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ninemsn Encarta - African Languages Languages spoken farther to the south-east, including Maasai in Kenya, have long been called Nilo-Hamitic; recent investigations, however, appear to prove that these tongues have no direct relationship to languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, but are most closely related to the Nilotic languages. The Saharan branch of this family includes languages spoken in north-eastern Nigeria, through the Republic of Chad to the east, and into the oasis settlements of Libya to the north. Languages of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa. au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html   (1277 words)

Nilo-Saharan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including Nubia. Some linguists, including Roger Blench, consider the Kadu languages (also called Kadugli languages or Tumtum) to be Nilo-Saharan, while others follow Greenberg in classing them as Kordofanian languages, or Ehret in considering them a small isolated family. Roughly 11 million people spoke Nilo-Saharan languages as of 1987, according to Merritt Ruhlen's estimate. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilo-Saharan_language   (427 words)

Bahasa isolat - Wikipedia Some linguists have claimed similarities with various languages of the Caucasus, especially because of its ergative case system, but the resemblances seem superficial. Connections to the Altaic languages have also been proposed. A Palaeosiberian language spoken in the lower Amur River basin and on the Sakhalin Islands; Ainu is also spoken on Sakhalin. id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahasa_isolat   (312 words)

Tama language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tama language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in western Sudan and eastern Chad. It is a member of the Taman language group of the Western branch of Nilo-Saharan. "Tama" is also an alternate name for the Nama language of southern Africa. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tama_language   (68 words)

Ethiopian Languages - Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan The Nilo-Saharan languages are largely spoken in the western part of the country along the border with Sudan (mainly in Gambella and Benshangul regions). The Cushitic languages are mostly spoken in central, southern and eastern Ethiopia (mainly in Afar, Oromia and Somali regions). The Omotic languages are predominantly spoken between the Lakes of southern Rift Valley and the Omo River. www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/language.htm   (319 words)

Africa: UNESCO-CI A major problem concerning the safeguarding of linguistic diversity in Africa is the lack of documentation on languages and language speakers, and national linguistic policies that neglect the importance of African languages for development. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Grimes 2000) identifies 37 African languages that are on the verge of extinction (compared with 161 in the Americas). This number is not static, as some languages are still being “discovered”, while others, with few speakers, are disappearing. portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8048&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (930 words)

Chad - Nilo-Saharan Languages Classified in the Chari-Nile subfamily of the Nilo-Saharan languages, Sara-Bongo-Baguirmi languages are scattered from Lake Chad to the White Nile in southwestern Sudan. These languages are mutually comprehensible, and the peoples who use them are thought to be descendants of the core ethnic groups of the precolonial sultanate of Yao (a state founded by the Bulala, who ruled a vast region extending as far west as Kanem in the fifteenth century). Boua languages are distributed along the middle Chari River in Moyen-Chari Prefecture and in central Guéra Prefecture. countrystudies.us /chad/19.htm   (1955 words)

Web resources for Nilosaharan languages The language family as such is poorly substantiated, and may or may not contain several members that will eventually end up in the unclassified category, unless they can be made out as links tying together Nilosaharan and Niger-Congo languages. Nilo-Saharan languages according to the Ethnologue, web edition. Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk (PDF) by Leoma Gilley, 2004. goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nilosaharan.html   (1098 words)

Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, DC The Omotic group of languages are spoken in the Southwest and have been given that name in recent years because they are spoken in the general area of the Omo River. Some of the written languages use the Ge'ez alphabet, the language of the of the ancient Axumite kingdom. The Hametic languages are found mainly in the East, West, and South. www.ethiopianembassy.org /population.shtml   (1058 words)

Verbs (from Nilo-Saharan languages) --  Encyclopædia Britannica The Nilo-Saharan languages are presumed to be descended from a common ancestral language and, therefore, to be genetically related. These languages were formerly classified as part of the Kordofanian group within the Niger-Congo language family, but they are now widely believed to form a subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan language family. Saharan languages are spoken mainly around Lake Chad—which is located at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger—but also in Libya and The Sudan. www.britannica.com /eb/article-225831?tocId=225831   (824 words)

Rer Bare language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I cannot say with certainty whether they speak one or more languages of what any of them is... They are said to have their own language, bearing the given name [Rerebere]. According to the Ethnologue, "it is uncertain if they spoke a different language earlier"; if so, it is extinct. www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rer_Bare_language   (244 words)

Suzanne Kemmer's Homepage LIPP Symposium on Language and Linguistics, University of Munich. The 7th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference (CSDL 7) was held at the University of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, October 8-10, 2004. Language, Culture and Mind, edited by Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer, was published in October 2004 by CSLI Publications, Stanford. www.ruf.rice.edu /~kemmer   (1016 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)

Nilo-Saharan languages - Wikipedia The Nilo-Saharan languages form one phylum of African Languages. In particular they are spoken in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers. nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages   (67 words)

Language families and languages Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates. Language families and languages East Asiaeast and southeast Asia and the Pacific/ Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram). www.infothis.com /find/Language_families_and_languages   (1066 words)

Uganda ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND LANGUAGE - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System Nilo-Saharan languages, spoken across the north, are further classified as Eastern Nilotic (formerly NiloHamitic), Western Nilotic, Central Sudanic. The largest Nilotic populations in Uganda in the 1980s were the Iteso and Karamojong cluster of ethnic groups, who speak Eastern Nilotic languages, and the Acholi, Langi, and Alur, who speak Western Nilotic languages. 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.photius.com /countries/uganda/society/uganda_society_ethnic_diversity_and~2477.html   (576 words)

Nilo-Saharan : Language Learners Directory Survey of the sociolinguistic situation of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Republic of Chad. General survey, with maps, of the Nilotic family, one of the members of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. Listing of the member languages of the phylum, classified by subgroup. www.fpcplv.org /Nilo-Saharan   (202 words)

nilo The subjects of the project are six Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Sudan: Dinka, Mabaan, Päri, Moru, Madi and Lulubo. The purpose of the project is the preparation of a description of each of the languages on the basis of data collected during a total of 32 months work in the field in the years 1981-1993. These languages are either not described or only extremely inadequately described. www.kommunikation.aau.dk /forskning/emneruk/nilo.htm   (112 words)

ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Nilo-Saharan Nilo-Saharan Languages - Survey of the sociolinguistic situation of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in the Republic of Chad. Nilo-Saharan Language Listing - Listing of the member languages of the phylum, classified by subgroup. The Nilotic Language Family - General survey, with maps, of the Nilotic family, one of the members of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Nilo-Saharan   (530 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan Languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family of languages are spoken in Africa. You have reached the page for Khoisan and Nilo-Saharan 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. Dinka, Nuer, and Masai are among the Nilotic languages. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm   (676 words)

A Survey Report for the Bantu Languages The conventional answer says that a language tends to be the standard variety, be written, have more speakers, have some form of offical status, have prestige, and not be intelligible to speakers of other “languages”. They, the majority, see (1) the northwestern languages (those of Zones A, B, C, and parts of D and H) as being clearly distinct from the rest; and (2) thereafter, a split in the rest between western (Zones H, K, R, sometimes L and parts of M) and eastern languages. According to the most recent estimate (Grimes 2000) the world has 6,809 languages, of which 2,058, approximately 30%, are spoken in Africa (an additional 44 are described as “extinct”). www.sil.org /silesr/2002/016/SILESR2002-016.htm   (1621 words)

Welcome to the Languages of the World Website We base this website on the belief that all language have evolved from the need of human beings to express their thoughts, beliefs, and desires, that all languages meet the social, psychological, and survival needs of people who use them. The Languages of the World website will also contain pages dedicated to general topics related to language and to language study. The year 2005 has been designated as The Year of Languages in the United States. www.nvtc.gov /lotw   (504 words)

Languages Research Included here are many general indexes, abstracts and bibliographies not entirely devoted to African languages, but which contain substantial references to languages and linguistics in their subject classifications. A Thesaurus of African languages: A classified and annotated inventory of the spoken languages of Africa with an appendix on their written representation. African languages : A guide to the library collection of the University of Virginia. web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/langbibl.htm   (426 words)

ORIENTALIA Encyclopedia Subject Index Nilo-Saharan languages - Info-Guide, Reviews, Deep Discount Shopping A comparative-historical phonology of the Chari languages: Nilo-Saharan languges of Central Africa (Supplemento agli Annali - Istituto orientale di Napol ; n. The Nilo-Saharan languages: A comparative essay (LINCOM handbooks in linguistics) Nilo-Saharan languages - Info-Guide, Reviews, Deep Discount Shopping www.orientalia.org /info2191-Nilo-Saharan+languages.html   (98 words)

African Languages by Countries Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population. Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama. Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread). www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm   (553 words)

LookSmart - Directory - Guides and Directories to Nilo-Saharan Languages Read an archived newsgroup discussion of the Nilo-Saharan languages, which features syntactic and lexical comparisons among them. Overview of this language family includes a linguistic map of Africa and a historical discussion of the Nilo-Saharan language Maasai. Article provides an overview of the language families of this continent, including Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan. lsxml.looksmart.com /p/browse/us1/us317836/us317911/us53831/us1164425/us562148/us1158553/us1158565   (226 words)

maling Winter, J. Language shift among the Aasáx, a hunter-gratherer tribe in Tanzania. This language is spoken by some 500,000 Maasai, Samburu, Camus in Kenya, and about another 500,000 people in Tanzania. Maa: A Dictionary of the Maasai Language and Folklore, English-Maasai. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/maling.htm   (373 words)

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