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  Behind the Name: Languages Referenced by this Site
The Semitic language that was formerly spoken in Ethiopia.
The extinct language that was spoken by the Goths.
The Gaelic language of the Celts of Ireland.
surnames.behindthename.com /languages.php   (1157 words)

  
 Graduate fiction writing seminar, Brian Kiteley
list is a catalogue or roll consisting of a series of names, figures, or words.
This list immediately locates us in a culture hovering on the brink of dissolution, a society of radical scarcity, a world of human groups threatened by death, devastation, flood, and famine.
D.C., her great discovery was the power of a simple list of the 50,000 names of the soldiers who died in that war.
www.du.edu /~bkiteley/list.html   (1407 words)

  
 Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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)

  
 List of revived languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Revived languages are those which, having experienced near or complete extinction as either a spoken or written language, were intentionally revived and have eventually regained some of their former status.
The survival of the language continues to be seriously compromised by the fact that Galician native speakers and non-speakers alike still regard the Galician language as a sign of social disadvantage vis-à-vis mainstream Spaniards.
The language was mostly extinct as anything but an antiquated scriptural language until the 19th century; though respected and preserved as the holy language of Judaism, it was considered impractically archaic or too sacred for day-to-day communication, yet is now spoken by over 7,000,000 people.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_revived_languages   (1432 words)

  
 Linguist List - Get List of Ancient and Constructed Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Below is a list of the constructed languages in the LINGUIST List database, accompanied by a brief description and the proposed language code.
One of the languages invented by J. Tolkien, and which were ultimately used in his Lord of the Rings cycle.
The language, though completely agglutinative and regular, was very complex, with a nominal case system and verbs which marked person, gender, number, tense, mood and voice.
linguistlist.org /forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html   (1210 words)

  
 Languages of Valusia
Alari: Alari is the native language of the Alarian tribes.
Halfling: Halfling, or Estaric, is the native language of Halflings.
Krillian: Krillian is the native language of the Krillian tribes.
home.nycap.rr.com /valusia/languages.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Languages of the Gods
I like what Dave had to say, but I’ll change it to “Languages of the Gods”, for Smalltalk is but one of a few.
Languages like Smalltalk and Lisp (always got to give Lisp its props) are amplifiers.
These languages will never be mainstream, because the mainstream would never see the benefits they provide.
onsmalltalk.com /programming/smalltalk/languages-of-the-gods   (1007 words)

  
 Wrestling With Oblivion: Endangered Languages
With an estimated 800 to 1,300 languages, Papua New Guinea is the wealthiest nation on earth, linguistically-speaking.
Efforts to slow down the death rate include Terralingua, an association of linguists and fellow travellers dedicated to bringing the issue to the fore; Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen, the University of Köln's endangered languages association; the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages; and Britain's Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Stabilising or rejuvenating an endangered language is very hard to do; once an invading tradition gets the upper hand, with its powerful mix of convenience, political clout, and "hipness," reversing the entrenched prejudices against the minority language, even among its own speakers, is like stopping an avalanche.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/world_languages/53162/2   (430 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 14.1550: NYT Essay on Endangered Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In other words, some of what was lost when Biblical Hebrew ceased to be spoken as a first language, in particular those features which made it unusual, were lost precisely because the language had to be learned by people whose first languages did not include them.
Such features will disappear without trace if a language dies, and will not return if and when it is revived.
For a new language to emerge requires a degree of cultural isolation, or at least independence, that has become impossible.
linguistlist.org /issues/14/14-1550.html   (307 words)

  
 The Skeptics Society Forum :: View topic - Languages
As a Yiddish speaker his native language was at the bottom of the social pecking order.
This is one of the reasons that he favored cultural and religious neutrality in an auxillary language.
He decided in favor of his constructed language because Latin would be too hard for the working classes to learn.
www.skepticforum.com /viewtopic.php?p=74813   (709 words)

  
 [No title]
A general program that focuses on one or more modern foreign languages that is not specific as to the name of the language(s) studied; that is otherwise undifferentiated; or that introduces students to language studies at the basic/elementary level.
Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.
Programs may involve multiple languages and language families, not be specific as to the name of the language(s) studied, or be otherwise undifferentiated.
nces.ed.gov /pubs2002/cip2000/ciplist.asp?CIP2=16   (3545 words)

  
 Make KudoZ language list more in depth (T) (ProZ.com suggestions)
To working languages (drop down on profile editing) there may be added languages on special request of interested members, but only of such members, who indicate those languages as working language or at least as language of interest.
Armenian is the native language of Armenia, a landlocked country in Transcaucasia bordering Turkey and Iran.
If the case is the number of speakers then in the language list there are languages with the same number of speakers or less.
www.proz.com /post/61936   (2854 words)

  
 ElastiC Languages Programming Computers
Revived Woman Sings Lifesaver?s PraisesQueens Chronicle, NY - Nov 30, 2006...
of local and international renown, she has recorded in four languages, performed leading...
from Latin or Sanskrit or Farsi -- it's the oldest of the Scandinavian languages.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Computers/Programming/Languages/ElastiC   (130 words)

  
 Jewish-Languages Mailing List: July 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The only knowledge of the linguistic self-identity that a sabra knows that his or her parents spoke language X (sometimes even with a doubt, was it German, Polish or Russian).
Bachi 1956: 67-9), the Ashkenazim were the ones who were most receptive to the "language revival": 61.9% of Ashkenazic children and 28.5% of Ashkenazic adults spoke Ivrit in 1916-18.
However, I personally believe that in determining the genetic affiliation of a language - as opposed to typological characteristics - one should not overlook extra-linguistic factors such as the history of the first native speakers, and whether there was a speaking community when the language was introduced or "reinvented".
www.jewish-languages.org /ml/200107.html   (3019 words)

  
 How a linguist revived ‘New World’ language - Science - MSNBC.com
The native language spoken by the actors was reconstructed by linguist Blair Rudes, based on studies of Algonquian languages.
Malick thought he could just find some contemporary speakers of the language that was used by Pocahontas and her tribe in pre-colonial Virginia — and he was somewhat surprised to find out that the language had been extinct for more than 200 years.
The only surviving vocabulary is a list of about 50 words set down by Smith himself, plus a 600-word list set down in 1612 by William Strachey, a secretary for the Jamestown colony.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10950199   (989 words)

  
 XEmacs: XEmacs Community Mailing Lists
Any comments, questions, or complaints about the lists should be brought to the attention of the XEmacs Mailing List Manager .
Note to AOL users: Because XEmacs lists are public, the addresses are known to many viruses and spammers, and therefore are likely to be used to conceal real sources of undesired mail.
This list may be extended in the future, as we discover recipes that catch lots of spam with no false positives.
www.xemacs.org /Lists/index.html   (2043 words)

  
 Romance: an example of a language sub-family with common descent
English obviously belongs to a different language group, and if one had only these eight words to go on, one might not suspect that English had any familial relation to the others.
The fact that the "homeland" of these languages is toward the east--in Italy--wouldn't decide whether the fricative or the stop was the original initial consonant, because the western languages might just as well have been innovative as conservative.
By "substrate," we mean the languages spoken in a given territory before a new language arrived.
www.uta.edu /english/tim/courses/4301w99/rom.html   (1108 words)

  
 Welcome to Precision Language Services
The government requires that, in addition to their tribal language, all children learn both Swahili to unite the nation and English to equip them to function in the business world.
Hebrew is a revived language whose rebirth stems from the Zionist movement that resulted in the establishment of Israel as a nation.
Although minor languages are not often used for translations of large manuals, hospitals and government facilities located near speaker groups of these languages may have informational brochures translated.
www.precisionlanguage.com /pages/languageList.html   (687 words)

  
 UT Library Online - Research by Subject - Linguistics - Internet Resources
Includes a mailing list open for information and questions about text corpora such as availability, aspects of compiling and using corpora, software, tagging, parsing, bibliography, conferences etc, sites and suggested search strategies for corpora, web concordances, bibliographies, and links to word lists as well as other resources.
The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
A great tool for identifying works is the UCLA Language materials Project: create a list of existing books and materials by selecting the language, type (dictionary, grammar, phrasebook, reader) and level (beginning, advanced, etc).
www.lib.utexas.edu /subject/linguistics/internet.html   (885 words)

  
 Digg - Top 20 Programming Languages
The index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
That is, it's the list of languages you should be familiar with if you want a job programming.
An article discussing language features of the relevance of a particular languages to solve a problem would be much more meaningful than a tracking of the popularity of a particular language.
digg.com /programming/Top_20_Programming_Languages?cshow=   (3727 words)

  
 Language Classifications
fictional language - A model language intended to be used by characters in a fictional setting, typically for added verisimilitude and regardless of whether the fictional setting has been highly commercialized or barely outlined, whether the medium is a movie, a novel, a short story, a historical sketch, a game or something else.
philosophical language - A model language intended as international auxiliary language, but with a schematic vocabulary, with the initial letters of the word indicating its place in a semantic hierarchy; in other words, the vocabulary is a priori rather than borrowing actual terms from other languages.
Granted, there is a lot more to a language design than that one factor, but it seemed like a reasonable hook on which to hang a system of classification.
www.langmaker.com /mlclass.htm   (462 words)

  
 Saxogram Vocabulary List Builder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Saxogram is a script which generates vocabulary lists from texts written in foreign languages.
Generating a vocabulary list that can be used in parallel to your reading is, I think, helpful.
The output lists the line number, the literal word in quotes, and the definition.
saxogram.sourceforge.net   (339 words)

  
 Endangered Species: Human Languages Are Becoming Extinct | MetaFilter
In some cases, a language can be revived by as little as one man and one small community.
And that's just the linguistics--Tarian is evidently a given name in three, ahem, languages and at least one imaginary empire.
Upon review: We have quite a few dying languages where I live, zaelic, with people trying to save them and that is a very interesting project, Alison.
www.metafilter.com /31495/Endangered-Species-Human-Languages-Are-Becoming-Extinct   (755 words)

  
 Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Reference/Dictionaries
Campus Program: Language Dictionaries - A compilation of a large number of dictionary websites grouped by language.
Glossaries by Language - Directory of multilingual dictionaries and dictionaries on specific subjects, alphabetized by language.
The Alternative Dictionaries - Includes a list of slang terms and phrases in various languages.
www.reference.com /Dir/Reference/Dictionaries   (1110 words)

  
 The Retrocomputing Museum
The BlooP and FlooP languages from Chapter XIII of Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
COBOL is still a living language in 2004, but we've included a link to an open-source implementation because it's nearly as crufty as some of the horrible old dead ones we keep here.
The language that gave us "turtle graphics" — intended (in the approximate words of one coauthor) for 5-year-old children and less educable beings, such as corporate executives.
www.catb.org /~esr/retro   (2010 words)

  
 Native American Culture - Languages
This language center was established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages.
The Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee is succeeding at preserving the "NUMU TEKWAPUHA" and restoring it as a living language.
The Ethnologue lists the number of speakers of various Native languages as of the 1990 census.
www.ewebtribe.com /NACulture/lang.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Guidelines for OrgonomyMail-List Discussion List
Postings to the list about mysticsm, conspiracies other than directly related to Orgonomy including patriot/political activities, and subjects which would detract from the aforementioned primary topics are discouraged.
Forwarding of other mail list messages is forbiden but you are encouraged to quote small parts of pretainent messages from outside the list if you feel they will further discussion in regards to the message that you send to the OML.
The OML was revived on 95dec02 by the courtesy of the Spoon Collective and Shawn Wilbur with cooperation and help from PORE.
www.orgone.org /orgonoml01.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Aboriginal Languages of Australia
Less than 20 languages are strong, and even these are endangered: the others have been destroyed, live in the memories of the elderly, or are being revived by their communities.
Created and maintained by David Nathan, Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, (and formerly University of Tsukuba, Japan and University of Sydney).
The Aboriginal Languages of Australia Virtual Library was founded on 6 January 1996.
www.dnathan.com /VL/austLang.htm   (359 words)

  
 Kwakwala Language and the Kwakwakawakw (Kwakiutl) Indian Tribe
Kwakiutl or Kwak'wala is a Wakashan language of the Northwest Coast, spoken by around 250 native people in British Columbia.
The language has been in decline, but some young Kwakiutls are working to keep their ancestral language alive.
Our list of vocabulary words in the Kwakiutl language, with comparison to words in other Wakashan languages.
www.native-languages.org /kwakiutl.htm   (187 words)

  
 Mail reader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I've started at least three conlangs, Yhe Vala Lakha the Free Speech, Li' Anyerra Tarah the (local) Coast Language, and Nu Aves Khara Ansha the Language of the Sacred Hunt, all three spoken by a matriarchal carnivorous human subspecies on one of the two planets orbiting Rigil Kent Alpha.
[There are roughly 450 languages on that list.] > > The interesting thing is that once a language is extinct, it can be > revived, if there is enough information about it.
Most language death comes as a > result of government action prohibiting a community to adhere to its > cultural norms.
www.openoffice.org /servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=45406   (1236 words)

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