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	Maa languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maa languages, are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually-intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers altogether.
		The Maa languages are related to the Lotuxo languages spoken in Southern Sudan.
		Among peoples that have assimilated to Maa peoples are the Aasáx (Asa) and the Elmolo, former hunter-gatherers who spoke Cushitic languages, and the Mukogodo-Maasai (Yaaku), former bee-keepers and hunter-gatherers (Eastern Cushitic).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maa_languages (379 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ongamo language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ongamo (or Ngasa) is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania.
		It is related to the Maa languages, but it is more distantly related to them than the Maa languages are to each other.
		The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in the...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ongamo-language (183 words)

	Math Lingo: a bad meme virus
		The meme spreads the notion that, unlike natural languages (which are complete and human), and unlike programming languages (which are special languages), mathematical language is a lingo.
		Worthy of note: the population raised in the spirit promoted by AHD would believe that there is a language of algebra, a language of the screen and a body language.
		Language is a subject of respect and study whereas lingo is a source of irritation.
	www.maa.org /features/lingo-reply.html (1353 words)

	Encyclopedia: Eastern Nilotic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including Nubia.
		The extinct Meroitic language of ancient Kush has sometimes been suggested as a probable member of Nilo-Saharan; however, too little is known of the language to classify it with any confidence.
		Central Sudanic languages, which also arrived in Uganda from the north over a period of centuries, are spoken by the Lugbara, Madi, and a few small groups in the northwestern corner of the country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eastern-Nilotic-languages (410 words)

	Dorobo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the past 150 years, many of these peoples have assimilated to the pastoralist economy of neighbouring peoples (mostly Maasai and Samburu) and have in the process abandoned their own language.
		The term 'Dorobo' derives from the Maa expression il-tóróbò (singular ol-torróbònì) 'hunters; the ones without cattle'.
		Although many of them happen to be Nilotic, Dorobo as used by the Maa simply refers to neighbouring hunter-gatherers regardless of their origin — the Yaaku for example (present-day Mukogodo-Maasai) are an Eastern Cushitic people, the Aasax are of Southern Cushitic origin, and the Akie (Mosiro) are Eastern Nilotes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorobo (380 words)

	Dravidian, Mande and Elamite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The basic vocabulary of a language is that sector of the lexicon, which comprise the basic elements of one's culture the division of the body and biological activities such as eating, sleeping and etc.
		In the Proto-Saharan languages the plural is formed by adding -u,-w,-ba, -pa and -lu.In Egyptian, the -w suffix is used to form the plural.
		For example in Manding languages ka, is a particle of different values, which corresponds to -kaa, the infinitive element in Telugu of the verb ag-uta 'to become'.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/7051/elam2.htm (2500 words)

	Indo-Iranian Languages
		This language is primarily spoken in the region of Gujarat in northwestern India, near the Pakistani border.
		This language is the official language of Bangladesh, with a population of roughly half the United States, and it is also spoken in northeast India near Bangladesh, including the city of Calcutta.
		This is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the well-known region of Punjab, in northwest India.
	members.tripod.com /misterhaynes/indoir.htm (2187 words)

	mahistory
		language Malagasy is spoken on the island of Madagasgar.
		The approximate modern locations of the four original language families, across the continent of Africa, are indicated by color in Figure 1.
		At this level, the sub-divisions are referred to as dialects, because while Maa speakers themselves are aware of, and react to, the differences as marking speakers from different houses (very large clan groupings) or areas, the speech varieties are mutually intelligible.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/mahist.htm (634 words)

	Spoken and Written Languages of Southeast Asia
		Thai is just one of many languages of the greater Tai language family, which has its origins in southern China.
		Death of languages continues due to war, cultural and economic domination, small population size.
		Both spoken language and body language demonstrate a notion of deference or politeness in Thai.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /crossroads/hartmann/hartmann.htm (787 words)

	mcclang
		In many cases, a language is a badge of identify for a specific ethnicity.
		Ethnic groups that are genetically related in the biological sense often speak language varieties that are "genetically related" in a linguistic sense.
		However, scholars working from oral histories and language data have argued that modern Maa is spoken as the first language not only by ethnic Maa peoples, but also by members of distinct ethnic groups (principally, some hunter-gatherer or dorobo, groups), which, over time, have assimilated to the Maa culture and language.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/mcclang.htm (616 words)

	Maasai Oral Histories Project \| The Maasai People
		Unwritten languages such as Maa, destabilize quicker than languages that are disseminated through the printed word.
		Culture is transmitted from one generation to the next via language, and the lexicon, or unique words of a given language, express concepts central to the culture.
		When languages are lost, the unique history of tribal origins, tales of epic battles and events, and the rationale behind daily rituals, from birth to death, are also lost.
	www.maasaioralhistories.org /maasai (373 words)

	Languages - African Culture
		Dogon is a group of languages in the Niger-Congo language family spoken in Mali and Burkina Faso.
		Nguni language and part of the Bantu language family, spoken in Southeastern South Africa.
		The language spoken by the Zulu tribe of South Africa is also known as isiZulu.
	www.bellaonline.com /subjects/5884.asp (216 words)

	MAA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As an abbreviation (TLA), MAA is can stand for
		The Maa languages are a group of closely-related languages spoken in Tanzania and Kenya.
		This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MAA (136 words)

	Read This: Lengths, Widths, Surfaces
		It should be immediately apparent that where Neugebauer's generation were understandably concerned to interpret Old Babylonian algebra in relation to modern mathematical practice, JH aims to recover, as far as possible, the original thought processes behind it.
		He does this through close analysis of the language of Old Babylonian mathematics, for which he uses a technique he calls 'conformal translation'.
		MAA Online is edited by Fernando Q. Gouvêa (fqgouvea@colby.edu).
	www.maa.org /reviews/lsahoyrup.html (2644 words)

	maphon
		Nilotic languages have completely distinct sound systems from Swahili (a Bantu language, ultimately connected to the Niger-Congo family), and from all Indo-European languages.
		There is simply nothing like this distinction in Swahili or Indo-European languages, and it requires considerable practice for someone whose first language does not have such sound contrasts to learn to reliably recognize, and produce, the difference.
		The meaning of individual Maa words can be changed just by changing the tone (or pitch, i.e., relative acoustic frequencies) on which different syllables are pronounced.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/maphon.htm (762 words)

	Masai_language LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Maasai is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 900,000.
		It is closely related to the other Maa languages (or better, dialects) Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, and to Chamus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo (sometimes regarded a dialect of Samburu).
		The Maasai language has only two fully grammaticalized prepositions, but can use "relational nouns" along with the most general preposition to designate specific locative ideas.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Masai_language (346 words)

	Planetary Linguistics
		English is generally recognized as the international language for professional astronomy.
		However, the various languages often also have their own words which are used in everyday speech.
		Japanese and Korean use simple native words for "Moon" ("tsuki" "dal") but all the other planetary names in these two languages were imported from Chinese and have exactly the same meaning as explained for Mandarin and Cantonese.
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/days.html (537 words)

	Maasai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maasai is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.
		It is closely related to the other Maa languages Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, and to Camus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo (sometimes regarded a dialect of Samburu).
		The Maasai are proud people who have steadfastly clung to their traditional values and customs, despite the fact that most other communities around them have been influenced in one way or another by modernisation and western culture.
	www.unpo.org /print.php?arg=64&par=1798 (1548 words)

	Shree Maa
		It was in the early eighties that Shree Maa, in communion with her guru, Ramakrishna, was instructed to move to America to share divine love and to teach the meaning of dharma.
		As word of Shree Maa's presence in the Bay area spread, thousands of seekers found their way to the humble grounds of the Devi Mandir, so much so that since 1992, Shree Maa and Swamiji travel much of the world offering programs and teachings of divine inspiration.
		Shree Maa has recorded CDs and cassette tapes of her own heart rending compositions and the inspired songs of Ramprasad with beautiful musical accompaniment.
	www.shreemaa.org /shreemaa.htm (827 words)

	2002 Spring Meeting MD-DC-VA MAA
		The spring meeting of the MD/DC/VA Section of the MAA will be held April 12 and 13 at St.
		He is a member of the MAA and the AMS, a Fellow of the AAAS, and an honorary life member of Sigma Xi.
		She participated in the IMTP (Interactive Mathematics Text Project) of the MAA in 1993 and was chosen to be a developer of interactive texts.
	www.american.edu /academic.depts/cas/mathstat/MAA/spr02 (2194 words)

	coursedesc01
		MAA 6406 COMPLEX ANALYSIS I (3) Linear transformations, analytic functions, conformal mapping, Cauchy's theorem and applications, power series, partial fractions and factorization, elementary Riemann surfaces, Riemann mapping theorem.
		MAA 6407 COMPLEX ANALYSIS II (3) Topics in: conformal mappings, normal families, Picard's theorem, univalent functions, extremal properties, elliptic functions, approximation theory, Riemann surfaces.
		MAA 6506 FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS I (3) Normed linear spaces and topological vector spaces, open mapping, closed graph, and Hahn-Banach Theorem, UB principle, compact operators, dual spaces.
	www.math.usf.edu /~saito/grad/coursedesc01/coursedesc01.html (1682 words)

	maa-alused -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Each syllable consists of an initial consonant or consonant cluster followed by a vowel or vowel cluster (long vowel or diphthong), which may be further followed by a final consonant, usually a nasal sound or an unreleased stop.
		Nilotic languages are part of the Eastern Sudanic subbranch of Nilo-Saharan languages.
		An ancient deity of predynastic origin, Ma'at was the daughter of the sun-god Ra, and was believed to have risen with Ra himself out of the primordial chaos of Nu.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049579 (503 words)

	Nilotic Family
		Determining the precise number of Nilotic languages depends on complex issues that involve degree of mutual linguistic comprehension between speakers of different language varieties, and ethnic self-identity.
		Generally, linguists say that if two language varieties are not mutually intelligible between their respective speakers, then the varieties should be called distinct "languages" (rather than "dialects of a single language").
		Modernly, Nilotic languages are spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
	www.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/Nilotic/NiloticFamily.htm (580 words)

	OHCHR: Breton () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It belongs to the Indo-European family, Celtic group, Brythonic subgroup and is spoken by nearly 500,000 people, chiefly in Brittany (France), the peninsula of westernmost France lying between the Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
		It is the only Celtic language spoken on the European continent, having been brought from Cornwall and South Wales in the 5th and 6th centuries by Britons fleeing from Saxon invaders.
		Its rules of pronunciation are extremely complicated, as the spelling generally does not correspond to the pronunciation.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/brt.htm (1590 words)

	Feb04 Newsletter - Humanity In Unity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the third year that Fairfield has hosted this event and the two previous years many have commented that the evening is one of the high points of their year.
		She is one of 30 spiritual leaders to be invited to the Synthesis Dialogues at the Pope's summer residence in Italy this June.
		With this increased global awareness of Sai Maa and Her teachings moving even more fully into the world, Humanity In Unity continues to grow into the Light to support Sai Maa.
	www.humanityinunity.org /HIU/HIUNews/Feb04Newsletter/index.cfm (911 words)

	Formal Methods for Telecommunication System Requirements: A Survey of Standardized Languages - Ardis (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Abstract: Modern telecommunications systems are so complicated that informal languages are no longer sufficient for expressing their requirements.
		The three standardized formal languages for telecommunications, Estelle, LOTOS, and SDL, are described and compared.
		Each language is evaluated, and a comparison of all three is offered.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /ardis97formal.html (478 words)

	Washington State Hoping To Certify New Interpreters To Serve DSHS Clients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		OLYMPIA – If you can speak a foreign language, you may be interested in becoming certified as an interpreter for the Department of Social and Health Services, which pays for language services needed to communicate with clients who have difficulty speaking English.
		MAA operates a Transportation and Interpreter Service for Medicaid, and that office now coordinates interpreter services for the entire agency.
		Scores of languages are in demand around the state – from Albanian and Bengali to Trukese and Urdu – and some of the languages are so exotic that interpreters in those specialities may be difficult to locate.
	www1.dshs.wa.gov /mediareleases/2005/pr05079.shtml (639 words)

	Telugu cinema news - idlebrain.com
		In this grand occasion, the members of MAA set off to 'vana bhojanaalu' on this Sunday (9th November).
		MAA (Movie Artists Association) president Murali Mohan announced yesterday that he is planning to have a star cricket on a grand scale with stars from 4 languages (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Kannada) involved in it.
		Murali Mohan said that he is confident of mobilizing the best stars from each of these languages to provide maximum entertainment to the crowds.
	www.idlebrain.com /news/2000march20/news242.html (4195 words)

	FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medical Assistance will translate materials in the seven required languages and will place portable document files (pdf) on their website so that they can be downloaded by stakeholders.
		Application materials will be available in Spanish, the language of the majority of the priority group.
		Generic notices in several languages will be sent with the application to those who need information in languages other than English or Spanish.
	fortress.wa.gov /dshs/maa/bhptransition/Translations.html (479 words)

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