Azerbaijani language is one the world’s harmonious languages and as repeatedly emphasized by famous representatives of different nations, speech in this language is sounded as a charming song. Azerbaijani language is capable of expressing the deepest ideas with their subtle connotative meanings. To reach for excellence in ability to express the deepest thoughts and gracefulness in feelings requires any nation to possess a few millenia of history. Azerbaijani nation is among the most ancient nations of the world. In terms of its formation period, the history of Azerbaijani language goes back to ancient times. The history of language is impossible to be imagined apart from nation’s history.
Outstanding representatives of various countries repeatedly confessed the fact that Azerbaijani language is amongst the excellent world languages. Great russian scientist M.Y. Lermontov compared the role and position of Azerbaijani language as equal to French language which was widespread in Europe in the 19th century and highly evaluated the language as being used thoroughout the entire Euroasi...
The author, Bill Bryson, briefly introduces and describes the history of English. In this book, The Mother Tongue, Bryson uses an interesting way and scholarly manner to guide readers through the various linguistic and social movements in the English language, the center of the world language as well as the export of manufactured goods. He gives different kinds of instances by comparing with various languages to present how the language merged together of interacting.
One form of address terms is kinship address terms. Kinship terms describe how people in various parts of the world refer to brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, and so on (Wardhaugh, 2006). Considering that Persian is the official language of Iran country, it is observed that even in Kurdish dialect, the application of Persian kinship terms is increasing and they are substituting Kurdish ones. Such an issue was motivating enough to investigate the use of Kurdish/Persian kinship address term in Kurdish community. The motive behind looking at kinship terms is that the researcher as a native speaker of Sorani dialect has realized that use of kinship terms in my community is not satisfactory.
In learning about the deaf culture I have taken on a new understanding about the people it includes. Through readings and the lessons, I have learned that being deaf has both its hardships and its blessings. The beauty of the language alone makes one want to learn all that he or she can about it. In this paper I will discuss the beauty of the language and the misconceptions the hearing world has about deafness.
Western Apache Language and Culture, written by Keith Basso, is a book that shows how the language of Western Apache is one of the most cultivating and unique languages. The book focuses merely on the examination of linguistics and anthropology within the Apache language. His research is based on the structure of language within Apache culture. This includes the study of verbs,nouns,names, etc. This book breaks down everything piece by piece which gives us very descriptive details and information. With the information given to us, we can uncover the true meaning of the language and one major question which is,”How does Apache language construct, conceive of and/or use names”.
In 400 A.D. the Armenian alphabet it consisted of 36 letters but added 2 more after 800 years ago. When Dr. Jendian was pronouncing the Armenian letters, it sounded similar to the U.S., english pronunciation. This sort of alphabetical was potentially used to transliterate any language spoken on earth because it has bunch of letters, it can capture the sounds from all of the different languages that exist. Armenians has been on the crossroads since civilization, Armenian has been in the wrong place at the wrong time nearly throughout history. Armenia were in the crossroad from north to south and east to west where foreign countries were passing through the Silk Road, Black sea, Medit sea and the Caspian Sea therefore, they have been subjugated
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This research was prepared by Rashid Ahli for the English Language subject, taught by Mr.Abass Abdulsamad.
Grimaldo, J.C. (2013). Avances y proyección del Programa Nacional de Bilinguismo. Memorias: Congreso Latinoamericano de Bilinguismo. Armenia, Quindío.
Language has a personality and a mood, created by the behavior of the speakers and their cultural identity. Moreover, this includes the tools speaker use to communicate through i.e. sign language. Languages can be described by human emotions and feelings; therefore, language is personified and dynamic. Historical events have lead to changes in languages in caused flexibility and dynamicity of language. Globalization and colonization also had an effect in word borrowing, and many languages have been altered due to this. Languages are also interpre...
This essay will discuss the causes of language death and if endangered languages are worth saving. This essay agrees that endangered languages are worth saving and that many factors contribute to language death. Firstly the essay will explain what language death is and the meaning of what is an endangered language. Secondly discuss language death and language birth. Thirdly discuss the causes of language death. Lastly, critically discuss if endangered languages are worth saving. The purpose of this essay is to show that language death is much higher than language birth.
The subject I’m going to discuss in this essay is about the language Esperanto, and other artificial languages. The subject of artificial languages is a difficult yet interesting one. It is so, because the majority of “serious” linguists do not see artificial languages as a real area of linguistics, since they believe that you can’t have linguistics of an artificial language.
All methods in language teaching are a pre-designed set of description of how the teacher should teach the learner and how the learner should learn obtain from a specific theory of language and a theory of language learning. These theories are attain from the parts of linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and are the origin of theory and applying in language teaching. Language teaching methods is divided into many methodologies. For example: The Direct Method, Grammar-Translation Method, Audio-Lingual Method, Total Physical Response, Audio-Lingual Method, The structural Method etc. Each method has its own rules, history, and different from one another. For example: The direct method was the reply to the disapproving with the
Communication is an important aspect for human existence and interaction in society. It is the ability that performs in diverse areas of social, economic, and political engagements.In order to improve opportunities that increase in modern times, it is necessary for people to develop mastery of language(Pinon and Jon 5). Currently, many languages satisfied in interaction among people in the world. Such languages are important aspects in areas such as research, entertainment, business, and industry.In order to gain benefits in these areas, people must understand specific languages that can be applied and popular around the world(Pinon and Jon 5). This research is to analyse and survey about preference between Chinese and English language. Based on opportunities that shows how many different areas of engagement in modern society. Evidently, English language is popular as compared to Chinese. Therefore, more people are likely to learn and speak English but not Chinese(Pinon and Jon 7).
It is one of the main languages in the world and it is the international language these days. English language is the language that faced many changes that affects in several things. For example, some changes occur in writing system, phonological system and other changes during many centuries. English language is about four stages: Old English, Middle English, Modern English, and Early Modern English. In each era, there is an affection of other tribe’s languages on English language. As an example, Germanic tribes who moved into Britain and have an impact on Old English language are (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes). In the same way, the effects of the tribes lead to have many changes in vowel system, which calls the Great Vowel Shift .In this paper, I will discuss the Great Vowel Shift and the the process of that huge change.
It can be seen that English has become a global language, which is determined by lots of factors like history, culture and daily usefulness. Because of these factors, the number of people who speak English is still increasing now. English, as a significant part of social life gradually exerted profound impacts on education, job hunting and international communication. Also, it provides the whole world with a chance to share ideas and communicate freely. We are quite curious to see the further development of English as a lingua franca in the