripheral languages, spoken in isolated pockets largely surrounded by Arabic, that fall outside these continua, namely Zenaga and the Libyan and Egyptian varieties.
Within Northern Berber, however, he recognizes a break in the continuum between Zenati languages and their non-Zenati neighbors; and in the east, he recognizes a division between Ghadames and Awjila on the one hand and El-Foqaha, Siwa, and Djebel Nefusa on the other.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/List_of_Berber_languages   (2060 words)

  
 Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List
DiLingo is the gutteral utteral, the paradigm of rhyme, the pox of vox.
Lifehomese is one of the alien languages of the Commonwealth.
Lrahran is one of the alien languages of the Commonwealth.
www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk /~jrk/conlang.html   (10527 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Afro-Asiatic languages Afro-Asiatic - '''Berber''' ---- The '''Berber languages''' (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
Tamazight (the Berber language/s) is a member of the Afro-Asiatic languages Afro-Asiatic language family (formerly called Hamito-Semitic.) Traditional genealogists often considered the Berbers as Arabs that immigrated from Yemen; for this reason, some considered Tamazight to derive from Arabic language Arabic.
The Berber languages have two grammatical case cases of the noun, organized ergatively: one is unmarked, while the other serves for the subject of a transitive verb and the object of a preposition.
www.mauspfeil.net /Berber_languages.html   (4374 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
List A alphabetizes the languages that are spoken by students of limited English proficiency in New York State school districts, and identifies the corresponding countries where those languages are spoken.
List B is alphabetized by country, and indicates the major languages spoken in each.
Predominant native languages are Swahili (aka Kiswahili) and Luba.
www.emsc.nysed.gov /ciai/biling/pub/languages.html   (1206 words)

  
 Berber Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
"The three Berber languages researched for this project are: Kabyle (Taqbaylit), spoken in northern Algeria; Tamazight (Berber), of central Morocco; and Tuareg, the indigenous name of which varies according to the dialect (Prasse 1972): Tamahaq in southern Algeria, Tamashaq in Mali, Tamajeq in Niger and in Libya (Ghat, where it may also be called Tamaziq).
However, the main languages and domains are identifiable from the many dialect studies and from the arrangement by region of entries in the bibliographical resources used here: A. Basset, LLB, 1952, and the chronicles entitled "Langue et litérature berbère" (LELB) by Basset and Chaker, in AAN.
Berber is written with several scripts: the Roman, adapted to French orthography or to phonetic conventions; the Arabic, perhaps also modified; or the Berber alphabet, known as tifinag, traditionally used by the Tuareg.
www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Berber-root.html   (1216 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Spain Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
With the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of democracy, the old historic nationalities — Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia — were given far-reaching autonomy, which was then soon extended to all Spanish regions, resulting in one of the most decentralized territorial organizations in Western Europe.
Morocco disputes the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and the uninhabited Vélez;, Alhucemas, Chafarinas, and Perejil ("Parsley") islands, all on the northern coast of Africa.
Berber language is spoken among Muslims in Ceuta and Melilla.
www.ipedia.com /spain.html   (2932 words)

  
 Northern Songhay Languages in Mali and Niger
Language attitudes of the speakers of the Northern Songhay varieties in Niger were also investigated using group interview schedules and by observation.
As a property of the language itself, the level of inherent intelligibility of a given dialect to speakers of a second dialect should be constant throughout the entire population of the latter.
Their language is one of the main things which distinguishes them as a people and they are proud of it.
www.sil.org /silesr/1999/008/nsonghay.html   (4909 words)

  
 List of Wikipedias - Meta
The first list, ordered by size, is the complete list of all 204.
The second list is ordered by code, the third by local language name.
List of native language names, alphabetically sorted by ISO language code.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Complete_list_of_language_wikis_available   (2869 words)

  
 Writing Berber Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Looking at the situation, one might have speculated that a Berber literary renaissance was about to emerge; instead, perhaps due to the turmoil coming from the Spanish to the north and the Banu Hilal to the east, the early medieval tradition virtually disappeared, although it left its traces in the later Tachelhit literature.
In the late sixties, it occurred to certain Berber revivalists that having a unique script would be good for public relations, allowing them to claim to have revived an ancient tradition and avoiding the unpatriotism of the Roman alphabet as well as the traditionalism of the Arabic alphabet.
The Academie Berbere script is extremely unsatisfying to a linguist, failing to represent several marginally phonemic emphatic contrasts, and unnecessarily representing the environmentally conditioned spirants; it is also a hodgepodge of forms taken from Tifinagh, Libyan, or even South Arabian and Iberian.
www.geocities.com /lameens/tifinagh   (3683 words)

  
 The Jewish-Languages List . Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The conference is organized around main topics such as: language and identity; language, culture and society; multilingualism and multiculturalism; Jewish and non-Jewish languages; language and globalization; language and education; language and immigration; language and stratification; language and ideology; language and communication; language and gender; language and the life-cycle; language policy.
Subject: Languages for Jewish Texts (Cohen) From: Aryeh Cohen Subject: Re: languages Well, its an open question as to what you mean by texts with Kedusha, but the Zohar was written in a "dialect" of Aramaic; various Rishonim wrote their commentaries in pretty straightforward Aramaic (i.e.
Subject: Languages for Jewish texts Aramaic was used as a language for some halakhic works during the Geonic period, and of course the Zohar was written in Aramaic in the 13th century.
petrarch.freeservers.com /jewishlanglist.html   (16325 words)

  
 Numerals, Numeration, and Numerical Notation Bibliography
Allrik, H.L. The lists of Zerubabel (Nehemiah 7 and Ezra 2) and the Hebrew numeral notation.
In Language in Ethiopia, M.L. Bender, J.D. Bowen, R.L. Cooper, and C.A. Ferguson, eds., pp.
An Explication of All the Inscriptions in the Palmyrene Language and Character Hitherto Publish'd.
phrontistery.info /nnsbib.html   (8653 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 14.1456: Languages with fricative-initial onset clusters
Polish (and other Slavic languages) allows a wide variety of initial fric+C clusters, including where the fricative is labiodental [f/v], velar [x], post-alveolar [S/Z] (something between esh/yogh and retroflex s/z), alveolo-palatal [s'/z'], and alveolar [s/z].
The Semitic languages probably have some due to their morphology (root consonants like [x] and [f] ending up next to other root consonants in certain morphological templates, beginning with CC-).
The phonemes of the language are: pw kw p t k mbw nggw mb nd ngg mw m n L y* r w sw s H The L is a strongly (Dravidian or Australian-style) retroflex lateral, and the y (their orthographic choice) is a palatalised fricative, which is basically a coarticulated voiced dental fricative/lateral fricative.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-1456.html   (2064 words)

  
 Languages list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Some languages with a freer word order are hard to assign a single canonical order.
For many languages the information is not readily available.
Numbers of speakers are approximate and taken from a number of sources; they usually refer to the total number of speakers in the whole world, not just in one country, particularly relevant for languages such as French, English, and Spanish.
homepage.ntlworld.com /vivian.c/Linguistics/LanguagesList.htm   (278 words)

  
 E-MELD - List of Extinct Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The following is a list of extinct languages.
Clicking on a language name will link you to the Ethnologue entry on this language.
Clicking on a family name will generate a family tree for that language family.
emeld.org /features/get-extinct.cfm   (57 words)

  
 algerie.StartTips.com
South of the Saharan Atlas is the immense Sahara, with its gravel expanses, occasional plateaus, sand dunes (ergs), and the fantastic, lunarlike Ahaggar Mountains, where Mount Tahat, the nation's highest peak, rises to 3,003 m (9,852 ft).
Algerians are primarily of Arab and Berber descent.
Arabic, the national language, is spoken by about 82% of the population, but Berbers have historically resisted "Arabization" and are now the main victims of the islamic fundamentalist terrorists.
www.algerie.starttips.com   (128 words)

  
 Letter L Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
List of birds on stamps of Sao Tome e Principe
List of blunders that have been considered the greatest ever
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article List of books by title: J.
www.mauspfeil.net /L_359.html   (161 words)

  
 Rug Notes Index - H Oriental rugs and carpets by Barry O'Connell,Spongobongo.com
He is perhaps the Persian language's greatest poet.
Ph.D. in languages and culture of ancient Iran.
Still the assasination of popular Berber singer Matoub Lounes in June of 1998 serves only to alliaenate the Salafi Group for Call and Combat from the Algerian people.
www.spongobongo.com /rwh.htm   (2110 words)

  
 Human origins explored through science, archaeology and research
We still use thirty two Sumerian words in the English languages and now find that their precise surveying methods, triangulation and their standard unit of measurement were in use all over the world before 700 AD.
The Lady Ninkarsag in the guise of the Goddess of Irrigation 18th Century BC from Mari, Middle Euphrates, Aleppo Museum.
Many Belgae/Celtic tribal groups in the west of Britain moved south to northern France, their descendants returning with William in AD 1066.
www.goldenageproject.org.uk /homo.html   (2224 words)

  
 Sources for the Numbers List
Sometimes half the work in dealing with a new language is finding out what it is, and relating it to the sometimes wildly varying classifications from Ruhlen, Voegelin, and the Ethnologue.
R, V, A. A d.Vicho:li, La:ri:, Kachch'i:, all 3 listed in V as d.
In html listed as C Pahari since there's only one difference (a lengthened vowel on '6') from Garhwali A d.Central Paha:ri, R, V. Dalby's v.
www.zompist.com /sources.htm   (2727 words)

  
 Travel Videos and Language Courses Around the World
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We carry more than 2,850 travel videos, and 200 different language courses.
e specialize in travel videos and language courses to countries and cities around the world.
www.maps2anywhere.com   (239 words)

  
 List of Languages
To proceed with your search, select a language.
You may also specify the type of material and/or the level of instruction you are seeking.
This database is provided in collaboration with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /lmd/cals.htm   (77 words)

  
 Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)
Where two codes are provided (22 languages total) the bibliographic code is given first and the terminology code is given second.
Multiple codes for the same language are to be considered synonyms.
www.loc.gov /standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html   (126 words)

  
 index, by language name
Fanti, Faroese, Farsi / Persian, Fataluku, Ferengi, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Fon-Gbe, Upper Franconian, French and dialects, Frisian languages (Western, Northern), Fula
Laádan, Ladin and dialects, Languedocien Occitan, Lao, Lappish / Northern Saami, Latin, Latvian, Lesser Antillean Creole English, Lesser Antillean Creole French, Ligurian, Limbu, Limousin Occitan, Lithuanian, Livvi, Loanda Mbundu / kiMbundu, Lojban, Lombard (Bergamasco di Casirate d'Adda dialect), Lúsiaquia, Luxembourgish
Tagalog / Filipino, Tahitian, Taiwanese dialect of Min Nan, Tamazight / Berber, Tamil, Tatar, Tausug, Telugu, Temne, Tetun, Thai, Tibetan, Tigré, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin / New Guinea pidgin English, Tongan, Trinidad Creole French, Tsakonian, Tsonga, Tswana / Setswana, Tundra Nenets, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan
www.travelphrases.info /by_language.htm   (519 words)

  
 wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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