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  Germanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germanic_language   (1654 words)

  
 German at Luther College
German is one of four majors offered by the Department of modern languages and literature at Luther.
Each German major is also prepared to use the language in a variety of professions or in graduate school.
All language majors and minors and others who plan to use German skills professionally are strongly urged to study abroad during their undergraduate years.
www.luther.edu /learning/dept/german.html   (772 words)

  
 german
Germans contributed substantially to its growth: By 1841, 28 percent of the total population was German; 10 years earlier the figure was only 5 percent, By 1850, when Cincinnati was known as the "Queen City of the West," the German community (including those born in America) made up half its population.
German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws.
German Americans, the societies members insisted, were neither "mongrels with a divided allegiance" nor "hyphenates." In keeping with this goal, they named their organization after Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a hero of the War of Independence.
www.theseverts.net /German.htm   (13046 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Germany
Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland.
Standard German is one High German variety, which developed from the chancery of Saxony, gaining acceptance as the written standard in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Dialects: German with a heavy cryptolectal lexical influsion from Rotwelsch, Yiddish, Romani, and Hebrew.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Germany   (1147 words)

  
 German -- Modern Languages Department -- The University of Mississippi
A MAJOR IN GERMAN FOR THE B.A. DEGREE requires 30 semester hours beyond the 200-level credits, including German 303, 304, and 331, and at least 9 hours at the 500 level.
German 303 and 304 are required for the minor.
Survey of German Literature and Culture I. Survey of German Literature and Culture II.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/modern_languages/GermanCourses.html   (244 words)

  
 List of languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of languages by number of native speakers
Ethnologue lists about 7,300 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects.
This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages   (716 words)

  
 DIALECTS AND HIGH GERMAN
In the Upper German area they were shifted, depending on position within a given word, as follows: p to pf, ff; t to s, ss, z, tz; k to ch.
The state of German's dialects was the topic of discussion among the more than 500 linguists from 26 nations who turned out recently (March 12-14) for the Institute for the German Language's annual meeting, held this year in Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg).
Peter Wiesinger, a Vienna-based specialist in the German language, noted that this development is also tied to the relative "prestige" of dialects.
www.serve.com /shea/germusa/dialects.htm   (1186 words)

  
 German (GER)
A maximum of two upper-level courses in other areas, approved beforehand by the Department as relevant to the major, may be substituted for two of the elective German courses.
Development of German literature in the second half of the eighteenth century, concentrating on Lessing and Schiller.
Survey of the German Romantic period, concentrating on Novalis and Kleist.
www.cornellcollege.edu /catalogue/catalogue/node65.html   (401 words)

  
 German | Department of Foreign Languages - Idaho State University
German is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and more Europeans speak German natively than English, French, Italian or Spanish.
A reading knowledge of German is a great advantage in many fields, such as international law, philosophy, psychology, and technology, as well as chemistry, physics, biology, engineering and design.
Whether you've already begun to learn German, or are just starting out, our program will connect you to the German-speaking countries and their culture.
www.isu.edu /departments/foreign/german.shtml   (323 words)

  
 African Languages by Countries :: Official and national Languages of Africa
List of official, national and spoken languages of Africa.
Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population.
Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm   (583 words)

  
 Modern Languages: German Division Undergraduate Information
Students with a 3.5 GPA in German, a 3.0 overall and at least 3 courses in German above the language requirement, with an A average in each, are encouraged to apply for membership in the Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society.
The objective is the ability to write and converse on general cultural topics at a level which demonstrates near mastery of German grammar and the beginning of a personal style in the language.
The objectives are the acquisition of correct German sound formation by comparison with English phonetics and the improvement of the student's conversational German through pronunciation exercises.
www.fsu.edu /~modlang/divisions/german/undergraduate.html   (1867 words)

  
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Definition List: DL, DT, DD A definition list is a list of terms and corresponding definitions.
Definition lists are typically formatted with the term flush-left and the definition, formatted paragraph style, indented after the term.
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 GWU Slavic Languages
During 2004-2005, The German and Slavic Department merged with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Proficiency in German and the Slavic languages is determined by a foreign language exit exam.
Slavic language elsewhere, and you want GW to recognize that, you may be in luck.
www.gwu.edu /~slavic   (5207 words)

  
 African Languages African Linguistics on the Internet
There is a list of Periodicals on African Linguistics and in African Languages and a list of films in African languages.
Lists all languages in Zambia alphabetically and by the Guthrie classification.
Includes lists by Richard Madete of Kiswahili dictionaries, books on Kiswahili proverbs, and a Comprehensive Swahili Reference in Poetry, a list (including journal articles) of Swahili literature and poetry titles, arranged by author.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/lang.html   (5784 words)

  
 CNN.com - Report: Integra top target of car thieves in 2004 - Jul 19, 2005
The list ranks vehicles by the percentage of registered vehicles stolen, rather than by gross number of thefts.
The top 10 list is rounded out by the 1991 GMC V2500 at No. 4, the 2002 Audi S4 at No. 5 and the 1992 Mercedes-Benz 600 at No. 10.
The top three vehicle segments with the highest rate of theft rates in 2004 were the full size sport/utility Vehicles, such as the Cadillac Escalade; the upper midsize sedans, including the Integra; and the prestige luxury segment, such as Bentley and Mercedes Benz.
www.cnn.com /2005/AUTOS/07/19/most_stolen/index.html   (417 words)

  
 MSU Online Catalog - German Courses
An integrated approach to teaching language skills with emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and basic grammatical structures.
Taught through a series of carefully selected readings in German culture, civilization and literature which will provide the basis for writing essays and reports and developing advanced language skills.
Topics offered at the upper division level which are not covered in regular courses.
www.montana.edu /wwwcat/courses/mlg.html   (562 words)

  
 Freeware Home - Education ... Languages
Polyglot 3000 is automatic language identifier that can detect the language used in a text, phrase, or even a single word.
When a user marks a word as "known" it is moved out of the rotation list and saved for later use to check retention.
The program can be used by native speakers of any of these languages since the user can choose the language of the on-screen instructions.
www.freewarehome.com /Education/Languages_t.html   (1396 words)

  
 Welcome to the Department of Languages and Literatures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The minor and/or BIS emphasis area in German requires 18 semester hours, including a minimum of 12 upper division hours.
A grade of C or better must be achieved in all courses to be counted toward the minor or BIS emphasis area.
Only 6 credits of 200-level GER German courses are applicable to the minor or BIS emphasis area.
www.asu.edu /languages/adv/GERMinor2004-2005checksheet.htm   (259 words)

  
 languagehat.com
Languages I have studied and could recover but which are not actively available at the moment: Georgian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Swahili
For those who are familiar with a given language and might be curious, I will identify some of the major dictionaries thus: Serbo-Croatian D (Benson).
But he's writing about language, and his only claim to your attention is the idea that he knows more about it than you do.
www.languagehat.com /languages.php   (2027 words)

  
 Cornell College - Department of German
This minor is designed for students who want to continue their study of German language and literature, but cannot fit a full major into their schedule.
This list is based primarily on the 1997 Cornell College Alumni Directory, and contains a list of all German majors graduated from Cornell since 1941.
This list illustrates the various and diverse occupations which graduates from liberal arts colleges may have.
www.cornellcollege.edu /german/majors.shtml   (1489 words)

  
 101 things you can do in Mozilla
While the list does include cookies, hidden amongst the other files, it isn't tailored to cookies (it is just a generic file listing), so one cannot really view the data or expiry times easily.
The XML User Interface Language is used to create complex user interfaces using markup.
The eXtensible Bindings Language is used to create custom widgets or elements and bind them to other XUL, XML or HTML elements.
www.xulplanet.com /ndeakin/arts/reasons.html   (2723 words)

  
 French | Department of Foreign Languages - Idaho State University
French, the "language of love", is the official language of over 25 countries in the world and is a major second language in nearly two dozen more countries.
The top tourist destination in the world with over 75 million visitors annually, France is home to more Nobel-prize winners for literature than any other country in the world and has the fourth largest economy in the world after the U.S., Japan and Germany.
While learning about the history, culture, language and "francophone world", students of French also learn about their own language and its structure: though a Germanic language in origin, English derives between 30% and 40% of its vocabulary from the French language.
www.isu.edu /foreign/french.shtml   (399 words)

  
 Languages of the World
Over 39,000 language dialects and alternate names are catalogued in the Summer Institute of Linguistic's Ethnologue — more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries.
Microsoft's International Word List define the words and phrases that either appear in the Microsoft Windows user interface or are used in describing key concepts of the operating system.
This groundbreaking study done 1921 was the most scientific linguistic work on the American language and continues to serve as a definitive resource in the field.
www.wilsonmar.com /1langs.htm   (1447 words)

  
 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top 100 - 11 to 100
Leader of the Red River and Northwest Rebellions and founder of Manitoba, Riel was twice elected to the House of Commons but was prevented from taking his seat.
His bravery and leadership bolstered the sagging confidence of his troops and the province; without it, Upper Canada might well have fallen to the Americans.
The shrewd, solitary politician introduced the idea of the welfare state, navigated Canada through World War II, brought in the baby bonus and unemployment insurance and juggled with consummate skill the divergent demands of this country.
www.cbc.ca /greatest/greatcanadians   (4388 words)

  
 World Languages and Literatures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Students will enter the sequence at a level appropriate to their previous preparation and may be exempt from up to 12 hours of lower-division credit.
Students interested in a minor are urged to consult with the professor of the language they wish to pursue.
Students who enter with previous foreign language training may be exempt from a maximum of 6 hours of the minor requirement.
www.pacificu.edu /academics/as/arts_humanities/worll/major.html   (352 words)

  
 Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Yiddish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yiddish language - one of the Indoeuropean languages (Germanic group), spoken and literary language of the Ashkenazi Jews.
It was formed during the 10th - 14th centuries on the basis of Upper German dialects that became influenced by Hebrew and later Slavic languages.
The number of Jews in Russia is 536,8 thousand (including 8,9 thousand in the Jewish autonomous region).
www.peoples.org.ru /eng_idish.html   (125 words)

  
 Language Resource Center: UM Languages
Languages on the Web: Great place to find links for different cultures and languages.
International Children's Digital Library: Children's books and reading tools in 20+ languages; the site itself can be searched in 9 different languages.
Kidcomics.com: Flash comics in German, English, French, and Dutch.
www.umich.edu /~langres/langsite/engines/index.htm   (918 words)

  
 The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
Reading and discussion of advanced text material based on contemporary German culture.
Intensive practice in word formation, sentence structure, and expository writing.
www.rci.rutgers.edu /~germanic/courselist/currentofferings/description/231.htm   (60 words)

  
 German Commands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
German Terms Often Found In Breed Surveys Etc.
The Structure of The GSD Diagram in English and German
A handy translation website can be found here.
www.justshepherds.com /german1.htm   (93 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Slovenia
The number of languages listed for Slovenia is 4.
Carniola and southern parts of Styria and Carinthia; Lower Carniola in Dolenjsko, Upper Carniola in Gorenjska, Primorski in West Slovenia, Stajerski in Styria.
Dialects: Lower Carniola, Upper Carniola, Stajerski, Primorski, Prekmurski.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Slovenia   (127 words)

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