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	Phylum: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Phylum is one of the levels of scientific classification (additional info and facts about scientific classification) of organisms.
		See the Phylum (biology) (additional info and facts about Phylum (biology)) article.
		In linguistics (The scientific study of language) the term phylum was introduced in comparative work and means "super-family" of languages possibly being related.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ph/phylum.htm (53 words)

	Ethnologue: Introduction to the Printed Volume
		Secondarily, those concerned about language endangerment recognize the implications of the loss of linguistic diversity both for the linguistic and social environment generally and for the academic community which is devoted to the study of language more specifically.
		Linguists seek to identify trends in language use, such as a decrease in the number of speakers or a decrease in the use of the language in certain domains or functions.
		Linguists have used terms such as phylum, stock, family, branch, group, language, and dialect to refer to these relationships in increasing order of closeness.
	www.ethnologue.com /ethno_docs/introduction.asp (5678 words)

	Phylum - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Phylum is one of the levels of scientific classification of organisms; see the Phylum (biology) article.
		In linguistics the term phylum was introduced in comparative work and means "super-family" of languages possibly being related.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Phylum (86 words)

	Human (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Similarly, other animals often have methods of communication, but the degree to which humans create and use complex grammar and abstract concepts in language has not been seen in any other species.
		Chomskian linguistics holds that a distinguishing feature of humans is that they are the only extant species with a language instinct - a genetic predisposition that produces a brain mechanism whose function is to acquire a language by observing those around us.
		While humans have all these characteristics, from the biological viewpoint the question "What single characteristic distinguishes humans from all other animals?" is an odd one: it is not a question that is usually asked of cats, dolphins, or song sparrows.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/human.html (1844 words)

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