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	Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle
		Population explosions in Asia and the Indian sub-continent are adding to the demise of English as the number one spoken language in the world, according to linguistic researchers.
		The English language, once safely atop the league table in terms of the number of native speakers, has now been relegated to the second spot behind Chinese.
		However, while languages unique to remote country regions become extinct, new languages in the form of mixed idioms and structure brought by the many different people who live together, will continue to develop in towns and cities.
	www.dw-world.de /dwelle/cda/detail/dwelle.cda.detail.artikel_drucken/0,3820,1441_AD_1126154_A,00.html (661 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of the most spoken native languages
		Awadhi is a dialect of Hindi, spoken in the Awadh (Oudh) region of Uttar Pradesh.
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings).
		Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland, in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-the-most-spoken-native-languages (1539 words)

	Numbers in Over 5000 Languages
		For unwritten languages, different linguists' word lists may be strikingly different.
		Their ears may not be attuned to the language; or there may be dialectal variation, or even sound change.
		There is nothing inherent in the language variety to tell us what it is. Linguists sometimes use "language" to refer to a mutually intelligible group of dialects (but note that intelligibility can be partial).
	www.zompist.com /numbers.shtml (926 words)

	Linguistics 001 -- Languages of the World
		As of the 1999 revision, Ethnologue assigns three-letter "language codes" to 6783 "languages", for 6059 of which an estimate of number of speakers is given.
		Spanish speakers certainly feel themselves to be members of a different linguistic community from Portuguese speakers -- and speakers of Catalan or Galician feel equally separate, although these are minority languages of Spain rather than languages associated with their own nation-state.
		By contrast, speakers of different varieties of Arabic generally feel themselves to be members of the same linguistic community, tied together by their common language of formal discourse, which is essentially the language of the Quran.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/Fall_2001/ling001/world_languages.html (2250 words)

	List of Indian languages by total speakers - Information at Halfvalue.com
		English is spoken as a second language by approximately 20-25 million Indians.
		Prior to colonization, Persian played an important role as a language of government, education and trade, due to its mandate by the Muslim rulers.
		The official figure of 'mother tongues' spoken in India is 1,683, of which an estimated 850 are in daily use.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=List_of_Indian_languages_by_total_speakers (419 words)

	Classified List of BC Native Languages
		The Athabaskan language family as a whole is fairly closely related to Eyak, a language once spoken in the Cook inlet area of southern Alaska.
		The Apachean languages are spoken in the American Southwest, while the Pacific Coast languages are spoken in various places along the Pacific coast from the far north of California to southern Washington.
		The Tsimshianic languages are spoken on the northwest coast and in adjacent areas of the interior.
	www.ydli.org /bcother/bclist.htm (1153 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : List of languages by number of native speakers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a list of languages ordered by number of first-language speakers, with some data for second-language use.
		Some listings are not single languages in the sense of being mutually intelligible (e.g.
		For languages spoken by very few people, and so in danger of extinction, see list of endangered languages.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers (2074 words)

	Soga language resources
		...list of languages ordered by number of first-language speakers, with some data for second-language use...
		SÃ¡pmi is the name in the Northern Sami language and usually used in official context to denote Sami...
		...remained the official language of the Heian period imperial court, the introduction and wide use of...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Soga.html (1251 words)

	Other Languages Courses in Manchester :: Other Languages School Manchester :: Other Languages Language Course Manchester
		Course types depend on the number of people in your group - this can range from one-to-one up or two-to-one up to a group of 12 (you need to arrange the group - these are closed groups with you and your friends, family or colleagues).
		The other languages teachers are all native speakers, qualified experienced language teachers and they are all based in the local area.
		It is part of their job to decide which is the best other languages course book for you to use and this will be decided after your first session which includes an in-depth assessment of where you are now and what is realistic for you to achieve by the end of the course.
	www.listenandlearn.org /manchester-more-course.php (853 words)

	Articles - List of languages by number of native speakers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Only languages spoken natively by more than one million are listed, and then they are listed for secondary locations only when spoken by more than 1% of the population.
		For practical reasons in compiling this list, some listings are not single languages in the sense of being mutually intelligible, such as Chinese or Arabic; while in other cases mutually intelligible idioms with separate national standards or self identification have been listed separately, such as Scandinavian, Hindustani, and Malay.
		For the purposes of this article, a ´first language´ is a language a person was raised with, while a ´second language´ is a language of instruction or everyday communication.
	www.zdiamond.net /articles/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers (240 words)

	Languages Spoken in the U.S.
		An indigenous or autochthonous language is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples.
		The large number of foreign language speakers in the United States is a consequence of recent immigration.
		The term "heritage speaker" refers to a person who comes from a home where a language other than English is spoken, who speaks or understands the home language, and who is more or less bilingual in English and the home language.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/november/USlanguages.html (645 words)

	Background information on Ortelius Atlas Maps
		I intend to merge the bibliographical list of each map into an overall list to obtain an insight into the total number of different sources and the frequency of use of each of these sources, arguably representing the books which found their way into Ortelius library in the course of time.
		Languages used for the various editions of this atlas are Latin, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian and English.
		Even native speakers of these languages (excluding Latin, no longer spoken by anyone) have difficulty understanding their own language as it was written 400 years ago, due to irregular spelling, change of the meaning of words, archaic expressions, exotic fonts (including Gothic) and so on.
	orteliusmaps.com /ort_background.html (3305 words)

	Mi'kmaq Language and the Mi'kmaq Indian Tribe (Micmac Indians, Mikmaq, Mi'kmaw, Mikmaw, Mikmak)
		Language: The Mi'kmaq language, Míkmawísimk, is an Algonquian language spoken by 8000 Indians in the Canadian Maritimes (particularly Nova Scotia) and a few US communities.
		The Mi'kmaq language is entirely native to the New World and is related to other major North American Indian languages like Lenape, Ojibwe, and Cree.
		Although Mi'kmaq is one of the healthier American Indian languages, the number of children learning the language has been in decline since the 1970's.
	www.native-languages.org /mikmaq.htm (798 words)

	GNU and Free Software Speakers - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		Speakers are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
		A more complete list of talks that Hill has given is also available.
		Alex is a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker and a fluent English speaker.
	www.gnu.org /people/speakers.html (1999 words)

	List of languages by number of native speakers Information
		This is a list of languages ordered by number of native-language speakers, with some data for second-language use.
		This should not be taken as an endorsement of any side of dialect versus language debates.
		Countries that are not sovereign states are listed according to the corresponding sovereign states.
	www.bookrags.com /List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers (2109 words)

	Most Widely Spoken Languages
		Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers but are used almost exclusively in a few countries.
		On the other hand, other languages have relatively small populations of native speakers but are used in many different countries as an official or national language.
		After weighing six factors (number of primary speakers, number of secondary speakers, number and population of countries where used, number of major fields using the language internationally, economic power of countries using the languages, and socio-literary prestige), Weber compiled the following list of the world's ten most influential languages:
	www2.ignatius.edu /faculty/turner/languages.htm (411 words)

	VOA Wordmaster - March 18, 2004 - Future of English
		One expert points out that the percentage of native English speakers is declining globally while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by increasing numbers of people.
		Graddol noted that three languages not now near the top of the list of the most widely spoken might be there soon.
		But all the evidence suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster and faster and faster and accreting new foreign language users unlike any language has ever done before.
	www.manythings.org /voa/wm/wm247.html (696 words)

	List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia
		[އުނިއިތުރު ގެންނަވާ] 100 million native speakers or more
		(national language; official in some states and unincorporated territories)
		60 million native, 15 million second language, = 75 million total (2005 estimate).
	dv.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers (1824 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.610: Native American Languages
		Aymara MJ HARDMAN University of Florida, Gainesville Aymara, a member of the Jaqi family of languages (Jaqaru, Kawki, Aymara), is a language of the high Andean plain between the highest peaks of the Andes mountains and of the shores of the world's highest navigable lake.
		Aymara is the first language of approximately one-third of the population of Bolivia, the dominant language of the southern area of Perï¿½ throughout Puno and down towards the coast in Moquegua, Tacna, with branches into Arequipa, and is the indigenous language of northern Chile.
		Castaï¿½eda is a bilingual speaker of Spanish and Emberï¿½, with limited fluency in English.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/12/12-610.html (1016 words)

	Budapest internationalization meeting findings \| groups.drupal.org
		Because the decision on the language used has an impact of the variables being loaded, the cache being checked and so on, it was obvious, that a bootstrap step should be added to check for the language, and decide on the language used.
		List of languages by number of native speakers — notice how many significant languages (10 million+) are located in countries where English isn't taught at all.
		List of languages could be made useful for sure, we will see whether it is possible to come up with something in Drupal core to support this or it will be left for contrib.
	groups.drupal.org /node/2888 (4684 words)

	Spanish for Native Speakers 2004 Purpose
		Local school districts are required to administer a home language survey at the time of enrollment to all students in order to determine the number of national origin minority students (NOMS) in their schools.
		Teachers need to accept and validate the diversity in the students' languages and must be very careful to avoid denigrating the language spoken by the students or to impose their own Spanish as the "correct" one.
		Thus, Spanish for Native Speakers teachers will have to realize that "their attitudes can have a significant impact on how students view their language abilities…..To stigmatize our students or to make them feel that their language is inferior is pedagogically unsound" (Roca, Gutierrez, 2000).
	www.ncpublicschools.org /curriculum/secondlanguages/scos/2004/39snspurpose (2455 words)

	Language Policy -- Endangered Languages
		Rapid shift to English is evident even among speakers of the healthiest indigenous languages such as Navajo, a group that was historically isolated and thus among the slowest to become bilingual.
		More often language death is the culmination of language shift, resulting from a complex of internal and external pressures that induce a speech community to adopt a language spoken by others.
		The languages at the lower end of the prestige scale retreat from ever increasing areas of their earlier functional domains, displaced by higher prestige languages, until there is nothing left for them to be appropriately used about.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/JWCRAWFORD/brj.htm (6029 words)

	Xuzo.com - Exotic Goods and Novelties Emporium - Index - Languages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fears are growing in southern Afghanistan that the Taliban are turning to kidnapping as a tactic against the government of Hamid Karzai in Kabul and foreign influence in the region.
		Chinese is the most spoken language in the world unlike the popular belief and myth that English is. This list of languages is alphabetical by English name.
		More structured lists are also available: Language families and languages ISO 639 List of languages by writing system 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.
	www.xuzo.com /alphacontent/languages.html (554 words)

	NativeWeb Resources: Languages & Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project is one of a number of projects which operates under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota.
		The functions of the web site is to let know about the existence of dying languages by art to a large audience and to increase the possibility of a permanent contact with and between all native speakers of endangered languages.
		The mission of the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) is to improve and strengthen foreign language instruction on the Berkeley campus by keeping teachers informed of new developments in the fields of language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and applied linguistics.
	www.nativeweb.org /resources/languages_linguistics (991 words)

	SocioSite: LANGUAGE RESOURCES
		Lebert expecs that the distribution of languages on the internet will correspondend to the language distribution on the planet, and free translation software in all languages will be available for instantaneous translation of any website.
		Language information can also include number of speakers in the world, dialects, linguistic typology, and availability of the Bible.
		For this purpose native speakers, and non-native speakers with a fair command of Dutch, are invited to answer questions and correct mistakes, if any.
	www.sociosite.net /language.php (3880 words)

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