* Anne Davis-Lifemate to Er Thom, mother to Shan, master linguist and musician

Duke was born Anne LaBarr Lederer in Concord, New Hampshire, the daughter of Rhoda S. ( née Spagenberg ) and Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St. Paul's School.

Roger Blench, relying particularly on prior work by Professor Kay Williamson of the University of Port Harcourt, and the linguist P. De Wolf, who each took the same position, has argued that a Benue – Congo linguistic subfamily of the Niger – Congo language family, which includes the Bantu languages and other related languages and would be the largest branch of Niger – Congo, is an empirically supported grouping which probably originated at the confluence of the Beneu and Congo Rivers in Central Nigeria.

They continued the work of the Belgian linguist Maurits Gysseling, who got his inspiration from the Belgian archeologist Siegfried De Laet.

Jacques Basnage De Beauval ( 1653 – September 23, 1723 ) was a celebrated Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs.

Ishi provided valuable information on his native Yana language, which was recorded and studied by the linguist Edward Sapir, who had previously done work on the northern dialects.

Perhaps the most succinct working definition was provided by the American linguist James D. McCawley in 1968: a mora is “ Something of which a long syllable consists of two and a short syllable consists of one .” The term comes from the Latin word for “ linger, delay ”, which was also used to translate the Greek word chronos ( time ) in its metrical sense.

The linguist Fred Karlsson provided empirical evidence in 2007 that the maximal degree of multiple center-embedding of clauses is exactly 3 in written language.

Interpretation, naturally, remains the role of the therapist, but orientation -- not only the patient's vocal giveaways of geographical and socio-economic background, but also vocal but non-verbal giveaways of danger spots in his relationship to people -- can be considerably beefed up by the linguist.

The linguist and historian Ehret believes that in view of the similarity of the Ziwa / Gokomere pottery to the Nkope of the ancestral Nyasa language speakers, the Ziwa / Gokomere people spoke a language closely related to the Nyasa group.

Noam Chomsky, a linguist, writes that he believes the Domino theory is roughly accurate, although he put a more positive spin on the threat, writing on the basis that economic improvements to a poor country will always bring better life for its people.

The earliest reference to the Dalmatian language dates from the tenth century and it is estimated that about 50, 000 people spoke it at that time, though the main source of this information, the Italian linguist Matteo Bartoli, may have exaggerated his figures.

Western Washington University historical linguist Edward Vajda offers better substantiated findings into the origins of the Ket people, where DNA claims show genetic affinities with that of Tibetan, Burmese, and others.

Furthermore, the Mam people have continually occupied their present-day territory, long before the Spanish Conquest, possibly as early as 500 A. D. according to linguist Terrence Kaufman ( England 1983: 6 ).

Other people related to this town are Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca, a linguist and anthropologist and Ing.

Recently linguist Edward Vajda has proposed a genetic link between the Na-Dene languages and the Yeniseian languages of the Ket people of central Siberia, suggesting a homeland in Siberia or a back migration of Na-Dene speakers from Beringia.

These are the Masters Ballerian, who is the proprietor of a flying saucer repair facility in Shamballa called God's Garage ; Kumad, an expert linguist who helps the Keeper of the Scrolls decipher and interpret ancient manuscripts ; Ashlem, a Tibetan Master who resides at the Hall of Records and helps people decipher their past lives by assisting them in accessing the akashic records ; and Sutko, the " space detective ", who helps the Master K-17 solve unusually difficult cases.

The idea of a Turanic family of languages and Turanic people was put forward and promoted by the German linguist Max Müller.

In the 17th century the Adansi were a powerful people who were known for their ability to build beautiful structures. The office of the Akan office of Okyeame ( linguist ) is said to have originated in Adansi.

Another monumental work which supports the homogeneity of the Zomi ( Chin-Kuki-Lushai people ) is the well known linguist, G. A. Grierson's " Linguistic Survey of India, Vol.

The term itself Nordwestblock was coined by the German linguist, Hans Kuhn, who considered the inhabitants of this area neither Germanic nor Celtic, thus attributing to the people a distinct ethnicity or culture.

In 1991, linguist Geoffrey Kimball estimated the number of speakers of the language at around 400 people, of whom approximately 350 live in Louisiana.

His second wife Dr Julie Waddy PhD OAM worked as an ethnobiologist and linguist working with the Anglican Church Missionary Society on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory with the aboriginal people for 30 years, and returned to Sydney in 2005.

Professor Roger Martin Keesing ( 16 May 1935 – 7 May 1993 ) was a linguist and anthropologist, noted for his fieldwork on the Kwaio people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands, and his writings on a wide range of topics including kinship, religion, politics, history, cognitive anthropology and language.

One day, a linguist finds an old African Legend ( although the nature of the story appears to be stereotypically Ottoman ) in which a village that stands in the heart of Africa is inhabited by people for whom a beverage made for eggs is a necessity.

This sound change from " m " to " b " is frequent in colloquial Burmese, and occurs in many other words .< ref > The Italian linguist Franco Maria Messina writes about it: « The Burmese language, the language spoken by the Bama people, presents the linguistic phenomenon known as diglossia: that is to say that two languages ​​ coexist in one, a high language, " H ", and a low, spoken, more popular, language, " L ".

The linguist J. Marshall Unger suggests, based on linguistic evidence, that Baekje may represent a remnant proto-Japanese or para-Japanese community which stayed behind on the Korean peninsula after the Yayoi migrations but still maintained a conscious connection to the Yayoi people and their descendants.

The earliest reference on the language dates from the 10th century and it is estimated that about 50, 000 people spoke it at that time along the eastern Adriatic in the Dalmatian coast from Fiume ( Rijeka ) as far south as Kotor ( Cattaro ) in Montenegro ( according to the linguist Matteo Bartoli ).

In 1994, linguist Leanne Hinton estimated one to five people still spoke Cupeño, and nine people said they spoke the language in the 1990 US census.

Many of these people tried to popularize Viennese-style songs with Hungarian texts, or to use German and Italian forms ; these people included the poet László Amadé, novelist Ignác Mészáros and the author and linguist Ferenc Verseghy.

The way MacArthur said his line -- if you had the recorded transcript of a professional linguist -- would probably have gone like this: Af Primary stresses on emeralds and wish ; ;

According to linguist Deborah Tannen, " Bitch is the most contemptible thing you can say about a woman.

However, anthropological linguist Daniel Everett points out, " The Pirahã are supremely gifted in all the ways necessary to ensure their continued survival in the jungle: they know the usefulness and location of all important plants in their area ; they understand the behavior of local animals and how to catch and avoid them ; and they can walk into the jungle naked, with no tools or weapons, and walk out three days later with baskets of fruit, nuts, and small game.

The conviction against the Bridgewater Four was quashed before the linguist in the case, Malcolm Coulthard, could produce his evidence.

Later on, he teamed up with the linguist Sergei Starostin to produce authoritative studies of the Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic, and Hurro-Urartian language families.

The linguist aspects of the Dāneš-nāma and the originality of their Persian vocabulary are of great interest to Iranian philologists.

* Northeast Caucasian languages, such as Chechen, are seen by the French linguist Michel Morvan as more likely candidates for a very distant connection.

The American linguist Kenneth Pike ( 1943 ) suggested the terms ' vocoid ' for a phonetic vowel and " vowel " for a phonological vowel, so using this terminology, and are classified as vocoids but not vowels.

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.

The term Ibero-Caucasian ( or Iberian-Caucasian ) was proposed by Georgian linguist Arnold Chikobava for the union of the three language families that are specific to the Caucasus area, namely

There are few, if any, living native speakers, although they are well documented in the unpublished fieldnotes of linguist John Peabody Harrington.

) by the Croatian linguist Kovačec revealed only 170 active speakers ( but those counted presumably are only those still residing in the original villages where the language was actively spoken, thereby excluding those who moved to larger towns in Istria ), most of them being bilingual ( or trilingual ), except for 27 children.

French linguist Jean-Claude Milner offered in Détections fictives, Le Seuil, collection « Fictions & Cie », 1985, supporting evidence that Dupin and D — are brothers, based on the final reference to Atreus and his twin brother, Thyestes.

When an and are given as variants, without their being determined by their environment, it's likely that they are actually either a lateral flap,, or else a flap that is phonologically unspecified as to centrality ( that is, neither specifically nor, as in Japanese ), and that the linguist has mistranscribed the sound.

Using an alternative scheme of classification, linguist Michael E. Krauss defines languages as " safe " if it is considered that children will probably be speaking them in 100 years ; " endangered " if children will probably not be speaking them in 100 years ( approximately 60-80 % of languages fall into this category ); and " moribund " if children are not speaking them now.

The Brazilian linguist Cleo Altenhofen considers the denomination " mother tongue " in its general usage to be imprecise and subject to various interpretations that are biased linguistically, especially with respect to bilingual children from ethnic minority groups.

Kin and two aliens, the four-armed frog-like, paranoid and muscular Kung Marco and Silver, a bear-like Shand, historian and linguist by profession, are recruited by the mysterious Jago Jalo for an expedition.

Bosnian linguist Enisa Kafadar argues that we are dealing with one ( Serbo-Croatian ) language and its varieties.

French linguist Paul-Louis Thomas maintains that, compared to the differences between the variants of English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese, the distinctions between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant.

Croatian linguist Snježana Kordić shows that linguistic criteria such as mutual intelligibility, huge overlap in linguistic system, and the same dialec basis of standard language provide evidence that Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin are four national variants of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language.

Canadian linguist Sean McLennan argues that the differences between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant than those between the variants of English.

Austrian linguist Heinz-Dieter Pohl maintains that the differences between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant than those between the variants of German.

German linguist Bernhard Gröschel asserts that the differences between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant than those between the Dutch and the Flemish variants of Dutch.

The lyrics are by Liu Bannong, another linguist, who is famous for coining the Chinese feminine pronoun ta ( 她 ).

According to the Italian linguist Giacomo Devoto, there are still a number of Celtic substrata in the Romagnolo dialect.

Historical linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli presented the theory that Ladin, Romansh and Friulan are from the same family

These accomplishments didn't come out of blue, but are a product of multicentenary tradition in Croatian language — therefore it is no surprise that Croatian linguist Stjepan Babić's monumental monograph " Tvorba riječi u hrvatskome književnom jeziku " ( Word-formation in Croatian literary language ), 1986, is considered still the best work on the topic in the entire Slavic philology.