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Fwd: RT @kawina: The Field Linguist: Curso de Tupi Antigo (Barbosa 1956) http://blog.etnolinguistica.org/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: RT @kawina: The Field Linguist: Nova categoria gramatical tupi (Barbosa 1947) http://blog.etnolinguistica.org/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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BBC News - Language is window on the world - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...

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"He thinks that although the language may not have taken the world "by storm" yet, it is "slowly but surely moving in that direction, with the internet giving it a significant boost in recent years"." - - Esperanto is a cool idea, but there is a good reason it will never be the lingua france that its proponents want it to be: no one speaks it from birth and there is not a sizable population of Esperanto speakers anywhere. I don't care how logical the language is - that's not exactly a recipe for a successful language. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - -

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Fwd: Languages of the World - Ethnologue: Statistical Summaries - http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_d... (via http://friendfeed.com/culture...)

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Being produced by a Christian missionary institution, Ethnologue has issues of scientific neutrality; see "A language is a dialect with a missionary" (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://tr.im/ethnologue&q... ;), a review by Danish journalist Ole Stig Andersen. Concerning lowland South America (the area I'm most familiar with), Ethnologue is rather inaccurate. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - -

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Oye, new Spanish grammar guidelines unveiled - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...

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"Can a Barcelona truck driver be expected to speak like a Buenos Aires banker? Can rules be imposed on a language spoken by 400 million people stretching from Madrid to Manila? The academic overseers of the language of Cervantes have taken an ambitious stab at it, unveiling their first Spanish grammar guidelines in nearly 80 years. The fruit of their toil is a nearly 4,000-page tome in two volumes presented Thursday, with yet another to come out next year. It was produced by the Spanish Royal Academy and 21 sister organizations in Latin America and other countries where Spanish is spoken, such as the United States and the Philippines, and has taken them 11 years to compile." - friendfeed from FriendFeed - -

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Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered - - http://www.nytimes.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/etymolo...)

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Proto-syntax? I'm doubtful, as is Mr. Verb (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mr-verb.blogspot.c... ; title="http://mr-verb.blogspot.c... ;). - friendfeed from FriendFeed - -

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Fwd: SlangSite.com - The Slang Dictionary - http://www.slangsite.com/ (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK - http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: RT @wordnik A year in reading: this year's best books on language and history. http://www.themillions.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: Hindi DOST 'friend' (< Persian) - cognate to the Old Indian word JUS 'to choose' - CHOOSE & JUS originating from the same Indo-European word (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: Languages of the World - Ethnologue: Statistical Summaries - http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_d... (via http://friendfeed.com/culture...)

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Fwd: Arnold Zwicky ON THE NOUN WATCH: in a cold OPEN - a SLANG = a slang word/expression - the big REVEAL - new uses of LINGO http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: OMNIGLOT a guide to the writing systems & languages of the world: abjad alphabet abugidas syllabary ... http://omniglot.com #multilingual (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: YOU HAD ME AT 'HELLO' Nate Barksdale on the history of HELLO & its forbears hallo halloo hillo holla (Shakespeare) ... http://www.cardus.ca/comment... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: November is almost gone ... Let’s look at some winter words: hibernaculum - hiemate - from Latin hibernus /hiems http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2009... WORDMALL (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: Linguist Dan Everett's research on the life, culture & language of the Pirahã tribe in the Amazonian Jungle http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: World language map - http://www.theodora.com/maps... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: WHY GERMAN SOUNDS FUNNY "German did not form its neologisms out of Greek and Latin, but of German itself." http://peripatus.blogspot.com/2005... #register (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: DEUTSCHES WÖRTERBUCH by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm "Es soll der sprache schatz bewahren, allen zu ihm den eingang offen halten" http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Project... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: MAJOR WORLD LANGUAGES MAP via @polyglotwit via @dialect http://www.theodora.com/maps... see thousands of informational pages on theodora.com ! (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: Free ebook! Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Bde (in 32 Teilbänden). Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1854-1960 http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Project... (via http://friendfeed.com/german...)

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Fwd: THREE OF A KIND: REVEALING LANGUAGE'S UNIVERSAL ESSENCE On the surface, English, Japanese & Kinande have little in common http://www.physorg.com/news177... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: WALS The World Atlas of Language Structures Online - most valuable resource for comparative linguistic studies http://wals.info #interactive (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT sound change affecting the long vowels of English during the 15th-18th centuries http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenze... great resource (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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Fwd: A BRIEF HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS On different ways to study language- Saussure & Jakobson in context http://www.textetc.com/theory... #Chomsky (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)

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