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  Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Si-Sj)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Siamou is a Kru language spoken in Burkina Faso.
Sininkere is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso.
Siwi is a Berber language spoken in Egypt.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WSF.HTM   (653 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Berber languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tashelhit is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Berber subgroup; it is spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
Tamajaq is the Tuareg language of Niger, belonging to southern Berber, spoken by the Kel Tamajaq or Imuhagh, Tuareg.
Tachelhit is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Berber subgroup; it is spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Berber-languages   (4455 words)

  
 Siwi language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Siwi's relation to other (Click link for more info and facts about Berber languages) Berber languages is not very close.
Most speakers of Siwi also know (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic, and the language contains a large number of (Click link for more info and facts about Egyptian Arabic) Egyptian Arabic (A word borrowed from another language; e.g.
See also: (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language, (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa, (Click link for more info and facts about Siwa Oasis) Siwa Oasis
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/siwi_language.htm   (263 words)

  
 Culture of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Ancient Egyptian language, which formed a separate branch among the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, was among the first written languages, and is known from hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and sheets of papyrus.
The Coptic language, the only extant descendant of Egyptian, is today the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The "Koiné" dialect of the Greek language was important in Hellenistic Alexandria, and was used in the philosophy and science of that culture, and was also studied by later Arabic scholars.
www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Culture_of_Egypt   (2198 words)

  
 Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Another theory holds that the language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia.
Both languages are now extinct, although a dialect of Coptic continues to be used liturgically by the Coptic Church (see Copts).
The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
www.bartleby.com /65/af/Afroasia.html   (2033 words)

  
 Awjila -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Awjila is an oasis after which an Eastern (A member of a Caucasoid Muslim people of northern Africa) Berber language spoken there is named.
It is spoken in (Click link for more info and facts about Cyrenaica) Cyrenaica, eastern (A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Libya, by some 2000 people.
Most male Awjila speakers also speak (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Aw/Awjila.htm   (115 words)

  
 Topic of the Issue: Egypt … Glimpse over its Society, Language and Religion ... youregypt.com
The Nubian language is spoken among a small fl community in Upper Egypt.
Although Nubian is not a written language, it marvelously survived ages and successfully resisted the sweep of Arabic as a live spoken language, unlike Coptic language which only survived as a liturgical language.
The language, known as Siwi, is a variation of the Tamazight spoken by other Berbers of North Africa.
www.youregypt.com /issue4/topic.htm   (599 words)

  
 Hamito-Semitic languages -> The Hamitic Subfamily on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Hamitic subfamily is generally considered to include ancient Egyptian (see Egyptian language) and its descendant, Coptic; the Berber languages; and the Cushitic languages.
The Berber languages are the mother tongues of more than 10 million persons in N Africa.
The two principal Cushitic languages are Oromo, the tongue of 20 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya, and Somali, spoken by 9 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/HamitoSe_TheHamiticSubfamily.asp   (637 words)

  
 Preface   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This language is Aymara, the language spoken by the Colla (1) in the Tiahuanaco empire.
He found that this language is remarkably fertile and articulate; that its pronunciation is unusually regular, and that it is better able than Spanish or Latin to handle abstract concepts.
That is to say, the syntax of this indigenous language is based on a non-Aristotelian logic: it has not only the two values of tradicional Western logic, true or false, but three: true, false, uncertain.
www.aymara.org /biblio/igr/igrpreface.html   (1241 words)

  
 Re: MORE: Afroasiatic Language and the Ancient Egyptians
Afroasiatic is one of the most widespread language families in the world, its geographic area comprising, from antiquity to the present time, the entire area of the eastern Mediterranean, northern Africa, and western Asia.
The most important language of this family, Hausa, enjoys the status of first language in northern Nigeria and Niger and of second language and regional lingua franca in the entire West Sahara.
(6) OMOTIC, a family of languages spoken by approximately one million speakers along both shores of the Omo River and north of Lake Turkana in southwest Ethiopia, formerly thought to represent the western branch of Cushitic.12 It is still a matter of debate whether Omo tic really belongs to the Afroasiatic language family.
www.talkaboutculture.com /group/alt.culture.egyptian/messages/16410.html   (696 words)

  
 Language Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On Jebel Chenoua west of Algiers, around Tipasa and Cherchell, a Zenati Berber language is spoken.
I came across an old colonial-era book on the language - Etude sur le dialecte berbère du Chenoua, by E. Laoust, 1912 - and decided to type up the Chenoua dictionary for future reference.
Siwa is an oasis in Egypt near the Libyan border where an Eastern Berber language is spoken.
www.geocities.com /lameens/langs   (108 words)

  
 Bali Destination Information - Batukaru.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The most important temple in Jembrana is Pura Rambut Siwi, which lies about 20 kms west of the Tabanan border by the village of Yeh Embang.
Its entrance is marked by a small shrine at the edge of the road, where Balinese travelers stop briefly to pray for safety in their journey.
Pura Rambut Siwi is an important monument to the priest Danghyang Nirartha, who came to Bali from Java during the decline the Majapahit Kingdom in the hopes of for fortifying Balinese Hinduism against the spread of Islam occurring elsewhere in the archipelago.
www.batukaru.info /destination/jembrana/sight1.php   (882 words)

  
 CHAPTER SIX - PROSPECTS FOR RESEARCH ON AYMARA LOGIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This, in turn, could have a very positive effect on the revitalization of the Aymara language, as well as on the education of Aymara-speaking people in Bolivia and Peru.
It is a complete inferential theory in every sense of the term: on the one hand it affords a consistent treatment of modal logic; on the other hand, it has an algebraic structure, the "Aymara siwi", which makes it possible to calculate any correctly formulated inferential problem, even when starting from modal premises.
For example, if other languages having syntactic structures involving a trivalent system of logic were found, the classification of language families would benefit enormously.
www.aymara.org /biblio/igr/igr6.html   (636 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Egyptian Oasis Struggles to Maintain Old Identity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Egypt's desert oasis of Siwa, Mahmoud and many other children in this town of about 24,000 grew up speaking the Berber tongue residents call Siwi -- not Arabic which is spoken in the rest of the country of 70 million people.
Siwa's language has been protected for centuries from the outside world by a sea of sand and rocky plains in Egypt's western desert, which destroyed ancient armies.
Residents say more Arabic phrases are creeping into Siwi, a dialect of Amazegh spoken by Berbers across North Africa.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/04/30/egyptian_oasis_struggles_to_maintain_old_identity   (487 words)

  
 IWRA CIC: Water Leaders: The Next Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While inter-generational conflict of interest may have played some part in the evolution of this neglect, it is highly likely that this has happened not by design but by the absence of any clear future-oriented thinking by the current generation.
In order to rectify this situation the Committee on International Collaboration of the International Water Resources Association (CIC-IWRA) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is launching a major effort to identify and then mentor the next generation of water leaders from different parts of the world.
The candidates must be 40 years of age or below as of January 1, 1999, and should have at least 5 years of work experience which would enable informed judgements to be made as to their future leadership potentials.
www.iwra.siu.edu /committee/waterleaders.html   (985 words)

  
 Third World Centre for Water Management
The Stockholm International Water Institute is a scientific, technical and educational organization that contributes to international efforts to combat the escalating global water crisis.
SIWI facilitates research, raises awareness and stimulates action on world water issues.
The organisation's objectives are: promoting know-how and transfer of knowledge between North and South, East and West, international exchange of experience, initiating developmental processes and global cooperation.
www.thirdworldcentre.org /evinculos.html   (551 words)

  
 Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: Centre opens to 'save' languages
A centre to carry out research into saving "endangered" languages from extinction is to be opened.
It is supported by a £20m grant from the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund and is the largest project of its kind in the world, said a spokesman.
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is already administered by the School of Oriental and African Studies.
www.news.vu /en/living/culture/centre-opens-to-save-lang.shtml   (408 words)

  
 Berber Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
"The three Berber languages researched for this project are: Kabyle (Taqbaylit), spoken in northern Algeria; Tamazight (Berber), of central Morocco; and Tuareg, the indigenous name of which varies according to the dialect (Prasse 1972): Tamahaq in southern Algeria, Tamashaq in Mali, Tamajeq in Niger and in Libya (Ghat, where it may also be called Tamaziq).
Other major languages include Tashelhit (Shilha) and Tarifit (Rif) of Morocco." The languages of smaller groups are discussed in the Dialect Survey (4) of this section.
However, the main languages and domains are identifiable from the many dialect studies and from the arrangement by region of entries in the bibliographical resources used here: A. Basset, LLB, 1952, and the chronicles entitled "Langue et litérature berbère" (LELB) by Basset and Chaker, in AAN.
www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Berber-root.html   (1216 words)

  
 ITT Industries Publications
The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) administers the competition on behalf of the Stockholm Water Foundation.
The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is a policy think tank that contributes to international efforts to combat the world's escalating water crisis.
SIWI advocates future-oriented, knowledge-integrated water views in decision making, nationally and internationally, that lead to sustainable use of the world’s water resources and sustainable development of societies.
vocuspr.vocus.com /VocusPr30/DotNet/Newsroom/Query.aspx?SiteName=ITT&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=102246&XSL=PressRelease&Cache=False   (668 words)

  
 Siwi language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Siwi (Oasis Berber, Sioua, Siwa, Zenati) is one of the Eastern Berber languages.
It is spoken in parts of Egypt near the Siwa Oasis and some villages in the desert by about 5,000 people.
The people speaking Siwi are muslims and most of them speak Arabic, too.
www.city-search.org /si/siwi-language.html   (317 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - Language Help
You may access the member's home page and write to them by simply typing their membername into the membersearch.
Please be polite and understand that they may not have time to help you immediately.
Please provide the name of the language in English as well as in your language but in Roman Alphabet.
members.virtualtourist.com /vt/t/eb   (206 words)

  
 EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
www.everytongue.com   (531 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SIWI, together with Sida and Ramboll Natura AB, announced a two-part course, “Integrated Transboundary Water Resource Management,” set to take place in South Africa, March 6 — 17, 2006, and in Sweden, May 29 — June 2, 2006.
To reach international water goals requires that transboundary water is managed in an efficient and equitable manner.
With funding assistance from the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida), SIWI together with Ramboll Natura AB is offering a two-part French-language international training programme on “Integrated Water Resource Management.” The first session takes place in Sweden, November 28 - December 9, 2005, with a follow-up course in Burkina Faso in March 2006.
www.emwis.org /news/search.asp?cat=13   (1499 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
# The following mapping table maps the three-letter Language Identification # Codes of the SIL Ethnologue, 13th edition, to the canonical names used # in the Ethnologue.
for # the international standard 2-letter codes for 139 languages.
for # the draft international standard 3-letter codes for 431 languages.
home.ccil.org /~cowan/langs.txt   (58 words)

  
 Books | An odd couple
a good example of the construction of the Siwi vocabulary...
Among the women a naked female is quite a possibility, but to the general Siwani mind it is so inconceivable, and so contrary to all established customs that no special word-form has been evolved to cope with such an obvious phenomenon...
For a parallel reason to that given in Note 30." Walker, WS, The Siwi language...
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4629697-110738,00.html   (455 words)

  
 Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: British Library In £10 Million Archives Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme follows a similar project established by the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund last year to document endangered languages around the world.
The £20 million Endangered Languages Project is being administered by London's School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) and has already distributed a wide range of grants.
In its first two years alone, the programme has supported more than 40 languages throughout the world including two Mayan languages in Guatemala, Archi in the Caucasus, Siwi, an isolated Berber language of Egypt and the Vures language of west Vanua Lava, Vanuatu.
www.news.vu /en/living/culture/british-library-in-10-mil.shtml   (570 words)

  
 SASNET: Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Furthermore applicants must within two years acquire a sufficient mastery of the Norwegian language to be able to perform all the duties appropriate to the post of professor at the University of Oslo.
The award has been given by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) to CSE for its efforts to build a new paradigm of water management, which uses the traditional wisdom of rainwater harvesting and advocates the role of communities in managing their local water systems.
The workshops were organised by Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University in collaboration with SIPSIR (Swedish Initiative for Peace, Security and International Relations), and convened by Dr. Ravinder Pal Singh, CPAS.
www.sasnet.lu.se /research.html   (10693 words)

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