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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Low German   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Low German (in Low German: Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of West Germanic languages spoken in northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Low German was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
Low German is distinguished from High German principally in that the latter underwent a consonant shift in the 700s and 800s.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Low_German   (533 words)

  
 Afrikaans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Afrikaans is a Low Franconian language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Afrikaans is linguistically closely related to 17th and 18th century Dutch dialects spoken in North and South Holland and, by extension, to modern Dutch.
Provinces of South Africa in which a majority of the population are Afrikaans mother-tongue speakers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afrikaans   (2471 words)

  
 Archaeopteryx - EvoWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In the biased opinion of the author, the story of the urvogel is the greatest of all vertebrate paleontology—indeed, it is the story of evolution itself.
All of the urvogel fossils have been recovered from the Southern Franconian Alb, consisting of calcium carbonate deposits of variable quality and thickness, cut by the Altmuhl and Danube Rivers, north of Munich, in Bavaria (Viohl 1985, Buisonje 1985, Barthel, Swinburne, Morris 1990, Feduccia 1996, Kemp and Unwin 1997).
Considering the exquisite preservation of the specimen, quarried out of the Franconian Alb at Eichstatt, its misidentification as a gracile coelurosaur is astonishing, when one considers the voracity of those who argue against a theropod origin for birds.
wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Archaeopteryx   (8612 words)

  
 FRANCIA
A fifth kingdom, Italy, comes together in the south, spreading from traditional Lombardy all the way down to Naples and Sicily, which in this period were in a different political and cultural sphere altogether (of Romania or Islâm).
One of the most infamous episodes of the Middle Ages, the Crusade was largely against and at the expense of the Count of Toulouse.
The boundaries south of the Loire should be taken as approximate, since I find disagreements in my sources -- at best an indication that boundaries were often redrawn during the period, at worst that they are not well understood.
www.friesian.com /francia.htm   (14221 words)

  
 Everything about English Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
English is also an important minority language of South Africa (South African English), and in several other former colonies and current dependent territories of the United Kingdom and the United States, for example Guam and Mauritius.
The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the Danelaw with the Anglo-Saxons left traces in the English language, and is suspected to have facilitated the collapse of Old English grammar that resulted in Middle English from the 12th century.
Russia Hispanics from Mexico and South and Central America are the largest minority group in the country, comprising 12.5% of the population (2000 census).
wikimiki.org /en/English+language   (10796 words)

  
 Numismatics International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This publication is a numismatics analysis, with historical documentation, of the provisional coinage of El Salvador issued during the years 1828-1835.
In this publication, the coinage of daallders (silver dollar-size pieces) of 13 small semi-independent entities in the 16th and 17th centuries of the Low countries are listed.
It also includes special issues relating to the Franconian Circle, Premium-Prize talers, the Piece of Teschen, and Falcontalers, as well as taller struck during this period for wives, daughter, and sister of various rulers.
www.numis.org /pubs.htm   (1282 words)

  
 KINGDOM - Online Information article about KINGDOM
Ravenna was established in dependence on the Eastern emperor; the West Goths were forced to give up the See also:
south of Spain; and the Persians were checked.
Conrad the, The royal Franconian to reign over them, and in 910 Henry Cfermsay.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KINGDOM.html   (5824 words)

  
 Cream Stew - Dalry railway station
Low around 68° F. Chance of precipitation: 5%
Low around 68° F. Chance of precipitation: 10%
Low around 70° F. Chance of precipitation: 30%
omniknow.com /common/midlists.php?in=en&slice=022   (421 words)

  
 Sources for the Numbers List
Loukotka, Chestmir, Classification of South American Indian Languages, 1968.
These are always 1-3 only, and I've given the latest date among his sources.)
South American family n in Terrence Kaufman (and L) language with more than 1 million speakers
www.zompist.com /sources.htm   (2727 words)

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