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	Language in India
		For, each language, for which the population figure is given in the table below, includes also some other languages, or dialects that are not explicitly presented in the table.
		Presented below is an alphabetical abstract of languages and the mother tongues with strength of 10, 000 and above at the all India level, included under each language.
		There are a total of 114 languages and 216 mother tongues, 18 scheduled languages and 96 not specified in the schedule.
	www.languageinindia.com /nov2001/1991Languages.html (216 words)

	C I I L (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This situation leaves these languages to be used only in their spoken forms within the respective communities in spite of the constitutional guarantees for the maintenance and use of these languages in domains like education.
		Tribal and minor languages that are spoken by small groups face a serious threat due to lack of recognition, patronage and status.
		Languages that are considered endangered and languages that are considered to be moving in the direction of becoming endangered are listed here in this section.
	www.ciil.org /aboutus/tribalendangered.html (583 words)

	Southeast Asian languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The use of the term Southeast Asian languages in this article is based on linguistic considerations; however, the term is also employed by some scholars in a geographical sense to include three distinct language families of the region, namely, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Sino-Tibetan languages, and Mon-Khmer languages.
		Languages of the Mon-Khmer subfamily include Cambodian (or Khmer), Mon (or Talaing), and a number of other languages, such as Cham of Cambodia and southern Vietnam, Semang and Sakai of the Malay Peninsula, Nicobarese of the Nicobar Islands, and Khasi of Assam in India.
		The languages of the Munda subfamily are spoken in parts of N and central India and comprise more than 20 tongues, the most important of which is Santali.
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	'language' @ encyclopaediaOnline: the FREE online encyclopaedia (encyclopedia), dictionary, and grammar reference site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing.
		Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English tongue.
		Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties of expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language.
	www.encyclopaediaonline.com /article.asp?topic=language (369 words)

	Nicobarese languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicobarese is an isolated group of six closely related Mon-Khmer languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India.
		The majority of Nicobarese speakers use the Car language.
		The morphological similarities between Nicobarese languages and Austronesian languages have been used to help support the Austric hypothesis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicobarese_languages (102 words)

	Languages of the World
		The label language isolate is used for a language that is the only representative of a language family, as Basque or the extinct Sumerian language; the presumptive but unknown sister languages of isolates are dead and unrecorded.
		The languages of seven of the nine extant branches of the Indo-European language family are spoken in Europe.
		Dialects of two languages in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European also are or were spoken in Europe: the Jassic dialect of Ossetic, an Iranian language, formerly spoken in Hungary; and the European dialects of Romany, which was spread by Gypsies throughout Europe and into America.
	ling.lll.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/Linguistics/lgsworld.html (1332 words)

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		The languages spoken by all these six tribal groups are known by their respective ethnic names.
		Nicobarese are one among the two Mongoloid stocks of the Territory occupying all the inhabited Islands of the Nicobar group.
		Their language is called Nicobarese and population is 26,261 as per the 1991 census of India.
	www.ciil.org /andaman/topo.html (704 words)

	Nicobarese - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Austro-Asiatic Languages, important language family having two subfamilies: Munda, with 21 languages spoken in eastern India and Bangladesh; and...
		- Nicobarese language: a group of Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands.
		The Nicobarese languages form an isolated group of six closely-related Mon-Khmer languages from the...
	encarta.msn.com /Nicobarese.html (99 words)

	Theoretical Linguistics
		Entries on the major languages and language families of the 20th century, focusing chiefly on their history, writing systems, and the numbers one to ten.
		This source lists African languages by name, country, and linguistic group and is an indispensable source for the study of African language and literature.
		The first section is a general presentation of the nature of the languages, and the second consists of a catalog of the languages (arranged by language families).
	www.library.uiuc.edu /mdx/bibliogs/linguistics/ling.htm (5437 words)

	Dead Sanskrit Was Always Dead [ The Sanskrit Language served merely as a Liturgical Language and was Never in Use by ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indeed, it is a mongrel language, having arisen in the Devadasi mandirs as an illegitimate hybrid tongue of the enslaved Black Sudran women and the White Brahmin masters who raped them.
		Sanskrit is to all intents and purposes, a dead language.
		It was a synthesis of West Slavic languages and Byzantine Greek.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/dalitism/dal000/dead_san.html (1201 words)

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		Nicobarese languages Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands and once considered to form a distinct family within the Austroasiatic stock.
		Nicobarese languages are usually classified into four groups...
		Nicobarese is an isolated group of six closely related Mon-Khmer languages spoken in the Nicobar...
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	Athenaeum Reading Room Dead Sanskrit was Always Dead The Anti-Sanskrit Scripture by Shyam Rao
		Sanskrit was supposedly the spoken language during the much-hyped `Golden Age of Indian Culture', the Gupta Empire, and was supposedly the vernacular during the Vedic Age.
		Vedic Languages : Rigvedic Samvedic Atharvic and Yajurvedic Brahmanic, the language of the Brahmanas Upanishadic, the language of the Upanishads North Indo-Aryan languages, eg.
		Braj buli (the language of Krishna and Matsyi (the precursor of Sauraseni).
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /sanskrit_exposure.htm (11499 words)

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		BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AUSTROASIATIC LANGUAGES OF INDIA by David Stampe PREFACE This is a bibliography of the Austroasiatic languages of India - i.e.
		The purpose of the bibliography is to document the literature in and on Austroasiatic languages.
		Materials on Austroasiatic languages are in general extremely difficult to access, and for this reason the bibliography includes abstracts, and occasionally quotes the entire relevant contents, of the works cited.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/AA/AA-BIB/munda.subject (18289 words)

	Nicobarese languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Vietnamese, Mon, and Khmer, the best-known languages of the family, came within the orbit of larger civilizations and borrowed without restraint—Vietnamese from Chinese, Mon and Khmer from Sanskrit and Pali.
		The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
		They—and a number of lesser-known languages and dialects—are all derived from medieval Latin dialects spoken in areas of Europe governed by the Roman Empire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9055750 (776 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Austroasiatic
		You have reached the page for Austroasiatic 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.
		Khmer is the national language of the country of Cambodia; it is also spoken in Vietnam and Thailand.
		Temiar is spoken in Malaysia (on the Malay peninsula).
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/austroah.htm (671 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : KnowHOW (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BY G.S. The ancestors of the Nicobarese arrived on the Andaman and Nicobar islands as recently as 10,000 years ago from Southeast Asia.
		Language similarities between the Nicobarese and the Mundaris in central India have long puzzled scientists.
		The Nicobarese and the Mundari dialects belong to the Austroasiatic group of languages spoken in central India and Southeast Asia.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050509/asp/knowhow/story_4649206.asp (279 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 25.
		The fact that the languages of the four tribes are mutually unintelligible indicate that they lived isolated lives on reaching the islands.
		SIL Ethnologue has recognized 10 distinct Great Andamanese languages (6 central and 4 northern) of which all but A-Puchikwar, a central language) are extinct.) These were all distinct from Jarawa, Önge and Sentinelese They also recognize 5 distinct Nicobarese languages as well as Shompeng.
		If you are a speaker or supporter of an endangered languagean aboriginal language, say, or one of the Celtic languagesyoure keen to give the language some publicity, to draw the worlds attention to its plight.
	www.ogmios.org /253.htm (2229 words)

	Austric languages
		The Austric language superfamily is a large grouping of languages primarily spoken in South East Asia and the Pacific.
		It includes the Austronesian language family of the Pacific and Madagascar, as well as the Austroasiatic language family of mainland South East Asia and South India.
		The hypothesis of a genetic relationship between these two language families is not widely accepted among linguists.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Austric_languages (362 words)

	Welcome to Bible Society Of India
		Apart from Scripture items in Tamil language, this Auxiliary has been instrumental in producing Scriptures in Badaga and Sourashtra languages, and also Audio scriptures in Badaga, Toda, Irula and Sourashtra languages.
		We are also meeting the scripture needs of different people group in Andaman who speak 14 languages and people of Nicobar Islands who speak Nicobarese language.
		Last year we printed 5000 Bibles in Nicobarese languages and sent them to Car Nicobar Island.
	www.bsind.org /tamil.htm (228 words)

	A n u k r i t i . N e t - Post Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies
		India is a country with many languages, some of which have a tradition of script and writing, and some others which do not have any script or writing system.
		For languages where there is no script or writing tradition, the scholars generally adopted the Roman script while compiling the dictionaries.
		In a unit like this, where as many major single languages were to be talked about, it is obviously not possible to discuss any single language tradition extensively.
	www.anukriti.net /pgdts/course413/cp212.html (347 words)

	Search Results for Austroasiatic - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The main languages, Semai and Temiar, are spoken in the Main Range of the Malay Peninsula.
		The sound systems of Austroasiatic languages are fairly similar to each other, but Vietnamese and the Munda languages, under the influence of Chinese and Indian languages respectively, have diverged...
		The languages of these two families are spoken in an area extending from the...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Austroasiatic&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (374 words)

	FREELANG - Classification of the main languages of the world by families
		The linguists usually count around 7,000 languages, and several thousands dialects can also be added.
		The table below (which shows about 800 main languages) is only a glimpse of the huge diversity of languages.
		For a comprehensive classification of all existing languages, we recommend the website of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Texas.
	www.freelang.net /families (571 words)

	Registers (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The rest are languages of nonurban minority groups written, if at all, only recently.
		It is concerned with the establishment of construction and maintenance standards for merchant ships and the provision of a technical service to assist owners in maintaining such...
		The subbranch consists of three languages spoken in southern and central Malaysia: Betise' (previously known as Mah Meri, or Besisi), Semelai, and Semaq Beri.
	secure.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=74994 (884 words)

	FAQ
		Yet the languages of the other islands so differ from each other thatthe should be considered separate languages within the same family.
		The Shompen language is still less known and may not even be a Nicobarese language (altho8gh it seems to have absorbed many Nicobarese elements).
		The introduction to this work reproduced below is also interesting for the revealing light it throws on the opinions held by "educated society" in the colonies around the time.
	www.andaman.org /NICOBAR/book/language/languageNic.htm (154 words)

	NICOBAR ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on NICOBAR ISLANDS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NatLves.The Nicobarese may be best described as a Far Eastern race, having generally the characteristics of the less civilized tribes of the Malay Peninsula and the south-eastern portion of the Asiatic continent, and speaking varieties of the Mon-Annam group of languages, though the several dialects that prevail are mutually unintelligible.
		Though short according to the standard of whites (average height, man, 5 ft. 33/4 in.; woman, 5 ft.), the Nicobarese are a fine, well-developed race, and live to seventy or eighty years of age.
		All the differences observed in the several kinds of Nicobarese may with some confidence be referred to habitat and the physical difficulties of communication.
	www.1911ency.org /N/NI/NICOBAR_ISLANDS.htm (2656 words)

	Ross Island :: Travel to Ross Island :: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Journey :: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Travel Guide
		Manicured lawns that led up to clubhouses, swimming pools, granaries, officers messes, tennis courts and a majestic church lie in ruins, reclaimed by nature after an earthquake in June 1941.
		People: The original tribal people who lived here are the great Andamanese, Jarawas, Sentinelese and Onges in the Andaman group and the Nicobarese and Shompens in the Nicobar group.
		Learn wide variety of courses at all levels in English and other languages in Delhi at Inlingua New Delhi
	andaman-nicobar-islands.goto-india.com /ross-island (974 words)

	MavicaNET - Mon-Khmer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Important language family having three subfamilies: Munda, spoken by several million people in eastern India; Nicobarese, with a few thousand speakers in the Nicobar Islands; and Mon-Khmer, divided into 12 branches with almost 100 languages spoken by some 35 to 45 million people in Southeast Asia.
		Group of languages frequently considered as a subfamily of the Southeast Asian family of languages.
		First there is a discussion of the Austroasiatic language family, to which the Mon-Khmer languages belong, and of Austroastiatic prehistory and the possible Austroastiatic Urheimat or proto-homeland.
	www.mavicanet.ru /lite/ukr/1850.html?sortby=8 (267 words)

	Syntax (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In a language such as English, the main device for showing the relationship among words is word order; e.g., in “The girl loves the boy,” the subject is in initial position, and the object follows the verb.
		family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken south of the chief range of the Caucasus.
		In contrast to earlier stages of Egyptian, which were written in monumental hieroglyphs, hieratic script, or demotic script, Coptic was written in the Greek alphabet, supplemented by seven letters borrowed from demotic writing.
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	Indian Languages - Dictionaries - Grammar Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Essays on the Languages Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet, Hodgson, B.H., 280pp.
		Vocabulary of the Dialects Spoken in the - Nicobar and Andaman Isle, Roepstorff, A., 114pp., hc.
		Of the Afghan Grammar of the Pukhto - Pushto or Language, Ravert, H.G., 256PP.
	www.travel-net.com /~educa/z24indc.htm (1312 words)

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