Languages
Open Nursery
Submitted by Bèrto ëd Sèra on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 16:14The main strategic goal for those who want to preserve linguistic diversity consists in preserving the “transmission chain”, i.e. the mechanism by which the seeds of a culture and a language get planted into the human field.
Script to create bilingual tab delimited terminology files from multilingual table
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 14:53So I have a table with entries for 20 languages approx. and another one with many more languages. I suppose the script already exixts.
What is needed is say:
read in column A and column B in file <something.csv>
add to file <something.txt>
skip if field A or B in line are empty and go ahead with next line
stop at eof <something.csv>
Language and words in the news – 8 January, 2010
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Native tongues have long gone extinct
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 07:38Reversing deadspeak: Linguists supported by the National Science Foundation are meeting at the University of Utah next week hoping to lay the groundwork for an international online catalogue of endangered and dying languages.
How did the Romans deal with language
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 11:02Quotations about language from the book "The fall of the Roman Empire" by Pether Heather, ISBN 978-0-330-49136-5
Franconian – a language with all too many varieties
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 08:17I am originally from a little town in Upper Franconia and it's now approx. one and half a year that I have been working on that language. Up to now it was not clear how to properly create dictionary entries, because we do not only have variations from one place to the other, but also from one author to the other.
Otuho Language Spoken by over 180,000
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 12:50
members attending language school launch.
[OFWB] Mailing list for the Dictionary
Submitted by Sabine Emmy Eller on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 09:00Good morning to all :-)
Well right now we are just a hand full of people caring about the
dictionary and we need to communicate every now and then. It makes
perfect sense that all of us know what the other is working on and
therefore I am using our vh@eng.i-iter.mobi list so that news can reach
all of you.
Some notes about what I am doing right now:
At this stage I am adding a plant list with the Latin names. It's about
wild plants which on one hand can be possibilities to diversify the
local crop offers by organic farmers and on the other hand and so-called
MATINATA MASSARIOTA
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:16U jaddu canta, ‘mentri i stiddi vanu
scumpariennu sutta u mantu di la luna:
ca li cummogghia comu picciriddi,
li curca, e ‘ccì fa la ‘vò, a d’una, a d’una.
‘Ncielu ‘resta na frisca muragghia,
‘mentri s’ancumincia a viririsi a jancura.
E, in quarchi sprazzu ri cielu, versu livanti,
si viri saittari na chiazza ri chiarura.
L’alludula, ucidduzzu matinaluoru,
‘ncigna, ‘ppì ‘primu, u suli nascenti,
arrisbigghiannu, ‘ccù li so’ aluzzi d’oru,
SICILIA BEDDA
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:14Sicilia mia, ti vuogghiu tantu ‘bbeni,
‘ppì li biddizzi tuoi, di summu pararisu,
c’ammalianu la ‘genti ri tutti li paisi.
Sì ‘nà ‘ncantevuli ‘riggina ‘mmienzu o mari,
sdraiata ‘ntà nu liettu a ‘forma ri tribbuolu.
Ti lassi accarizzari ro suli, ro vientu e lu mari.
Muncibeddu t’ammira e ‘sì ‘nnì ‘godi,
viriennu li tò biddizzi e li tò’ meravigghi,
e ‘rirri e sbuffa ‘ncielu trisori di faiddi.
