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Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language/Area Reference Center. – 1984
An alphabetical working list of about 1,000 languages that have appeared in the linguistic research of the Center for Applied Linguistics in the last 15 years is presented. A standard name for each language is provided, with an indication of alternative names for the language and the geographic location of the native speakers. An explanation for…
Descriptors: Dialects, Geographic Location, Language Classification, Language Research
Riego de Rios, Maria Isabelita – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1989
This dictionary is a composite of four Philippine Creole Spanish dialects: Cotabato Chabacano and variants spoken in Ternate, Cavite City, and Zamboanga City. The volume contains 6,542 main lexical entries with corresponding entries with contrasting data from the three other variants. A concluding section summarizes findings of the dialect study…
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialect Studies, Dictionaries, English

Waters, Bruce, Comp. – 1983
A dictionary of Djinang, a member of the Nhangu group of Australian Aboriginal languages, consists of three parts. The first is an alphabetically-organized listing of Djinang words and contains one or more of these fields of information for each: a Djinang word or phrase, dialect information, part of speech, English meaning, Roget's Thesaurus…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Classification, Creoles, Definitions
Thomas, Elaine; Williamson, Kay – 1967
A word list is provided for the three Delta Edo languages, Epie, Engenni, and Degema, which are spoken in the eastern part of the Niger Delta. A general map of the location of the Delta Edo languages is provided, and background information on the recent discovery of the derivation of these languages is given by way of introduction. The…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Dictionaries
Hershberger, Henry D., Comp.; Hershberger, Ruth, Comp. – 1986
The Kuku-Yalanji language is spoken by 500-600 Australian Aboriginal people on the coast of southeastern Cape York and inland to Chillagoe. The dictionary is of the northern dialects of Kuku-Nyungkul, the Rossville/Shipton's Flats dialect, Kuku-Yalanji, the China Camp/Daintree dialect, and Kuku-Jalunji, the Bloomfield dialect. It has three…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adjectives, Classification, Creoles