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group and languages
The group is usually divided into two sub-groups: Western Baltic, containing only extinct languages, and Eastern Baltic, containing both extinct and the two living languages in the group: Lithuanian ( including both Standard Lithuanian and Samogitian ) and Latvian ( including both literary Latvian and Latgalian ).
All of the languages in the Baltic group ( including the living ones ) were first written down relatively late in their probable existence as distinct languages.
It is possible that the miscegenation mentioned by Tacitus had, by the 3rd century, resulted in the Bastarnae becoming assimilated by the Sarmatians, perhaps adopting their tongue ( which belonged to the Iranic group of Indo-European languages ) and / or Sarmatian customs.
The Balts or Baltic peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group who speak the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, which was originally spoken by tribes living in area east of Jutland peninsula in the west and Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers basins in the east.
The Saraiki language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda languages group, and is spoken in Cholistan as well as in a large part of central Pakistan.
He can learn foreign languages by reading the language centers of the brain of someone adept, and alternately " teach " languages to others in the same manner ; Xavier once trained a new group of mutants mentally, subjectively making them experience months of training together, while only hours passed in the real world.
As a musical group Enya represents a partnership between three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music ; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums ; and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya will render the lyrics herself.
Fictional languages are by far the largest group of artistic languages.
Some of the letters are represented by iconic shapes, such as b, c, d, k, and, in British Sign Language and the BANZSL group of languages, the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, are represented by pointing to the fingertips.
In the SeSotho group of languages spoken in South Africa pushback refers to a combed back hair style, commonly worn by black women with chemically straightened hair ; and stop-nonsense refers to pre-fabricated concrete slabs used as fencing.
The perception of historical unity is also strengthened by the fact that Greek has not split up into a group of separate, regional daughter languages, as happened with Latin.
The Germanic peoples ( also called Teutonic or Gothic in older literature ) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
The non-German Germanic languages language group ( 0. 5 %) like Danish, Dutch and Frisian were located in the north and northwest of the empire, near the borders with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Books published in rare languages typically have longer group identifiers.

group and Welsh
This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the Marcher Lords while maintaining their position as uchelwyr — nobles descended from the pre-conquest Welsh royal dynasties — in traditional Welsh society.
The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.
Jones, whose voice has been described as a " full-throated, robust baritone ", became the frontman for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a Welsh beat group, in 1963.
86. 1 % of the population could speak the Welsh language in the United Kingdom Census 2001, with the largest majority of Welsh speakers in the 10-14 age group, where 97. 7 % could speak it fluently.
At the request of the Daily Telegraph, Welsh travelled with a group of authors and journalists to the Sudan in 2001.
However this move, and the party's early attempts to develop an economic critique, did not broaden its appeal beyond that of an intellectual and socially conservative Welsh language pressure group.
Another notable early radio drama, one of the first specially written for the medium in the UK, was Danger by Richard Hughes, broadcast by the BBC on January 15, 1924, about a group of people trapped in a Welsh coal mine.
* Bran ( Welsh rock group ), a Welsh prog rock group
The land that eventually became Easttown Township was once part of the Welsh Tract, a large expanse of land promised by William Penn to a group of Welsh Quaker settlers in which they would be able to speak and conduct business in the Welsh language.
In 1974 Cippolina guested with Quicksilver-idolizing Welsh progressive rock group Man, playing with them at their 1974 Winterland concerts and guesting with them on a subsequent UK tour, which resulted in the 1975 live album Maximum Darkness.
He was also a one-time drummer for fellow Welsh group Catatonia from 1993-1996, before joining Super Furry Animals.
The Welsh Language Society, (, often abbreviated to Cymdeithas or Cymdeithas yr Iaith ) is a pressure group in Wales campaigning for the future of the Welsh language.
Following original bassist Matt Sharp's decision to leave Weezer to focus on his group, The Rentals, Welsh was chosen to take over for him.
The Welsh group Budgie are considered precursors to the movement for they have been cited as " a seminal influence on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal ".
Here, the group succeeded in establishing a Gorsedd which ultimately became part of the Welsh National Identity.

group and Cornish
Today, the Cornish Nationalist Party is seen as more of a pressure group as they do not put up candidates for any elections, although their visibility and influence within Cornwall is negligible.
The pressure group, the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament wrote to English Heritage asking them to remove all signs bearing their name from Cornish sites by July 1999 as they regard the ancient sites as Cornish heritage, not English.
" He suggests that English heritage be replaced " with a Cornish Heritage group, just like they have for instance in Wales and Scotland.
Brigati left the group in 1970, followed by Cornish in 1971.
The Cornish Trio of the 1920s — Peter Meremblum, Berthe Poncy ( later Berthe Poncy Jacobson ), and Kola Levienne — may have been the first chamber music group resident at an American school.
Members of a pressure group, the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament, removed several signs bearing the English Heritage name because they objected to the name " English ", claiming that Cornwall is rightfully a nation on its own.
The broad term reflects the ethno-cultural composition of post-colonial Australian society, in which English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Dutch and German peoples fused through inter-marriage into a single national group ..
In 1805 – 1809 a group of Cornish miners, including Richard Trevithick, tried to dig a tunnel farther upriver between Rotherhithe and Wapping / Limehouse but failed because of the difficult conditions of the ground.
The traditional Cornish dance and music group, Hevva is based in Redruth.
In the late 17th century Lhuyd had been contacted by a group of scholars, led by John Keigwin of Mousehole, who were trying to preserve and further the Cornish language and he accepted the invitation to travel to Cornwall to study the language.
It was in Seattle that he became involved in acting, first in school, and then in a children's theater group at the Cornish Playhouse.
The discovery on August 21, 1851 by James Dunlop and James Reagan that sparked the Ballarat Gold Rush was at the base of the hill a couple of hundred metres from Sovereign Hill park and the " Welcome " nugget — found by a group of Cornish miners in 1858, and being the second largest gold nugget in the world — was also found in Ballarat in the Red Hill mine which is recreated in Sovereign Hill.
The Celtic Cornish are thus considered a distinct cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic group from the Germanic Anglo-Saxon population of England but closely related to the Welsh and Bretons.
Rocks of this group are often seen in the Cornish tin-mining districts, especially near the ludes.
Cornish miners, used to tin-mining, are one group who came to find similar work in the Pennine ore-field.
In 2003 a campaign group was formed called Fry an Spyrys ( free the spirit in Cornish ) which is dedicated to disestablishing the Church of England in Cornwall and to reconstituting the Diocese of Truro as an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
During the Tudor period some travellers regarded the Cornish as a separate cultural group, from which some modern observers conclude that they were a separate ethnic group.
Some Cornish people, including Cornish Solidarity and the group claiming to be the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament, argue that Cornwall has a de jure status apart as a sovereign Duchy extraterritorial to England.
Since 1974, a group has claimed to be a revived Cornish Stannary Parliament and have the ancient right of Cornish tin-miners ' assemblies to veto legislation from Westminster.

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