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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : English language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
English is a West Germanic language that originated from languages brought to Britain during the first half of the first millennium by Germanic settlers from various parts of north-west Germany.
The English language belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua and Barbuda, St.
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 §1. “Scots” and “Ynglis”. IV. The Scottish Language. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is perhaps, too dogmatic to say, especially when the documentary evidence is so slight, that, in the earliest period, the language north of the Tweed was identical with that between the Tweed and the Humber; but we may reasonably conclude that the differences were of the narrowest.
The name “Scots”; or “Scottish” has been applied to the language of the whole or part of the area of modern Scotland in such a variety of senses that some statement of the history of the term is a necessary preliminary to even the briefest outline.
A change in the habit of the literary language is discernible from the middle of the fifteenth century.
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 English Language - MSN Encarta
English Language, primary language of the majority of people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, other former colonies of Britain, and territories of the United States.
It is also an official or semiofficial language of many countries with a colonial past, such as India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and South Africa.
Even in countries where English is not a primary or official language, it is taught as a foreign language and used as the language of technology and diplomacy.
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 English Language and Linguistics Program, English Department, UW-Madison
If using language is central to your work, you will want to cultivate your knowledge of and curiosity about language in use, along with your confidence and skill in its analysis.
But the forms of language are neither rigid nor fixed, and just as our impression of a person can change within the space of one conversation, so the ways that language is used in interaction vary from moment to moment.
While the course is required for Ph.D. students in English Language and Linguistics, motivated and engaged students from all related disciplines are invited to join the course: second language acquisition, rhetoric/composition, linguistics, communicative disorders, curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.
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 Middle English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though never the language of the Roman Catholic Church, which was always Latin, it lost status as a language of courtly life, literature and documentation, being largely supplanted by Anglo-Norman French.
It remained, though, the spoken language of the majority, and may be regarded as the only true vernacular language of most English people after about the mid-12th century, with Anglo-Norman becoming, like Latin, a learned tongue of the court.
It certainly was a literary language in England, alongside Anglo-Norman and Latin from the 12th to the 14th centuries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ynglis   (1866 words)

  
 p c   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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The Dungan language, p c considered a dialect of Croatian, eric c and in most national versions of the developmental trajectory of the developmental trajectory of the 15th centuries, a c i both secular and religious songs at church festivals posed in the 10th century, advanced nearly or quite to the characteristics of local councils.
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Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we perceive ourselves and our place in the world.
Language is thus inseparable from ourselves as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the world.
The shadows and language of tribal poets and novelists could be the new ghost dance literature, the shadow literature of liberation that enlivens tribal survivance.
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 AP: English Language
The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who can compose for a variety of purposes.
The college composition course that the AP English Language and Composition course is intended to parallel is one of the most varied in the curriculum.
As in the college course, the purpose of the AP English Language and Composition course is to enable students to read complex texts with understanding and to write prose that is rich enough and complex enough for mature readers.
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 english speaking countries
- language you learn because you have to live in the country where the language is spoken.
British colonialism in the 19th century and American capitalism and technological progress in the 20th century were undoubtely the main causes for the spread of English throughout the world.
English is spoken all over the Commonwealth either as a native or an official language, and the British monarch is the symbolic head of the association.
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 Northumbria Encyclopedia Article @ Canst.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Germanic languages of the Angles and Vikings, and of the
Scots language began to diverge from early Northumbrian
Ynglis as late as the early 16th century.
www.canst.net /encyclopedia/Northumbria   (1457 words)

  
 English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to southeastern Great Britain in the 5th century AD and earlier by Germanic settlers and Germanic auxiliary troops under Roman administration from various parts of northwest Germany (Saxons, Angles) as well as Jutland (Jutes).
The English language belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch, which is itself a branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
It is also, by international treaty, the official language for aircraft/airport and maritime communication, as well as being one of the official languages of both the European Union and the United Nations, and of most international athletic organizations, including the Olympic Committee.
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 Northumbrian (Anglo-Saxon) Encyclopedia Article @ Didst.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Northumbrian, also known as Ynglis and Inglis, was a dialect of the Old English language spoken in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria.
During the Viking invasions of the 9th century, Northumbrian came under the influence of the languages of the Viking invaders.
The northern Northumbrian dialect not only retained a lot of the Old English words (replaced in the south by Norse words) but was also a strong influence on the development of the English language in northern England, especially the Geordie dialect.
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 c   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Ren Faire: Elizabethan Accents
roper Elizabethan language is not the modern 'snooty' English of many plays and movies, nor the drawn out cockney accent; proper Elizabethan is more akin to the speech of backwood communities on the East Coast of the United States, where language has not changed significantly since the founding of those communities.
Language is a living thing and evolves with time: new words are created and old ones altered.
Mainstream English, under the relentless influence of media's unifying force, is fast becoming a dry and brisk language, devoid of character and romance.
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 English Super Bargains, English Dictionary, English ESL-English as Second Language, English Games, English Gift Items!, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is the official language of more than a dozen African countries, as well as of various British depen-dencies such as British Honduras, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, and numerous islands in the Caribbean, and the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
In tracing the historical development of the English language, it is customary to divide it into three periods: Old English, which dates from earliest times to 1150; Middle English, 1150-1500; and Modern English, 1500 to the present.
The history of the English language may be said to have begun with the arrival in Britain of three Germanic tribes about the middle of the 5th century.
www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/English.htm   (1478 words)

  
 English Department - Language Requirement
Doctoral students fulfill the language requirement by passing translation examinations (with a dictionary) in two languages relevant to literary scholarship.
The examinations are administered only in mid-fall (usually October) and mid-spring (usually March or early April); a student cannot request an exam at some other time to suit his or her convenience.
Language Examination Registration Forms are available in.html format, MS Word format.doc format, or in
www.english.upenn.edu /Grad/language.php   (196 words)

  
 English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
The speaker of the "standard" language is frequently tempted to consider himself as the dialect-speaker's superior, unless he has already acquired some elementary knowledge of the value of the science of language or has sufficient common sense to be desirous of learning to understand that which for the moment lies beyond him.
The language employed in these was (somewhat unhappily) named "Anglo-Saxon"; and the very natural mistake was made of supposing that this "Anglo-Saxon" was the sole language (or dialect) which served for all the "Angles" and "Saxons" to be found in the "land of the Angles" or England.
The language is supposed to represent the speech of Yorkshire.
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 Language Log
Language Log readers who responded to my December 5 post throw some more light on the use of obscenity in French-speaking Canada.
Several Language Log readers have sent me email to the effect that they attempted to submit a comment (using the facility at the bottom of the online Daily Mail article), referencing my Boston Globe article ("Sex on the brain, 9/24/2006), or the 11/27/2006 Guardian article, or some of the Language Log posts on the subject.
It was like penetrating a foreign language and discovering that, despite the alienating exoticism of its sounds, the foreigners fluently speaking it are saying no more than what you've been hearing in English all your life.
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 Northumbria Encyclopedia Article @ Therewith.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After the Synod of Whitby in 664 Roman church practices officially replaced the Celtic ones but the influence of the Anglo-Celtic style continued, the most famous examples of this being the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Apart from standard English, Northumbria has a series of closely related but distinctive dialects, descended from the early Germanic languages of the Angles and Vikings, and of the Romano-British peoples.
The Scots language began to diverge from early Northumbrian Middle English, which was called Ynglis as late as the early 16th century.
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For, in the first case, the victory is that of the language of a savage people, known to be in a state of actual warfare, and it is a victory which follows as an immediate result of conquest.
Not only did she have on her side the power of a court and the prestige of courtly etiquette, but, as we have said, she represented a higher civilizing force than that which was opposed to her, and hence the greatness of her victory.
It must, however, be remembered that the spread of the English language in Scotland does not necessarily imply the predominance of English blood.
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 IUPUI English Department  (317) 274-2258
Through its courses and other activities in linguistics, writing, creative writing, film, and literature, the Department of English works to create and sustain evolving communities of learners interested in the contributions of language to what has been called the examined life: a thoughtful, morally aware, and civically and personally responsible existence.
In addition to service courses and courses for our under-graduate and graduate majors, the department supports the diverse communities created by the American Sign Language/English interpreting program, the English as a second language program, the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, the Journal of Teaching Writing, and the University Writing Center.
These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political views, languages, or ideologies.
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 Northumbria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Apart from standard English, Northumbria has a series of closely related but distinctive dialects, descended from the early Germanic languages of the Angles and Vikings, and of the Celtic Romano-British tribes.
Early Northumbrian is regarded as the forerunner of the Scots Language, which was called Ynglis as late as the early 16th century.
Due to the roots of the Northumbrian (Geordie) dialect, it is often said that visitors from Scandinavian countries often find it much easier to understand the English of Northumbria than the rest of the country.
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 U.S. ENGLISH, Inc.: Towards a United America - "); document.write(month + '/' + now.getDate() + '/' + ...
The passage of the ballot initiative marks the eighth time in as many attempts where the voters have enacted English as the official language of the state.
Proposition 103 makes English the official language of Arizona, requiring the government to conduct business in English and limit governmental multilingualism to common-sense activities such as health care, public safety, judicial proceedings and tourism.
After polls found that a majority of Arizonans disagreed with the governor's action, the measure was re-introduced as a ballot initiative in 2006.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707), by ROBERT S. RAIT
The fact that the language of the Angles and Saxons completely superseded, in England, the tongue of the conquered Britons, is admitted to be a powerful argument for the view that the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England resulted in a racial displacement.
The difference between Skye and Fife is that the influences which have been at work in the former for a century and a half have been in operation in the latter for more than eight hundred years.
We should, of course, expect to find that the gradually widening breach in manners and language between Highlanders and Lowlanders produced some dislike for the Highland robbers and their Irish tongue, and we do occasionally, though rarely, meet some indication of this.
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Sprachcaffe is an organization of Language Schools dedicated to ensuring quality in language instruction and learning at all ability levels.
Since 1983, with our help, foreign language students have been gaining the ability and confidence to communicate abroad.
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 St. Andrew and the Three Questions in the Scottish Legendary (c. 1400): Introduction
The temptation to lust is all the more subtle and dangerous for being disguised as a militant virginity rebelling against the authority of the fleshly father, yet blatantly and seductively yielding itself to the protection and authority of a new "father," who is the earthly servant and representative of her heavenly spouse.
The same involved interplay of opposing bodily and spiritual themes is also a feature of the three questions themselves, each of which is posed in terms of diametric oppositions (great and little, highest and lowest, heaven and earth) and the mysterious interactions of divine spirit and earthly flesh.
The rhyming tetrameter (4-beat) couplets are managed for the most part with fluency, apart from some clumsy inversions of natural word order; the diction, while less dour and prosaic than that of Barbour, is inevitably constrained by its subject matter, lacking the richer variety of their contemporary Chaucer's early poetry or Gower's mature narrative verse.
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