Linguistic Studies

Language schools,italy

2010-09-26T03:12:00.000-07:00

Ciao italiano,rome has 2 week language courses from £315.
Search Amazon.com for italian english dictionary

Search Amazon.com for italian dictionary oxford

Words of a lost peruvian language found on paper at archaeological site

2010-09-24T06:37:00.000-07:00

A yellowed piece of paper found in a ruined church in a village called magdalena de cao viejo in the la libertad region in northern peru may be the only written record of a lost language.
That lost language may be either Quingnam,the language of the chimor people/kingdom or pescadora,spoken in coastal fishing communities.
The paper contains arabic numerals and spanish words for numbers,then the unknown language
Search Amazon.com for chimor
Search Amazon.com for peru archaeology

learning irish gaelic courses etc

2010-07-05T11:38:00.000-07:00

Search Amazon.com for irish language learning
Search Amazon.com for irish language dictionary
Search Amazon.com for irish language dvd

Oideas Gael,glencolumbkille,donegal
http://www.oideas-gael.com/

Learning welsh courses etc

2010-05-31T09:24:00.000-07:00

Nant gwrtheyrn,gwynedd has residental courses for welsh language learners

Some turkish placename elements

2010-05-18T12:04:00.000-07:00

cay;stream
ilce;town
kent;town
koy;village
sehir;town
tepe;hill
yigin;hill
yokus;hill

Symbols on pictish stones are language

2010-04-09T09:14:00.000-07:00

Statistical analysis indicates that the symbols etc on pictish stones are a language.
This was done by comparing over 400 known (pictish?)texts,pistish symbols were found to be comparable to a language with a small vocabulary.
Pictish stones might be memorials to the dead.

basque place name elements

2010-03-08T15:23:00.000-08:00

baso;wood
gagna;mountain
mendi;mountain(from latin)

Guardian/observer language learning guides

2010-02-06T11:08:00.000-08:00

Today(6 february 2010,the guardian had the first(Japanese)of a series of language learning guides during next week.
Series will include spanish and mandarin.

Last speaker of Bo,an andamanese language dies

2010-02-06T10:46:00.000-08:00

Mrs Boa sr who was born in the 1920s survived diseases brought by settlers,the japanese occupation as well as the 2004 tsunami was the last fluent speaker of bo,one of 10 Great andamanese languages,believed to date back to earliest human inhabition of the islands,65,000 years ago.

She also spoke hindi and another local language,but spend the last years unable to talk with anyone in her mother language.

Member of related tribes couldn't understand the Bo songs and stories spoken by this woman.
Red Cell Genetic Abnormalities, [beta]-Globin Gene Haplotypes, and APOB Polymorphism in the Great Andamanese, A Primitive Negrito Tribe of Andaman and ... Included): An article from: Human Biology

possible Maori place name element,new zealand

2010-01-24T16:06:00.000-08:00

A dictionary of Maori place namesAo;cloud
aupaki;slope
awa;river,stream
awaawa;valley
hainga;village
harapaki;steep slope
kahiwi;ridge
kaka;bridge
kapua;cloud
maunga;:mountain
moana;sea
one;beach
pukaki;river
puke;hill
puketai;hillside
ranga;ridge
rangaranga;hill
rapaki;hillside
riu;valley
roa;long
tahinga;slope
tahuna;beach
tai;sea
taukahawi;ridge
taumati;hiltop
tautara;hilltop
wai;river
wharua;valley

arabic place name element

2009-12-20T12:30:00.000-08:00

Jebel/djebel;mountain
malaqi;riverconfluence
Ras;point,peninsula
siq;gorge
wadi;river?

Welsh placenames elements

2009-11-16T11:11:00.000-08:00

aber;confluence,river mouth
Afon;river
Coed;wood
frwd;stream
llan
llyn;lake

Language in Nepal believed to be related to papuan languages

2009-10-14T11:12:00.000-07:00

Kusunda ,a language spoken by perhaps 5 people in western Nepal may be related to the papuan language group.

Some,at least, of the words in the kusunda language are similiar in both spelling and meaning to words in both Papuan and andamanese languages.

One theory is that this language originated 75,000 years ago.

words include

wadar,to flow

Scottish celtic placename elements

2009-08-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

Ab;river
aber;river confluence
abhainn;river
allt;stream,brook
looks similiar to a thracian word
ard;cape
baile;stead,farm
ben;mountain
related to welsh pen
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cet;a wood
easlwaterfall
eglis;church
eilean;island
gaoth;(Tidal)inlet,marsh,bog
glen;valley
pen;head,end,mainly southern scotland
pert(h);grove,wood
pett;place
pit;place

Italian guides etc avaible in guardian and observer 11 -17 July 2009

2009-07-12T07:21:00.000-07:00

there will be 2? cds to help learn italian and possibly 4-5? phrasebooks over this period avaible in either the guardian or observer

Guardian and Observer;5 jULY 2009 - 11 jULY 2009?

2009-07-04T09:11:00.000-07:00

CDs concerning spanish will be distributed via the newspapers on saturday today

translation software and tools on Internet

2009-05-08T09:28:00.000-07:00

Google has a translation tool

Babelfish

Lexichem is software that translate english chemical names into seven languages.

www.itunes.com.apps/iTranslatePlus translate text into 42 languages

Indus symbols are unknown language

2009-04-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

Symbols on amulets and tablets of the Indus Civilization are an unknown language ,according to the conclusion of a new study in Science magazine,using a computer programme.

New languages discovered in china

2009-04-22T11:31:00.000-07:00

Researchers have discovered 24 new languages in southern china.

The new languages are associated with the Phula ethic group.

Speakers of each new language are unable to understand each other.

Among the new discovered languages are
Alo Phola
azla
pholo

Hill and its cognatives

2009-03-30T12:18:00.000-07:00

A hill is an elevation.

Hill derives from Old English hyll which in turn ultimately comes from Proto-Indo-european *kel,*kol to rise

Related to
Greek;kolonos
Latin;collis
Lith;kalnas;mountain
Low German hull
sanskrit;kutam;top

also related to holm;island

Apple, melon and cognatives

2009-03-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

the word apple originally come from PIE *abel/abl.

Cognatives in IE languages include

Baltic;abola
Gaulic;avallo
German;apfel
Polish;Jablko
Serb;Jabuko
Welsh;afal

the word abalone(a type of Pacific shellfish) is derived from a word related to apple

Placenames related to apple include

Appleby
Appleford
Avella,a town near Naples
Avallon, France

head and its cognatives

2009-02-18T13:02:00.000-08:00

Head was originally heafod in old english.

Derived originally from PIE *kauput

Cognatives in other indo-european language are

German;hsupt
Latin;caput
greek kefalo?
Sanskrit;kaput

placenames possibly connected are
cefalu
cephalonia

Teaching languages in schools

2009-01-14T13:21:00.000-08:00

Software avaible;
Eduk8me uses games,Gujarati,Hindi, Polish and urdu
Rosetta stone
Talkingpen; a pupil can follow English words in their own language

Websites; http://universed.co.uk

Learning a language websites

2008-12-20T14:43:00.000-08:00

http://www.busuu.com/.
Social network where you can learn English, French, German or Spanish.

www.bbc.co.uk/language
chinese,french,gaelic,german,greek,irish,italian,japanese,polish,portuguese,slovak,spanish,urdu,
welsh.
12 week courses

http://www.coffeebreakspanish.com/
podcast course
lessons last 15-20 minutes

http://www.livemocha.com/
160 hours of 21 languages for free.

http://www.mangolanguages.com/

http://www.myngle.com/

http://www.parlo.com/

http://www.verbalplanet.com/
usual languages,plus russian,turkish danish,dutch swedish,czech and arabic

http://www.babbel.com/
english,french,german,spanish

Water and its cognatives

2008-12-03T06:11:00.000-08:00

Originally from IE *water, it has cognatives in the following languages.
armenian,macedonian and phrgyian;Bedu
Gaelic;uisge; rivernames Ouse and Usk,axe,exeter whiskey and origin of the word whiskey

German;Wasser
greek;hydro
Hittite;vatar

Rivernames which are related possibly include the following;

Bedinja;croatia

Weser;germany