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<title>Language Documentation and Conservation: first Conference</title>
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<description>Fabio Descalzi: The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) will be held at the Hawaii Imin International Conference Center, o... (1 post)</description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 14:09:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What "dialects" do you speak?</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/110180?float=true</link>
<description>Steven Capsuto: In my native language, I speak something resembling broadcast-standard U.S. English. (One of my theater teachers in high school pretty much drummed th... (27 posts)</description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>I am searching a list with unique languages on Earth</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/110069?float=true</link>
<description>rowtc2: Spanish is similar with portuguese (seems to have a lot of words in common ?!).
I dont know how different in Chinese by Japanese or Coreean language.... (12 posts)</description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2008 19:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Portuguese language: what will change and what will remain</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/107426?float=true</link>
<description>Carla Guerreiro: Hello everybody!

Many people talk about recent changes in Portuguese language.
As many people are not aware of what changes, I wrote an article (i... (12 posts)</description>
<pubDate>10 Jun 2008 11:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>2008 - International Year of Languages</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/104336?float=true</link>
<description>Niraja Nanjundan: Original content deleted due to lack of interest and response from other members. [Edited at 2008-05-12 12:24][Edited at 2008-05-12 12:29] (3 posts)</description>
<pubDate>14 May 2008 00:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Proof the internet is the greatest thing ever happened to languages</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/104197?float=true</link>
<description>Michael Jones: I posted a comment a few weeks ago about how great the internet is for language diversity. 
Well today I just blew myself away.

I was looking for ... (4 posts)</description>
<pubDate>09 May 2008 13:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Differences in languages from the former Yugoslavia</title>
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<description>Williamson: How big are the differences between Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian?
A local interpreter school offers a third language, Croatian, as an optio... (28 posts)</description>
<pubDate>23 Aug 2008 19:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>French Loan Words in Eastern European Languages</title>
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<description>taylorreigne: Hi everyone,

     I am looking for examples of French loan words in Eastern European languages for part of a thesis.  I was wondering if native spe... (22 posts)</description>
<pubDate>03 Jun 2008 22:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The internet and linguistic diversity</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/102244?float=true</link>
<description>Michael Jones: I have heard many people complain that the internet will impose linguistic uniformity on the world. I have been interested in languages since well bef... (3 posts)</description>
<pubDate>14 Apr 2008 16:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Min Nan, Minnan or Min-nan dialect</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/100675?float=true</link>
<description>Oana Ladariu: Hello, 

These days I came across the Min Nan, Minnan or Min-nan dialect. From what I have read about it on the internet I understood that it &quot;refer... (2 posts)</description>
<pubDate>27 Mar 2008 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Conference on endangered languages</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/100427?float=true</link>
<description>Evangelia Mouma: Hello,

Here is a link for a conference in Thessaloniki, Greece:

https://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-760.html

It is still in the &quot;call-for-p... (2 posts)</description>
<pubDate>25 Mar 2008 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Resources for making a dictionary - a South American indigenous language</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/88919?float=true</link>
<description>Matt Coler: Hi. I am a researcher working with an endangered indigenous language spoken in South America. It is a very agglutinative language and so has a gamut o... (8 posts)</description>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2007 14:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>French (Belgium vs. France)</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/87994?float=true</link>
<description>NMT: Is French for Belgium different from French for France? If so, how? I.e. vocabulary, grammar? Are the differences significant or miniscule?

Thanks (7 posts)</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov 2007 12:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Caucasian languages: a surprise package of linguistic complexity</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/87887?float=true</link>
<description>Fabio Descalzi: This very month of October, it has been 15 years since a language passed away together with its last speaker: Tevfik EsenÃ§ died in October 1992 in Tu... (19 posts)</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2007 14:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>From Serbocroatian to Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian... maybe back?</title>
<link>http://www.proz.com/topic/87058?float=true</link>
<description>Fabio Descalzi: Good morning, Balkans!

Today I was reading another thread in this forum, which deals with languages closely related to each other. And I happened t... (40 posts)</description>
<pubDate>11 May 2008 21:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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