Infobox language name Kanuri states NIG , NGA , TCD , CMR region West Africa speakers 4 million date 1985 date 2006 ethnicity Kanuri people Kanuri Yerwa Kanuri people Yerwa Kanuri etc. , Kanembu people ... iso3 kau lc1 knc ld1 Central Kanuri lc2 kby ld2 Manga Kanuri lc3 krt ld3 Tumari Kanuri lc4 bms ld4 Bilma Kanuri This and the following code aren t part of the macrolanguage per SIL lc5 kbl ld5 Kanembu language Kanembu map Kanuri languages map 001.png mapcaption Map of the majority usage of the five major languages of the Kanurilanguage group. BMS Kanuri, Bilma KNC Kanuri, Central KBY Kanuri, Manga ... Saharan languages Nilo Saharan . Kanuri is the language associated with the Kamem Empire Kanem and Bornu ... language Hausa or Arabic language Arabic as a second language. Geographic distribution Kanuri is spoken ... eg Cyffer 1998 regard them as dialects of a single language. The first three are spoken by ethnic Kanuri people Kanuri and thought by them as dialects of their language. Central Kanuri Manga Kanuri Tumari Kanuri Kanembu language Kanembu Written KanuriKanuri has been written using the Ajami script ... Kanuri Orthography in Nigeria was developed by the Kanuri Research Unit and the KanuriLanguage ... of the KanuriLanguage Board, under the Chairmanship of Abba Sadiq, Vizier Waziri of Bornu Empire Borno . It was officially approved by the KanuriLanguage Board in Maiduguri , Nigeria, in 1975. ref Dictionary of the Kanurilanguage . Norbert Cyffer, John P. Hutchison, 1990. ISBN 9067654124 ref ... gumanitarnyj universitet . Hutchison, John P. 1981. The KanuriLanguage. A Reference Grammar . Madison University of Wisconsin. Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm 1854. Grammar of the Bornu or KanuriLanguage ... si cle. Cahiers d tudes africaines , 12 46 277 290. Lukas, Johannes 1937. A Study of the KanuriLanguage ... knc.html Map of Central Kanurilanguage from the LL Map project http multitree.org codes knc Information on Central Kanurilanguage from the MultiTree project Incubator code kr http wold.livingsources.org ... more details
Kanuri is the surname to a family which belongs to Andhra Pradesh , India . As per histories heard from the ancestors it is believed that they hail from a place called Kavatharam near Gudivada, Krishna District . Later they have moved and settled across India. A few of the places include Nuzvid , Hyderabad India Hyderabad and Vijayawada . The persons who come to fame include Kanuri Ranjith Kumar , Rajkumar Kanuri and Kanuri Lakshmana Rao . Category Indian family names Category Telugu language surnames ... more details
about the Kanuri people the languageKanurilanguage ethnic group group Kanuri people image File Kanuri languages map 001.png 300px caption Extent of the five main Kanurilanguage groups today. poptime ... ref languages Kanurilanguage religions Islam , Oriental Orthodoxy Citation needed date April ... processing. ref name Decalo1997 Names and subgroups Kanuri peoples include several subgroups, and identify by different names in some regions. The Kanurilanguage , which derived from Kanembu , was the major language of the Borno Empire Kanuri remains a major language in southeastern Niger, northeastern ... of the sedentary population, the Kanuri are commonly called Beri Beri a Hausa language Hausa name ... . ref Kanuri speak the Kanurilanguage , or one of its related languages a member of the Nilo Saharan ... Kanuri, and the more distinct Kanembu language . ref http www.ethnologue.com show family.asp?subid 90887 Kanurilanguage cluster Ethnologue . ref Inheriting the religious and cultural traditions ... and southern Kanem Prefecture . Although Kanuri, which derived from Kanembu, was the major language of the Borno Empire, in Chad Kanurilanguage speakers are limited to handfuls of speakers in urban centers. Kanuri remains a major language in southeastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria , and northern ... Sherrff crop 2007.jpg thumb right 200px Ali Modu Sheriff , a Kanuri politician and governor of Borno .... The mounted knight was central to the Bornu state, and many Kanuri people still value horsemanship and horses. The Kanuri people Kanouri , Kanowri , also Yerwa and several subgroup names are an Africa ... people profile.php?rog3 CM&rop3 104605 ref . Those generally termed Kanuri include several subgroups and dialect groups, some of whom feel themselves distinct from the Kanuri. Most trace their origins ... to neighboring Toubou people Toubou or Zaghawa people Zaghawa pastoralists, Kanuri groups have traditionally ... verbatim. ref The largest population of Kanuri reside in the northeast corner of Nigeria , where the ceremonial ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Yerwa Kanuri is an ethnic group in Nigeria , Cameroon , Chad , Niger and Sudan . They speak Kanurilanguage Central Kanuri , a Nilo Saharan language. The population of this group is several millions. Most Yerwa Kanuri are Islam Muslims . Category Ethnic groups in Nigeria Category Ethnic groups in Sudan Category Ethnic groups in Cameroon Category Ethnic groups in Chad Category Ethnic groups in Niger Category Muslim communities in Africa Nigeria stub Sudan ethno group stub Niger stub Cameroon stub ... more details
. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kumar, Kanuri Ranjith ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... DATE OF DEATH 1984 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kumar, Kanuri Ranjith Category 1984 deaths Category 1938 ... more details
cleanup date September 2008 unreferenced date September 2008 Infobox President name Dr.K.L.Rao image birth date July 15, 1902 birth place Kankipadu , Andhra Pradesh death date May 18, 1986 death place party spouse occupation religion Hinduism Dr. Kanuri Lakshmana Rao Telugu language Telugu B.E. , Ph.D. born 15 July 1902 died 18 May 1986 is an India n engineer and a Padma Bhushan awardee. Honours In 1963, Rao was awarded Padma Bhushan by the president of India for his contribution in the areas of irrigation and power. He worked as president of Irrigation and Central board in the year 1960. He also worked as the president of All India Engineers Association in 1958 59 & 1959 1960. He was awarded doctorate in science by Andhra University in 1960. He was also awarded doctorate by the Roorkee University in engineering in the year 1968. Personal life and education Rao was born in a middle class Brahmin family in Kankipadu , Krishna district , Andhra Pradesh . His father was a village attorney. He lost his father when he was 9 years old. He lost vision in one eye due to injury during childhood days while playing at school. He studied Intermediate 2 at Presidency College, Chennai Presidency College , Madras. He took his B.E. degree from Madras University and he was the first student from Madras University to obtain a Master s Degree in engineering. Later he took his Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom . Engineering career He worked as a Professor in Rangoon and Burma . After completing PHD he worked as Assistant Professor in the United Kingdom. He wrote a book called Structural Engineering and Reinforced Concrete . After returning to India, he worked as a design engineer for the Madras government. He held the post of Director Designs in Vidyut Commission New Delhi in the year 1950. He was promoted as chief engineer in the year 1954. He is Father of India s Water Management and Agriculture. Because of Him only crores of ... more details
Infobox language name Kanembu states Chad speakers 461,000 date 2006 ethnicity Kanembu people Kanembu familycolor Nilo Saharan fam2 Saharan languages Saharan fam3 Western Saharan languages Western fam4 KanurilanguageKanuri iso3 kbl Kanembu is a Nilo Saharan languages Nilo Saharan language spoken in Chad by the Kanembu people . It is closely related to KanurilanguageKanuri . References Jouannet, Francis 1977. Essai d inventaire phon tique du parler kanembou des Ngaldoukou du Sud Kanem. tudes phonologiques tchadiennes Jean Pierre Caprile, d. , pp. 129 143, Paris SELAF. Jouannet, Francis 1982. Le kanembou des Ngaldoukou langue saharienne parl e sur les rives septentrionales du lac Tchad phon matique et prosodie . Paris SELAF. Lukas, Johannes 1931. Die Sprache der K idi Kanemb in Kanem . Hamburg C. Boysen. External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code kbl Ethnologue report on Kanembu http llmap.org languages kbl.html Map of Kanembu language from the LL Map project http multitree.org codes kbl Information on Kanembu language from the MultiTree project http www.panafril10n.org wikidoc pmwiki.php PanAfrLoc Kanuri PanAfriL10n page on Kanuri includes Kanembu http kanembou.net http kanembou.net photos and language recordings Category Saharan languages Category Languages of Chad Chad stub ns lang stub br Kanemboueg de Kanembu Sprache fr Kanembou mk pms Lenga Kanembu pt L ngua kanembu ... 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 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
Infobox language name Putai states Nigeria region Borno State speakers 50 familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Chadic languages Chadic fam3 Biu Mandara languages Biu Mandara fam4 Biu Mandara A languages A fam5 Bura Marghi languages Bura Marghi fam6 Bura languages Bura iso3 mfl Putai also known as Marghi West is a nearly extinct Afro Asiatic languages Afro Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria . The language is dying out in favor of KanurilanguageKanuri . ref Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue Languages of the World . 15th edition. Dallas Summer Institute of Linguistics. ref Notes Reflist References http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code mfl Ethnologue report for Putai External links Category Biu Mandara languages Category Languages of Nigeria Category Endangered Afro Asiatic languages BiuMandara lang stub Nigeria stub br Poutaieg hr Putai jezik ... more details
Infobox language name Teda nativename Tegaga familycolor Nilo Saharan states Chad , Niger , Nigeria , Libya region Chad, Borkou Ennedi Tibesti Region BET Region , Eastern Niger speakers 42,000 ethnicity Teda people fam2 Saharan languages Saharan fam3 Western Saharan fam4 Tebu languages Tebu iso3 tuq lingua 02 BAA aa The Teda language, Tedaga , belongs to the Saharan languages Saharan subfamily of the Nilo Saharan languages Nilo Saharan , spoken in northern Chad and eastern Niger by the Teda people . Tebu languages Tebu is used for both the northern dialect Teda proper and the southern dialect Dazaga language Dazaga , but sometimes Teda is used for Tebu. References Barth, Heinrich 1854. Schreiben an Prof. Lepsius uber die Beziehung der Kanori und Teda Sprachen. Zeitschrift fur Erdkunde , 2 372 74, 384 87. Chonai, Hassan 1998. Gruppa teda kanuri centra nosaxarskaja sem ja jazykov i ee geneti eskie vzaimootno enija timologi eskij i fonologi eskij aspekt . Moskva PhD. Dissertation Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universitet . Haggar, Inouss & K. Walters 2005. Lexique tubu dazaga fran ais et glossaire fran ais tubu . Niamey SIL, Niger. Jourdan, P. 1935. Notes grammaticales et vocabulaire de la langue Daza . London Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trubner. Le Coeur, C. 1950. Dictionnaire ethnographique t da, pr c d d un lexique fran ais t da . Dakar IFAN. LeCoeur, C., and M. LeCoeur 1956. Grammaire et textes teda daza . Memoires de l IFAN 46. Dakar Institut Francais d Afrique Noire. Lukas, Johannes 1951 52. Umrisse einer ostsaharanischen Sprachgruppe. Afrika und Ubersee , 36 3 7. Lukas, Johannes 1953. Die Sprache der Tubu in der zentralen Sahara . Berlin Akademie Verlag. External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code tuq Ethnologue report http llmap.org languages tuq.html Map of Tedaga language from the LL Map project http multitree.org codes tuq.html Information on Tedaga language from the MultiTree project Category Saharan languages Category Languages of Chad ... more details
Boro language may refer to Bodo language , a Tibeto Burman language spoken in India, official language of Assam state Boro language Ghana , an extinct and unclassified language of Ghana Boro language Ethiopia , an Omotic language of Ethiopia disambig ko ... more details
Koro language may refer to Koro language India Koro language New Guinea Koro language Vanuatu Koro language Mande Jilic languages Nigeria Koro Wachi language Nigeria dab ... more details
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