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  Slavic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.
The evolution of literary languages in Poland, Bohemia, and Slovakia was stymied by the domination of Latin as the language of worship.
While Vuk Karadžić was fighting with the patriarch in Vojvodina for his attempts at ensuring a uniform literary and spoken language, inside Bulgaria the Church tried to establish firmly the Church Slavonic language as the literary language of the country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavic_languages   (2080 words)

  
 West Germanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Middle Ages, the West Germanic languages were separated by the insular development of Middle English on one hand, and by the second Germanic sound shift on the continent on the other.
The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the Danelaw with the 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 12th century.
West Flemish (in West Flanders and nearby areas of Belgium, Zeeland in the Netherlands, and France)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Germanic_languages   (533 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)

  
 Slavic Languages: Graduate Courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Language courses on various levels in Russian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, and occasionally other Slavic languages are given in Columbia College and the School of General Studies (see the listing of undergraduate courses offered).
A survey of Slavic peoples, their languages and cultures, followed by a concentration on the history, economic and social organization, culture and civilization of Kievan Rus and its interaction with the outside world.
Parameters of the structure of language: phonology, grammar, semantics, concepts and methods of theoretical linguistics and their role in the study of cognitive, communicative and social functions of language.
www.columbia.edu /cu/slavic/courses/gdcrs.htm   (3598 words)

  
 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)

  
 Slavic Languages and Literatures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The present Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures was established as a separate department of the University under the Division of Modern Languages and Literatures by a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on January 4, 1949.
Any applicant whose native language is not English is required to take the TOEFL exam, and achieve a score of 550 or better, or to receive a degree from an institution where the language of instruction is English.
The candidate will choose one major Slavic language and literature and a minor field, which can be another Slavic language and literature, another European language and literature, Slavic linguistics and language pedagogy, Russian and East European history, or comparative literature (six courses in the major field and four in the minor field).
www.gsas.harvard.edu /programs/degree/slavlang.html   (2913 words)

  
 ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Corporate Edition - List of Supported Languages
A Manchu-Tungus language spoken in China, Russia (from the Yenisey to Sakhalin), and Mongolia.
A Tupian language spoken in Paraguay and the nearby regions of Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia.
An Iroquoian language spoken in the north-east of the USA and the nearby regions of Canada (Ontario and Erie lakes).
www.abbyy.com /finereader7/?param=28560   (2975 words)

  
 ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition - List of Supported Languages
A sino-tibetan language spoken in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
An abkhazo-adyghian (caucasian) language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia (Mozdok), Adyghea and nearby regions of Krasnodar and Stavropol regions.
A mande (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Guinea and Liberia.
www.abbyy.com /ocr_products.asp?param=28558   (2861 words)

  
 Languages list
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   (270 words)

  
 Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Prerequisites: Slavic 2 - Slavic 1 or consent of instructor-in-charge.
The concept of the Orient constructed by the West is composed largely of the idea of the Orient as Islamic, versus the Christian Occident.
Uzbek, the national language of Uzbekistan and a relative of Turkish, is a new offering in the Slavic Department.
ls.berkeley.edu /dept/slavic/s03description.html   (4175 words)

  
 Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
A great variety of research tools and databases for Slavic materials can be accessed through "Slavic and East European Studies: Selected Internet Resources" at Yale University.
List of journals, databases and indexes relevant to the field
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) serves as a resource at the University for students and faculty who conduct research and teaching on the geographic region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
ls.berkeley.edu /dept/slavic/resources.html   (470 words)

  
 Slavic Languages: Undergraduate Courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Language courses on various levels in Russian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, and occasionally other Slavic languages are given in Columbia College and the School of General Studies.
Further explores the grammatical and linguistic structures of the Romanian language.
Parallel reading list in translation and in the original; students who wish to receive credit for department major or concentration are required to do the reading in the original.
www.columbia.edu /cu/slavic/courses/ugdcrs.htm   (3269 words)

  
 Essentialist Explanations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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)

  
 Slavic Languages in HPSG
This list has been created in August 1994 by Sandi Kodric, who still maintains it.
Slavic Linguistics in the German-Speaking Countries: the New Generation
Workshop on Slavic Languages in HPSG, Poznan, Poland, May 1-3, 1997, Announcement and Call for Papers, Programme
www.ipipan.waw.pl /~agn/slavic.html   (456 words)

  
 H-Net Discussion Networks
H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials.
Every aspect of academic life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion; decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors.
List for Discussion of History of Journalism and Mass Communication
www.h-net.org /lists   (308 words)

  
 M = Germanic and Slavic Languages
The German section of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages offers instruction in the German language and literature aimed at providing access to many aspects of the culture, past and present, of Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.
German has always been one of the prime languages of international scholarship, and the recent reunification of Germany has drawn renewed attention to the European and indeed worldwide importance of that country.
Continued enhancement of the various language skills and of cultural sensitivity through readings, writing, discussions, group activities, special events, and immersion in our rich language media and computer environment.
www.brandeis.edu /registrar/bulletin/1997-98/GER97.html   (1654 words)

  
 Germanic and Slavic Languages
The German section of the Departmentof Germanic and Slavic Languages offers instruction in the Germanlanguage and literature aimed at providing access to many aspectsof the culture, past and present, of Germany, Austria, and partsof Switzerland.
The department welcomes allstudents to become concentrators in German language and literature.Both non-concentrators and concentrators are offered computer-aidedinstruction in German, and work in the classroom and the LanguageMedia Center is supplemented with regular German-speaking luncheontables at a dining hall.
An intensive course coveringessential elements of a third and fourth semester language sequencein one semester.
www.brandeis.edu /registrar/bulletin/1998-99/GER98.html   (1508 words)

  
 Slavic Languages Division of the ATA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Minutes of the Slavic Languages Division Meeting at the Annual 2004 ATA Conference in Toronto presented by Jennifer Guernsey.
A Brief History of the Slavic Languages Division Delivered by Susana Greiss at the ATA Conference, Atlanta, on November 6, 2002.
My Life in Languages: A Translator's Odyssey Kim Braithwaite shares the story of his lifelong love of languages, especially his early passion for the Georgian language and the career path down which that passion led him.
www.americantranslators.org /divisions/SLD/slavfile.html   (3712 words)

  
 Steven Clancy, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Senior Lecturer in Russian, Slavic, and 2nd-Language Acquisition
It is very important that I know well in advance of potential students to ensure that we have sufficient students to avoid cancellation of the course.
Human Being, Language, and Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics (LING 26700/36700 or SLAV 21700/31700)
home.uchicago.edu /~sclancy   (197 words)

  
 A Web of On-line Dictionaries III
Oxford Language Word Lists (about 25 languages but no translations)
List of Medieval Latin Function Words (Prepositions, Delimiters, Conjunctions)
A Basic Dictionary of American Sign Language Terms
angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de /call/webofdic/diction3.html   (291 words)

  
 yourDictionary.com • Slavic Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian Dictionary
yourDictionary.com • Slavic Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian Dictionary
WebCreatorPlus.com- the last website or ecommerce solution you will ever need!
Quick Lookup Database: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
www.yourdictionary.com /languages/slavic.html   (187 words)

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