Latin is an extremely important and influential language. It was the official language of the Roman Empire‚ fathered languages like Spanish and Portuguese-two of the most spoken languages in the world‚ French-lingua franca from the 17th century until the middle of the 20th and Italian-the language of the Renaissance. In fact‚ it was so influential that even today it is taught in schools though it has long been a dead language. But how did Latin become such a language? At first‚ Latin was a language
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University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus Master of Arts in English Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course INGL 6466 – Studies in Bilingualism Prof. Alicia Pousada By Stephanie Hernandez Reinat First semester 2012-2013 Languages in Ghana Introduction There have been linguistic studies prepared in order to understand the functions of multilingual countries. Ghana‚ being one of these multilingual countries‚ is very complex and complicated with many
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Intro: The first European power to arrive in India was the army of Alexander the Great in 327-326 BC. The satraps he established in the northwest quickly crumbled after he left. Later‚ commercial trade was carried between Indian states and the Roman Empire by Greco-Roman sailors that reached India by sailing on the Red and Arabian Seas. The Portuguese sailor‚ Vasco da Gama‚ was the first European to arrive in India solely by navigating the sea‚ at the end of the 15th century. Having arrived
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different time frames : The Period of Re-Orientation (1898-1910); Imitation (1910-1925); and Self-Discovery (1925). The Philippine Literature in English saw it’s dawn with the introduction of free public instruction and the use of English as a Lingua Franca in all levels of education in public schools. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Filipino revolutionist won against the Spaniards who colonized Philippines for more than 300 years. The Philippine flag was hoisted on June 12‚1898 as a symbol of independence
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certainly overlap to form a dialect continuum. Moroccans speakers of all this disparity of dialects seem to reach a minimum of mutual intelligibility. In cases where they fail to‚ they resort to the modern Moroccan Colloquial Arabic (Dareeja) as their lingua franca. Importantly these regional dialects exhibit linguistic differences on different levels. At the phonological level there is a vowel deletion in the Hassani dialect for verbs following pronoun “you”. Klit (you have eaten) or jiit (you have
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Singlish is alive and vibrant – a growing language on its own right. Discuss. It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the issue about the usage of Singlish in Singapore. Singlish‚ short for Singapore English‚ is a modified version of standard English‚ spiced by the commonly used Hokkien‚ Mandarin and Malay slang in Singapore. The addition of utterances such as “lah”‚ “leh”‚ “lor” and “mah” at the end of sentences and several other seemingly funny words like “Alamak!” or “Fuyoh!” at the beginning
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the United Kingdom from the 18th century‚ via the British Empire‚ and of the United States since the mid-20th century‚ it has been widely dispersed around the world‚ become the leading language of international discourse‚ and has acquired use as lingua franca in many regions. It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Union and many Commonwealth countries‚ as well as in many world organizations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world
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THE NEED TO PROMISE THE STUDY OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA It is a pity that Nigeria’s indigenous languages have been relegated to the background over the years. Nigerian students are taught in English Language which is also regarded as the lingua franca of the country. This is not good enough. Though Nigeria has several indigenous languages‚ there is need to promote the study of these indigenous languages. This is why the Federal Ministry of Education made it compulsory for every student to study
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1. Introduction This assignment will be based on an advertising campaign introduced by Innocent within the UK this advert was known as ‘super fruit’. With Innocent smoothie’s having been a UK based brand since the summer of 1998 when we had developed our first smoothie recipes Innocent drinks (2011) Innocent drinks has since then become the biggest smoothie brand within the UK. Growth of 14% on the previous year saw Innocent become the biggest smoothie brand in the UK with 75% of the market share
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Lin Fang-Ning 599987 Language and Power in Asian Societies ASIA10001 In what ways are Indonesian nationalism and the development of the Indonesian language related to each other? You can choose to look at this from a combination of different historical‚ political and/or social perspectives. The Indonesian language had been used as an important symbol of unity during the expansion of the Indonesian nationalist movement. As Indonesia is famous for its great diversity of more than 200 major ethnic
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