Meadows, Thomas Taylor. Translations from the manchu, an essay on the language

(автор неизвестен) Peace Corps Vanuatu, 2010. - 20 p. Bislama is the national language of the Republic of Vanuatu. It is a pidgin derived from English, French and indigenous languages that is spoken throughout the country as the lingua franca; a common tongue which enables communication between the many different language communities of Vanuatu. There are more than one hundred recognized languages spoken in Vanuatu by the approximately 220, 00...

Fedden O. A Grammar of Mian, a Papuan Language of New Guinea. Melbourne. 2007. 499 p. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of the Mian language of Papua New Guinea. The corpus data on the basis of which I analyzed the structures of the language and their functions was obtained during nine months of field work in Yapsiei and Mianmin, Telefomin District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The areas of grammar I cover in this thesis are phonology (...

1986 (Cambridge language surveys) Papuan languages In some respects this book may seem premature. Papuan languages are probably the most poorly known in the world; of over 700 languages in more than sixty language families, no more than fifty languages or less than ten per cent are in any sense adequately documented. For some languages little more than a name is available, and for many others only a brief word-list. Indeed, entire language fami...

Giv?n T. The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam / Philadelphia. 2002 394 p. Volumes in this series will be functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies. The orientation of the volumes will be substantive rather than formal, with the aim of investigating universals of human lang...

(автор неизвестен) Corps Foreign Language Training Center, 367 p. Tamil (?????) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Tamil is one of the...

Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1892, - 53 p. There is as yet no grammar of the Manchu language in English. Wylie's translation of Tsing Wen Ki Mung (????), Shanghai, 1855, a kind of Manchu hand-book for the use for Chinese, though useful and full of interest, is by no means a grammar.

Nguyen Hy Quang. English-Lao Phrasebook with Useful Wordlist for Laotians. - Center for Applied Linguistics, 1980. - 159 p. English phrases with Lao translations are presented under the following headings: coping with the language barrier, useful forms of etiquette, giving information about yourself, recognizing signs, converting weights and measures, using numbers, dealing with money, dealing with time, locating things, describing things and p...

Refsing, Kirsten (1986). The Ainu language: the morphology and syntax of the Shizunai dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 301 pp. The Ainu Language is organized into two major sections. Part I, "Introduction", is an excellent overview and summary of the previous work on the Ainu language, from the earliest seventeenth-centuryr eferences, to the pioneering works of Kindaichi and Chiri, and to the modern, postwar research by Japanese linguis...

University of Calcutta, 1943. - 138 p. The aim of the author is principally to introduce the Prakrit language to students who have to study the epigraphs written in that language. An attempt has been made in these pages to describe Prakrit as it was known to the earlier grammarians Vararuchi, Katyayana and Bhamaha, with special reference to Pali, Epigraphic Prakrit and the works of such medieval authorities as Hemachandra and Purushottama.

Alpha | 2003. You're no idiot, of course. You studied a foreign language, you can give good hand signals to a driver parallel parking, and you know when your boss is in a bad mood based on body language. But when it comes to using sign language, you feel like you're all thumbs. Don't throw up your hands yet! When you finish reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Sign Language, you'll have enough knowledge of the basic sign handshapes, gra...