about the old Curonianlanguage New Curonian Kursenieki Language refimprove date November 2010 Infobox language name Old Curonian nativename Kursenieku valoda states Latvia , Lithuania , Germany region ... languages Western Baltic iso3 xcu The Curonianlanguage lang de Kurisch lang lv kur u valoda lang lt kur i kalba or Old Curonian is an extinct language extinct Baltic languages Western Baltic language ... Description of Curonian work linguistlist.org year 2011 last update accessdate 1 December 2011 ref spoken by the Curonians Curonian tribe, who lived mainly on the Courland peninsula now western Latvia and along the nearby Baltic shores. The language disappeared by the 17th century, leaving substrata in western dialects of the Latvian language Latvian and Lithuanian language Lithuanian languages, namely the Samogitian dialect . No written documents in this language are known, but some ancient Lithuanian texts from western regions show some Curonian influence. Hypotheses of Finnic origin Curonian is generally classified as a Baltic language, on the basis of place names and the substratum in western dialects of Latvian and Lithuanian. However, as almost nothing of the old Curonianlanguage ... and Eduard V ri have pointed out several Curonian words and names which are clearly of Finnic languages Finnic origin. For example, a treaty from 1230 calls Curonian administrative divisions kiligunden kihelkond in Estonian language Estonian and Curonian army Malev military unit maleva . The elder ... in use among the speakers of Curonian, are not enough to make Curonian a Finnic language. Also, the Livonian language , a Finnic language, is native to the region, and may be identified with the source of possibly Finnic elements in Curonian. Revival After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the Baltic ... language. Grammar Main Curonian grammar The Curonianlanguage was a highly inflected and archaic ... xcu The CuronianLanguage in Linguist List Baltic languages DEFAULTSORT CuronianLanguage Category ... more details
Curonian may refer to CuronianlanguageCuronian people from Curonia , Latin for Courland See also Curonian Lagoon Curonian Spit Courish Spit dab ... more details
Infobox World Heritage Site WHS Curonian Spit Image Image Pilkosios kopos1.jpg 300px State Party Lithuania ... Europe and North America Year 2000 Session 24th Link http whc.unesco.org en list 994 The Curonian ... is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand dune Spit landform spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon .... Geography The Curonian Spit stretches from the Sambian Peninsula on the south to its northern tip ... . The northern 52 km long stretch of the Curonian Spit peninsula belongs to Lithuania, while the rest ... of Nida, Lithuania Nida . Geologic history The Curonian Spit was formed about 3rd millennium BC. ref name nationalpark cite web title The Development of the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon url http ... and keep the formation above sea level. ref name nationalpark Image Curonian Spit and Lagoon.png left thumb 180px Curonian Spit and Lagoon The existence of this narrow shoal is inherently threatened by the natural processes that govern coastal shoreline features. ref name unesco cite web title Curonian ... creating new land. Human history According to Balt ic mythology, the Curonian Spit was formed by a Giant ... of the last living speaker of a now extinct Baltic language , Old Prussian language Old Prussian . ref ...&dq curonian spit existence&hl en&ei E6cXTM3FMYHknAeurNWiCg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 6&ved 0CDkQ6AEwBQ v onepage&q curonian 20spit 20existence&f false publisher Rowman & Littlefield year 2002 ... of the spit is now covered with forests. In the 19th century the Curonian Spit was inhabited primarily ... many Germans , mostly the descendants of the inhabitants of the area, choose the Curonian Spit especially .... Current state Image Curonian Lagoon.jpg thumb 250px Landsat photo The Curonian Spit is home ... cite web url http www.unesco.lt documents Paveldas Kursiu 20nerija curonian 20spit nomination.pdf title Curonian Spit publisher UNESCO accessdate 2010 06 15 ref Its location on the East Atlantic Flyway ... by Lithuanian and German tourists. The northern shoreline of Curonian Spit is the site of beach ... more details
Curonian grammar describes the grammatical features of extinct Curonianlanguage . The Curonianlanguage is highly inflected and archaic language. Its grammar is reconstructed basing on Latvian grammar Latvian , Lithuanian grammar Lithuanian and Old Prussian grammars and known Courland Curonian place names and Curonianlanguage New Curonian New Curonian texts and vocabulary. Nouns Curonian nouns are divided into seven declensions three masculine and four feminine . But there are several nouns which are declined irregularly. The declension of noun is determined by its ending and gender. Curonian nouns have eight grammatical cases nominative case , accusative case , genitive case , dative case , ablative case , instrumental case , locative case and vocative case .The locative case has four forms inessive the regular and most common form , illative iek k an tan pirman vietan in the first place , ran outdoors, outside , priek an for , laukaisn to country , allative only used in a few idiomic expressions like m jump , kalnump , urp , turp , adessive namaip , namaisump . The later three are adverb forming cases. Following table shows nominative endings for all regular declensions class wikitable colspan 6 Masculine colspan 8 Feminine colspan 2 1.decl. colspan 2 2.decl. colspan 2 3.decl. colspan 2 4.decl. colspan 2 5.decl. colspan 2 6.decl. colspan 2 7.decl. Sing. Plur. Sing. Plur. Sing. Plur. Sing. Plur. Sing. Plur. Sing. Plur. Sing. Plur. as i is j i us s s s is s us s Masculine nouns 1.decl. v r as man, husband br 2.decl. skap is shelf br 3.decl. turg us market, bazaar . class wikitable rowspan 2 colspan 2 1.decl. colspan 2 2.decl ... turn into ies and s , ijai and uvai turn into ij ei ie and ui . See also Curonianlanguage Latvian language Latvian grammar Lithuanian language Lithuanian grammar Old Prussian Sudovian language Category ... s ap e ap s nakt i nakt s vilt u dzirn s Dual number Curonian also had a Dual grammatical number ... more details
Curonian Kings lang de Kurische K nige lang lv Kur u oni i lang ru was a social group social and ethnic group of Latvians that lived in seven villages between Kuld ga Goldingen Kuld ga and Aizpute Hasenpoth Aizpute in Courland . They were descendants of Curonians Curonian nobility , first mentioned in a document of 1320 and lived in the villages of oni ciems , Pli u ciems , Kal jciems , Zieme ciems , Viesalgciems , Sausga ciems , and Drag nciems now in Kuld ga municipality . To Curonian Kings belonged such families in modern Latvian spelling Peni is, Tontegode, Vidi , Drag ns, Sirkants etc. They preserved special privileges during conquest by the Livonian Order such as the right to hunt and exemption from taxes and military drafts , but lost these privileges in 1854. All of them were peasants freehold law freeholders possessing independent farms did not belong to any lord , but they were not allowed to own their own serfs. But they were related to landlords by military service in case of war. In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia they lost some of their privileges, but they were still counted as separate class. They were not recognized landlords but maintained middle position between landlords and peasants. It is known that in the 17th century Curonian Kings had their own coat of arms . In the 1854 they lost all of their privileges, but in the census of 1863 they still were counted as a separate nation, with a total number of 405. While the Curonian tribe had long been assimilated by the Latvians, the Curonian Kings preserved a separate identity by not inter marrying with other ethnic groups. It was not until the 1920s, that the Curonian Kings merged into the Latvians . All of the families mentioned above still can be found in Latvia. Some of them can trace their origins back to the 14th century . References http www.roots saknes.lv Ethnicities Latvians Free Latvians.htm Free Latvians at 1800 http www.demoscope.ru weekly 2005 0187 perep04.php ... more details
Image Curonian Spit and Lagoon.png thumb right 170px Curonian Spit and Lagoon The Curonian Lagoon or Headlands and bays Bay , Headlands and bays Gulf lang ru K , lang lt Kur i marios , lang pl Zalew Kuro ski , lang de Kurisches Haff is separated from the Baltic Sea by the Curonian Spit . Its surface area is convert 1,619 km2 sqmi sp us . ref cite web publisher Encyclop dia Britannica url http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 140578 Curonian Lagoon title Curonian Lagoon accessdate 2009 10 17 ref The Neman River supplies about 90 of its inflows its watershed consists of about 100,450 square kilometers in Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast . ref name sus cite book title Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds publisher Springer Science Business Media Springer author I. Ethem G nen , Angheluta Vadineanu url http books.google.com books?id s1SmQ5TYB6YC&pg PA404&lpg PA404&dq Curonian Lagoon watershed&source bl&ots 0Zn37RJbFl&sig dHgx0PrRzYN85biq eF4WTv9BMM&hl en&ei quHZSpHdJoHU8AaLlfS2BQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 5&ved 0CBoQ6AEwBA v onepage&q Curonian 20Lagoon 20watershed&f false year 2008 isbn 9781402085574 ref Human history Image Curonian Lagoon.jpg thumb left 180px Landsat photo In the 13th century, the area around the lagoon was part of the ancestral lands of the Curonians and Old Prussian people . Later it bordered the historical region of Lithuania Minor . At the northern end of the Spit, there is a passage to the Baltic Sea , and the place was chosen by the Teutonic Knights in 1252 to found Memelburg castle and the city of Memel . The town is officially called Klaip da since 1923 when the Memel Territory was separated from the German Empire . As the new Interwar border, the river that flows into the Courland Curonian Lagoon near Rusn lang de Ru was chosen. The river s lower 120 km in Germany were called die Memel by Germans, while ... 3.8 meters. ref name cyan cite web title Toxic cyanobacteria blooms in the Lithuanian part of the Curonian ... more details
On Language was a regular column in the weekly New York Times Magazine on the English language discussing popular etymology , new or unusual usages, and other language related topics. The inaugural column was published on February 18, 1979 and it was a regular popular feature. Many of the columns were collected in books. Columnist and journalist William Safire was one of the most frequent contributors from the inception of the column until Safire s death in 2009. He wrote the inaugural On Language column in 1979. ref http www.nytimes.com 2009 10 11 magazine 11FOB onlanguage t.html New York Times On Language The Maven, Nevermore about Safire s legacy ref starting it with the greeting How do you do. This is a new column about language. In more than 30 years, he contributed more than 1300 installments to the column. Safire was succeeded by Ben Zimmer , who wrote the column until its final edition on February 25, 2011. ref http www.nytimes.com 2011 02 27 magazine 27fob onlanguage t.html New York Times On Language The Future Tense ref About the cancellation of the column, the incoming editor of New York Times Magazine Hugo Lindgren explained this and other changes to the magazine It is mine now. I m in charge. We re going to be doing some significant redesign work, and have a newish magazine by the end of January. The big thing is, I want to create a kind of new identity for the front of the book section. That doesn t mean that everything s being tossed out. We re looking at everything and evaluating what sort of fits. ref http nymag.com daily intel 2010 11 new times magazine editor hugo.html New York Magazine New Times Magazine Editor Hugo Lindgren on His Plans Big Subjects, More T, and the End of The Way We Live Now ref References Reflist External links http topics.nytimes.com topics features magazine columns on language index.html A collection of On Language columns published in The New York Times DEFAULTSORT On Language Category English language Category The New York ... more details
About the properties of language in general other uses Language disambiguation File Lakhovsky Conversation.jpg ... Cuneiform is one of the first known forms of written language , but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of years at least. Language may refer either to the specifically ... of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses ... salient examples, but natural language s can also be based on visual rather than auditory stimulus physiology stimuli , for example in sign language s and written language . Code s and other kinds of constructed language artificially constructed communication systems such as those used for programming language computer programming can also be called languages. A language in this sense is a system ... ultimately from Latin lingua , language, tongue , via Old French . ref name AHD cite encyclopedia title language encyclopedia The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language edition 3rd year 1992 location Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Company ref When used as a general concept, language .... Language as a communication system is thought to be fundamentally different from and of much ... a finite number of elements. Language is thought to have originated when early hominids first started ... with an increase in brain volume, and many linguists see the structures of language as having evolved to serve specific communicative functions. Language is neurolinguistics processed in many ... Wernicke s area s. Humans language acquisition acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently when they are around three years old. The use of language ... identity , social stratification and for social grooming and entertainment . The word language ... from sequences of words. Languages language change evolve and diversify over time, and the history ... of languages that descend from a common ancestor is known as a language family . The languages ... more details
Infobox language name To nativename states Cameroon , Central African Republic ethnicity speakers none date NA ref e16 familycolor Niger Congo fam2 Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic Congo fam3 Mbum Day languages Mbum Day fam4 Mbum languages Mbum fam5 unclassified iso3 toz To is an unclassified Mbum languages Mbum language of northern Cameroon and the Central African Republic . It is only used as a second language , as the secret male initiation language of the Gbaya people Gbaya . References reflist Category Languages of Cameroon Category Adamawa languages Category Initiation languages Cameroon stub ... more details
Infobox Language name Are states Papua New Guinea region Milne Bay Province , tip of Cape Vogel speakers 1,230 familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Western Oceanic languages Western fam5 Papuan Tip languages Papuan Tip fam6 Kilivila nowrap Nuclear Papuan Tip fam7 Are Taupota languages Are Taupota fam8 Are languages Are iso3 mwc The Are language is an Austronesian language of the eastern Papua New Guinea n mainland, It s spoken by about 1,230 people. External links ethnologue mwc Category Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Category Languages of Papua New Guinea PapuaNewGuinea stub au lang stub fr Are langue hr Are jezik is Are ... more details
Infobox language name Then states CHN region Pingtang County , southern Guizhou speakers 15,000 date 1999 ethnicity familycolor Tai Kadai fam2 Kam Sui languages Kam Sui iso3 tct The Then language also known as Y nghu ng in Chinese alternate spellings T en and Ten is a Kam Sui language spoken in Pingtang County , southern Guizhou . Phonology Yanghuang has 71 consonants total, including those with secondary articulation s. There are a total of 71 rhymes, 9 vowels, and 8 codas Bo 1997 . References Reflist Bo, Wenze. 1997. Yanghuang yu yan jiu A Study of Yanghuang Then . Beijing Zhong yang min zu da xue chu ban she. External links http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian language.php?id 719 Then word list from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database Tai Kadai languages Category Languages of China Category Kam Sui languages tk lang stub fr T en ... more details
Latgalian Citation needed date December 2010 and assimilating CuronianlanguageCuronian , Semigallian ...Infobox language name Latvian nativename latvie u valoda states Latvia region Baltic region Baltic speakers ... Union agency Latvian State Language Center notice IPA Latvian latvie u valoda is the official state language of Latvia . It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish . There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non native speakers, atypical for a small language. Because of the language policy in Latvia ... 129&id 389 Da du tautu valodu prasme lv icon ref The use of the Latvian language in various areas ... language and is most closely related to Lithuanian language Lithuanian , although the two are not mutually ... branch of the Indo European languages Indo European language family. It is one of two living Baltic languages with an official status the other being Lithuanian language Lithuanian . The Latvian and Lithuanian languages have retained many features of the nominal morphology of the proto language ... roughly comparable to those between English language English and German language German . Dialects There are three dialect s in Latvian the Livonian dialect, Latgalian language Latgalian and the Middle ..., is divided into the Vidzeme variety, the Curonian variety and the Semigallian variety. Latvian dialects should not be confused with the Livonian language Livonian , CuronianlanguageCuronian , Semigallian language Semigallian and Selonian language Selonian languages. Livonian dialect File Latvaldialekti.svg ... by the Livonian language substratum than Latvian in other parts of Latvia. There are two Intonation ... es ie is changed to e . Due to migration and the introduction of a standardised language this dialect ... are closer to each other than to the Curonian variety, which is more archaic than the other two. There are three ... speakers The history of the Latvian language cf. below has placed it in a peculiar position for a language ... more details
Infobox language name Latgalian nativename latgal u vol da no capitalization of proper names states ... iso3 ltg notice IPA Latgalian language can mean one of the following It was a language spoken by Latgalians ... Baltic group of the Indo European languages Indo European language family . ref name Latg Institute ... Historically the Latvian language is derived from Latgalian with additions from a few other languages, e.g. Curonianlanguage Old Curonian , Semigallians Semigallian and Livonian language Livonian . ref name Balts Balts Tribes of Balts ref Nowadays it normally refers to a language spoken in Latgale , the eastern part of Latvia . Sometimes it is referred to as a distinct separate language, while others consider it to be a dialect of Latvian language Latvian . This modern Latgalian developed as a result ... tribal Latgalian language than the other Latvians and Latgale being separated for several centuries from other parts of Latvia . History The Latgalian language developed from the 18th century as a literary ... systems of orthography were borrowed from Polish language Polish and used Antiqua typeface ... in Blackletter or Gothic script, used for the Latvian language in the rest of Latvia . Many Latgalian ... included religious literature, calendars and poetry. Publishing books in the Latgalian language along with the Lithuanian language Lithuanian was forbidden from 1865 to 1904. The ban on using Latin ... for use in state institutions this was as part of an effort to standardize Latvian language usage. Latgalian survived as a spoken language during the Soviet Union Soviet annexation of Latvia 1940 ... intellectuals in emigration continued to publish books and studies of the Latgalian language, most ... language and cultural heritage. It is taught as an optional subject in some universities in R zekne ... Latgalian Alphabet books after the restoration of the language. Classification Latgalian is a member ... of languages included in the family of Indo European languages . The branch also includes Latvian language ... more details
, CuronianlanguageCuronian and Sudovian language Sudovian , went extinct earlier. Some theories ... formed in the 13th 16th centuries under the influence of the Curonianlanguage . Lithuanian dialects ...Infobox language name Lithuanian nativename lietuvi kalba states Lithuania region Europe speakers 3.2 ... European Union br minority POL agency Commission of the Lithuanian Language notice IPA Lithuanian lietuvi kalba is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official language s of the European Union . There are about 2.9 million native Lithuanians Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 300 000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic languages Baltic language , closely related to Latvian language Latvian , although they are not mutual intelligibility mutually intelligible . It is written in a Latin script Latin alphabet . The Lithuanian language is believed to be the most conservative language conservative living Indo European languages Indo European language , retaining many features of Proto Indo European language Proto Indo European now lost in other Indo European ... pages 9 quote linguist generally accepted that Lithuanian language is the most archaic among live ... File Lithuanian language in the 16th century.png left thumb Area of the Lithuanian language in the 16th ... in Lithuanian around 1503 , rewritten from 15th century original text File Lithuanian language in European language map 1741.jpg thumb A map of European languages 1741 with the first verse of the Lord ... living Indo European language. ref name zinkevicius ref http www.britannica.com eb article 9048523 Lithuanian language Lithuanian Language . Encyclop dia Britannica . ref Lithuanian and other Baltic ... dialects of a single language. At a minimum, transitional dialects existed until the 14th ... Governor General of Lithuania, banned the language in education and publishing, Lithuanian press ban ... language. The conventions of written Lithuanian had been evolving during the 19th century, but Jablonskis ... more details
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