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  Berber languages
The Berber languages are mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
Among the Berber languages are Rif-Berber[?] or Riffi (Northern Morocco), Kabyl[?] (Algeria) and Tamazight[?], spoken by the Imazighen[?] (lit.
The Berber languages in the Maghreb[?] have officially been subjected to Arab, as part of government policy and was mainly spoken at home and in villages.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Berber_languages.html   (141 words)

  
 Zenaga
Zenaga is a Berber language spoken by some 200 to 300 people between Mederdra[?] and the Atlantic coast in southern Mauritania.
The language shares its basic structure with other berber languages, but specific details are very different.
The language is about to be extinct since its speakers do not teach it to their children.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ze/Zenaga.html   (90 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Zenaga language
Zenaga (autonym Tuḍḍungiyya) is a Berber language spoken by some 200 to 300 people (Ethnologue estimate, 1998) between Mederdra and the Atlantic coast in southwestern Mauritania.
Zenaga was once spoken throughout much of Mauritania, but fell into decline when its speakers were defeated by the Maqil Arabs in the Char Bouba war of the 17th century.
Zenaga was used only within the tribe, and it was considered impolite to speak it when non-speakers were present; some speakers deliberately avoided using Zenaga with their children, hoping to give them a head start in Hassaniya.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Zenaga_language   (660 words)

  
 HAMITO-SEMITIC LANGUAGES. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The existence of the Semitic languages in W Asia is explained by assuming that the Semites of Africa migrated from E Africa to W Asia in very ancient times.
The Semitic languages are named after Shem or Sem, the oldest son of Noah, from whom most of the languages’ speakers were said to be descended.
Southeast Semitic is represented by the South Arabic language of ancient South Arabia, which is preserved in inscriptions, and by the Semitic languages of Ethiopia, such as classical Ethiopic or Geez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya.
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 African Languages
The three most important languages are Moore (Mossi), spoken as a first or second language by over half the population, mainly in the center of the country; Jula (a Mande variety), spoken in the west; and Fufulde (a variety of Fula), spoken in the east.
The main languages are Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya and Somali, with Amharic as the lingua franca being spoken as a first language by approximately 28 percent of the population and as a second language by a further 40 percent.
It is estimated that 13 indigenous languages are spoken in Malawi, The 1966 population census indicated that Chichewa was the majority language, spoken as a native language by 50.2 percent of the population and as a second language by a further 25 percent.
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 Berber & Tinifagh - Crystalinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Berber languages are spoken in scattered areas throughout northern Africa from Egypt westward to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Niger River northward to the Mediterranean Sea.
Whether the extinct language of the Guanches in the Canary Islands and of the Iberians of Spain belonged to the Berber branch or even to Hamito-Semitic is doubtful.
Phonology In the phonologies of these languages the vowels *a, *i, *u were lost or reduced to, and *a, *i, *u became a, i, u; *w and *y may appear both as consonants and as vowels, and the emphatics are represented by d, gh (but in reduplication tt, qq), and z.
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Language capability will be recorded on the DD Form 1966 series (Record of Military Processing Armed Forces of the United States) on page 1 and in the "remarks" section.
General Language testing is given to Army members who have received foreign language training at Government expense, who claim knowledge of a foreign language as a result of civilian education, residence in a foreign country, or family usage, or whose records indicate previous language study.
These personnel, trained in a foreign language in preparation for a specific assignment, continue to be identified as linguist assets after their initial use and are routinely considered for subsequent linguist assignments.
www.fas.org /irp/doddir/army/ar611-6.htm   (11791 words)

  
 Language Summary
A language is a system of arbitary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols which communicate thoughts or feelings.
2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication]
Language: A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia.
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 Afro Asiatic Berber Berber Zenaga Zenaga is a Berber...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Afro Asiatic Berber Berber Zenaga Zenaga is a Berber...
"Zenaga" is a Berber language Berber language spoken by some 200 to 300 people between Mederdra Mederdra and the Atlantic Atlantic coast in southern Mauritania Mauritania.
The name 'Zenaga' comes from that of a much bigger ancient Berber tribe, known to medieval Arab geographers as the Senhaja Senhaja; the name "Senegal Senegal", ironically, derives from "Zenaga" as well.
www.biodatabase.de /Zenaga   (197 words)

  
 Berber Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
They are spoken by minority groups in at least eleven countries of northern and western Africa, from the Mediterranean to beyond the River Niger: in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania (and perhaps still in Senegal), Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Chad.
"The three Berber languages researched for this project are: Kabyle (Taqbaylit), spoken in northern Algeria; Tamazight (Berber), of central Morocco; and Tuareg, the indigenous name of which varies according to the dialect (Prasse 1972): Tamahaq in southern Algeria, Tamashaq in Mali, Tamajeq in Niger and in Libya (Ghat, where it may also be called Tamaziq).
However, both these countries have recently seen lively efforts to include Berber languages and cultures in the socio-cultural and political life of the nation.
www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Berber-root.html   (1216 words)

  
 Berber
"The Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) language family, usually considered as a single language with many dialects, is for purposes of language learning (and by sociolinguistic criteria) more conveniently treated as a number of distinct languages, each with mutually intelligible dialects.
Other major languages include Tashelhit (Shilha) and Tarifit (Rif) of Morocco." The languages of smaller groups are discussed in the Dialect Survey (4) of this section.
However, the main languages and domains are identifiable from the many dialect studies and from the arrangement by region of entries in the bibliographical resources used here: A. Basset, LLB, 1952, and the chronicles entitled "Langue et litérature berbère" (LELB) by Basset and Chaker, in AAN.
www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language.php?id=7   (872 words)

  
 Egyptian language comparisons - EgyptSearch Forums
Given the extensive interaction between the Wolof and the Berber and Tucklor groups north of the Zenaga River I imagine it would be difficult to differentiate between the AE loan words and the Berber loan words.
However, it is widely accepted by scholars that it was a Berber language given the continuity of the population.
Once the meriotic and this unread language are fully understood it is my guess that they will both unlock the key to the spread of Afrasian languages from the region in Sudan to points North, south, east, and west.
www.egyptsearch.com /forums/Forum8/HTML/000572.html   (6050 words)

  
 Language families, groups, subgroups of languages.
Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar
Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala
Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan.
www.planetservices.it /english/language-family-groups.htm   (715 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Mauritania
The language is reported to be a variety of Hassaniyya structured on an Azer (Soninke) base.
Reported to speak their own language, "probably a mixture of Azer, Zenaga (Berber), and Hassaniyya, called Ikoku by the Moors" (Gerteiny).
The language is related to other Berber languages in basic structure though specific features are quite different.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Maur.html   (439 words)

  
 EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
www.everytongue.com   (531 words)

  
 Glenn Humphries tree of Afro-Asiatic languages
"Parent" languages are to the left; "descendant" languages are indented to the right under the appropriate "parent" language.
Other languages which were influential to the develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather that what the speakers of the language called their language.
This is a simplified diagram of the relationship of various modern and obsolete languages showing their development throughout history from various older languages, mostly now extinct.
glenn.humphries.com /afroasiatic.htm   (237 words)

  
 PanAfrLoc | PanAfrLoc / Berber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
However, other terms were used by other groups; for instance, many parts of western Algeria called their language 'taznatit' or Zenati, while the Kabyles called theirs 'thaqvaylith', the inhabitants of Siwa 'tasiwit', and the Zenaga 'Tuddhungiya' [http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ZENanddoctype=detailandversion=0andscale=six].
Tifinagh is the original script of these languages but they have also been transcribed using the Arabic script and in more recent history with modified Latin scripts.
In practice, which varies by locality, three scripts have to one degree or another been and are used.
www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Berber   (889 words)

  
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 List of Available Languages - UCB Library Pathfinder
If the language you want is not in the Limit by Language pull-down menu:
Type a language from the list below into either of the search boxes.
To search for more than one language in the same search, enclose each language in quotation marks and separate them with the word or.
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 List of Languages
To proceed with your search, select a language.
You may also specify the type of material and/or the level of instruction you are seeking.
This database is provided in collaboration with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /lmd/cals.htm   (77 words)

  
 MARC Language Codes
This is an ASCII list of all valid and obsolete language codes assigned for use in MARC 21 records.
It is intended to meet the need for a simple list to support MARC system development and online validation of MARC codes.
MARC Code List for Languages ___________________________ aar Afar abk Abkhaz ace Achinese ach Acoli ada Adangme afa Afroasiatic (Other) afh Afrihili (Artificial language) afr Afrikaans -ajm Aljamía aka Akan akk Akkadian alb Albanian ale Aleut alg Algonquian (Other) amh Amharic ang English, Old (ca.
www.loc.gov /marc/languages/la2000list.html   (204 words)

  
 UO Libraries Catalog: Keyword Search
Be sure to include the : after the field label.
Use a double asterisk (**) by itself in the first search box, then choose one or more limit options (location, language, material type, publisher or year) to see whole categories of materials.
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 Ethnologue report for language code:zen
Between Mederdra and the Atlantic coast, southern Mauritania.
People are bedouins, reported to travel mainly in caravans.
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=zen   (82 words)

  
 ISO 639 Language Codes -- Electronic Text Center
ISO 639 Language Codes -- Electronic Text Center
Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F) "Code for the representation of names of languages".
"Code for the representation of names of languages, alpha-3 code" dated 12/16/91.
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