Infobox language name Tulu Bohuai nativename speakers 1400 states Papua New Guinea region central Manus Island and Peli Island , Manus Province familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Admiralty Islands languages Admiralty Islands fam5 Eastern Admiralty Islands languages Eastern Admiralty Islands fam6 Manus languages Manus fam7 West Manus languages West Manus iso3 rak The Tulu Bohuai language is a West Manus languages West Manus language spoken by approximately 1400 people on central Manus Island and on Peli Island , Manus Province , Papua New Guinea . ref name Ethnologue http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code rak Ethnologue report for Tulu Bohuai ref References reflist Category Admiralty Islands languages Category Languages of Papua New Guinea au lang stub ... more details
Tulu may refer to Tululanguage T l , Balakan , Azerbaijan T l , Lerik , Azerbaijan dab Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
Refimprove date November 2008 Kasaragod Tulu is the variety of TululanguageTulu spoken in northern ... proposed to set up a Tulu academy at Manjeshwaram in the Kasaragod district ref http www.daijiworld.com news news disp.asp?n id 53917&n tit Kasargod Tulu Janapada Jatre to be Held at Perla ref ref http mallulive.com m groups view KASARAGOD ref . Similarities The Malayalam Tamil language and the Tululanguage are closely related. Though traditionally and culturally Tulu Nadu was a part of Kerala, it became ... 3 Malayalam Tulu Scripts ref See also Kasaragod Malayalam TululanguageTulu Malayalam History of Tulu ... www.boloji.com places 0018.htm Tulu Information 2 Category Tululanguage Kerala stub ml ... dialect of Tulu. ref cite news url http www.boloji.com places 0020a.htm title Tulu Information 1 Southwest dialect stated ref The Tulu spoken in this region is influenced by Malayalam and differs a little bit from Tulu spoken in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District of Karnataka . ref cite news url http www.boloji.com places 0020a.htm title Tulu Information 2 Malayalam influenced Tulu stated ... form of Malayalam due to the mixture of Tulu and to some extent Kannada. According to the Puranas , Tulu Nadu is a part of Kerala or Parasurama Kshetram, ie., The Land of Parasurama , as the land ..., dress, customs, rituals and lifestyle of Tuluvas and Keralites are similar. For example, Tulu ... . The Malayalam spoken in the northern districts of Kerala and the Tulu spoken in the southern parts of Tulu Nadu are very similar. There are many Tulu and Malayalam words with the same meaning in both the languages. Some of the examples of similarities that are seen in Kasaragod Tulu general Tulu and Malayalam are Bolpu in Tulu means morning, the same as Vellupu in Malayalam meaning morning as well. Ponnu in Tulu meand girl, the same as Pennu in Tamil Malayalam means girl. Chaavadi in Tulu and Tamil Malayalam means Lodging house. Paruthy in Tulu and Tamil Malayalam means Cotton. Oruthy ... more details
Infobox Writing system name Tulu languages TululanguageTulu type Abugida time c. 1500 ref name The Hindu Group cite web title Tulu Academy yet to realise its goal work The Hindu publisher The Hindu Group ... tt U 11BAF tt sample Tululipi4.svg imagesize 200px contains Indic text Tulu transliteration brahmic The Tulu script TululanguageTulu Unicode Tu u lipi written Unicode File Tululipi4.svg 75px alt Image Tu u lipi in Tulu script in Tulu script, is the original script of the Tululanguage . It evolved ... There are various reasons for the decline of the Tulu script. Linguistically, Tulu was a minority language ... languageTulu as a language continues to thrive in coastal Karnataka and Kasaragod taluk Kasargod in Kerala . It has mainly survived due to the love of the Tuluva s towards their language. Tulu Sahitya Academy has introduce Tulu as a language in schools around coastal Karnataka namely Alva s High ... government permission. Tulu is also taught as a language in postgraduate level in Mangalore University ..., modestly priced Tulu Kannada English language English lexicon. The Tulu lexicon was awarded the Gundert ... 28 ref though the oldest written Tulu document available, Tulu Mahabharato TululanguageTulu lang tcy ... 2007 04 14 tulu script origin and revival.html http www.boloji.com places 0020.htm TuluLanguage Its Script and Dialects by Neria Harish Hebbar http www.yakshagana.com tulu.htm The TuluLanguage ... Category Dravidian languages Category Brahmic scripts Category Tululanguage Other languages ... from the Grantha. It was primarily used by Tulu speaking Brahmins like Shivalli Brahmins to write Vedas Vedic mantras as also translate Sanskrit works into Tulu. The oldest piece of literature written using this script is the Tulu translation of Mahabharata called Tulu Mahabharato . It is currently not used to write the Tululanguage as it uses the Kannada script for documentation. Literature in the script Compared to other South India n languages, Tulu doesn t possess a vast array of literary ... more details
Tulu or Tuluga was a small kingdom during the period of Puranas , now thought to be the TululanguageTululanguage speaking areas in the South Western Karnataka . They are also mentioned in ancient Tamil language Tamil literature. See also Kingdoms of Ancient India References Vishnu Purana Category Ancient Indian kingdoms Category Southern kingdoms of ancient India india hist stub ... more details
Orphan date January 2012 Unreferenced date September 2011 Tulu calendar also known as Varsa or Vorsa is one of the oldest traditional solar Indian calendar generally used in the regions of South West Karnataka and Northern Kerala , India . The indigenous or TululanguageTulu speaking people of Tulu Nadu and the people migrated from this region to other places are the common followers of this calender system. The first day of this calender falls on Bisu middle of Gregorian calendar Gregorian month April The 12 Tulu Month names are 1. Paggu April May 2. Besa May June 3. Kaartel June July 4. Aati July August 5. Sona August September 6. Nirnaala September October 7. Bontyolu October November 8. Jaarde November December 9. Peraarde December January 10. Ponny Puyinthel January February 11. Maayi February March 12. Suggi March April Category Specific calendars Category Kerala Category Karnataka ... more details
Kannada , Udupi district Udupi and Kasaragod district Kasaragod districts 3 languageTululanguage ... s. Language Majority of the people in this region speak TululanguageTulu . Geography Tulu Nadu lies ... is a mix of TululanguageTulu and Malayalam and others speak Urdu. Under Portugal , the region ... ref TululanguageTulu is a Dravidian languages Dravidian language of India with over three million ... of northern Kerala. Besides Tulu, Kannada language Kannada by virtue of it being the state language ... by Brahmins. ref http shivallibrahmins.com tulunadu tululanguagetululanguage and script ref Till ... in detail by Vidwan P V Puninchathaya in Tulu Nadu Nudi . The Tululanguage was also once spoken in Uttara ... knol.google.com k sri rama gowda tululanguage 3jk7smcljd66z 8 ref Tulu Nadu cuisine is popular across ... language status for Tulu and a separate state for themselves. Though a bit subdued in between, this demand ... Catholics Mangalorean Protestants Mangalorean TululanguageTulu script Kasaragod Tulu Kundagannada dialect Koraga language Temples in Tulunadu Geographic location Centre Tulu Nadu North Uttara ... Aspirant States of India.png thumb 250px Tulu Nadu is shown with other aspirant states of India . Tulu Nadu lang tcy Tu u n is a Tulu speaking region spread over to parts of present Karnataka ..., and social traits with the neighbouring Konkan and Kerala regions. Like them, Tulu Nadu is bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea and on the east by the Western Ghats . Tulu Nadu spans an area of convert .... Climate Tulu Nadu also experience heavy rainfalls during Monsoon season. The coastal area of Tulu Nadu is very rich with respect to rainforest s and backwater river backwater s. Tulu Nadu has a tropical ... ranging from 24 C to 33 C. The pleasant months are December and January. Tulu Nadu extends a high range of Tropical vegetation, sun and backwaters to explore. History Main History of Tulu Nadu Image TuluNaduLandscape.jpg thumb Tulu Nadu village scene During the birth of Christ, Tulu Nadu was inhabited ... more details
South Asian cinema TululanguageTulu film industry is pretty small South Indian film industry it produces 2 to 3 films annually. The first fim being Enna Thangadi released in 1971. Usually these films are released in theatres across the Tulu Nadu region and on DVD. ref http www.raveeshkumar.com 2006 08 tulu cinema at 35 31.html Ee Prapancha Tulu Cinema at 35 Bot generated title ref The critically acclaimed Tulu Film Suddha film Suddha , won the award for the best Indian Film at the Osian s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema Osian film festival held at New Delhi in the year 2006. ref http www.dnaindia.com report.asp?NewsID 1063429 ref ref cite news url http www.hindu.com mp 2006 04 29 stories 2006042903020300.htm location Chennai, India work The Hindu title Things fall apart date 2006 04 29 ref ref cite news url http www.hindu.com 2006 07 21 stories 2006072108810200.htm location Chennai, India work The Hindu title Filmmaker extraordinary date 2006 07 21 ref Oriyardori Asal released in 2011 is the most successful Tulu film till date. ref name Oriyardori Asal headed for 175 day run in theatres cite web title Oriyardori Asal headed for 175 day run in theatres url http www.dakshintimes.com ... ref List of Tululanguage films Div col 2 1. Enna Tangadi My Sister 2. Daredha Budadhi 3. Pagetta ... 01 23 tulu nadu and cinema part 5 TULU NADU and CINEMA ref Upcoming films Aamait Asal Eemait Kusal Bangarda Kural See also Tululanguage Cinema of Karnataka Konkani cinema References ref list External links CinemaofIndia Worldcinema state collapsed Category Tululanguage Category Tululanguage films ... publisher Dakshintimes.com accessdate November 7, 2011 ref The first Tulu fim is Enna Thangadi released .... Koti Chennaya 1973 directed by Vishu Kumar was the first history based Tulu cinema. The first Tulu ... in 1972 was the first film to receive the State government award as the best Tulu film. Bangar Patler ... Zindabad 13. Tulu Naada Siri The Richness of Tulu Nadu 14. Sangama Saakshi Witness of the Union ... more details
Tulunad , for TululanguageTulu Nad or Nadu , is the country of the Tulu people Tulu ethnic people. DEFAULTSORT History Of Tulu Nadu Category History of Karnataka ... more details
of Derartu Tulu ref The same village as Kenenisa Bekele . Derartu is one of the first African woman .... 1996 was a difficult year. At the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Tulu lost her shoe in the race ... Ejegayehu Dibaba . Radcliffe failed to finish. As of 2009, Derartu Tulu is still running competitively ... TN to TZ Derartu TULU Derartu Tulu at International Olympic Committee Footer Olympic Champions 10000 ... Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tulu, Derartu ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Athletics sport competitor DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1972 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tulu, Derartu ... Tulu de Derartu Tulu et Derartu Tulu es Derartu Tulu fr Derartu Tulu it Derartu Tulu nl Derartu Tulu ja no Derartu Tulu om Daraartuu Tulluu pl Derartu Tulu pt Derartu Tulu ru sl Derartu Tulu fi Derartu Tulu sv Derartu Tulu tr Derartu Tulu ... more details
Tulu Bolo also known as Masno Gabado is a town in central Ethiopia . Located in the Debub Mirab Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region , it has a latitude and longitude of coord 8 40 N 38 13 E display inline,title with an elevation of 2193 meters above sea level. It is the largest settlement in Becho woreda . Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency Ethiopia Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Tulu Boso has an estimated total population of 14,307 of whom 6,837 are men and 7,470 are women. ref http www.csa.gov.et text files 2005 national statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics , Table B.4 ref The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 8,011 of whom 3,708 were men and 4,303 were women. Notes reflist Category Populated places in the Oromia Region Oromia geo stub ru ... more details
Refimprove date December 2011 List of people who natively speak the Tululanguage . Rulers Tuluva Narasa Nayaka , Emperor of Vijayanagara Empire Viranarasimha Raya , Emperor of Vijayanagara Empire Krishnadevaraya , Emperor of Vijayanagara Empire Achyuta Deva Raya , Emperor of Vijayanagara Empire Sadashiva Raya , Emperor of Vijayanagara Empire Ravivarma Narasimha Domba Heggade Raja of Vitla Maipady Venkatesh Varma Raja Raja of Kumbla Abbakka Rani 16th century queen of Ullal Journalists V. T. Rajshekar Kayyar Kinhanna Rai Judiciary and lawyers K.S. Hegde Former Speaker of Lok Sabha and Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India Nitte Santhosh Hegde Karnataka Lokayuktha, Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India Rohini Salian Noted Public Prosecutor Literature, philosophy, religion Madhvacharya propounder of Dvaita philosophy Bannanje Govindacharya Vedic scholar Ratnakaravarni Kannada poet Kayyar Kinhanna Rai poet and activist P. Gururaja Bhat historian, archaeologist, researcher Vishvesha Tirtha Pontiff of Pejavara Mutt Muktananda Founder of Siddha Yoga Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Present Guru of Siddha Yoga Tradition. Mahamandaleshwar Nityananda Hindu guru, Founder Shanti Mandir Swami Krishnananda Vadirajatirtha Vishnutirtha Ratnavarma Heggade Veerendra Heggade Philanthropist Bola Chittaranjan Das Shetty Author Muddana Poet Health care Devi Prasad Shetty philanthropist and surgeon Belle Monappa Hegde Educationist and Surgeon Politics Janardhana Poojary Veerappa Moily V. S. Acharya K. Raghupati Bhat S. K. Amin Manorama Madhwaraj Former Member of Parliament , Udupi Lok Sabha constituency Udupi Lalaji Mendon D. V. Sadananda Gowda , Member of parliament Udupi A. Shanker Alva Former Member of Parliament , Mangalore ... Muthappa Rai Sharad Shetty Sadhu Shetty Ravi Pujari References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Tulu People Category Tulu people Category Tuluva Category Lists of people by ethnicity ... more details
Infobox language name Koraga nativename states India speakers 14,000 date 1981 script Kannada script familycolor Dravidian fam2 Southern Dravidian fam3 Tulu iso3 kfd Koraga language Kannada Script , also called, Koragar , Koragara , Korangi or Korra Koraga is a Dravidian languages Dravidian language spoken by the Koraga Koraga tribe , a Scheduled tribe people of Tulu Nadu , region in South West, India , Tulu Nadu comprises the districts of Udupi district Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka State and Kasaragod district of Kerala State. The language is related to TululanguageTulu and Kannada language Kannada but is not intelligible with either of them. The language is also not intelligible with Muddu Koraga, a language spoken by the Koraga tribe in Kerala. Classification Koraga is a member of the Dravidian languages Dravidian family of languages. ref cite book last Fairservis first Walter Ashlin title The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script publisher Brill Academic Publishers series Asian Studies year 1997 isbn 978 9004090668 page 16 ref ref cite book last Stassen first Leon title Intransitive Predication publisher Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory year 1997 isbn 978 0199258932 page 220 ref It is further classified into the Southern Dravidian family. Koraga is a spoken language and generally not written, whenever it is written it makes use of Kannada script. Koraga people are generally conversant in TululanguageTulu and Kannada languages and hence use those languages as a medium for producing literature. Dialects According to Bhat 1968 , there are 4 dialects Onti spoken in Udupi Tappu in Hebri Mudu in Kundapura Ande in Mangalore References reflist External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code kfd ethnologue.com Koraga http tulu research.blogspot.com 2008 04 108 koraga language primer.html Korag primer Dravidian languages Languages spoken in Kerala ... 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
takka , Kannada script is the original language of the south Karnataka district of Kodagu . The language is often called Kodava or Coorg language in English. The number of speakers is estimated at up to about 500,000. It is the primary language of Kodava s, but a large portion of other communities and tribes in Kodagu also use Kodava Takk. It belongs to the Dravidian language family, and is related to and influenced by TululanguageTulu , Kannada language Kannada , Malayalam language Malayalam and Tamil language Tamil . A majority of the words are common between Kodava Takk and Beary bashe , a dialect which is a mixture of TululanguageTulu and Malayalam spoken by the Beary ... as an independent language. It was always considered as a dialect of Kannada, closer to TululanguageTulu Ellis 1816 , or closely related to Malayalam and Tamil Moegling 1855 . It was in early 20th century that the philologists and linguists recognised it as an independent language. Although Kodava Takk is the language of the Kodavas and the Amma Kodavas , it is also the mother tongue of some ...Use dmy dates date December 2011 Infobox language name Kodava nativename states India region Kodagu speakers 122,000 date 1997 ethnicity familycolor Dravidian fam2 Southern Dravidian languages Southern ... as short and long. Balakrishnan, 1976 . These peculiarities and distinctness of the language had ... done so far to find out the variation in Kodava language in terms of these communities ... for this language in 2005. It is being promoted, but has not yet been broadly adopted by speakers of the language. http www.coorg.org 2006 05 16 drgregg cox develops script for coorg language See also ... Beary bashe References R A Cole, An Elementary Grammar of the Coorg Language http www.languageinindia.com ... that this reference uses the district name, Kodagu, rather than the language name, which it mentions later. Dravidian languages DEFAULTSORT Kodava Language Category Agglutinative languages Category ... more details
spoke a language made of Malayalam idioms with TululanguageTulu phonology and grammar. ref name ... The personal terminations found in Beary bashe may be a change borrowed from TululanguageTulu . ref ... as linguistic minority . It is said that Beary bashe is as old as TululanguageTululanguage and spoken ... years old. ref name The Hindu, Saturday, Oct 13, 2007 See also Beary TululanguageTulu Kasaragod Malayalam ...Beary Bashe Beary language is a dialect mainly spoken by the Muslim communities of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi ... with Mappilas. ref name studies ix Due to vast influence of Tulu for centuries, it is today considered as a language, close to both Malayalam and Tulu. ref name studies ix Features The Language uses Kannada language Kannada alphabet for writing. Being a distant cousin of other dialects of Malayalam and surrounded by other language family linguistic groups for centuries, mainly Tulu and Kannada language Kannada , the dialect exhibits ancient features as well as modern innovations not seen in other well known dialects of Malayalam. ref Harvnb Upadhyaya 1996 , p. 63 ref Surrounded by Tulu speaking community, the impact of Tulu on the phonological, morphological and syntactical structure of the dialect ... as case in Tulu. ref name studies 66 class wikitable Beary bashe Kannada Malayalam English Sante ... name studies 66 The same change has taken place in Tulu also. class wikitable Beary bashe Malayalam Tulu Kannada English B li V li B li B li Fence Bittu Vittu Bitte Beeja Bittu in Kannada sow in English ... level, it often becomes IPA a a , which is closer to the Tulu and Beary Bashe forms. This occurs ... Beary bashe Malayalam Tulu English P ce P cca Puche Cat M e M a Kukku Mango Loans from other languages As well as Malayalam and Tulu, we can see an influx from other languages, such as Kannada. Lexical ... in Malayalam, Tulu or Perso Arabic origin. ref name studies 79 Harvnb Upadhyaya 1996 , p.79 ref However ... Dravidian language that does not show any personal terminations or suffixes to the verbs. ref name ... more details
Infobox language name Shabo nativename Mikeyir states Ethiopia region western Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People s Region SNNPR speakers 400 500 date 2000 ethnicity Shabo people Shabo familycolor Nilo Saharan fam2 Komuz languages Komuz ? iso3 sbf lingua 05 PEA aa notice IPA Shabo also called Mikeyir is an endangered language spoken by about 600 hunter gatherers in southwestern Ethiopia , in the westernmost part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People s Region . They live in three places in the Keficho Shekicho Zone Anderaccha , Gecha , and Kaabo . Many of its speakers are shifting to other neighboring languages, in particular Majang language and Shekkacho language Shekkacho Mocha its vocabulary is heavily influenced by loanword s from both these languages, particularly Majangir, as well as Amharic language Amharic . Its classification is uncertain, though it appears to be a Nilo Saharan language Anbessa & Unseth 1989, Fleming 1991, Blench 2010 . It was first reported to be a separate language by Lionel Bender linguist Lionel Bender in 1977, using a wordlist gathered by the missionary Harvey Hoekstra . It is currently As of 2004 lc on being studied by Daniel Aberra of Addis Ababa University . Classification Once the many loanword s from its immediate neighbors, Majang ... t can occur syllable finally. The language is tonal, but its tonology is unclear. Two minimal pair ... however, there are also resemblances in the pronouns with the Omotic languages Omotic Gunza language ... tuul tuul tulu m tuul a om tulikaki ki possibly error for 6? tuul a p y tunajiita tuul a jiit tulaa an ... ? saw ? upa mana pond pik moi a man sat on a rock lit. man rock on aux.? sat See also language ... presented at the Language Isolates in Africa workshop, Lyons, December 4, 2010 Christopher Ehret Ehret ..., eds., Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2 . London SOAS. http ... DEFAULTSORT Shabo Language Category Nilo Saharan languages Category Endangered languages of Africa ... more details
Infobox language name Chamorro nativename Fino Chamorro states flag Guam br flag Northern Mariana Islands region Western Pacific Ocean speakers First language more than 60,000 ethnicity Chamorro people ... or simply Chamoru is a Malayo Polynesian Austronesian language, spoken on the Mariana Islands Guam , Rota ... to know the language. whom? date January 2012 The influence of English has caused the language to become ... decade or so, while in the Northern Mariana Islands, young Chamorros still speak the language fluently ... to promote and protect the language. Citation needed date February 2007 It is still common among Chamorro ... during the years of American rule in favor of American English Language English , which is commonplace ... languages Micronesian or Polynesian languages Polynesian language. Rather, like Palauan language Palauan , it constitutes a possibly independent branch of the Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian language family . Its indigenous origins are thus somewhat obscure. A 2008 analysis ... to the Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages . Chamorro also has much Spanish language ... be considered a mixed language, even if it is now independent and unique. ref Rafael Rodriguez Ponga ... of the regional Spanish language Spanish pronunciation of Y LL as IPA d nor are N and ... is an agglutinative language , grammatically allowing root words to be modified by a number of affixes ... . Chamorro has many Spanish language Spanish loanword s and other words have Spanish etymological ... that the language is a Spanish based creole languages Spanish Creole Chamorro very much uses its loan ..., head marking language. It has a rich agreement system both in the nominal and in the verbal domains ... English language English Modern Chamorro Old Chamorro Basic Numbers Old Chamorro Living Things ... two dos hugua hugua hugiyai takhuguan three tres tulu tato to giyai taktulun four ku ttro fatfat ... , ochenta 80 , noventa 90 . Chamorro Studies Chamorro language is studied at the University of Guam ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
