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	List of Languages
		The language belongs to the Tupi-Guarani language subfamily.
		Or Ossetian is an Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus mountains on the borders of Russia and Georgia.
		Is the variant of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire.
	www.aboutlanguageschools.com /language/list/list_o.asp (1439 words)

	Ethnologue report for USA
		Of those, 162 are living languages, 3 are second language without mother-tongue speakers, and 73 are extinct.
		Principally in south central Oklahoma, from Byng or Happyland (near Ada) in the north, and from Davis or Ardmore in the west to Fillmore and Wapanucka in the east.
		Formerly in Washington and Oregon in the valley of the Deschutes River, later west into the Molala and Santiam River valleys, and to the headwaters of the Umpqua and Rogue rivers.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=US (4325 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Germanic languages
		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.reference.com /browse/wiki/Germanic_languages (1618 words)

	Germanic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		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.
		The Scots language is the resulting Germanic language now spoken in Scotland and similar to the regional variation of English in the north of England, Geordie (or Northumbrian).
	enc.qba73.com /link-Germanic_tribes (3206 words)

	Languages & Writing Systems - Crystalinks
		Language is an ever evolving process on planet Earth varying from culture to culture and place to place depending on the needs of the civilization that existed at that timeline.
		Language is a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, communicate.
		The languages of North Asia are those spoken from the Arctic Ocean on the north to South Asia and China on the south and from the Caspian Sea and Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
	www.crystalinks.com /languages.html (2691 words)

	West Germanic Encyclopedia Article @ Canst.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Middle Ages, the West Germanic languages were separated by the insular development of
		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
		Walliser dialect being the southernmost surviving German dialect) to
	www.canst.net /encyclopedia/West_Germanic (611 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)

	News - University of Pittsburgh: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
		Last year the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh announced the establishment of an endowed chair to honor a distinguished colleague whose dedicated service to the university and department extended from 1957 until 1988.
		The Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce the establishment of a newly endowed chair to honor a distinguished colleague whose dedicated service to the university and department extended from 1957 until 1988.
		Professor Sabine Hake, who built an international reputation in German film and cultural studies of the Weimar period during her tenure in the department, will be joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin, in the Fall.
	www.pitt.edu /~germanic/news.html (1235 words)

	Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages \| Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Overview of the cultural and linguistic history of the German language form the fifteenth century to the present.
		Topics treated include: the German reunification; DDR nostalgia and kitsch; contemporary youth culture; art in the wake of the two World Wars; the new Jewish museum in Berlin; bohemian coffeehouse culture; religious art and its social role in the Middle Ages; Romantic art; Expressionism; contemporary German politics in photography; contemporary Berlin art and culture.
		The peoples and cultures of the Balkans from the Byzantine period to the present, with a focus on the social, historical, and cultural factors that have played a role both in the formation of ethnic/national identity within the region and in the perceptions of outsiders.
	www.uga.edu /gslangs/courses/course_list.htm (3245 words)

	ACS: Subject Definitions - Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Language Spoken at Home--Data on language spoken at home were derived from the answers to questionnaire items 14a and 14b, which were asked of persons 5 years old and older.
		If the person spoke more than one language other than English, the person was to report the language spoken most often or, if they cannot determine the one spoken most often, the language learned first.
		The detail in which language names were coded may give a false impression of the linguistic precision of these data.
	www.census.gov /acs/www/UseData/Def/Language.htm (1045 words)

	Languages in the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries , Reference Department, Davis Library
		Many languages employ some version of the Roman alphabet which is used in English, although with occasional modified forms in order to accommodate sounds that do not appear in English.
		Language dictionaries with a specific linguistic focus or on a special language topic might be cataloged somewhat differently.
		There is a language lab on the lowest floor of Dey Hall, but its use is restricted to students enrolled in language classes.
	www.lib.unc.edu /reference/hum/languages.html (2488 words)

	Department of Slavic and Germanic Languages and Literatures
		The foreign language is at once part of that culture and the only medium through which an intimate sense of the total culture may be gained.
		The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures merged with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1996.
		German language instruction was eliminated on campus in 1997 with German language instruction now offered through an agreement with Union College.
	library.albany.edu /speccoll/findaids/ua6XX.htm (1046 words)

	Ingram Library/Main/
		Language Teaching is issued 4 times a year and contains one article on a different topic for each issue and abstracts of journal articles and books.
		There is also a section for citation list to book reviews arranged by name of the author of the reviewed book, or the title of the book.
		MLA Directory of Periodicals is a list of journals that are contained in this database and you can find it in the green bar right under search function tab in the database screen.
	www.westga.edu /~library/depts/liaison/forlang/myindexes.shtml (499 words)

	PhD Degree - University of Pittsburgh: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
		Eighteen of the 24 credits taken in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures must be taken for a letter grade.
		For both parts of the exam, students develop a topic and reading list, which needs to be approved by their examination committee.
		The chosen topic for this exam should demonstrate the student’s foundation in German culture from the Enlightenment to the present.
	www.pitt.edu /~germanic/graduate/phd.html (432 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)

	The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
		The Center is pleased that I also conduct tours in German to OSU students, to German visitors and executives from Germany, and once even to a group of German parliamentarians from all 15 German States.
		Three of the returnees are now living in the Max Kade German House, where they undoubtedly add a sense of authenticity and hopefully spark an interest in the study-abroad experience in their friends and peers.
		He was the proud recipient of the "Germanic Languages and Literatures Nice-Guy Award" presented by an ad hoc Staff committee in June, 1998.
	germanic.osu.edu /news/yr1998.cfm (7120 words)

	Germanic Ethnohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The chart (3.1) of IE Languages is illustrated to highlight the Centum/Satem divergence, while the map (3.2) illustrates the locations of these languages to show the slight overlays that negate any simplistic migration theories.
		Since the Germanic branches of IE culture are furthest removed in the West from the foci of the core culture, and in contact with the Celtic culture, they tend to retain Centum branch conservative formations, illustrated in the Baltic branches pre-IE formations in the east.
		As an example of the language cross sections, illustration 3.3 demonstrates the reflexes of the number 6 in IE (Satem and Centum), Proto IE, and several non-IE languages as well.
	www.normannii.org /guilds_lore/lore/germanic_ethnohistory.htm (7121 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)

	The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
		Her lecture, entitled Li(e)ves Interrupted: German Women Writers and the Limits of Biographical Interpretation dealt with an aspect that had been largely overlooked in the proceedings: the end of causal and chronological sequencing (constitutive notions in much of todays biographical writing) in a postmodern and cyber context.
		Schizophrenia, Immediacy, and the Poetic Process (Language and Literature 9.1 [2000]: 43-59.) He organized a panel and presented a paper on Thomas Bernhard at the 1999 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Atlanta and lectured on contemporary Austrian literature at the German Studies Colloquium at Stanford University.
		She served on the faculty of the College of Humanities' combined languages GTA pre-service workshop and gave a lecture "A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Teaching and Learning Vocabulary" in September 1999.
	germanic.osu.edu /news/yr2000.cfm (5895 words)

	Germanic Languages
		Established in 1890, the department offers a broad range of courses on German literature and culture and is designed to provide students with a solid grounding in their areas of interest.
		Deutsches Haus at 420 West 116th Street, provides a center for German cultural activities on the Columbia campus, sponsoring conferences, lectures, film series, and informal weekly gatherings that enrich the academic program of the department.
		All international students whose native language is not English or whose undergraduate degree is from an institution in a country whose official language is not English, must submit scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or IELTS.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/gsas/departments/germanic-languages/department.html (440 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.528: West-Germanic Lang/Historical Ling Researchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The aim of the programme is to come to an extensive, indepth, theoretically inspired and corpus-based study of the historical development of separable complex verbs in the West-Germanic languages.
		The postdoctoral project focusses on Gothic and German.
		For the project on Dutch we seek a candidate with undergraduate training in Dutch, with a specialism in language/(historical) linguistics, or in linguistics with Dutch as the main language.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-528.html (284 words)

	Amazon.com: The Germanic Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys): Books: Wayne Harbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide.
		This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages.
		Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.
	www.amazon.com /Germanic-Languages-Cambridge-Language-Surveys/dp/0521808251 (900 words)

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		The first is that the question of finiteness/ nonfiniteness of languages is not a factual one; the second is his expression of discomfort with the cavalier way in which the Langendoen-Postal thesis is rejected by most linguists.
		It is a parody of a language lesson in which this very straight-faced person is teaching the intricacies of the Spanish verb bananar 'to banana'.
		The general point, which is that prescriptive rules, including ones of the genreal form 'This comes from language X so you have to use it in the way it's used in that language' are invariably belied by at least some usages by those who adamantly tout the rules.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.601-650 (15069 words)

	Germanic Studies
		The first date given is the year in which the student joined our department.
		B.A. (Germanic Languages) University of Texas – Austin, 2004
		Diploma (German) University of the West Timisoara 1995
	www.indiana.edu /~germanic/graduate/gradstud.html (209 words)

	Discussion Group Meetings
		Into the West Redux: Old and New Stories of the Celtic Diaspora
		West Goes East: (Re)Turning to East Central Europe after 1989--A Discussion
		Sephardic Identity as Seen through Literature, Language, and Culture
	www.mla.org /convention/conv_listings/conv_listings_type/conv_listings_dg (173 words)

	Germanic languages - Verb books, find the lowest prices
		Germanic Accent, Grammatical Change and the Laws of Unaccented Syllables
		Scrambling, Remnant Movement, And Restructuring in West Germanic
		The V2 Conspiracy : A Synchronic and a Diachronic Analysis of Verbal Positions in Germanic Languages
	www.allbookstores.com /Germanic_Languages-Verb_st.html (187 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 (1050 words)

	The Lord's Prayer in the Germanic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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)

	LINGUIST List 16.3576: Syntax/Germanic Lang: Faarlund (2004)
		devoted to the historical syntax of one particular language or
		Middle Field Scrambling in West Germanic.'' Ph.D. dissertation,
		Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University
	linguistlist.org /issues/16/16-3576.html (1197 words)

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