Intro to ling: Language list

Linguists and languages for 5-page report

Assignment: You will be assigned one language from the list below; you must also choose a second language that is completely unrelated to the first. Your assignment is to write a 2-page summary on each of the two langauges. Tell what branch of which language family the language belongs to; where it is spoken; approximately how many speakers it has; and mention three or so key characteristics of the language. For the fifth page, make a comparison of the two languages regarding their key linguistic features. Next, collect information on the linguist in the list with the same number as the language you were assigned, and write a one-page outline on him or her for the sixth page of the assignment. Include mention of his or her nationality, and major contributions to linguistics.

Here are some links to sites that show the genetic relationships among the languages of the world:

A good place to start:
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html

There are some nice maps and charts here:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees/

Ethnologue has information on individual languages:
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

Wikipedia offers quite a bit of detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_families_and_languages

1.   Abercrombie, David (1909-92)
2.   Apollonius Dyscolus (c. 110-175 AD)
3.   Aristotle (384-322 BC)
4.   Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
5.   Ben Yehuda, Eliezer (1858-1922)
6.   Bickerton, Derek (1926- )
7.   Bloomfield, Leonard (1887-1949)
8.   Boas, Franz (1858-1942)
9.   Bolinger, Dwight (1907-1992)
10. Bopp, Franz (1791-1867)
11. Braille, Louis (1809-52)
12. Bresnan, Joan (1945- )
13. Bright, William (1928- )
14. Brown, Roger William (1925- )
15. Capell, Arthur (1902–1986)
16. Chao, Yuen Ren 趙元任 (1892-1982)
17. Chomsky, Noam (1928- )
18. Comrie, Bernard (1947- )
19. Courtenay, Jan Baudouin de (1845-1929)
20. Dik, Simon (1940- )
21. Dionysius Thrax (2nd-1st century BC)
22. Ferguson, Charles A. (1921- )
23. Fillmore, Charles (1929- )
24. Firth, J(ohn) R(upert) (1890-1960)
25. Fries, Charles Carpenter (1897-1967)
26. Fromkin, Victoria A (1923- )
27. Greenberg, Joseph H. (1915- )
28. Grimm, Jakob (1785-1863)
29. Haas, Mary Rosamond (1910- )
30. Hale, Ken
31. Halle, Morris (1923-)
32. Halliday, Michael (1925-)
33. Harris, Zellig S. (1909-92)
34. Haugen, Einar (1906- )
35. Hill, Archibald A. (1902-92)
36. Hjelmslev, Louis Trolle (1899-1965)
37. Hockett, Charles Francis (1916- )
38. Hoijer, Harry (1904-1976)
39. Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1787-1835)
40. Jakobson, Roman (1896-1982)
41. Jespersen, Otto (1860-1943)
42. Johnson, Samuel (1709-84)
43. Jones, Daniel (1881–1967)
44. Jones, Sir William (1746-94)
45. Joos, Martin (1907-78)
46. Klatt, Dennis H. (1938-88)
47. Labov, William (1927- )
48. Ladefoged, Peter (1925- )
49. Lakoff, George (1941- )
50. Lakoff, Robin (1942- )
51. Langacker, Ronald (1942- )
52. Lehiste, Ilse (1922- )
53. Lehmann, Winfred Philip (1916- )
54. Li Fang-Kuei 李方桂 (1902-89)
55. Lotz, John ()
56. Lu Fayan 陸法言 (fl. 600 AD)
57. Martinet, Andre (1908- )
58. Meillet, Antoine (Paul Jules) (1866-1936)
59. Montague, Richard (1931-71)
60. Nichols, Joanna
61. Ogden, Charles Kay (1889-1957)
62. Pān̩ini (between the 7th and 4th centuries BC)
63. Paul, Hermann (1846-1921)
64. Pike, Kenneth Lee (1912-2000)
65. Pitman, Sir Isaac (1813-97)
66. Plato (c. 429-347 BC)
67. Quirk, Sir Charles Randolph (1920- )
68. Rask, Rasmus Kristian (1787-1832)
69. Sapir, Edward (1884-1939)
70. Saussure, Ferdinand(-Mongin) de (1857-1913)
71. Schleicher, August (1821-1868)
72. Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1920- )
73. Sequoyah (1760-1843)
74. Sibawayh (ca. 760-793 AD)
75. Sturtevant, Edgar Howard (1875-1952)
76. Swadesh, Morris (1909-67)
77. Sweet, Henry (1845-1912)
78. Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergeyevic (1890-1938)
79. Tyndale, William (1494-1536)
80. Varro, Marcus Terentius (116-27 BC)
81. Voegelin, Charles Frederick (1906-86)
82. Wang, Li 王力 (1900-86)
83. Wang, Nien-Sun 王念孫 (1744-1832)
84. Webster, Noah (1758-1843)
85. Weinreich, Uriel (1926-67)
86. Whitney, William Dwight (1827-94)
87. Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1897-1941)
88. Xu Shen 許慎 (c. 58-147)
89. Xun Zi 荀子 (c. 313-238 BC)
90. Yang, Xiong 揚雄 (53 BC-18 AD)

1.   Afrikaans
2.   Agarabi
3.   Ainu
4.   Akan
5.   Albanian
6.   Amharic
7.   Arabic
8.   Armenian
9.   Atayal
10. Basque
11. Bengali
12. Burmese
13. Burushaski
14. Catalan
15. Chewa
16. Dutch
17. Dyirbal
18. Tocharian
19. Esperanto
20. Estonian
21. Evenki
22. Farsi
23. Fijian
24. Finnish
25. Fula
26. Georgian
27. Greek
28. Guugu Yimithirr
29. Hakka
30. Haitian Creole
31. Hausa
32. Hawaiian
33. Hebrew
34. Hindi/Urdu
35. Hmong (Miao)
36. Hungarian
37. Indonesian/Malay
38. Inuit
39. Irish
40. Japanese
41. Kazakh
42. Ket
43. Khmer
44. Klingon
45. Korean
46. Kurdish
47. Lithuanian
48. Malagasy
49. Mongolian
50. Moso
51. Motu
52. Nahali
53. Nahuatl
54. Nama
55. Navajo
56. Nepali
57. Norwegian
58. Ojibway (Anishinabe)
59. Oromo
60. Oriya
61. Pashto
62. Pirahã
63. Portuguese
64. Quechua
65. Romani
66. Romanian
67. Russian
68. Sami
69. Serbo-Croatian
70. Shanghainese
71. Shona
72. Southern Min
73. Spanish
74. Swahili
75. Tabasaran
76. Tagalog
77. Tamil
78. Telegu
79. Thai
80. Tibetan
81. Tok Pisin
82. Turkish
83. Tuvan
84. Uyghur
85. Vietnamese
86. Wolof
87. Xhosa
88. Yami (Dawu)
89. Yoruba
90. Zulu

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