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	Greek Language Encyclopedia Article @ JunkWords.com (Junk Words) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two main forms of the language have been in use since the end of the medieval Greek period: Dhimotikí (Δημοτική), the Demotic (vernacular) language, and Katharévusa (Καθαρεύουσα), an imitation of classical Greek, which was used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Due to the language's flexibility in forming compounds and derived words, the infinitive of verbs was gradually and successfully replaced by a periphrastic subjunctive and derived nouns.
		The ancient languages which were probably most closely related to it, ancient Macedonian (which may have been a dialect of Greek) and Phrygian, are not well enough documented to permit detailed comparison.
	www.junkwords.com /encyclopedia/Greek_language (2742 words)

	Hebrew language Resource Center - hebrew language course
		The formal language hebrew language laws of the latter Babylonian Empire was Aramaic (its name is either derived from "Aram Naharayim", Upper Mesopotamia, or from hebrew language schools in chicago area "Aram," the ancient name for Syria).
		The Soviet authorities considered Hebrew a "reactionary language" since it was associated with both Judaism and Zionism, and it was officially banned by the Narkompros (Commissariat laws of the hebrew language of Education) as early as 1919.
		The vowel that follows the letter thus attached hebrew language instruction depends in general on the hebrew language verb beginning of the next word and the presence of a definite article which may be swallowed by the one-letter word.
	www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Genericized_Trademark_H_-_L-/Hebrew_language.html (3847 words)

	Greek_language - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Medieval Greek: The continuation of Hellenistic Greek during medieval Greek history as the official and vernacular language of the Byzantine Empire, and continued to be used until, and after the fall of that Empire in the 15th century.
		Two main forms of the language have been in use since the end of the medieval Greek period: Dhimotikí (??µ?t???), the Demotic (vernacular) language, and Katharévusa (?a?a?e???sa), an imitation of classical Greek, which was used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
		In the Homeric language, Thetis - the mother of Achilles, is described as "d?sa??st?t??e?a", meaning "she who to her bad fortune gave birth to the best", in pure Modern Greek - "p?????eße?t?µ??a".
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Greek_language (2570 words)

	Between Nation, State, and Community
		The national language is generally perceived by governments as the embodiment of the national spirit and as its most powerful means of social and cultural integration.
		Processes of language shift were indeed a social factor of great significance, given the fact that by 1979 about 16.3 million non-Russians had shifted to Russian as their first language.
		Though this dominant culture is more flexible than in the past, when it expected immigrants to give up their languages and cultures of origin on behalf of the acquisition of a new language, culture and identity, it remains inclined toward assimilation and, consequently toward subtractive bilingualism.
	www.mevic.org /papers/kheimets-epstein.html (6058 words)

	Beth Hatefutsoth - Related Links
		Hebrew became an official language in British Palestine in 1921, and the primary official language of the state of Israel It is spoken by about 6,000,000 people, in Israel and abroad, of whom around 4,500,000 speak Hebrew as their mother-tongue.
		The Berber languages and dialects, spoken over a large area from western Egypt to Mauritania, are descendants of the native languages of North Africa and belong to the Berbero-Libyan group of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) family of languages.
		Judeo-Tat is the native language of the ancient Jewish communities of Mountain Jews in the Daghestan region of the Caucasus.
	www.bh.org.il /Links/JewishLangs.asp (2795 words)

	Modern Greek - Phantis
		Neo-Hellenic/Neo-Hellenic language) is a dialect family that refers to the fifth stage of the evolution of the Greek language (the first four being Mycenean, Ancient Greek, Post-Classical or Hellenistic Greek and Medieval Greek), and it includes every dialect and idiom of Hellenic speech that exists in the world today.
		Demotic is now the official language of the Hellenic Republic (Greece), and is therefore also referred as the "Koine Modern Greek" (common modern Greek) or less strictly as "Modern Greek".
		Demotic was the language of daily use, and the latter was an archaic form (closer to Attic), used for official documents, literature, newscasting and other formal purposes.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Dimotiki (1102 words)

	Ancient Greek language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is the language of the Homeric poems, including the Iliad and the Odyssey, of the great works of literature and philosophy of the Athenian Golden Age, which came to be the foundations of our modern mathematics and sciences.
		The origins, early forms, and early development of the Hellenic language family are not well understood, due to the lack of contemporaneous evidence.
		The highly controversial native language of Ancient Macedonia may have been a non-Greek Indo-European language, or a highly-divergent branch of Northwest Greek, or an additional major dialect group of Ancient Greek.
	www.anime.co.za /wiki/Ancient_Greek_language (2234 words)

	Yevanic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Romaniotes used their version of the Hebrew alphabet to write Greek and Yevanic texts.
		The name "Yevanic" stems from the Biblical word Yāwān, a cognate of forms, such as Sanskrit Yavana, that were used among ancient Aryan and Near Eastern cultures to refer to the Greeks and the lands that the Greeks inhabited.
		the ideology of Zionism, which favored Hebrew as the one language for all Jews;
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yevanic_language (214 words)

	Ask Us A Question - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Yiddish was the main language of Jews in Eastern Europe (thus making it the language spoken by the majority of Jews in the world), while Ladino was widespread in the Maghreb, Greece, and Turkey; smaller groups in Europe spoke such languages as JudÃ¦o-Italian, Yevanic, or Karaim.
		The largest single language spoken by Jews is English: The largest Jewish population in the world is in the United States, and there are also large, substantial communities in Canada (a majority of Canadian Jews speak English, not French), the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa.
		Hebrew is the language of daily life in Israel, though a substantial proportion of the country's citizens are immigrants who speak it as their second language.
	www.millvalleycaus.com /section/Jewish_languages (1391 words)

	Language
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
		A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
	www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html (462 words)

	Katharevousa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Katharevousa (Greek Καθαρεύουσα, IPA: [kaθaˈre̞vuˌsa]) is a form of the Greek language, created during the early 19th century by Adamantios Korais (1748-1833).
		The "purified" Greek was to be the midpoint between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek.
		However, in 1976 Dhimotiki was made the official language and by the end of the 20th century Katharevousa had become obsolete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katharevousa (334 words)

	Koine - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Koine Greek is important not only to the history of the Greeks for being their first common dialect and main ancestor of Demotic Greek, but it is also significant for its impact on Western Civilization as a lingua franca for the Mediterranean.
		Koine also was the original language of the New Testament of the Christian Bible as well as the medium for the teaching and spreading of Christianity.
		The closing of Post-Classic Greek and the passage into the next period of the Greek language, which is known as Medieval Greek, is symbolically assigned at the foundation of Constantinople by Constantine I in 330.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Koine (2427 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Overview: Other Jewish Languages
		Hebrew is the language of the Bible, the principal language of Jewish liturgy, and the language spoken in modern Israel--but it has been the primary language of only a small percentage of Jews who have ever lived.
		Linguists have long puzzled with little resolution over whether these tongues should be considered dialects, unique languages, or Creole languages (languages that began as pidgins--simplified forms of speech, often mixtures of two languages--and are later adopted as primary languages).
		And parts of the language live on in the many Yiddish words that have become part of English vernacular in America, such as nosh (which means to snack) and mentsh (a gentleman).
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/Languages/Languages_TO_OtherLangs.htm (663 words)

	Yevanic language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Yevanic language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Yevanic, otherwise known as Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic period.
		Yevanic language, See also, External links, Jewish languages, Hellenic languages and dialects, Languages of Greece and Extinct languages of Europe.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Yevanic_language (205 words)

	Informat.io on Romaniotes
		During the occupation the Romaniotes could use the Greek language better and more efficiently than the Sephardim, who spoke Ladino and whose Greek had a distinct, "singing" accent.
		Its name is in the Yevanic language and means "the Old Synagogye".
		Yevanic language, the Judeo-Greek dialect of the Romaniotes.
	www.informat.io /?title=Romaniotes (1099 words)

	Damn Interesting » The Rosetta Project
		I agree with stephentross, English is the dominate language primarily because of colonialism by the United Kingdom.
		Languages that make me cringe are the likes of dutch and swiss german, but dutch especially (kind of sounds like a cat making love to a frog — my opinion — i just say this to mess with my dutch friends).
		Languages that have died today, because English is the universal language and everyone's learning the tonuge, then what makes it going to be any different in the future with the current universal language.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=422 (6176 words)

	Informat.io on Jews In Greece
		Their historic language was Yevanic, a dialect of the Greek language.
		Most of them settled in Thessaloniki, the city which was to be named "Mother of Israel" in the years to come.
		The traditional language of Greek Sephardim was Ladino, and, until the Holocaust, "was a unique blend of Ottoman, Balkan and Hispanic influences",
	www.informat.io /?title=jews-in-greece (2621 words)

	March 8, 2002, Hour Two: Endangered Languages
		The decline of these and other languages around the world is closely connected to the issue of globalization.
		In this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk about the issue of endangered languages, hear some of them in action, and find out why some researchers are working to understand and preserve these dying tongues.
		Language samples from Cameroon and Ivory Coast (courtesy Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania)
	www.sciencefriday.com /pages/2002/Mar/hour2_030802.html (266 words)

	Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canaanite languages by the children of Isaac and Lot, Arabian languages by the children of Ishmael, and later, old dialects of Aramaic, Arabic, Spanish and German by the Jewish diaspora for their daily discourse.
		The "XXX language" articles should mention the history of the language, but should write on the XXX language from the perspective of a living language, not as a perverted dialect of a "holy" language that used to exist.
		The Hebrew language might be appropriately called the Israelitish dialect of Canaanitish, a branch of the Semitic Languages spoken in Palestine and in the Phenician colonies.
	simshalom.blogspot.com /2004_07_01_simshalom_archive.html (15473 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)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Greek
		Like many other peoples of the Hellenistic world, the Jews were well acquainted with the Greek language and used it as a lingua franca, a language of culture and a means of everyday communication.
		The language relics that have reached us from this historical stage are scarce, limited mainly to Cairo Genizah fragments and solitary glosses in Hebrew/Aramaic texts.
		By the beginning of the 20th century, the Jews of such communities as Ioannina, Arta, Preveza, and Chalkida still spoke a form of Greek that was somewhat different from the Greek of their Christian neighbors.
	www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-greek.html (456 words)

	Romaniotes
		Remnants of the Romaniotes have survived in Yannena (Epirus) and the USA (Kehila-Kedosha-Janina Synagogue in New York City, built in 1927, is a gathering spot for these Greek Jews).
		During the occupation the Romaniotes could use the Greek language better and more efficiently than the Sephardim, who spoke Ladino and their Greek had a distinct, "singing" accent.
		That made the Sephardim more vulnerable as targets, and was one of the many factors that lead to such great losses among Sephardim communities.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Romaniotes.html (1098 words)

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	home.tiscali.de /onlineinfo/language.html (371 words)

	Top20Languages.com - Online Directory for Languages.
		Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
		Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.
		This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans.
	www.top20languages.com (1041 words)

	Mavi Boncuk: Yevanic
		(left) Magician's grimoire in Yevanic script.Purchased on the antiquities market in Damascus, in 1906.The manuscript itself, a palimpsest, was filled with crabbed writing in several hands and an underlying text could be discerned; with the aid of ultraviolet photograph.
		Yevanic, Yevanitika, Romaniote, or Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic period.
		No systematic research was attempted while Judeo-Greek still flourished.
	maviboncuk.blogspot.com /2006/05/yevanic.html (283 words)

	WEB :: Language
		Texts and information on a number of Jewish mixed languages from the National Library of Canada.
		Dedicated to the study and preservation of the various Jewish mixed languages, from Yiddish and Ladino through Judeo-Persian and Krimchak.
		Background and linguistic information on Ladino, Yevanic, Judeo-Italian, and Rumanian Yiddish.
	www.categoryweb.com /Top/Society/Ethnicity/Jewish/Language (57 words)

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