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  List of Languages
Pangasinan is the primary language in the province of Pangasinan, located on the west central area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf.
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  Encyclopedia: Albanian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Albanian in the Tosk dialect is the official language of the Republic of Albania.
The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages.
Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras...
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 Encyclopedia: Illyrian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From the 7th century onwards, the surviving Illyrian languages began to lose ground to other languages spoken in the area, largely Slavic languages in the rural areas and the languages descended from vernacular Latin such as Dalmatian and Venetian in the urban areas.
Messapian, an extinct language of South-eastern Italy is believed by some scholars to be a dialect of Illyrian, based on the personal names found on the tomb inscriptions.
Some linguists believe the modern Albanian language to be a derivative of an Illyrian language, but the Messapian inscriptions and other known words from records suggest that Albanian and Illyrian lie on different branches of the Indo-European linguistic tree.
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 Potiguara language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Potiguara is a language which is spoken by 6000 indian tribesmen in Paraíba, Pôsto Nísia Brasileira on the Baía da Traição, in the municipality of Mamanguape, Brazil.
This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub.
This page was last modified 07:36, 27 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potiguara_language   (63 words)

  
 Brazil - Brasil - BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - Potiguara Indians Suffer Death Threat - Brazilian Peoples - September ...
On September 4, around 450 Potiguara families from the Monte-Mór reservation reoccupied part of the area of the Japungú Refinery, in the municipality of Marcação, in Paraíba.
According to Caboquinho, the leader of the Potiguara people, the situation is very tense and the refinery owners have attacked the indigenous people several times.
The Potiguara have made a proposal so that an outcome is reached as soon as possible, deciding that the creation of a new Technical Group is the most feasible solution at the moment.
www.brazil-brasil.com /2003/html/articles/sep03/p151sep03.htm   (652 words)

  
 Language
Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
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 Tupi_language_group LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
The Tupian languages are a language family of 70 languages which are spoken by Indian tribesmen in South America.
Tupi is the name of a language family that was spoken along the Brazilian coast at the time of its discovery.
The Tupi-Guarani language family is part of a larger Tupian stock, which may be related to the Gê and Carib families in a Je-Tupi-Carib grouping.
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Today, Eulalia is a member of the Provincial Assembly of Antioquía, in the north-west of Colombia, and is still devoting herself to social issues to alleviate the distress of her people.
Potiguara who experienced problems as an indigenous woman herself, lived for a time in Rio de Janeiro and saw the way indigenous people were discriminated against in the cities.
This gave her the impetus to return to her village to help her people, the Potiguara, who were suffering from social disintegration.
www.un.org /ecosocdev/geninfo/indigens/dpi1717e.htm   (2582 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Philo-Pz)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was born in 1816 at Lichfield, New York, and died in 1889.
The Potiguara are a group of South American Indians living in north west Brazil, and numbering about 1 million.
Their language belongs to the Tupi- Guarani family.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CB4.HTM   (2180 words)

  
 Cultural Survival
A Potiguara Indian, she took part in the Intertribal Committee for 500 Years of Resistance during the International Indigenous Peoples Conference at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
That is due to the importance of regaining indigenous culture, traditions, and language, and of the fight for human and indigenous rights.
In the Potiguara territory, we plan to introduce a jelly made from fish spines that is good for bones and skin.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (O-P)
Oriya is Orissa's official language; it belongs to the Eastern group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family.
The Pauan are natives to or inhabitants of Papua New Guinea; a speaker of any of various Papuan languages, used mainly on the island of New Guinea, although some 500 are used in New Britain, the Solomon Islands, and the islands of the south-west Pacific.
The Potiguara are a group of South American Indians living in north west Brazil, and numbering about 1 million.
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 List of languages
Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans.
See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more.
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 Fighting Extinction
Potiguara: Research was done in which all the people whose land had been invaded were surveyed.
Potiguara: What we want at a concrete level is a work group to reforest our lands that were deforested by government.
We want the preservation of our culture, our language, our spirituality, and to retrieve our dignity which was lost during this whole process.
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 Fighting Extinction
Eliane Potiguara is coordinator of GRUMIN, the Indigenous Women’s Education Group in Brazil.
There is a strong group of landowners who are very united and who have enough power to act against any action which opposes their interests.
Potiguara: We are suffering directly from the impact of environmental degradation.
multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1992a/09/mm0992_13.htm.save   (950 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Brazil
The closest extant languages are Txicão and Bakairí.
They prefer their language, but there is increasing use of regional Portuguese.
Related dialects or languages: Covareca, Curuminaca, Coraveca (Curave), Curucaneca, Tapii; all are extinct.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Braz.html   (5094 words)

  
 Athena Review 1,3: South American Languages
Such historic links are established when the development of one or more languages can be tied to a parent tongue by means of tracing non-borrowed innovations backward from the daughter to the parent.
As a result, the Tupi language became the lingua franca of traders, missionaries, and soldiers such as Orellana and Fritz (Omagua), and Staden (Tupinikin and Tupinambá).
Panoan: Among 29 Panoan languages in the río Ucayali basin are Conibo, Shipibo, and Setebo, and the Cashibo, Capanawa, and Juruá-Purús branches.
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 Learn more about List of languages in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This list of languages is alphabetical by English name.
For a more structured list, see Language families and languages, ISO 639 or List of languages by total speakers.
This is a list of natural and constructed languages spoken by humans.
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 yourDictionary.com • Endangered Language Initiative• Nearly Extinct Languages
This is a list of more than 750 languages found designated by Ethnologue as already extinct or nearly extinct today.
Of course, there are many more languages besides these in danger of extinction by the end of the century, many as yet undiscovered by Europeans.
This list will give you an idea of where the majority of threatened languages are spoken, if not their exact number.
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 Potiguara language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Potiguara language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Potiguara_language   (81 words)

  
 tupi
Tupi is the name of a language family which spoken along the Brazilian coast at the time of its discovery.
The Portuguese, when landing in Brazil, found out that wherever they went along the vast coast of this newly discovered land, natives spoke a similar language which was then named "General Language." It was systematized by the Jesuits and spoken until the nineteenth century in that region.
Tupi is also the name of one of the main people of Brazilian Indians who first inhabited the Amazon region, then spreading southward, gradually occupying the Atlantic coast.
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 Brazil News - Brazzil - Original and Fresh News from Brazil - Table of Contents for September 2003
Potiguara Indian leaders went to Brasília after being threatened and attacked by the owners of a refinery whose land they have occupied.
According to Caboquinho, the leader of the Potiguara people, the situation is very tense and the Indians fear for their lives.
Lula's popularity is eroding in Brazil, but for all the bad press, the majority of Brazilians still consider Lula a better leader than his predecessor.
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 PITAGUARI :: Encyclopedia :: Indigenous People in Brazil :: ISA
Between 1608 and 1613, when the Portuguese built the fort of São Sebastião, next to the Ceará River, which became the nucleus of the city of Fortaleza, they found several Potiguara villages in the surrounding areas and nearby mountains of Maranguape and Aratanha.
During the Dutch occupation, the Potiguara of the Ceará River rebelled against the Portuguese and became involved in disputes over the possession of the land, as allies of the Dutch (1637-1654).
In 1694 there were four Potiguara settlements in the proximities of Fortaleza: Caucaia, Parangaba, Paupina and Aldeia Nova de Pitaguarí, also called Parnamirim.
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 PITAGUARI :: Encyclopedia :: Indigenous People in Brazil :: ISA
The term is a variant of Potiguara, the name of another ethnic group of the Northeast to whom they are historically related.
Their population is 450 people living on the Indigenous Land and 300 in the surrounding areas.
They belong to the peoples of the Tupí-Guaraní language family which, in the 16th and 17th centuries, settled on the coasts of Ceará in successive migrations coming from Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.
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 Tupi (Language Group) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tupi (Language Group) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Tupi_language   (48 words)

  
 ISO 639 code tables
This page offers a combined view of the language code tables of ISO 639 parts 1, 2, and 3.
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 The Onaway Trust
The only way to perpetuate culture is through communication - the daily use of speech, reviving the Tupi language.
In Brazil there are 272 indigenous languages that need to be preserved.
Meetings will also take place in the school which is considered an integral part of the tribe who are all involved in some way.
www.onaway.org /indig/Tupinamba.dwt   (839 words)

  
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Some pedagogic targets are: to motivate the desire to learn and the thirst for knowledge; conflict resolution; respect rules and limits; supply practical experiences with several artistic languages, seeking of self-awareness, building self-esteem and stimulating social participation.
To motivate desire to learn; conflict resolution; respect rules and limits; supply practical experience with artistic language, seek self-awareness, build self-esteem and stimulate social participation.
The goal of this project is to leverage the technical abilities, number of youth and youth monitors attended.
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 Read about Tupi (Language Group) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Tupi (Language Group) and learn about Tupi ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Read about Tupi (Language Group) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia.
Research Tupi (Language Group) and learn about Tupi (Language Group) here!
The Tupi language group consists of 6 languages in the
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 GTTP.org : Student Case Studies
We met a lot of interesting people at the conference, which are also interested in the development of tourism in their countries.
The Atlantic Rain Forest is also home to communities of Guarani, Kaingang, Potiguara and Pataxo Indians; of Caicaras, people descended from Indians and Portuguese colonists; and Quilombolas, descendents of slaves who set up their own rural communities, with some dating back to the 17th century.
Younger members of the Sana community appear embarrassed to speak the "click" language spoken by the older folks, and embarrassed by their culture and traditions.
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