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Khanty Language Structure of language is determined by the structure of the human mind, the universality of certain properties characteristic of language is evidence that at least this part of human nature is common to all members of the species, regardless of their race or class and their undoubted differences in intellect, personality and physical attributes Cultures are closely identified with languages, and languages survival is often used to indicate cultural survival. All languages are intimately interlinked with the culture of their speakers, and all languages and cultures represent specific expressions of human thought and social organisation. www.policy.hu /filtchenko/khanty_language.htm   (2053 words)

Uralic languages - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) The name of the language family references the location of the family’s suggested Urheimat, which is often placed close to the Ural mountains. The healthiest Uralic languages, in terms of the number of native speakers and national identity, are Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian. Uralic locative suffix exists in all Uralic languages in various cases, e.g., Hungarian superessive, Finnish essive, North Sami essive, Erzyan inessive, and Nenets locative. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Uralic   (983 words)

Endangered uralic minority cultures In order to preserve the Uralic languages and culture, thereby enriching a developing Europe, the Assembly should urge the Russian Federation and the other countries where these are present to support these people’s languages, cultures and traditions, through education in their own mother tongues and through publications and mass media in their languages. In the Russian constitution and in new language laws enacted by several republics, the preservation of national languages is supported in principle and their status of equality alongside Russian is recognised, but economic resources are not provided to implement these provisions. The Uralic languages are spoken in northern, eastern and central Europe and in Siberia. assembly.coe.int /Documents/WorkingDocs/doc98/edoc8126.htm   (6025 words)

Yoruba language resources Yoruba is the first language, the political, cultural, and social importance of the language within Africa, and United States national interests tied to economic and diplomatic relations with Yoruba... To cherish, uphold, and project the honor and dignity of Yoruba culture, language and tradition in Africa and the Diaspora To promote the cultural, social, economic and political welfare of... Institute of Yoruba Language and Culture The Egbe Isokan Yoruba proudly announces the establishment of Institute of Yoruba Language and Culture. www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Yoruba.html   (1435 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   (454 words)

Origin of Finnish and related languages — Virtual Finland The Baltic-Finnic language group is one of the westernmost branches of the Finno-Ugrian language family; only the Sámi territory in western and northern Norway extends further west. In the east, the domain of the language family extends to the Yenisey river and the Taimyr peninsula, and the farthest outpost to the south comprises the Hungarians, in the Carpathian basin of Central Europe. Many minor Saami languages are on the verge of extinction (Ume and Pite Saami in Sweden and Akkala Saami in Russia), while the speakers of many others are numbered in dozens or hundreds (Southern Saami in Sweden and Norway, Inari and Skolt Saami in Finland, and Ter Saami in Russia). virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/langua.html   (1766 words)

Doc languages and cultures in Russia suffered a severe setback in the latter half of the 1930s, when their own cultural and social efforts were condemned as nationalism and national intelligentsias were liquidated. Except in Karelia, ethnic languages are enshrined, alongside Russian, as national languages in the constitutions of the republics named for Finno-Ugrian ethnic groups. f to a good start provided the basic requirements are met: educational material must be drafted, native speakers of the languages in question must be trained as teachers, and the status of minority languages and of instruction through their medium must be improved in schools legislation. www.suri.ee /doc/ce/ural8126.html   (5669 words)

Everything about Historical Linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of languages (1244 according to Ethnologue) and in terms of the geographical extent of the homelands of its languages (from Madagascar to Easter Island). This is a language which cannot be directly known apart from a few graffiti inscriptions; it was Latin that had undergone a number of important sound shifts and changes, which can be reconstructed from the changes that are evident in its descendants, the Romance vernaculars. wikimiki.org /en/historical+linguistics   (9963 words)

TranslatorsCafe.com Forums : Scandinavian : Learning a Nordic language? In the Kola peninsula the main language is Kildin Saami and the southernmost areas of Sweden and Norway southern Saami is spoken. All these languages are intelligible to the speaker of one or the other except the hiatus in the continuum between Northern Saami (the main language) and Inari Saami, dividing the sub-family in western and eastern sub-groups. I also reckon the language is prett organic but as a disadvantage I would say one couldn't relate to any other known language in order to memorize this or that word because the agglutinative model of the sentence and the totally foreign character of the vocabulary makes it pretty difficult to learn. www.translatorscafe.com /cafe/MegaBBS/thread-view.asp?threadid=2253&messageid=29504   (4158 words)

FORUM - Preparing to Print Topic 'WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ESTONIA???' There is a number of reasons why native speakers cease to use their language and pass it on from one generation to the next. Colonization, taxes, persecution of traditional shamans, the prohibition to use their language and express their culture, racism and economic decline pushed the majority to assimilate into the dominant society. The self-designation of the Livonians is rāndalizt (coast dwellers), the self-designation of the language rāndakēļ (coastal language). www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?action=print&TID=951   (2073 words)

From June Pelo's article collection The Baltic-Finnic language group is one of the westernmost branches of the Finno-Ugrian language family; only the Sami territory in western and northern Norway extends further west. The structural features are more significant from the theoretical point of view and constitute firmer evidence of the languages’ shared past and common ancestry than the shared vocabulary, since it is the basic structure of a language that is usually preserved best during the changes that all languages undergo during their history. The fundamental structure and the most ancient core of the language are eastern, as are the oldest loanwords – in the sense that the basic vocabular and core of the Indo-European language family are also eastern. sfhs.eget.net /P_articles/Pelo82.html   (3112 words)

List of languages - Simple English Wikipedia This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects. This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans. simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages   (206 words)

Tundra Nenets grammatical sketch The traditional territory of the Tundra Nenets language extends along a vast tundra zone from the Kanin Peninsula in the west to the Yenisei River delta and the Yenisei Bay in the east. Komi and Northern Khanty are the two languages that are known to have had the most extensive contacts with Tundra Nenets for a lengthy period, while the Russian influence has now by far surpassed their effects on Tundra Nenets. According to the 1989 census, the native language retention was a remarkable 94 per cent (19,713 of 20,917; the figures include also Forest Nenets) in the Yamal Nenets District, and a fair 81 per cent (1,990 of 2,446) in the Taimyr District. www.helsinki.fi /~tasalmin/sketch.html   (9344 words)

Samoyedic The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether. Together with the Finno-Ugric languages they form the Uralic language family. Yurats, formerly spoken in the Yenisei River region www.governpub.com /Languages-S/Samoyedic.php   (218 words)

List of languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of languages by number of native speakers Ethnologue lists about 7,300 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects. This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_languages   (704 words)

EU GREEN CARD LOTTERY --  LANGUAGE FACILITIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) In EU, employers would really appreciate that you will be able to communicate with them in their own language. There are three other language groups: Uralic, Afro-asiatic and Altaic. If your language zone does not appear in this diagram, this means that there is no specific facility for you. www.green-card-lottery-eu.org /language.htm   (374 words)

The Ultimate Uralic languages Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference plural markers -j (i) and -t have a common origin (e.g., in Finnish, Estonian, Erzya, Samic languages, Samoyedic languages). Abandolo, Daniel (ed., 1998), The Uralic Languages, London and New York, ISBN 0-415-08198-X. The Untenability of the Finno-Ugrian Theory from a Linguistic Point of View by Dr. László Marácz, a minority opinion on the language family. www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Uralic   (860 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. Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name. 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. www.top20languages.com   (1041 words)

[No title] A shoecabbage is a word in another language (any language) with the same sound as a word in English, or with a very similar sound, but with a different meaning. Subject: Language and life in the Middle East State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3355 Robert Hoberman Comparative Studies Dept. 516-632-7462, -7460 28-Sep-1993 10:55am EDT I'm going to be teaching a course on "Language and Life in the Middle East" for linguistics majors and non-majors. Subject: Language testing Senior fellowship 3 - 6 months - University of Bergen The department of English at Bergen, Norway, is engaged in a project for evaluating English as a school subject in Norway. www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.4/no.751-800   (16241 words)

Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report (e) degree of speakers' competence: used as the community language at the oral level by all speakers, with Modern Written Mongolian as the literary language; grammatical and lexical interference from the latter is occasionally present in the speech of educated individuals (a) children speakers and (b) mean age of youngest speakers: still learnt consistently as the home language, in the one or the other of the two dialectal varieties, by approx. Remarks: Kott is the only grammatically recorded language of what seems to have been an entire southern branch of Yeniseian, also comprising Arin (q.v.); Assan is often thought to have been a regional or dialectal variety of Kott, but the two appellations are more or less interchangeable in the sources www.helsinki.fi /~tasalmin/nasia_report.html   (14444 words)

List of languages - Gurupedia This list deals with particular languages, and includes only List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more. A $50 Amazon gift certificate compliments of RewardZoo.com www.gurupedia.com /l/la/languages.htm   (136 words)

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