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  Romance Languages - LoveToKnow 1911
ROMANCE LANGUAGES, the name generally adopted for the modern languages descended from the old Roman or Latin tongue, acted upon by inner decay or growth, by dialectic variety, and by outward influence, more or less marked, of all the foreign nations with which it came into contact.
As the literary language of the ancient Roman civilization died out, seemingly extinguished by the barbarism of the middle ages, all the forms of the old classical language being confounded in the most hopeless chaos, suddenly new, vigorous and beautiful tongues sprang forth, ruled by the most regular laws, related to, yet different from, Latin.
Speaking generally we may say that the particular languages retained the form of the language in the 16th and 17th centuries, that is to say that of the time of the immigration, and that they developed along the lines already established.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Romance_Languages   (9316 words)

  
 Iberian Romance languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A common Romance language with dialectal differences was spoken throughout the ancient Roman Empire.
During this stage a group of Romance dialects collectively known as called Mozarabic were spoken in the Moorish areas of Iberia.
Catalan is regarded as a transition language between Iberian Romance and Gallo-Romance languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iberian_Romance_languages   (587 words)

  
 Mozarabic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mozarabic was a continuum of closely related Iberian Romance dialects spoken in Muslim dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of the Romance languages' development in Iberia.
This variety of Romance is the first documented in writing in the Peninsula as choruses (kharjas) (9th century) in Arabic lyrics called muwashshahs.
This Romance variety had a significant impact in the formation of Portuguese, Spanish and especially the Valencian, which explains why these languages have so many words of Andalusi Arabic origin (Mozarabic was, understandably, quite influenced by Arabic and vice versa).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mozarabic_language   (238 words)

  
 French language
French (français) is the third-largest of the Romance languages in terms of number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, being spoken by about 120 million people as a mother tongue or fluently, and by another 150 million people learning or using it.
As a Romance language, it is a daughter language of Latin, although there has been significant borrowing from Ancient Greek.
It is the official language of the principality of Monaco.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/french_language.html   (3214 words)

  
 Linguistics 001 -- Languages of the World
As of the 1999 revision, Ethnologue assigns three-letter "language codes" to 6783 "languages", for 6059 of which an estimate of number of speakers is given.
Roughly half of the world's languages are moribund, in the sense that new generations of children are not being raised to speak them.
For languages that can't be saved, it is still possible to document them for scientific purposes and for the sake of future generations who might want to study or even revive them.
www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/Fall_2005/ling001/world_languages.html   (2317 words)

  
 Germanic Languages
It is the official language of Sweden and is one of the official languages of Finland.
Norn was a mixed language of West Norse and Irish spoken in the Shetland Islands.
West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands.
softrat.home.mindspring.com /germanic.html   (3010 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Latin Europe, where the Romance languages are spoken.
These are all nations where a Celtic language is spoken, or was spoken into modern times, and there is a degree of shared culture (see Pan Celticism).
It is sometimes associated with the Latin countries, due to the geographical and cultural ties to the Mediterranean Sea, and sometimes to the Slavic-Orthodox part of Europe due to the importance or Orthodoxy in Greece.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Europe   (3414 words)

  
 Spain - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Until the 15th century, Castile and Léon, Aragon and Navarre were independent states, with independent languages, monarchs, armies and, in the case of Aragon and Castile, two empires: the former with one in the Mediterranean and the latter with a rapidly growing one in the Americas.
The unification of Iberia was complete when Charles V's son, Philip II, became King of Portugal in 1580, as well as of the other Iberian Kingdoms (collectively known as "Spain" at that time).
Large-scale unsustainable development is clearly visible along Spain's Mediterranean coast in the form of housing and tourist complexes, which are placing severe strain on local land and water resources.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/p/a/Spain.html   (5244 words)

  
 Station Information - Mozarab
During the early stages of Romance languages development in Iberia, a set of romance dialects was spoken in Muslim areas of the Peninsula by the general population.
This variety of Romance is the first documented in writing in the Peninsula as choruses (kharjas) in Arabic lyrics called muwashakhas.
Some Christian authorities were scandalized at how the young ones preferred the Arabic culture and language and tried to raise confrontation by publicly offending Islam.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mozarab.html   (361 words)

  
 List of Romance Languages & Dialects with Number of Speakers and Areas of Distribution
The northern limit is the Pyrenean border, separating Aragon from Occitania; the western limit is the border of Navarra; the eastern limit is north of Montso.
The Academy of the Asturian Language was formed in 1981, to revive the academy of the 18th century.
Galician has had many decades of development as a language of serious literature, including poetry, essays on novel, ideological, philosophical, and sociological topics, and for all levels of education, including higher education.
www.orbilat.com /General_Survey/List_of_Romance_Languages.html   (3673 words)

  
 UO Catalog
Romance languages is a liberal-arts major, providing a solid background for students interested in graduate work, teaching, and, increasingly, other professional and international careers.
Romance languages majors, especially those who have a second major in another discipline (e.g., art history, business administration, economics, history, international studies, journalism, music, or political science) find positions in communications media, government foreign service, international business and law, libraries, social work organizations, and travel and tourist-related agencies, among others.
Students who enter the master’s program with no knowledge of a second Romance language are encouraged to start learning one as soon as possible during their graduate studies.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~uopubs/bulletin/romance_languages.shtml   (7109 words)

  
 Materials about the Iberians and Iberian Languages: an article by Cyril Babaev
The Rhaetic language and the language in which the Lemnos stele was written are believed to be close to Etruscan (see Lemnos stele), and the single "Tyrrhenian group" of languages is sometimes formed to unify these three tongues.
Strabo says Iberians spoke different languages, but as he again said their writing was also different we can suppose there were just dialectal differences - the fact is that writing has several varieties but they are all forms of one script.
Ancient Sardinian language and languages of Sicelian tribes in Sicily are not studied deeply enough to judge for sure, but the ethnic features as ancient documents witness give us a chance of unifying them in one language group.
indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/article8.html   (2575 words)

  
 Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Spanish / Judezmo / Ladino
In the beginning of the 21st century, Judeo-Spanish is an endangered language for lack of new native speakers.
The language is known as Spanyolit or Espanyolit (in Israel), Espanyol, Ladino, Romance, Franco Espanyol, Judeo-Espanyol, Jidyo or Judyo, Judezmo, Zargon, etc., in the Ottoman Empire communities, and either Hakitia or just Espanyol in North Africa.
Vernacular forms entered the written language, and many words and expressions from the local languages (Turkish, Greek, and Balkan languages) were fused in Judeo-Spanish.
www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-spanish.html   (2376 words)

  
 Iberian Language and Literature Collection Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The primary clientele for the collection is the faculty and students of the Romance Studies and Modern Languages and Linguistics Departments.
Language and Linguistics collections strong on grammars and dictionaries as well as analytic studies, again with Spanish-language emphasis.
Current collecting in language and literature follows the traditional emphases outlined above for the existing collections, with both primary texts and secondary studies acquired.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/cdiberianlanguage.html   (217 words)

  
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A skill developed uniquely in these majors is fluency in Spanish, the first language of a linguistic community that is one of the largest, most diverse, and complex in the world, with over 400 million Spanish speakers world-wide and 40 million in the United States.
We recognize these languages and cultures not only owing to their intrinsic interest (and renewed political and cultural vitality), but also because of their fundamental contribution to the development of Spanish-language literatures and cultures on the peninsula and elsewhere.
It should be remembered, however, that--as is true for Spanish (i.e.,Castillian) in the Spanish major--university credit will be granted for approved-program language work in any of the peninsular languages but major credit will only be granted for courses pitched at the fifth-semester level or higher (the equivalent of Spanish 221).
www.wesleyan.edu /romance/spmajor.html   (1430 words)

  
 Creoles, Pidgins and the Evolution of Languages
That is, the relevant language has generally not been affected by the peculiarities of the other languages it came in contact with.
Cases where it is undeniable that speakers of the mother language came in contact with speakers of other languages which disappeared but left substrate influence on the superseding language have been treated as rather exceptional.
Indeed, Thomason and Kaufman recognize the importance of language shift in both the case of the development of indigenized varieties and that of creoles.
fathom.lib.uchicago.edu /2/21701718   (4750 words)

  
 From Avalon to Iberia: The Contemporary Literary Returns of King Arthur in the Languages of Spain
Every entry is also provided with three abbreviated codes related to: 1) the language in which the work is written; 2) the genre into which it must be classified; and 3) the main or secondary position or relevance it occupies within a comprehensive corpus of modern Spanish Arthurian literature.
Although this legend is written in Spanish, Manuel Murguia, the writer of the introduction, is regarded as the Patriarch of modern letters in the Galician language.
Inspired in the medieval romance by Chrétien de Troyes, a set of present-day characters are made to match their medieval counterparts by Professor-Emeritus Julio Matasanz, specialist in Arthurian medieval literature.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/spanbib.htm   (6690 words)

  
 2005-2006 Course Register
Class work emphasizes the development of speaking and listening comprehension, reinforced by work in reading and writing.
The development of the French novel in the 19th-century: structure and theory, ideological and historical questions.
An exploration of the radical conflicts that developed in Europe when the authority of the Roman Catholic Church was challenged by the Protestant reformers and scientific discoveries of the 16th and 17th centuries.
www.upenn.edu /registrar/register/roml.html   (6732 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 10.718: Languages in Contact
Hello; I would like to thank you all for your suggestions to my recent query regarding Languages in Contact bibliography; Below is a copy of my list.
Spiro Hamilothoris 5/11/99 Languages in Contact Bibliography 1990-98 African 1- Joseph E. Holloway, The African Heritage of American English.
An analysis of the historical developments which led to the expansion of the non-finite construction types is also included.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/10/10-718.html   (2241 words)

  
 Languages
Type a known term in one language and search for the corresponding term in the language of your choice.
While the signs shown in the videos should be taken with a grain of salt (after all, it's difficult to show something three-dimensional in two-dimensions), they represent a good introduction to the material.
Where Do Languages Come From?: http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/ provides information on the origins and development of languages.
www.studyplans.com /language.htm   (4178 words)

  
 Evertype: List of Language Lists
COMPARLINGAFRIC is opened to topics where comparative linguistics in African languages of the Sahel-Sahara zone are the subject of discussion, such as: Languages and language families of the Sahel-Sahara zone: (Mande, Chadic, Berber, Nilo-Saharan...); genetic relationships; the description of changes in the context of languages of oral tradition; linguistic changes and factors concerning language transformation.
Latin American Linguistics and Languages Discussion List (LATAMLIN) Discussion and a means of communication for anyone working on or interested in the study of Linguistics and Languages in Latin America; languages of communication are English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Model languagers or language modelers can be found among writers, game players, computer game designers, science-fiction and fantasy fans, professional linguists and teachers.
www.evertype.com /langlist.html   (2386 words)

  
 Mozarabic language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
American-owned Spanish Language School specialized in teaching the Spanish language and its culture through a total immersion intensive program in Puebla, Mexico.
Find Mozarabic Language and more at Lycos Search.
Read about Mozarabic Language in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
encyclopedia.vestigatio.com /Mozarabic   (288 words)

  
 Graduate Courses
Issues pertinent to the diverse cultures, languages, and literatures of Latin America and Iberia; disciplines and
Brazilian literatures; translation studies; cultural, gender, and queer studies; Romance language and linguistics.
Issues central to the study of Latin America and Iberia across the social sciences and history.
www.lais.ucsb.edu /Graduate_Courses.htm   (437 words)

  
 Lnk
French Learner Language Oral Corpora, University of Southampton
JRL1101 Topics in Romance phonetics and phonology I: Theory
JRL1106 Topics in Romance phonetics and phonology II: Experimental approaches
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~jsteele/links.htm   (60 words)

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