Language schools,italy

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

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
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learning irish gaelic courses etc

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

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

Learning welsh courses etc

Nant gwrtheyrn,gwynedd has  residental courses for welsh language  learners

Some turkish placename elements

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

Symbols on pictish stones are language

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

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

Guardian/observer language learning guides

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

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

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

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

Welsh placenames elements

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

Language in Nepal believed to be related to papuan languages

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

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

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?

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

translation software and tools on Internet

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

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

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

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