Infobox language name Buginese nativename script Bugi br lang bug Latn basa ugi region South Sulawesi ..., Malangke Ussu . Trivia The phrase thank you does not exist in Bugineselanguage, the Malay phrase ... of South Sulawesi DEFAULTSORT BugineseLanguage Category Sulawesi languages Category Sulawesi Category ... script Lontara , br Latin script Latin iso2 bug iso3 bug Buginese lang bug Latn Basa Ugi , elsewhere also Bahasa Bugis , Bugis , Bugi , De is the language spoken by about four million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi , Indonesia . History The word Buginese derives from the word Bahasa Bugis in Malay Language Malay . In Buginese, it is called lang bug Latn Basa Ugi while the Bugis people are called lang bug Latn To Ugi . lang bug Latn Ugi in Buginese means The First King which ... of this language due to the lack of written records. The earliest written record of this language is Sureq Galigo , the epic creation myth of the Bugis people. Another written source of Buginese is Lontara ... date October 2010 century, a missionary, B.F. Matthews, translated the bible into Buginese, which made him the first European to acquire knowledge of the language. He was also one of the first Europeans to master Makassar language Makassarese . The dictionaries and grammar books compiled by him ... area of South Sulawesi seeking a better life. This led to the existence of small groups of Buginese speakers throughout the Malay Archipelago . Classification Buginese is an ergative absolutive language of the Austronesian languages Austronesian language family, South Sulawesi languages South Sulawesi ..., such as lang bug Latn janrang horse , which is believed to come from the Javanese language Javanese ... shaded area shows the concentration of Buginese speakers. Most of the native speakers around 3 million are concentrated in South Sulawesi , Indonesia but there are small groups of Buginese speakers ... started in early 20th century. Aspects The following are grammatical aspect s of the language ... more details
Buginese can refer to Bugis , a nomadic Malayan people of south western Sulawesi , Indonesia . Bugineselanguage also Basa Ugi, Bahasa Bugis, Bugis, Bugi, De , spoken in the southern part of Sulawesi. Buginese script disambig ... 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 Kradai fam2 Kam Sui languages Kam Sui iso3 tct The Then language zh also spelled T en and Ten is a Kam Sui language spoken in Pingtang County , southern Guizhou . 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 Mbalo nativename Embaloh region Kalimantan states Indonesia speakers 10,000 date 1991 ethnicity familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear MP fam4 South Sulawesi languages South Sulawesi ? fam5 Bugis Tamanic ? fam6 Tamanic languages Tamanic dia1 Kalis iso3 emb Mbalo Embaloh is an Austronesian Dayak languages Dayak language of Borneo. Apart from Taman language Taman , it is not close to other languages, and its classification has long been controversial. Adelaar and Himmelmann 2005 propose that it was especially close to BugineselanguageBuginese . However, it is frequently left as an isolate within Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear Malayo Polynesian , a position supported by a 2008 lexicostatistical study. Kalis Kalis Maloh may be a distinct language. References K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005. http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian research.php Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, 2008. Category Malayo Polynesian languages au lang stub ... more details
Incubator code mdr Infobox language name Mandar nativename states IDN region Sulawesi speakers 200,000 date 1985 ethnicity familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear MP fam4 South Sulawesi languages South Sulawesi , nation agency iso2 mdr iso3 mdr Mandar also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche is an Austronesian languages Austronesian language spoken by the group ethnic Mandar living in West Sulawesi province, Indonesia , especially in the sea side regencies like Majene and Polewali Mandar as well as few settlements in the islands of Pangkep District also known as Spermonde Archipelago and Ujung Lero , small peninsula near Pare Pare . Citation needed date December 2008 According to the Ethnologue, it is written in the Buginese script Lontara Buginese script . The ethic group Mandar is closely related to other three groups living in South Sulawesi Bugis, Makassar and Toraja. External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code mdr Ethnologue entry http www.sil.org iso639 3 documentation.asp?id mdr SIL entry Category Sumatran languages Category Languages of Indonesia au lang stub de Mandar Sprache fr Mandar langue id Bahasa Mandar jv Basa Mandar ms Bahasa Mandar pms Lenga mandar pt L ngua mandar ru ... more details
For the script used to write Makassar Lontara script Incubator code mak Infobox language name Makassar Language nativename br Basa Mangkasara br Bahasa Makassar states IDN region southern tip of South Sulawesi , Sulawesi Celebes speakers 1,600,000 date 1989 ethnicity familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian MP fam3 Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear MP fam4 South Sulawesi languages South Sulawesi fam5 Makassar languages iso2 mak iso3 mak script Lontara , Latin script Latin Makassarese sometimes spelled Makasar , Makassar , or Macassar is a language used by the Makassarese people in South Sulawesi island Celebes in Indonesia . It is a member of the Austronesian languages Austronesian language family of the South Sulawesi languages South Sulawesi group , and thus closely related to, among others, BugineselanguageBuginese . Although Makassarese is now often written with the Roman alphabet , it is still widely written in its own distinctive script, also called Lontara alphabet Lontara , which once was used also to write important documents in Bugineselanguage Bugis and Mandar language Mandar , two related language from Sulawesi . The Makassar symbols are written using mostly straight oblique lines and dots. In spite of its quite distinctive appearance, it is derived from the ancient Br hm script Brahmi scripts of India . Like other descendants of that script, each consonant has an inherent vowel a , which is not marked. Other vowels can be indicated by adding one of five diacritic s above, below, or on either side of each consonant. Some common words phrases in the Makassar language using the Roman alphabet are as follows Glottal stop letter glottal stop class wikitable border 1 Lontara script Latinized Indonesian Translation balla rumah house bulu bulu hair fur bambang panas hot warm cipuru lapar hungry doe uang money iyo iya yes lompo besar big large sallo lama lambat slow tabe permisi excuse me tena tidak no karaeng raja ... more details
Infobox journal title Language Problems and Language Planning cover File Language Problems and Language Planning.png editor Humphrey Tonkin discipline Linguistics peer reviewed language Multilingual former names abbreviation publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company country Netherlands frequency Triannually history 1977 present openaccess license impact impact year website http www.benjamins.com cgi bin t seriesview.cgi?series LPLP link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR OCLC 67125214 LCCN CODEN ISSN 0272 2690 eISSN 1569 9889 boxwidth Language Problems and Language Planning is a peer review peer reviewed linguistics linguistic academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems . Its core topics are issues of language policy as well as economic and sociological aspects of linguistics. The journal has existed in its present form since 1977. A predecessor journal, called La monda lingvo problemo The world language problem in Esperanto , had appeared since 1969 at Mouton , and been edited by Victor Sadler 1969 1972 and Richard E. Wood 1973 1976 . While many articles are in English, the journal is open for articles written in any language. ref cite web url http www.benjamins.com cgi bin show html.cgi?file jbp series LPLP guidelines.html&back overview title Instructions to Contributors accessdate 2011 01 05 publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company ref The journal is listed in several scientific indexes. The present editor in chief is Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford . References Reflist External links Official 1 http www.benjamins.com cgi bin t seriesview.cgi?series LPLP http dok.esperantic.org ced lplp.htm Its page at Esperantic Studies Foundation http www.benjamins.com ... journals Category Publications established in 1977 cv Language Problems and Language Planning eo Language Problems and Language Planning ... more details
saved book title Language subtitle cover image cover color White Language Overview Language Origin of language Core topics Alphabet Communication Dialect Expression language Expression Semiotics Speech Sublanguage Universal grammar Vocabulary Study of language Linguistics Historical linguistics Logos Philology Philosophy of language Types of languages Animal language Alien language Constructed language Controlled natural language Extinct language Formal language International auxiliary languageLanguage family Mathematics as a language Natural language Programming language Second language Sign language Visual language Whistled language Miscellany Cultural emphasis Information and media literacy Language preservation Language production Linguistic competence Linguistic performance Speech production Speech repetition World languages Indo European languages English language Languages of Spain Spanish languages Russian language Hindi Hindi language Swedish language Latin Latin language Bengali language Portuguese language Japanese language Arabic language Standard Mandarin Less commonly taught languages Tamil language Nafaanra language Turkish language Wagiman language Mongolian language Indigenous languages of the Americas Greenlandic language Ottawa language Mayan languages Nahuatl Otomi language ... more details
Khuen language may refer to Khuen language , a Mon Khmer language of the Khuen people , an aboriginal ethnic group of Laos Kh n language or Tai Kh n language , a Tai Kadai language of Burma disambiguation language ... more details
Koibal language may refer to The Koybal dialect of the Khakas language , a modern Turkic language. Koibal language Samoyedic , an extinct Samoyedic language. disambig ... more details
The Bau language may be the Fijian language Bau language New Guinea Bau Bidayuh language Borneo Kulang dialect of the Gaam language dab ... more details
Ndorobo may refer to several languages in Tanzania Aas x language Aramanik language Kisankasa language Mediak language Mosiro language disambig Category Languages of Tanzania ... more details
Lele is the name of four different languages Lele language Chad , an Afro Asiatic language Lele language Democratic Republic of the Congo , a Bantu language Lele language Guinea , a Mande language Lele language Papua New Guinea , an Austronesian language The Ly l language of Burkina Faso also goes by the form Lele . disambig ... more details
In computational linguistics and natural language processing , language recognition may refer to Language identification Natural language understanding Speech recognition Language recognition speech See also Wikipedia Language recognition chart disambig ... more details
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