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| | Shan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Shan language is part of the Tai languages group of the Tai-Kadai language family, and is related to Thai and Lao. | | | The Shan also share their creation myth with the Lao people and believe their race was founded by Khun Borom. | | | Most Shan are Theravada Buddhists and/or observe their traditional religion, which is related to animist practices. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan
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| | Adamic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is unclear whether the Bible assumes that this language was preserved by Adam's descendents until the confusion of tongues (Genesis 11:1-9), or that it began to evolve naturally as a consequence of Original sin (Genesis 10:5). | | | In Mormonism, the Adamic language has been thought by some Latter Day Saints to be the language of God. | | | Other words thought by some Mormons to derive from the Adamic language include deseret ("honey bee", see Ether 2:3), Ahman ("God"), son Ahman ("Son of God", see LDS DandC 78:20, 95:17), sons Ahman ("sons of God"), and shelem ("height", see Ether 3:1). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamic_language
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| | Coptic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The mediaeval Boharic dialect is, however, presently used as a liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church (along with Arabic and Greek). | | | Coptic continued to be used in the Church with Greek as the second language, as seen from the texts that survived from the period. | | | The only Coptic literary texts composed in the later part of the period were the martyrdom of Saint John of Phanidijoit, written as such to shield from the eyes of the Muslims, and compositions, urging the Copts to revive their language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language
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| | memon.com - Memon Welfare |
| | Bohri biradari pote je ghar je under Gujarati bole tee magar hinje bawajood pote je jamat Khanen mein mazhabi aelan ya koe ittelaa (Gujarati mein) likhan lai urdu haroof-e-tahajji istemal karnoo shuroo kari dini aie. | | | Since the article is in Memoni language and Roman script, it provides handy specimen for the members of the community to discuss, deliberate and take a decision in the matter. | | | Iqbal bhai sanji je Urdu akhbar 'Aaghaz' mein Urdu je Huroof-a Tahajji mein Memoni kolum likhnu shuroo kari vijhya. |
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http://www.memon.com/HTML/Memonwelfare/welfare_150301.htm
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| | Monpa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family, but it is significantly different from the Eastern Tibetan dialect and is written with the Tibetan script. | | | The Monpa are mainly followers of Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelugpa sect, although several members of the Bhut Monpa are followers of Bön and Animism. | | | The Monpa (Chinese: 门巴族, ménbàzú, Tibetan: ?པ) are an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China, with a population of 50,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kameng. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monpa
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| | Encyclopedia: Language revival |
| | Language death is the process by which a language ceases to be used by the people who formerly spoke it. | | | Perhaps the most celebrated example of successful language revival is the Hebrew language, which now exists as a living tongue in daily use in the state of Israel. | | | Often the organization reviving the language chooses a particular dialect, even standardizes one from several variants, and adds new forms, mainly modern vocabulary, through neologisms, extensions of meaning for old words, calques from sibling languages (Arabic for Modern Hebrew, Welsh for Manx), or plain borrowings from the modern international languages. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Language-revival
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| | Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Z) |
| | Zhaba is a Tibetan language spoken in China. | | | Zoroastrian Dari is a language spoken in Iran. | | | Xam is an extinct Khoisan language formerly spoken in South Africa. |
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http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/WZ.HTM
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| | Muslim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Muslims consider the Arabic Qur'an as the direct revelation of God; translations do exist to other languages but are not regarded as the literal word of God. | | | Muslims believe that previously revealed scriptures, such as the Injil (Christian Gospels), the Torah and the Psalms, have been changed by Mankind, whereas God promises that the Qur'an cannot be changed and will not be changed. | | | Muslims believe that God's final Messenger, Muhammad, completed the religion according to God's command. |
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http://www.eastcleveland.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Muslims
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| | BILDI |
| | Thesaurus : World of the bible : Languages |
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http://bildi.uibk.ac.at/thes/thes0802-en.html
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| | Languages of Muslim countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Muslims believe that God revealed the Qur'an to the Muhammad literally, word-for-word, in the Arabic language. | | | Thus, Arabic is regarded as the holy language of Islam. | | | Christians and Jews used Latin and Hebrew as their religious language, but Arabic became the language of culture for all the population. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Muslims
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| | Indonesian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Indonesian word for the Bible is Alkitab, thus directly derived from Arabic. | | | Although Hinduism and Buddhism are no longer the major religions of Indonesia, Sanskrit which was the language vehicle for these religions, is still held in high esteem and is comparable with the status of Latin in English and other West European languages. | | | It is estimated that there are some 750 Sanskrit loanwords in modern Indonesian, 1000 Arabic (Persian and some Hebrew) ones, some 125 Portuguese (also Spanish and Italian) ones and a staggering number of some 10,000 loanwords from Dutch. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_language
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| | Encyclopedia Coptica: The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt |
| | Throughout that period, the Coptic language remained the language of the land, and it was not until the second half of the 11th century that the first bi-lingual Coptic-Arabic liturgical manuscripts started to appear. | | | There are three main Liturgies in the Coptic Church: The Liturgy according to Saint Basil, Bishop of Caesarea; The Liturgy according to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople; and The Liturgy according to Saint Cyril I, the 24th Pope of the Coptic Church. | | | The Coptic Church was misunderstood in the 5th century at the Council of Chalcedon. |
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http://www.coptic.net/EncyclopediaCoptica
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| | Dari (Zoroastrian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While Dari is spoken in a geographical area that is predominately Muslim, it is the proprietary language of the area’s Zoroastrians, followers of the pre-Islamic religion of Iran. | | | The prestige of the Arabic language, which at the time was the language of the Arab ruling class, encouraged borrowing from Arabic at a rapid pace and soon the unaltered Dari gave way to the Arabicized form of the language that we know today as Persian. | | | Dari is also commonly known by the appellation Gabri, but this name might be taken by some Zoroastrians as highly offensive, as it literally means 'language of the infidels'. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari_(Zoroastrian)
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| | Fusha (language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Fụṣha is usually considered by Arabic-speaking Muslims as "proper" or "true" Arabic, as it is not an ordinary spoken variety of Arabic (see diglossia.) Except for extremely formal situations, Arabic speakers use their own national language or dialect in conversation for diglossic reasons (perceived inappropriateness: uneducated people sometimes use MSA casually for a laugh). | | | Fuṣḥa (فصحى) (pronounced like "Fooṣ Ḥa" where the "ṣ" and "ḥ" are emphatic consonants) is a collective term referring to the standardized, non-spoken varieties of the Arabic language, as opposed to the spoken varieties of Arabic. | | | Many western scholars distinguish two common Fuṣḥa varieties: Classical Arabic, that used during the 6th and 7th centuries A.D., and Modern Standard Arabic, the variety used today. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusha_(language)
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| | Pali language |
| | Pali Language Sources and Resources Original language of Buddhist sutras. | | | Glossary of Pali Buddhist Terms Pali words used in Buddhism. | | | Pali Campion Produzione e commercializzazione pali e torrifaro monotubolari in acciaio per illuminazione stradale, trasporto e distribuzione di energia elettrica. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Pali_language.html
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| | Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (May-Mem) |
| | Melo is an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia. | | | Mboi is an Adamawa language spoken in Nigeria. | | | Mazanderani is a Caspian language spoken in Iran. |
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http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/WME.HTM
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| | Greek language - One Language |
| | Attic Greek, a subdialect of Ionic, was for centuries the language of Athens. | | | Modern Greek is a living language and one of the richest surviving languages today, with more than 600.000 words. | | | Greek was the official language of the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire), until Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. |
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http://www.onelang.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Greek_language
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| | Newari |
| | Newari is a Tibetic Language (of the Sino-Tibetan language family) spoken in Central Nepal by between 400 and 600 thousand people. |
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http://www.flw.com/languages/newari.htm
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| | Language |
| | Ashkenazi Hebrew language The Ashkenazi Hebrew language is a descendant of Israel. | | | Adamic language The Adamic language is a term for the hypothetical Biblical Hebrew, and that all languages are descended... | | | Coptic language The Coptic language is the last descendant of the Coptic Church. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/language.html
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| | Urdu language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Urdu is written in a derivative of the Persian alphabet, which is itself derivative of the Arabic alphabet. | | | Urdu is similar in appearance and letters to Arabic, Persian, and Pashto. | | | The official language of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and their successor states, as well as the cultured language of poetry and literature, was Persian, while the language of religion was Arabic. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_language
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| | Hindustani language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term used to refer to the language is "Hindi", regardless of the mix of Persian or Sanskrit words used by the speaker. | | | One might reasonably assume that the language spoken in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (known for its beautiful usage of Urdu) and Benares (a holy city for Hindus and thus using highly Sanskritized Hindi) is somewhat different. | | | This meaning is reflected in the use of the term "bazaar Hindustani," in other words, the language of the street or the marketplace, as opposed to the perceived refinement of formal Hindi, Urdu, or even Sanskrit. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language
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| | Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas. | | | However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits. | | | This Indo-Aryan language is a combination of Persian and Arabic in its vocabulary with the grammar of the local dialects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages
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| | Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas. | | | However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits. | | | This Indo-Aryan language is a combination of Persian and Arabic in its vocabulary with the grammar of the local dialects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages
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| | Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Hebrew language is normally written in the Hebrew alphabet. | | | A Committee of the Hebrew Language was established. | | | While the term "Hebrew" as a nationality is customarily used to refer to the ancient Israelites, the classical Hebrew language was extremely similar to the Canaanite languages spoken by their neighbors, such as Phoenician ; indeed, Moabite and Hebrew are often considered to be two dialects of the same language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language
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| | Language death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sometimes language death can be reversed, as has happened with the Hebrew language in Israel. | | | A language is often declared to be dead even before the last native speaker of the language has died. | | | The green book of language revitalization in practice. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
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| | PÄli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the PÄli Canon or in PÄli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. | | | Sanskrit, PÄli, and the Jain Prakrits, were all represented as the language spoken by the gods in the popular literature of the respective religions, and various claims as to the supernatural origins or supernatural efficacy were assigned to these languages by their proponents. | | | After the Pali Canon was transmitted to Sri Lanka, it continued to be preserved entirely in PÄli, while the commentarial tradition that accompanied it (according to the information provided by Buddhaghosa) was translated into Sinhalese and preserved in local languages for several generations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_language
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| | Hindustani language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term used to refer to the language is "Hindi", regardless of the mix of Persian or Sanskrit words used by the speaker. | | | One might reasonably assume that the language spoken in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (known for its beautiful usage of Urdu) and Benares (a holy city for Hindus and thus using highly Sanskritized Hindi) is somewhat different. | | | While grammatically, Urdu and Hindi are considered dialects of a single language (or diasystem), they differ (in formal tongue) vastly in vocabulary; wherein Urdu draws heavily on Persian and Arabic and Hindi on Sanskrit and to a lesser extent Prakrit. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language
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| | Encyclopedia: Sinhala language |
| | Sinhala is the language spoken by the majority of the people living in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). | | | Sinhala became the official language of Sri Lanka in 1956. | | | Stone inscriptions, as well as written texts (the Maha Wamsa, a history of the kings of Sri Lanka going back to almost the Buddha 's time) suggest that Sinhala is a very old language. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Sinhala-language
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| | Ladino language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are also those who, with Iacob M Hassán, claim that Ladino should adopt the orthography of the standard Spanish language. | | | The language was known as Yahudice (Jewish language) in the Ottoman Empire. | | | Ladino is a Romance language, derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladino_language
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