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Linguistics 450 - Introduction to Comparative Historical Linguistics - English
URL: http://humanities.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/450right.html

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Philology and language change - The importance of written language - The origins of comparative historical linguistics.

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The Early History of Indo-European Languages - English
URL: http://www.armenianhighland.com/homeland/chronicle120.html

The Family Tree of Indo-Europian languages. The Armenian language. By Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov.

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Guide to Electronic Beowulf - English
URL: http://www.uky.edu/%7Ekiernan/eBeowulf/main.htm

The online guide to the Electronic Beowulf Project, a comprehensive collection of images of the Old English Poem. The full facsimile is available on CD-ROM.

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Our Slavic Language - English
URL: http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/spirit/chap4.htm

History of the Old Slavonic language.

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Chinese Cultural Studies:  The Chinese Language and Alphabet - English
URL: http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html

Includes a history of the Sino Tibetan family of languages, a map of the major Chinese dialects.

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Kamat's Potpourri- The origin and development of the  Konkani language - English
URL: http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/konkani/konkani.htm

Dr. Krishnanand Kamat's page dedicated to the origin and history of the very specific konkani language

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Welcome to Logoi.com, The Online Language Source - English
URL: http://www.logoi.com/

Origins of Chinese Writing Development of Chinese writing system, beginning from the oracle bone inscriptions all the way to writings on bamboo and silk.

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Proto-language's Home Page - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/

An investigation of the earliest language of man, the Proto-Language (circa 100K BP): vocabulary and grammar. Comparative studies of the Proto-Language and various language families and languages currently considered to be isolated.

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"Nostratic Article" - English
URL: http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.nostratic.html

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Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language.

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Linguistics 450 - Introduction to Comparative Historical Linguistics - English
URL: http://humanities.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/index.html

Investigate philology and language change.

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Linguistics: Historical Linguistics - English
URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html

What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?

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The power of Greek words - English
URL: http://www.addgr.com/art/grwords/power.htm

Without any exception in all European (and not only) languages the vast majority of everyday's talking includes words of Greek origin.

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Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical linguistics - English
URL: http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm

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An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.

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Indo-European and the Comparative Method - English
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html

Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.

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Genetic Distance and Language Affinities - English
URL: http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm

Genetic Distance and Language Affinities - Between Autochthonous Human Populations.

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Encyclopedia.com - Results for Grimm's law - English
URL: http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/05438.html

The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.

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Emily's Introduction to Historical Linguistics - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1179/histlang.html

A brief summary of the topic.

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Swahili Language History - English
URL: http://www.glcom.com/hassan/swahili_history.html

A brief history of the Swahili language (by Hassan O. Ali; revised by Abdurahman Juma).

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School of Modern Languages - MLG2022 - History of the German Language - English
URL: http://www.ex.ac.uk/brad/module-ects-handbook/MLG2022.htm

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A course at School of Modern Languages, University of Exeter, designed "to introduce students to the history of German, examining a representative selection of texts from the Middle Ages onwards, and to familiarise students with methods of diachronic linguistic analysis. Students will acquire an insight into the history of the phonology, morphology, accidence, syntax and semantics of German, and will be able to apply the analytical skills they have acquired to other linguistic areas."

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TITUS - German, English
URL: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/

Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien. Dieser Server ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt verschiedener europäischer Universitäten.

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