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	Nama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nama (plant), a genus of plants in the family Hydrophyllaceae.
		Nama (Slovenian emporium), one of the main emporiums in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
		Nama language, the language spoken by the Namaqua.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nama (184 words)

	Nama language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by the Namaqua, Damara, and Hai‖om, as well as smaller ethnic groups such as the ‡Khomani.
		Nama is in the Khoe family, which is part of a hypothetical Khoisan phylum.
		Nama is a national language in Namibia, and doctorates in the study of the language can be earned at the University of Namibia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nama_language (783 words)

	Language - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Language acquisition, the process by which children and adults learn a language or languages, is a major field of linguistic study.
		A creole language, on the other hand, arises in a contact situation similar to that which produces pidgin languages and perhaps goes through a stage in which it is a pidgin, but a creole becomes the native language of its community.
		Languages of the Algonquian and Iroquoian families constitute the major indigenous languages of northeastern North America, while the Siouan family is one of the main families of central North America.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761570647__1/Language.html (6617 words)

	Khoisan
		The language is used at all levels of education and in the media.
		Many of the Khoisan languages have five vowels /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, /u/ which can be produced with additional features, such as nasalization, pharyngealization, and different voice qualities such as breathy and creaky voice, sometimes resulting in up to 40 different vowels.
		The Khoisan languages differ in the number of such combinations from a low of 20 in Nama to a high of 83 in Kxoe.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/khoisan.html (990 words)

	South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The white population is on the decrease due to a low birth rate and emigration; as a factor in their decision to emigrate, many cite the high crime rate and the government's affirmative action policies.
		While each language is technically equal to every other, English has emerged recently as the chief-among-peers as it is the most widely spoken language across racial barriers as well as globally, even though it is not the most widely spoken language by population.
		An African language channel was introduced to the SABC in 1981 (during apartheid) with a second African language channel added later in the decade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Africa (6230 words)

	Nama language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The khoisan languages comprise the smallest phylum of african languages....
		In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants,...
		Nama is a national language[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] in Namibia, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nama_language.htm (1032 words)

	Nama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nama, or Hottentot people, occupy the southern region of the independent country of Namibia, Africa.
		The Nama live in an area that was formerly known as Namaland, today it is north of Keetmanshoop in the south of Nambia.
		The Khoisan language that is spoken, is often referred to as a click language” because many of the words are expressed with unusual clicking sounds.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/namaculture.html (356 words)

	Term Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now, she argues for “language of intimacy” (language of personal expression) must be validated in the public sphere.
		The language factor in national development, as well as national attitudes toward language planning are discussed in a separate chapter.
		Particularly interesting is a chapter about urban youth language, in which the author explores the language ideology and practices of urban youth in connection with the social organization, culture and politics of hip hop music.
	www.louisville.edu /~m0ajan01/termproject.html (3311 words)

	Leading Lodges of Africa - Namibia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their home language is Afrikaans and at their own request they are registered as Rehoboth Basters.
		Described by anthropologists as the modern descendants of the oldest population group in Namibia, the Topnaars are a hardy group of Nama people who have lived on the banks of the Kuiseb River for many years.
		English was selected as Namibia's official language and Afrikaans, the common vernacular language, was retired to a secondary position after serving with German as one of three official languages for some 60 years.
	www.leadinglodges.com /people.htm (974 words)

	North American Millers' Association - Congressional Staffers
		NAMA argued that Montana House Bill 406 would require the labeling specifically exempted when the U.S. Congress passed a country of origin labeling provision in the 2002 Farm Bill.
		NAMA contends that the ITC ignored the surveys and sworn testimony that millers submitted during the investigation.
		NAMA plans to follow up on technical issues related to flour color, yield, bag weights and infestation and provide further input to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and private voluntary organizations on constructive change for mutual benefit.
	www.namamillers.org /pdf/archives_05/Mar05News.html (1522 words)

	Gwikwe_Bushmen
		This is a "click" language, as a member of the Khoisan language family in which click sounds serve as consonants.
		The San languages are related to the languages spoken by the Khoikhoin, also called Khoi, or Hottentot.
		The Khoisan languages are written in a standardized alphabet based on Latin characters with special symbols for the click sounds unique to the Khoisan languages.
	cesa.imb.org /peoplegroups/GwikweBushmen.htm (1249 words)

	Radio Eye - 09/08/2003: Last Voice of an Ancient Tongue
		When she dies the language, replete with the rich knowledge of her ancestors, dies with her unless a way can be found to pass her knowledge on to a new generation.
		The language was part of a chain of dialects that were spoken in South Africa for countless thousands of years, began to come under pressure from the south with the encroachment of the frontier, ah, with colonialism and the movement of other peoples into the interior, the bushmen were always under pressure in those circumstances.
		Somebody's likened speaking on of these languages to driving a vehicle over speed bumps and every word is either one syllable or two syllables maximal and each word in virtually 98 per cent of cases begins with a click.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/radioeye/stories/s896216.htm (4364 words)

	IATP \| Listserv Archive
		The language on an overall limit, or ceiling, for trade-distorting domestic support is somewhat tighter than some of the proposals that preceded Hong Kong.
		NAMA: reducing development to a formula The Ministerial Declaration agrees on a mandate to further liberalize trade in manufactured goods and natural resources, known as the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations.
		The NAMA framework is contentious and plagued with disagreement and divisions.
	lists.iatp.org /listarchive/archive.cfm?id=117088 (4441 words)

	Nama (Hottentot) language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Nama or Hottentot is the largest of the Khoisan languages and is spoken in parts of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia by approximately 233,701 people.
		The Hottentot people usually refer to themselves and their language as Nama, the name of the largest of the Hottentot-speaking tribes.
		The word 'Khoisan' comes from 'khoi', the Nama word for themselves, and 'san', which is the Nama word for Bushman, another, smaller, Khoisan-speaking tribe.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/nama.htm (401 words)

	LitNet: Taaldebat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A further implication is that the South African Sign Language community have a “double claim” to the provision of programming in their language, namely, 1) on grounds of disability, and 2) on grounds of the general linguistic and cultural rights protected by the Constitution.
		Use of subtitles (in all official languages) to translate multilingual programmes would enable the SABC to meet both objectives at once, as long as subtitles in a particular language is counted as air time allocated to that language.
		Thereafter, the annual “language action plan” should also be discussed with civil society formations and other role players in broadcasting in annual language workshops as part of the monitoring process, and in order to harvest ideas on future progress.
	www.litnet.co.za /taaldebat/magsabc.asp (8791 words)

	Nama People of Namibia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nama originally lived around the Orange River in southern Namibia and northern South Africa in the mid nineteenth century their leader Jan Jonker Afrikaner led them to the are of present day Windhoek.
		The imaginative spelling of the Nama names is due to the fact they have five clicks in the language, and these are their denotations.
		One of the greatest Namibian leaders Hendrik Witbooi was a Nama leader who heroically harassed the German occupiers from his base in the Naukluft mountains and played a large part in the history of Namibia's first liberation struggle.
	www.namibian.org /travel/namibia/population/nama.htm (398 words)

	Nama-Rupa
		This would at least represent a better use of the English language and not serve to confuse a simple concept, such as nama-rupa.
		But, this choice of interpretation unnecessarily restricts the translation of nama-rupa to purely a reference to the psyche and the body, when it was clearly originally intended in the Vedas for a much broader concept that embraces the entire universe, both physically and subjectively.
		The purpose of all spiritual philosophies is to introduce to the mind a series of concepts (nama) that help to elucidate the philosophy and thus guide an individual to liberation.
	www.greatwesternvehicle.org /namarupa.htm (445 words)

	Khoisan languages - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama, with a quarter million speakers; Sandawe is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Ju language cluster has some 30,000 speakers total.
		Many of the other languages are becoming increasingly rare or moribund, and several are known to have become extinct.
		The Bantu languages adopted the use of clicks from neighboring Khoisan populations, often through intermarriage, while the Dahalo are thought to have retained clicks from an earlier Khoisan-like language when they shifted to speaking a Cushitic language.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Khoisan_language (463 words)

	Ethnologue: South Africa
		Of those, 27 are living languages, 1 is a second language without mother tongue speakers, and 3 are extinct.
		Language of secondary education and used on the radio.
		A language of secondary education and used on the radio and in newspapers.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Sout.html (1514 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By far the largest and best studied Khoe language is Nama which is spoken in Namibia — most of the other languages have only between 400 and 10,000 speakers respectively, some of which are endangered.
		Not taking the Northeastern Namibian languages Nama and Kxoe into account, not much is known about the other languages of the group till today.
		Separated regarding phonology and morpology, the 18 languages which are dealt with are basically first described and are afterwards historically compared.
	www.koeppe.de /katalogE/3-927620-59-9.html (265 words)

	Nama: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nama beer, a Japanese term for draught beer (draught beer: Beer drawn from a keg), from the Japanese word nama = fresh or raw.
		Nama is a hero in Altai (Altai: altai (in mongolian altain-ula, the "mountains of gold"), a term used in asiatic geography...
		Nama (Nama: nama, or nama, is the acronym for narodni magazin....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/nama (159 words)

	In Favour Of New Names
		The Damara/Nama language is a spoken language at the moment and not a written language due to its "clicks" that are not easy to put on paper.
		This condition is a recipe for possible fear that this language could become extinct as it happened in South Africa where you now have the Nama or Khoekhoe people who cannot speak their own language.
		The language was widely spoken in the whole of Southern Africa, but today it is extinct and is only spoken in Namibia (there are few speakers in Botswana, and old people in the Northern Cape).
	www.namibian.com.na /2005/June/letters/05BA09EC35.html (546 words)

	One official language or more? \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I mean the fact that non-Castilian languages like Catalan, Basque and Galego are co-official in areas where they are spoken by a majority, usually on the whole territory of a province.
		Although it would not be reasonable to expect from a country to give its minority languages equal status with the official majority language, but minority languages should definitely be co-official in areas where they are spoken by a local majority (as should be the case with Occitan, Corsican or Alsatian in France, for example).
		Official language is one that enjoys official status acording to the country's constitution.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/8005.htm (1253 words)

	University of Namibia - Faculty of Humanities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		T: phonology and linguistic structure of Namibian African languages; classification of African languages; typology of Khoekhoegowab and of Bantu languages; historical linguistics and dialectology; universals as pertaining to Namibian languages; linguistics and literature of Khoekhoegowab; introductory courses to general linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax);
		Nama "coreferential copulative sentences" re-assessed, in Snyman, J. (ed.) Bushman and Hottentot Linguistic Studies (1979), Pretoria: UNISA, p.80-106.
		Minority languages in the education system of Namibia: Fragmentation or unification?, in Young, D. (ed.) Language: Planning and Medium in Education.
	www.unam.na /faculties/humanities/african_languages/Haacke.htm (653 words)

	WTO: JULY FRAMEWORK AGREED AT ELEVENTH HOUR
		The unwillingness of a number of Members to engage in serious NAMA negotiations until the level of ambition in agriculture had become clearer left NAMA as the major stumbling block as the talks drew to an end.
		In the final NAMA text, they agreed to include an initial paragraph outlining developing country concerns in front of the Cancun NAMA language.
		While some, mostly developing countries, appear to view this language regarding additional negotiations on specifics as sufficiently qualifying their acceptance of the form and content of the ensuing language, some developed countries have suggested that the additional negotiations will simply involve tweaking the elements but maintaining their essential form.
	www.ictsd.org /weekly/04-08-03/story1.htm (1631 words)

	Khoisan - Khoesaan
		Nama; Nama-Damara; Damara-Nama; Hottentot; Khoikhoi; Khoekhoen; Khoikhoin; Khoekhoekovab; Khoekhoegowab.
		[Khoekhoe]; Hahn 1870bc [Nama]; Hegner and Westermann 1909 [Nama]; Knudsen 1854 [Namaqua]; Krönlein 1869 [Nama]; Lewy 1922 [Nama-Hottentottisch]; Meinhof 1905, 1906, 1909ab [Hottentot; Nama]; Meriggi 1931 [Nama-Hottentot]; Moritz [1953, 1969, 1971, 1972a [Nama]; Müller 1877a [Hottentot]; Nienaber 1963, 1990 [Hottentot; Khoekhoen]; Nienaber and Raper 1977ab, 1980 [Hottentot]; Olpp Jr.
		[Nama; Namaqua]; Wandres 1909ab, 1919, 1923, 1926, 1927 [Nama; Nama-Bergdama; Hottentot].
	www.african.gu.se /khsnms.html (2457 words)

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