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False cognate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates (words in different languages with a common root) when they are in fact not. For example, the word for "dog" in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be dog, although there is no common ancestor or other connection between that language and English (the Mbabaram word evolved regularly from a protolinguistic form guduga). Similarly, the Japanese language the word 'to occur' happens to be okoru. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_cognate   (534 words)

Mbabaram language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Language Problems and Language Planning International multi-lingual journal that publishes articles primarily on political, sociological, and economic aspects of language and language use. Agora Language Marketplace Extensive collection of resources: learning materials, language publishers, study abroad, language lab hardware, newsletter for the language professional, and a section devoted to business. Colon-Language-Center Language Center in Hamburg, Germany, is a large institute which offers language classes in German as a foreign language as well as classes in 18 other languages plus language travels in 20 different countries. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mbabaram_language.html   (402 words)

Encyclopedia: Cognate The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰 𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. The Norman language is a Romance language, one of the Oïl languages. However, judging by the way both languages evolve Proto-Indo-European roots, the real cognate of the German haben is Latin capere, "to seize, grasp, capture": both are from PIE *kap (from which also comes English have). www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cognate   (1613 words)

Vanishing Voices. The Extinction of the World's Languages written by Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction of languages is part of the larger picture of near-total collapse of the worldwide ecosystem. Indeed, the authors contend that the struggle to preserve precious environmental resources-such as the rainforest-cannot be separated from the struggle to maintain diverse cultures, and that the causes of language death, like that of ecological destruction, lie at the intersection of ecology and politics. Language extinction is a great tragedy for human culture and for scholarship on all things human. users.ox.ac.uk /~romaine/vvoices.html   (854 words)

Encyclopedia: False cognate It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages (the majority of Athabaskan languages are spoken in northwest Canada and Alaska). The Arabic language (;, less formally,) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. Bicolano or Bikol is an Austronesian language used in the Philippines particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/False-cognate   (1818 words)

false cognate - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when they are in fact not. Similarly, the Korean word manhi (an adverb meaning "plentifully") resembles the English "many" and in the Japanese language the word 'to occur' happens to be okoru. The striking cross-linguistical similarities between this terms are thought to result from the nature of language acquisition (Jakobson 1962). www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/false-cognate   (392 words)

FrostCloud Forums - A Biological Dig for the Roots of Language Languages change so fast, the linguists point out, that their genealogies can be traced back only a few thousand years at best before the signal dissolves completely into noise: witness how hard Chaucer is to read just 600 years later. What the daughter languages of proto-Indo-European inherited, he says, was not necessarily the word for wheel but the word "k'el," meaning "to rotate," from which each language may independently have derived its word for wheel. The Mbabaram word evolved regularly from a protolinguistic form 'guduga', while English 'dog' is from Old English and was a rare word used for a specific breed of canine, but the word eventually threw out the native Germanic word 'hund' (which is now 'hound'). www.frostcloud.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2310   (3406 words)

[No title] Nettle and Romaine see the extinction of languages as part of the larger picture of worldwide near total ecosystem collapse and explain why the maintenance of the earth's many languages has a vital role to play in preserving biodiversity. Because a large part of any language is culture-specific, people feel that an important part of their traditional culture and identity is lost too when their language disappears. But we must know our language to survive forever." The loss of most of the world's languages and cultures may be survivable, but the result will be a seriously reduced quality of life, if not the loss of the very meaning of life itself for some of the people whose unique voices will vanish forever. www.askoxford.com /worldofwords/wordfrom/vanish/?view=print   (909 words)

Talkin' About Talk Language families, like families of people, can be connected into larger and larger groupings, spreading outward and backward in time, as your relatives do on a genealogy chart. Different as the Indo-European languages were from one another, they all preserved bits of ancient vocabulary and grammar. And this is the Five-Minute Linguist at the College of Charleston, in cooperation with the National Museum of Language. www.cofc.edu /linguist/archives/2005/01/do_all_language.html   (805 words)

Read about False cognate at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research False cognate and learn about False cognate here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered Mbabaram happens to be dog, although there is no common ancestor or other connection between that language and Japanese language the word 'to occur' happens to be okoru. encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/False_cognate   (394 words)

Linguistics 201: World Language Handout Austronesian family--the languages of Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar, and the islands of the Pacific (including Hawaii, New Zealand, Tahiti).  Even the splitters admit that all these languages are related. Khoisan superfamily--the languages of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in southwest Africa, famous for their clicks.  If all languages do indeed stem from a common source, this group is probably one of the oldest offshoots. Language isolates--several isolated languages that cannot easily be fit into any of the above large families.  Isolates include Basque of northern Spain, Ket of central Siberia, Georgian of the Caucasus mountains, and Burushaski of northern India.  Isolates are thought to be remnants of ancient families once spoken more widely. pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ling201/test3materials/Lang_familiesHANDOUT.htm   (712 words)

Cognate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Cognates are words of different languages that are related, that is they have a common etymology. However, judging by the way both languages inherit Indo-European roots, the real cognate of the Germanic haben is Latin capere, "to capture" (note however that Germanic haben and English to have are cognates, and so are Latin capere and English to capture). Because of that, even finding several hundred similar-sounding words in a couple of languages is not enough to demonstrate that the languages are related to each other. www.wikiverse.org /cognate   (362 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The absence of a strong correlation between the grammatical properties of languages and their place in the family tree of languages suggests that language universals are not just the properties that happen to have survived from the hypothetical mother of all languages. Languages use the mouth-to-ear channel as long as the users have intact hearing (manual and facial gestures, of course, are the substitute channel used by the deaf). Languages all show a duality of patterning in which one rule system is used to order phonemes within morphemes, independent of meaning, and another is used to order morphemes within words and phrases, specifying their meaning. www.ripon.edu /academics/global/languageinstinct.html   (19172 words)

Essentialist Explanations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) 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   (8792 words)

False cognate A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when they're really not. Note that there could be an indirect connection between them, however only words sharing a common root can be considered real cognates. The difference between a false cognate and a false friend is that while a false cognate means roughly the same thing in both languages, a false friend generally means either the opposite (Welsh ie = "yes" vs. Japanese iie = "no") or something completely unrelated. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/False_cognate.html   (226 words)

False cognate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates whenthey're really not. Note that there could be an indirect connection between them; however, only words sharing a common root canbe considered real cognates. The difference between a false cognate and a false friend is thatwhile a false cognate means roughly the same thing in both languages, a false friend generally means either the opposite(Welsh ie = "yes" vs. Japanese iie = "no") orsomething completely unrelated. www.therfcc.org /false-cognate-30074.html   (164 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Australian & Papuan You have reached the page for Australian and Papuan languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. The languages comprising the Papuan family are found in New Guinea and on the adjacent islands. The Papuan languages are numerous and are only now beginning to be studied; linguists have established at least ten branches so far, but have not fit all the Papuan languages into one of these. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/austpaph.htm   (649 words)

DesiJournal.com - It all started from PIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Other similarities may reflect universal or near-universal features of human language: in the languages of most countries where the bird is known, the cuckoo has a name derived from the noise it makes. He had a lifelong fascination with language and was believed to have "mastered" some 28 languages. Jones speculated that the mother language of Latin, Classical Greek, and Sanskrit no longer existed, and that the similarities among them were due to their each having inherited these words independently from this common language. www.desijournal.com /article.asp?articleid=82   (1344 words)

Cognates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) However, judging by the way both languages inherit Indo-European roots, the real cognate of the Germanic haben is Latin capere, "tocapture" (note however that Germanic haben and English to have are cognates, and so are Latin capereand English to capture). It has been calculated that if one takes a word from a language, there's a 40% chance that one will find a word with roughlysimilar sound and meaning in another random, non-related language. Because of that, even finding several hundred similar-soundingwords in a couple of languages is not enough to demonstrate that the languages are related to each other. www.therfcc.org /cognates-41025.html   (252 words)

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages However, the authors fail in their attempt to give a reason as to WHY language death is something with which we should be concerned. After all, a body of knowledge can be translated from any one language into any other--were it not so, Americans would be the only people who could use the telephone, Chinese the only people who could practice kung fu, and Italians the only people who could make pasta. I believe their case could have been stronger, had it focused more on the spheres of life that are particularly dependent on language, such as literature & art; religious & cultural rituals; and the sense of community that comes with a shared language. www.aboutgre.com /books/asin/0195152468   (862 words)

False cognate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Iroquois A noted confederacy of five, and afterwards six, cognate tribes of Iroquoian stock, and closely cognate languages, formerly occupying central New York, and claiming right of conquest over nearly all the tribes from Hudson Bay to Tennessee River, and Register of False Accusers List of purported serial false accusers, for the protection of victims of perjury, false accusations and sexual hysteria. words of different languages that are related, that is they have a common etymology. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-False_cognate.html   (652 words)

[No title] It is a language spoken in the very distant past in an uncertain location by an unknown people, and we have no written records of it. Comparative reconstruction Earlier forms are postulated on the basis of resemblances between the modern languages and sound change. Relative age of daughter languages: Sanskrit is much older than Old Irish or Old English, and so — other things being equal — should be closer to the parent language. www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~igr20/li7/Li7.1-1.doc   (997 words)

Oxford University Press: Vanishing Voices: Daniel Nettle Along the way it's also a fascinating introduction to how language works: how languages are born, how they die, and how we can prevent their death."-- Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University He is the author The Fyem Language of Northern Nigeria and Linguistic Diversity (OUP). She is the author of numerous books, including Language, Education and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea and Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (both by OUP). www.oup-usa.org /isbn/0195136241.html   (548 words)

AIATSIS - ASEDA catalogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara: Banjima Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Lorraine Injie; Alan Dench (Banjima) Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara: Kariyarra Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Manny Lockyer (Kariyarra) Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara: Ngarluma Wangka Maya, Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre; Kennneth Hale; Tootsie Daniel (Ngarluma) coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/ASEDA/Title_A.htm   (2319 words)

National Native Title Tribunal: : Ngadjon-Jii - 26 September 2002 Dixon, R.M.W. 1966, 'Mbabaram: A dying Australian language', Bulletin of School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. Dixon, R.M.W. 1969, 'Languages of the Cairns rain forest region', Pacific Linguistics, Series C-13, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Dixon, R.M.W. 1991, 'A changing language situation: The decline of Dyirbal, 1963-1989', Language in Society, vol. www.nntt.gov.au /bibliography/1101096455_2872.html   (651 words)

Languages & Cultures of East Asia - 8/23/00 Languages and Cultures of East Asia - 8/23/00 A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Many languages are on the verge of extinction www.pshap.com /trad/outlines/0823.html   (134 words)

False cognate A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages thatappear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when they're really not. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL. At length the important hour whose looks and gestures formed a group that would have been very scarce conceive the astonishment and mortification that appeared, all his grandfather's estate, personal and real. www.termsdefined.net /fa/false-cognate.html   (293 words)

false cognate - Wiktionary A word that appears to be cognate to a given word but is in fact unrelated. The word for "dog" in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be dog. Many completely unrelated languages use some variant of ma for "mother". en.wiktionary.org /wiki/False_cognate   (141 words)

Mbabaram - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography The last native speaker of Mbabaram was Arthur Bennett who died in 1972. This page was last modified 21:52, 30 Apr 2005. This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Mbabaram contains research on www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mbabaram   (58 words)

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