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One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories is a collection of short stories, published in 2009 by New Internationalist.Edited by Chris Brazier, the book contains 23 short stories by 23 different authors who represent 14 different countries (Malaysia, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Botswana, Bangladesh, US, Cameroon, Wales, Greece, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, Australia) and five continents ...
The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) maintained a web resource about teaching materials for some 150 languages that are less commonly taught in the United States. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was created in 1992. It is part of the UCLA Center for World Languages.
Various definitions of the term world language have been proposed; there is no general consensus about which one to use. [4] [5]One definition proffered by Congolese linguist Salikoko Mufwene is "languages spoken as vernaculars or as lingua francas outside their homelands and by populations other than those ethnically or nationally associated with them".
The most popular auxiliary language ever invented, including, possibly, up to two million speakers, the highest ever for a constructed language and the only one to date to have its own native speakers (approximately 1,000). [1] Mundolinco: 1888 J. Braakman: The first Esperantido. Bolak, "Blue Language" 1899 Léon Bollack
Research studies report several learning benefits of EE, such as promoting vocabulary acquisition, [9] [10] fostering learner autonomy, [11] increasing literacy development [12] and encouraging self-regulated learning. [13] To bridge learning English outside and inside the classroom some teachers use a 30-day challenge with a focus on EE ...
In other conceptions, it may be the primary language of all speakers, or the only existing language. Some religious and mythological traditions state that there was once a single universal language among all people, or shared by humans and supernatural beings. In other traditions, there is less interest in or a general deflection of the question.
The Global Lexicostatistical Database includes basic word lists of 110 items each for many of the world's languages. [10] The 110-word list is a modified 100-item Swadesh list consisting of the original 100 Swadesh list items, in addition to the following 10 additional words from the Swadesh–Yakhontov list:
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