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	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:XAM
		/XAM: a n extinct language of South Africa
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=XAM (47 words)

	xaM Systems-Language Admin
		The language administrator web application was developed using ASP, SQL Server, Javascript and custom COM objects.
		This screen shows one of the main editing areas where multiple language prompts are maintained.
		Phrases may be previewed and modified in all supported languages.
	xamsystems.com /sadmin.php (119 words)

	XAM
		XAM is the application integrator providing menu handling, security and communication services to your new and existing applications.
		XAM allows tasks to be temporarily moved to the background while another task is active.
		XAM takes care of everything that should be configurable in an application and thus should not be hard-coded in the application.
	www.ockham.be /xam.htm (415 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Xam language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Context-sensitive language A context-sensitive language is a Chomsky hierarchy.
		Extinct language An extinct languages is a Latin.
		Gan language Gan is a dialect of the Jiangxi province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Xam-language (198 words)

	South Africa up in arms over new motto
		In an attempt to avoid offending the speakers of South Africa's 11 official languages, the motto that graces the country's new coat of arms was written in the extinct /Xam language.
		The /Xam language was one of the dialects spoken by the dwindling band of Khoi and San people, the original inhabitants of the land, who are a favourite of President Thabo Mbeki.
		The /Xam language, he insisted, is the best known of the San languages because it was accurately set down by the German philologist William Bleek in the 1880s.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/05/19/wsie319.html (436 words)

	Afrikaans language resources
		Languages of South Africa / /Xam language A Afrikaans Afrikaans grammar F Fanagalo J Ju languages K Kaapse Afrikaans Korana language Kxoe language M Manyika...
		Afrikaans Afrikaans is a language spoken in southern Africa, primarily in South Africa, Zimbabwae, and Namibia.
		Dutch remained an official language until the new 1961 constitution finally stipulated the two official languages in South Africa to be Afrikaans and English (although, curiously, the 1961 constitution still had a sub-clause stipulating that the word "Afrikaans" was also meant to be referring to the Dutch language).
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Afrikaans.html (1701 words)

	About Government - Coat of Arms - Linton panel
		Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient languages were never recorded.
		Fortunately, the /Xam language was recorded almost in its entirety, thanks to the work of a German linguist, Dr WHI Bleek.
		A comprehensive /Xam dictionary was produced by Dr Bleek at that time, but was only published years later.
	www.info.gov.za /aboutgovt/symbols/coa/lintonpanel.htm (743 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)

	Redondo Role Playing Haven
		A small but significant portion of the population are pilgrims, making their way to the number of pilgrimage sites scattered throughout Xam Balam and the rest of the Americas.
		Xam Balam possesses a military that is quite capable of defending itself, but is not capable of launching foreign endeavors.
		Xam Balam is on the eastern coast of the Americas, between the Aztec Empire and the Paz Incana.
	www.bainst.com /madness/bioculture/world/xam.html (242 words)

	Specimens of Bushman Folklore; by - Foreword
		The /Xam and other San of southern Africa belong to a group of people whose past and present, to outsiders, have become quintessentially conflated under the rubric of primitive simplicity.
		The Bleek and Lloyd Collection can be seen as a 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding both the disappeared /Xam language and the social and cosmological ideas by which the /Xam and their ancestors lived successful lives as hunter-gatherers in southern Africa.
		It is planned that the language reconstruction project will take place under the auspices of the School of Expressive Culture (SEC) in Texas, which will undertake to work with Namibian speakers and writers of Ju/'hoan, a language with which /Xam has many affinities.
	www.daimon.ch /385630603X_2F.htm (966 words)

	Study Abroad on the French Riviera
		This multi-level program also allows more advanced students, teachers of French or anyone desirous to maintain her-his speaking and writing ability to enjoy practicing and improving their skills.
		Each participant will relate her-his understanding of the language to an actual experience of the country's everyday life activities, cultural diversity, overt and subtle mentality, beliefs, tastes, passions.
		Our policy specifies that we are not to discrimate on the basis of race, gender, color, nationality, religion, or handicaps with regards to our participants or potential staff.
	www.alariviera.com /files/what.html (453 words)

	Where Have All The Hottentots Gone? The Archaeology And History Of The Khoekhoen
		The linguists would argue that these were Nilotic language speakers, and that they were immediate neighbours of another language group known as East Saheliens.
		Hunters, who were already living at the Cape speaking a /Xam language, lived alongside the herders who spoke a mutually unintelligible Khoe language (Nama, etc).
		This new-found power and identity resulted in 'Nama' (both language and culture) having a cachet that was previously downplayed.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2002/august/khoi.htm (1284 words)

	Xam Nua, Laos. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sitting in the narrow Nam Xam River valley, the provincial capital of Xam Nua is currently undergoing a construction boom, with new multi-storey buildings going up everywhere.
		Xam Nua's best-value hotel is the Khaem Xam (tel 064/312111; under $5) located around the corner from the bus station, near the bridge over the Nam Xam River.
		This new, four-storey hotel overlooking the Nam Xam has eighteen immaculately clean rooms, many en suite, and all with hot water, as well as rooms with shared facilities which are also spotless.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/laos/xam_nua (461 words)

	Specimens of Bushman Folklore; by - Foreword
		The /Xam and other San of southern Africa belong to a group of people whose past and present, to outsiders, have become quintessentially conflated under the rubric of primitive simplicity.
		The Bleek and Lloyd Collection can be seen as a 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding both the disappeared /Xam language and the social and cosmological ideas by which the /Xam and their ancestors lived successful lives as hunter-gatherers in southern Africa.
		It is planned that the language reconstruction project will take place under the auspices of the School of Expressive Culture (SEC) in Texas, which will undertake to work with Namibian speakers and writers of Ju/'hoan, a language with which /Xam has many affinities.
	daimon.ch /385630603X_2F.htm (966 words)

	The !Xam Khomani Heartland - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		These individuals were amongst the last repositories of the language and belief system of the !Xam and Bleek and Lloyd's work links many beliefs to known features in the landscape, providing a window of understanding into the blending of folklore and geography by the !Xam.
		The !Xam area in a unique way links the memory of a vanished people, their language and culture, spiritual connection to their environment and contribution to the meaning of Southern African rock art.
		In 1996 several elderly speakers of their language and carriers of the culture were identified.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1910 (480 words)

	AFRICAN FIRST PEOPLES: THE BUSHWO/MEN
		Some of the /XAM were soldiers and bodyguards and they were looking after the food and the animals of the Khoi-Khoi.
		The /XAM lived on mountains in caves and on the lower areas in huts, which were made of grass and bushy sticks.
		He was chosen by the traditional leaders of the different clans (family groups) The traditional leader is responsible for the welfare of the branch and the active participants of the branches.
	www.khoisanpeoples.org /peoples/abathwa-1.htm (2519 words)

	Wolof alphabet, pronunciation and language
		Wolof is a Niger-Congo language with about 7 million speakers in Senegal, France, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Mauritania.
		Wolof is one of the six national languages of Senegal (Senegaal / سِنِڭَالْ), along with Serer, Mandinka, Pulaar, Diola and Soninke.
		Nekk na it ku xam dëgg te ànd na ak xelam, te war naa jëflante ak nawleen, te teg ko ci wàllu mbokk.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/wolof.htm (182 words)

	IOL: Marginalised SA languages get cash boost
		The language of /Xam was preserved for posterity largely through the efforts of the German philologist Wilhelm Bleek, who lived in Mowbray, Cape Town, in the mid-1880s.
		Language researchers from higher education, non-governmental and community organisations, as well as other groups, may apply for funding to a maximum of R250 000 a grant.
		Grants will be awarded for language projects in education, translation, interpreting, terminology, language rights and mediation, status language planning, standardisation, the development of literature and lexicography.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=ct20000626185220851B2452282 (577 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 28.
		That’s an indication of the dispossession of their speakers, who are the poorest in a country where the width of the gulf between the rich and the poor is a shock to visitors from the first world.
		We were provided with a booklet on the language policy of the Western Cape Province (in the three official languages of the province, !Xhosa, Afrikaans, English).
		From the workshops, the Western Cape Language Committee produced a basic introduction to the Nama language (a little booklet with useful phrases and some comments on writing and pronunciation which might be a good model for other groups needing to promote their languages).
	www.ogmios.org /281.htm (1243 words)

	~LLoyd Bleek Project~
		It is written with a sharpness and lack of sentimentality which allows the characters, both European and /Xam, to be presented in their full humanity.
		With her encyclopedic knowledge of the material collected by her father and her aunt, Dorothea Bleek selected narratives for publication in which the xam teachers spoke directly about aspects of their culture that they felt were most important for people to understand—the powers of certain special animals, the weather, rain and rain-making, and ‘sorcery’.
		The inclusion of this xam grammar makes it possible for interested readers to check on current translations and to parse and translate parts of the collection for themselves.
	www.lloydbleekcollection.uct.ac.za /articles.jsp (350 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		/Xam, or Xam Kak!’e, is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa, part of the !Kwi language group.
		It was closely related to the N/u language, which still has a few speakers.
		Much of the scholarly work on the /Xam language was performed by Dr. W.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Xam_language (244 words)

	San Language
		He studied what was then known as the Bushman language and was able to capture and reproduce a written version.
		In his studies, began in the 1870's, he learnt the languages with the help of Bushman prisoners working in Table Bay harbour on the construction of a breakwater.
		While the /Xam language has become extinct, efforts are being made to ensure that existing Khoisan languages do not suffer the same fate.
	library.thinkquest.org /C008243F/san_language.htm (279 words)

	Elsie Vaalbooi
		In February 1997, Professor Anthony Traill interviewed Mrs Vaalbooi and confirmed she was able to speak the extinct language of the Kalahari which had been recorded in 1936 at Twee Rivieren.
		Nu, Elsie's language, is the last language of the !Ui language family, that was once spoken across South Africa by hunter-gatherer peoples.
		The Xam language went extinct in the early 20th century.
	www.san.org.za /sasi/elsie.htm (439 words)

	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.
	www.yourdictionary.com /elr/nextinct.html (94 words)

	July/August 2002: Volume 35, No. 4 - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
		The study was framed within sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978; Wertsch, 1986, 1991) and attempted to establish the nature of classroom talk in the college-level foreign language “bridge course.” The study also aimed to clarify the relationship between cognitive processes and language acquisition in a foreign language course.
		The data was analyzed according to the level of talk (utterance, dialogue, discourse) and the level of cognition of the students’ responses.
		This article attempts to delineate the “state of the art” of second language teacher education through a review of recent research and presents an overview of current perspectives on the field’s knowledge base.
	www.actfl.org /i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageid=3858 (957 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His interest in African languages was further developed during 1852 and 1853 by learning Egyptian from Professor K R Lepsius, whom he met in Berlin in 1852.
		Bleek was particularly keen to learn more about this Bushman language and compare it to examples of Bushman vocabulary and language earlier noted by Lichtenstein and obtained from missionaries at the turn of the 19th century.
		His all-important work recording the xam language and literature was continued and expanded by Lucy Lloyd, fully supported by his wife Jemima.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Wilhelm_Bleek (1361 words)

	southern africa's san people
		The two share many cultural and linguistic features in their ‘click’ languages and are sometimes conveniently grouped under the same umbrella, as the Khoisan.
		The meat was favoured over other animals and the fat used for a variety of ceremonies and rites of passage, while metaphorically, the eland has been interpreted as an important symbol of potency for the San.
		Aside from their rock art, engravings and isolated remnant settlements, the legacy of the San and acknowledgement of their place in the region’s history, is enshrined in the motto on the South African National Coat of Arms, !ke e: /xarra //ke, which in the /Xam language means “diverse people unite”.
	www.wildwatch.com /resources/other/san.asp (699 words)

	Tunisia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As Skotnes points out, these /Xam testimonies constitute a complex and multivalent textuality, a feature which Lloyd understood and attempted to capture in her form of transcription which generally involved three parallel columns, one containing the /Xam narrative, one being an English translation and one being a further /Xam commentary on the narrative.
		The /Xam often saw texts as objects that floated in the air, came with the wind and carried within them the past and the future.
		One of the aims of this project is to place /Xam ideas within the global imagination - not that this has not already been done in other ways - but here in a way that simultaneously highlights the tragedy of the loss of culture and the strangeness of our own (western) traditions and beliefs.
	www.stiftelsen314.com /exhi_prog/pippa/index.html (3955 words)

	Amazon.com: OGET - Literature (XAM OGET): Books: Xamonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		XAM Publishing, Inc. has e-mail support at winwin1111@aol.com.
		XAM staff welcomes your updates and values your input.
		Each year a new version of the study guide is released so you may have the best in educational research.
	www.amazon.com /OGET-Literature-Osat-Xam/dp/158197227X (653 words)

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