GERMANIC LANGUAGES Classification of Modern Germanic Languages and their Distribution Classification of languages means their placement into families or phyla [‘failə] on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may thus be classified either genetically or typologically. A genetic classification assumes that certain languages are related in that they have evolved from a common ancestral language. This form of classification employs ancient records as well
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Charlemagne said: “to have another language is to possess a second soul”. Language is common to all people and each in its own context. It links us all together and defines us as individuals. It can be a source of a great power and influence. Born and living in Lebanon‚ I have acquired Arabic as my native language. Like any other country‚ the Arabic language in Lebanon differs from region to another which is defined ad dialect. Coming from an urban region‚ mine is the most common one even
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It is said that “Before the birth of stones and sand‚ brave tamil man was born”. It portrays the heritage of tamil language. It is the oldest Dravidian language ‚along with Chinese‚ Greek‚ Sanskrit and others. It is one of the world’s classical languages. All south indian language belong to single indian group known as the family of tamil language. Tamil Nadu is the main land of tamil speaking people. More than 8 crore tamils live in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. The first book of
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Agglutinative language Jump to: navigation‚ search Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alignment Accusative Ergative Split ergative Philippine Active–stative Tripartite Marked nominative Inverse marking Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object Verb–object–subject OV languages Subject–object–verb Object–subject–verb Object–verb–subject V2 word
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Language revitalization‚ language revival or reversing language shift is the attempt by interested parties‚ including individuals‚ cultural or community groups‚ governments‚ or political authorities‚ to reverse the decline of a language. If the decline is severe‚ the language may be endangered‚ moribund‚ or extinct. In these cases‚ the goal of language revitalization is often to recover the spoken use of the language. Although the goals of language revitalization vary by community and situation‚
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Endangered Languages CONOR MCDONOUGH QUINN Languages that are threatened with the loss of natural generational transmission are referred to as endangered languages. Language endangerment generally occurs in the later stages of language shift‚ that is‚ when a speech community moves away from their earlier variety‚ dialect‚ or language to a new one or new set thereof (Fishman‚ 1991). While the processes of endangerment and extinction have likely been constant throughout the history of human language‚ the
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ENGENERRING: ITS EVOLUTION‚ DEVELOPMENT‚ SUCCESS AND FAILURES. TOPIC: COMPUTER LANGUAGES NAME: MUHAMMAD ALI RAFIQUE GROUP ID: 17440350/ 7E3B2245 TUTOR: CARRIE HO Table of Contents 1. INDRODDUCTION 1 2. HISTORY 2 3. SCOPE: 4 4 Success of Computer Languages 4 5 EVOLUTION OF ALGOL-60 4 5.1 DESIGIN: STRUCTURE ORGANIZATION 5.2ALGOL-60 PROGRAM ARE HIERARCHICALLY STURCTURED …………….
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Language and Lexicon Paper PSY 360 August 13‚ 2012 Introduction Language as we know it is very hard to define because it is the linguistics of the language‚ but we know it is important for our life. It is very important tool to express my feeling and opinion‚ and we could know what others think about. As a result‚ we could make connection with others. However‚ have you ever thought why we can communicate each other? Do you know why human’s communication is defined as language and other animal’s
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“Endangered languages should be saved” Many languages are at the danger of disappearance. The reason of their extinction could be the decrease in a number of people speaking that language. A 85% of 6000 languages appear to be spoken in 25 countries (NOW 2000). Language extinction is caused by external and internal factors. Internal forces such as community’s negative behaviour to mother language‚ or simply decrease in the number of speakers are mainly derived from factors such as military‚ economic
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A room designed for learning foreign languages and equipped with tape recorders‚ videocassette recorders‚ or computers connected to monitoring devices enabling the instructor to listen and speak to the students individually or as a group is called a language laboratory. It is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. They can be found‚ amongst other places‚ in schools‚ universities and academics. The language laboratory is very useful for assessing students’
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