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	African Languages - ninemsn Encarta
		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.
		The Nubian alphabet was derived from that of the Coptic language.
		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.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html (1277 words)

	African Languages - MSN Encarta
		Languages in the largest of the six subgroups, Nilotic, are spoken along the Nile and Chari rivers.
		Languages of South African Khoisan, which include Nama and Naron, are spoken in and around the Kalahari Desert of northern South Africa, southwestern Botswana, and Namibia.
		Languages of East African Khoisan include Sandawe and Hadza, both of which are spoken in Tanzania.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449_2/African_Languages.html (779 words)

	Ethiopian Languages - Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan
		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.
		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).
	www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/language.htm (319 words)

	Nilo-Saharan Languages - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The around 200 Nilo-Saharan languages are found in a broken chain from the great bend of the Niger River in West Africa to Ethiopia, throughout most...
		Swahili is the official language, spoken by more than 93 per cent of the population mainly as a lingua...
		English is the official language, but it is only spoken by a minority and is mainly used in higher education and technical domains.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Nilo-Saharan_Languages.html (163 words)

	African languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These languages are spoken in all parts of the continent, from the extreme south up to the territory of the Afroasiatic languages of N Africa.
		All of the Khoisan languages appear to use tones to distinguish meanings, and the Khoikhoi languages and some of the San languages inflect the noun to show case, number, and gender.
		Swahili, a Bantu tongue of the Niger-Kordofanian stock, was written before the European conquest of Africa (see Swahili language), and Vai, a language belonging to the Mande subdivision of Niger-Congo, employs an indigenous script developed in the 19th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Africanlng.html (1428 words)

	Dravidian, Mande and Elamite
		The basic vocabulary of a language is that sector of the lexicon, which comprise the basic elements of one's culture the division of the body and biological activities such as eating, sleeping and etc.
		In the Proto-Saharan languages the plural is formed by adding -u,-w,-ba, -pa and -lu.In Egyptian, the -w suffix is used to form the plural.
		For example in Manding languages ka, is a particle of different values, which corresponds to -kaa, the infinitive element in Telugu of the verb ag-uta 'to become'.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/7051/elam2.htm (2500 words)

	Saharan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is hereby suggested that the forerunner of the Basque, Dravidian and Ainu languages was the Saharan language and that the language spoken in the beautifully painted cathedral caves in southern France and northern Spain was an early form of the same.
		I have no doubt that the Basque language is a direct descendant of this original Saharan language and that this language has not changed very much for several millennia, probably because of the extremely careful oral transmission traditions used in their educational system, passing the language on from generation to generation without changes.
		The Sanskrit language was made up almost entirely out of that half of the Saharan language which starts with VCV, while the scholars creating the Romance languages and English used the same system as a priority but quite often felt obliged to use a CV word for the first morpheme.
	www.islandnet.com /~nyland/saharan.htm (4261 words)

	The Definitive Guide to Niger-Congo languages XXXX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In early classifications of African languages, one of the principal criteria used to distinguish different groupings was the languages' use of prefixes to classifiy nouns, or the lack thereof.
		Languages like this have nasal vowels accompanied with complementary distribution between oral and nasal consonants before oral and nasal vowels.
		The Yoruba and Igbo languages, spoken in Nigeria.
	www.xxxx.com /s/Niger-Congo_languages (2191 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”.
		That is, assuming that most or all of the members of a language family derive from a common ancestor, a historical classification will represent this, and the various splittings and branchings that occurred since that ancestor.
		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.
	www.sil.org /silesr/2002/016/SILESR2002-016.htm (1621 words)

	Nilo-Saharan Newsletter / Informations nilo-sahariennes
		Creider, Jane Tapsubei & Chet A. Creider, 2001 : A Dictionary of the Nandi Language, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe.
		Jakobi, A. Kümmerle, 1993 : The Nubian languages : an annotated bibliography.
		Tucker, A. Bryan, 1966 : The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa : Linguistic Analyses.
	sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr /nilsah/biblio.html (5335 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan
		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.
		Languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family of languages are spoken in Africa.
		It is spoken in the Sudan and in Ethiopia.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm (676 words)

	African languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic are the Semitic languages, the Cushitic languages, Berber, and the Chadic languages.
		The Nilotic languages, having expanded substantially with the Nilotic peoples in recent centuries, are a geographically widespread language family and have a large population.
		Language contact (resulting in borrowing) and, with regard to specific idioms and phrases, a similar cultural background have been put forward to account for some of the similarities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_languages (1781 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)

	Nilo-Saharan Language Family
		The two most populous languages (each spoken by 3.5 million people) are Luo of Kenya, and Kanuri of Nigeria.
		For instance, some Nilo-Saharan languages have complex consonant systems featuring ejective and implosive consonants that are typical of Afro-Asiatic languages, while others have relatively simple consonant systems that typify Niger-Congo languages.
		Some Nubian languages, e.g., Kenuzi-Dongola spoken in Sudan and Egypt, are presently written in either the Latin or the Arabic script.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/nilo.html (1120 words)

	File: <classify
		Major languages were shifted from one language family to another, whole families were bundled into super families on very shaky assumptions, proto languages were concocted, others were split off and given their own family tree.
		The best-known example of this is the theory of the Indo-European Family of languages that is based on the crippled reasoning that if the observed relationship between the languages is not accidental, it must be genetic.
		Their efforts were aimed at totally burying the original language of the world's first civilization, in many cases with the use of a strictly adhered to formula which now allows us to reconstruct the origin of the concocted words.
	www.faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/nyland/classify0.htm (1657 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.
		In: Africa as a linguistic area/Areal typology and African languages.
		Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past: lessons from Songhay (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nilosaharan.html (1145 words)

	Linguistic references (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hypo 2: The Saharan language is still spoken as Dravidian in India (170 million speakers), as Ainu on the island of Hokkaido (18,000 speakers) and as Basque in Euskadi, Spain (800,000 speakers).
		The purpose was to destroy the old religion and language and the traditional oral teaching of wisdom, religion and legends, replacing it with a patriarchal vision of the world and civilization.
		All highly developed languages on earth (except possibly Chinese) can be shown to have been developed from the original Saharan language, which in itself was also scholarly enhanced from the neolithic substratum.
	www.islandnet.com /~nyland/linguist.htm (547 words)

	File: <saharan
		This was done with the use of different formulaic manipulations of the Saharan vocabulary, creating largely invented (non-genetic) language "families".
		Nyland suggested that the forerunner of the Basque, Dravidian and Ainu languages was the Saharan language and that the language spoken in the beautifully painted cathedral caves in southern France and northern Spain was an early form of the same.
		As all the early-invented languages such as Sumerian, Hebrew, Sanskrit etc. use this VCV system, the agglutination of the Saharan language must have been done first, since 3,000 bce.
	www.faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/bronze/saharan.htm (4086 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.
		The extinct Meroitic language of ancient Kush has sometimes been suggested as a probable member of Nilo-Saharan; however, too little is known of the language to classify it with any confidence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages (433 words)

	NSF Supplement Request
		Nilotic languages are spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Congo.
		While some languages of the family have been reasonably well documented, others have received essentially no documentation and attempts to further understand the family are hampered by lack of adequate data.
		Though theoretical concerns properly emerge, given that documentation of many Nilotic languages is still scanty, the primary objective here is to improve documentation and deepen descriptive and typological knowledge of patterns in Nilotic languages.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/Nilotic/ProjectDescription.htm (5108 words)

	African Language & Culture: Handout 1
		Language classification: terms to remember Dialect: a variety or subdivision of a language.
		Genetic relationship: Languages which are said to have developed from a common ancestral language are said to be genetically related.
		Cognates: Related languages display many unique and systermatic correspondences (structural as well lexical) that set them apart as forming a family which is distinct from other language families.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /afl/handout1.html (235 words)

	AFRICA.Arena \| SOCIETY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		African languages are supposed to have one or two origins according to linguists, attested by the existence of a common lexical stock and other structural traitss not totally represented in any single language but in many topological diversity.
		The Adamawa-Eastern branch, to which Banda, Zande, and Sango belong, is composed of a number of languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and an area north of the Bantu territory to Sudan.A characteristic feature of most of the Niger-Congo languages is the use of tones.
		As the chief trade language of E Africa, it is understood by perhaps an additional 20 million.
	web.1asphost.com /siyanbola/Africa/afrmap3b.htm (1681 words)

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		A general program that focuses on one or more modern foreign languages that is not specific as to the name of the language(s) studied; that is otherwise undifferentiated; or that introduces students to language studies at the basic/elementary level.
		Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.
		Programs may involve multiple languages and language families, not be specific as to the name of the language(s) studied, or be otherwise undifferentiated.
	nces.ed.gov /pubs2002/cip2000/ciplist.asp?CIP2=16 (3544 words)

	African languages — FactMonster.com
		African languages, geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent.
		African languages: Nilo-Saharan - Nilo-Saharan The Nilo-Saharan language stock has six branches: Songhai (spoken in Mali), Saharan...
		African languages: Khoisan - Khoisan The Khoisan, or Click, linguistic family is made up of three branches: the Khoisan...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0802671.html (346 words)

	BERTA LANGUAGE : Encyclopedia Entry
		The Berta language is spoken in Sudan and Ethiopia, and is generally classified as a branch of Nilo-Saharan.
		Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa.
		In Bender (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Berta_language (126 words)

	Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies
		In 1879 he knew that language is only one element in the ethnographic composition of a people and that previously he was affected by the idea that the language was the criterion of the race.
		The language of a text was that of the country where the bulk of texts in the same language were found.
		REINER Erica 1969, The Elamite Language in Altkleinasiatische Sprachen, Leiden/KÃ¶ln, pp.
	digidownload.libero.it /elam/elam/second_column_speech.htm (6049 words)

	African Languages by Countries :: Official and national Languages of Africa
		Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population.
		Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread).
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm (583 words)

	Chad - Nilo-Saharan Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Similarities of language do not imply other congruences.
		Nilo-Saharan language speakers, for example, display a variety of life-styles.
		Nomads in the Sahara, semisedentary and sedentary peoples in the Sahel, and sedentary populations in the soudanian zone all may speak Nilo-Saharan languages.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2278.html (55 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.3418: Language Description: Bender
		Title: The Nilo-Saharan Languages Series Title: LINCOM Handbooks in Linguistics 06 Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Lincom GmbH www.lincom-europa.com http://lincom.at Author: M. Lionel Bender, University of Carbondale Paperback: ISBN: 389586045X, Pages: 270, Price: EUR 77.70 Abstract: The Nilo-Saharan Phylum is the most controversial outcome of Greenbergs genetic classification of African languages dating from 1963.
		The last four groups ar e not evidence for establishment of Nilo-Saharan as a genetic family, but a re equally important in delimiting the phylum and setting it off from other phyla, a task which has not been given proper weight in the past.
		The book begins with a lengthy and valuable Introduction covering purpos e and method, an annotated list of languages genetically arranged, a demogr aphic and cultural overview summary of speakers, and typological and areal overviews.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/14/14-3418.html (385 words)

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