Kinyarwanda language - Kinyarwanda language Kinyarwanda is the chief spoken language in Rwanda. It is classified as a Bantu dialect. It is somewhat close to the Kirundi language spoken in the neighboring country, Burundi. Unfortunately, there is little or no resource material for English language speakers to use to learn Kinyarwanda. French language speakers will have more luck, as there are a few books about Kinyarwanda (language and grammar) in French. Example translations Yego = Yes Oya = No Ndabizi = I know Simbizi = I don't know Amazi = water Nda shaka amazi = I'd like water. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Inflected language - Inflected language In an inflected language, words change form according to grammatical function - this is called inflection. Contrast isolating languages, which present the same information with word order and helper words more often than highly inflected languages do. Often the unmodified word root is a valid word by itself. However, distinguishing helper words from prefixes or suffixes in some languages (such as Japanese) can bring difficulty. Several Native American languages are perhaps the most highly inflected languages known. The Navajo language is famous for its use by the United States during World War II as a spoken code. Other highly inflected languages include Mohawk, Inuktitut and Nahuatl. These languages inflect words to such a degree that a single word is often translated as an entire sentence.
International auxiliary language - International auxiliary language An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. See also lingua franca. The term "auxiliary" implies that it is intended to be an additional language for the people of the world, rather than replace their native languages. Often, the phrase is used to refer to constructed languages proposed specifically to ease worldwide international communication, such as Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Volapük, and others. However, it can also refer to the concept of such a language being determined by international consensus, including even a natural language so chosen. Invented auxiliary languages are not widely used, nor have natural languages such as English and French penetrated universally,.
Indian languages - 4 Phonetic Alphabet 5 External Link Official Languages India's official language is Hindi written in the Devanagri script. It is the primary tongue of 30% of the people. While English enjoys associate status, it is widely spoken and is one of the most important languages for national, political, and commercial communication. Other official languages of India include Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, as well as Bangla or Bengali, the official language of Bangladesh. Linguists think of Hindi and Urdu as the same language, the difference being that Hindi is written in Devanagari script and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu is written in Arabic script and draws on Persian and Arabic. The States are free to decide their own regional languages for internal administration and education, so there are 18.
Italian language - Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 62 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North. Italian has double (or long) consonants, like Latin (but unlike most modern Romance languages, e.g. French and Spanish). As in most Romance languages (with the notable exception of French), stress is distinctive. Italian is the official language of Italy, San Marino and an official language in the Ticino and Grigioni cantons or regions of Switzerland. It is also the second official language in Vatican City and in some areas of Istria in Slovenia and Croatia with Italian minority. It is widely used by immigrant.
Hausa language - Hausa language Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers as it is spoken by about 30 million people. It is mainly spoken in the African country of Niger and the north of Nigeria. It has had a written form for more than 200 years. First an Arabic script was used, but this has been superseded mostly by a Latin script which was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. Hausa is a tone language. Each of its five vowels a,e,i,o and u may have low tone, high tone and falling tone. For representing it in HTML for example the french accented vowels may be used: à è ì ò ù (low tone) á é í ó ú (high tone) â ê î.
History of the English Language - History of the English Language History of the English Language Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Old English 2 Period of French Domination 3 Middle and Modern English 4 Historic English text samples 4.1 Old English 4.2 Middle English 4.3 Early modern English 4.4 Modern English 5 See Also Old English The principal invading Germanic tribes were the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Their Anglo-Saxon dialects developed into Old English. The most commonly used words today derive from those early Anglo-Saxon roots, but English vocabulary has also been greatly influenced over time. First, it was influenced by Scandinavian invaders who spoke Old Norse, which was probably mutually comprehensible with Old English. Later, the language was influenced, to an even greater extent, by the French-speaking Norman invaders. It has been aruged.
Ubykh language - Ubykh language Ubykh is a language of the Northwestern Caucasian group, which was spoken by the people of the same name up until the early 1990s. It is characterised, like most other Northwest Caucasian languages, by the following features: Ubykh is an ergative language, making no distinction between the subject of an intransitive sentence and the direct object of a transitive sentence. It is highly agglutinative, using mainly monosyllabic or bisyllabic roots, but with single morphological words sometimes reaching eight or nine syllables in length. Affixes rarely fuse in any way. It has a simple nominal system, contrasting just four noun cases, and not marking grammatical number in the direct or locative cases. Its system of verbal agreement is frighteningly complex. English verbs must agree only with.
Ugaritic language - Ugaritic language The Ugaritic language is known to us only in the form of writings found in the lost city of Ugarit since its discovery by French archaeologists in 1928. It has been extremely important for scholars of the Old Testament in clarifying Hebrew texts and has revealed more of how Judaism used common phrases, literary idioms, and expressions employed by surrounding pagan cultures. Ancient Near Eastern scholar Cyrus Gordon(The Ancient Near East, p. 99) assesses Ugaritic as "the greatest literary discover from antiquity since the deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform." Texts discovered at Ugarit include the "Legend of Keret", the "Aghat Epic" (or "Legend of Danel"), the "Myth of Baal-Aliyan", and the "Death of Baal", all revealing a Canaanite mythology. Ugaritic is a.
Ukrainian language - Ukrainian language Ukrainian is an East Slavic language closely related to Russian but with some regular differences. The most close language to Ukrainian is Byelorusian. Russian o often corresponds to Ukrainian i, as in pod/pid "under". This also happens when Ukrainian words are declined, such as rik (nom):rotsi (loc) "year". Also, Russian g corresponds to Ukrainian h, which is written with the same letter. (A modified form of the letter is used for g, but not universally. In borrowed words g is regularly transformed to h.) (Russian has no h sound but uses g in such words as gipnotizirovat. Czech also has h corresponding to Russian g. This alternation is old in Slavic.) Ukrainian case endings are somewhat different from Russian, and the vocabulary includes a large.
Gascon language - Gascon language The Gascon language is an Occitan dialect mostly spoken in Gascony (in the French departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Gers, Gironde, a part of Lot-et-Garonne, a part of Haute-Garonne, and a part of Ariège), and in the small Spanish valley Val d'Aran, in the Northwest of Catalonia. Some linguists consider it a separate language but usually these are not speakers of Gascon. Gascon comprises four subdialects: Landese (Landais) Bearnese (Béarnais) Ariegese (Ariégeois) Aranese (Aranès) Of these, only Aranese is spoken in Spain. Aranese has been greatly influenced by Catalan and Aragonese. This influence differentiates it from the dialects of Gascon spoken in France. Aranese is co-official with Spanish and Catalan in the Val d'Aran. Gascon and the Basque language have had mutual influences..
Yiddish language - Yiddish language Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. The name Yiddish itself means 'Jewish' and is originally short for yidish daytsh, or 'Jewish German'; an older term in English is Judaeo-German. The language arose in central Europe between the 9th and 12th centuries as an amalgam of Middle High German dialects, incorporating also many Hebrew words. Yiddish eventually split into West and East Yiddish. The latter in turn split into Northeast and Southeast Yiddish. Modern Yiddish, and especially East Yiddish, contains a great many words derived from Slavic languages. Like Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish), Yiddish is generally written using an adaptation of the Hebrew alphabet. However, Yiddish itself is not linguistically related to Hebrew, despite containing a large component.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - of Belgium. It was founded in 1425 and is now the oldest Catholic university in the world still in existence. With the steady rise to renewed prominence of the Dutch language, the then-bilingual University was eventually split in 1968 into two new universities. The French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain moved to a newly built campus in Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia, Belgium. The Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven remained in Leuven. One European survey ranks K.U.Leuven among the top ten European universities in terms of its scientific output..
Kapuskasing, Ontario - War I it was the site of an internment camp that held over 1,200 prisoners. After the war, a paper mill was established. The mill, now owned by Tembec, is still the town's lifeblood. Kapuskasing's locally-originated media include English-language commercial radio station CKAP-FM, branded Moose FM; French-language community radio station CKGN-FM; and the English-language Kapuskasing Northern Times and bilingual Le/The Weekender community newspapers..
Khmer Rouge - the Party of Democratic Kampuchea. They became infamous for their role in the genocide of between 900,000 and 2 million Cambodians under the leadership of Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge means "Red Khmer" in French, Khmer being the name of the dominant ethnicity of Cambodia. The name Angka, in the Khmer language, was also associated with the CPK. Until the mid-1990s the leadership of the CPK was largely unchanged since the 1960s. The Standing Committee of the Central Committee ("Party Center") comprised Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ta Mok, Khieu Samphan, Ke Pauk, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Yun Yat, and Ieng Thirith. The leadership of the Khmer Rouge had mostly studied advanced degrees in France. Until 1970, Cambodia was a constitutional monarchy. Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed on March 18, 1970, and brought.
King Ottokar's Sceptre - notices a spring cannon in a toy store. He returns to the treasure room with Thomson & Thompson and a stick the size of the sceptre and shows them that the camera is really a spring cannon in disguise. Thomson & Thompson cross the river with Tintin and look for the scepter in the birch forest. It is found by the Bordurians, whom they follow. At the border, Tintin wrests the scepter from a Bordurian and takes a plane, which is shot down. He makes the rest of the journey by foot; Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin's pocket) just as King Muskar is about to abdicate. The king makes Tintin a knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican, the first foreigner to be.
Kol Nidre - the course of time by some rabbis, and in the nineteenth century expunged from the prayer-book by many communities of western Europe, this prayer has often been employed out of context by anti-Semites to support their claims that Jews cannot be trusted. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Form of Prayer 2 Origin 3 Adoption into the prayer services 4 Change of tense from past to future 5 Language 6 Method of Recitation 7 Use by Anti-Semites 8 Refers Only to Individual Vows 9 Jewish Opposition Form of Prayer Before sunset on the eve of the Day of Atonement, when the congregation has gathered in the synagogue, the Ark is opened and two people take from it two Torah scrolls. Then they take their places, one on each side of the cantor,.
Krzysztof Kieslowski - it may be the best dramatic work ever done specifically for television, and the most impressive religious art produced in any field during recent decades. Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick described "The Decalogue" as the only masterpiece he could name in his lifetime. During his career, Krzysztof Kieslowski made several commercially successful films in the French language, filmed both in Poland and in France. His commercial motion pictures were co-written by him and although fiction, were also social commentaries, centered on a variety of moral issues. In 1990, he received international acclaim with the film La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Véronique) starring Irene Jacob. Irene Jacob and Krzysztof Kieslowski His last work, a trilogy, is regarded by many as the finest single collection of films ever made. Critic, Roger.
Krahn - Krahn is an ethnic group of Liberia, it is also the language traditionally spoken by these people. Ethnic group The Krahn are a native tribe of people, who were present in the area known as Liberia before the formation of this country. When Liberia was founded in 1847 the Americo-Liberians tended to live on the coast, with the native tribes (including the Krahn) residing inland. It is thought that the Krahn were traditionally farmers, growing food, and keeping a few animals. Hunting and fishing was also practised. In terms of religion, many Krahn believe that objects have spirits or souls (animism). Language There are two variations of the language, Eastern and Western Krahn. Western Krahn is spoken in parts of Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia. From 1991 and 1993 research, there were.
Krystyna Skarbek - into Poland where she was also able to record German troop movements, information that she sent back to British Intelligence. She was arrested twice, but on both occasions she managed to get away. After her second escape from enemy hands she fled to England where she joined the Special Operations Executive. Fluent in the French language, she was assigned to SOE's F Section and given the name Christine Granville under which she became most commonly known. Vera Atkins, assistant to the head of F Section, knew Krystyna Skarbek well. She referred to Skarbek as a very brave woman with tremendous guts but a law unto herself who, despite her good looks, was actually a loner. Chosen to replace SOE agent Cecily Lefort who had been captured and brutally tortured (and later.
