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the identity of the language or
dialect
of the
Cançó de Santa Fe
, a
hagiographical
poem
about
Saint Faith
, has been debated since the 16th century?
the song "
Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?
" consists of
tongue twisters
in an artificial
German
dialect
and never answers the question in its title?
the
Vedda language
is a
Creole language
based on
Sinhalese
of
Sri Lanka
rather than a
dialect
?
the
Lwów dialect
was one of the first
dialects
of the
Polish language
to be properly classified?
although spoken by less than 18,686 people, the
Kulung
language
has eight
dialects
and covers the "
Mahakulung
"
ethno
-
linguistic
area?
the
linguist
Amund B. Larsen
made the first
dialect
map in the
Nordic countries
?
Alfred Sinding-Larsen
, who wrote
folk songs
with the
Vika
dialect
, was one of the first writers to use a dialect from
Norway's capital
?
Facts on topics related to Dialect
English language
16 of the 72
fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print
did not write in
English
, and 16 of the 72 are women?
92% of students at
West London
's
Villiers High School
do not speak
English
as their
first language
?
Andrew Carnegie
(pictured)
founded the
Simplified Spelling Board
in 1906, with the aim of making
English
the
world language
by addressing its difficult spelling?
botanist
Henry Lyte's
Niewe Herball
of 1578 was an
English
translation
of the 1564
Cruydeboeck
of
Rembert Dodoens
printed in
Antwerp
with the
woodcuts
of the original edition?
children's book
publisher
Kane/Miller
published the
English language
edition of
Everyone Poops
?
Chilean
Canadian
writer
Carmen Rodriguez
publishes much of her work in both
English
and
Spanish
, and that she herself is responsible for their
translation
?
Dutch
linguist
Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk
published a
Batak
-
Dutch
dictionary to enable him to translate the
Bible
into
Batak
in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual
Kawi
-
Balinese
-
Dutch
dictionary was republished in
English
in 1971?
Dutch
rocker
Wally Tax
learned
English
by age 11 by working as a
pimp
for American sailors in the
Port of Amsterdam
?
Edyta Górniak
sang part of
"
To Nie Ja
"
in
English
at the dress rehearsal for the
Eurovision Song Contest 1994
, which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
English
once had a four-form
yes and no
system, employed by
Shakespeare
and others, instead of the two-form system that it has today?
German language
Alabama
lawyer and
Republican Party
pioneer
John Grenier
of
Birmingham
was self-taught in four foreign languages:
French
,
Spanish
,
German
, and
modern Greek
?
MEP
Ryszard Czarnecki
thought fellow
Polish
MEP
Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein
might harm the
Civic Platform
in the
2009 elections
because of her
German
-sounding name?
Leo Tolstoy
's play
The Living Corpse
played in
New York City
in both
Yiddish
(1911) and
German
(1916) before it was ever presented there in
English
(1918)?
Mark Twain
wrote the essay "
The Awful German Language
" to express his frustrations when learning
German
?
Russian
historian and scientist
Vladimir N. Beneshevich
was arrested on charges of
spying
for
Germany
and executed because one of his books was translated into
German
in 1937?
Eilhart von Oberge
'
s
German
poem
Tristrant
, dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the
Tristan and Iseult
legend in any language?
Quirinus Kuhlmann
, a
German
poet who called himself "son of the
Son of God
", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and
burnt at the stake
for
heresy
in
Moscow
in 1689?
Sabine Ehrenfeld
, the Overstock.com
spokesmodel
, is fluent in
German
,
French
,
English
, and
Italian
and that she is an experienced
pilot
and
equestrian
?
although
Kristijonas Donelaitis
wrote the poem
The Seasons
in
Lithuanian
, it was first published in its
German
translation in 1818?
as a Seattle School Board member during
World War I
,
German
-born
Nathan Eckstein
bowed to pressure to drop
German language
classes in
Seattle Public Schools
?
Romanian language
the
Silesian
-born scholar
Heimann Hariton Tiktin
, one of the founders of modern
Romanian
linguistics
was initially destined to become a
rabbi
?
the
Wallachian
poet
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
(
pictured
) advocated a radical transformation of the
Romanian language
on the basis of
Italian
neologisms
?
the villagers of the
Romanian
village of
Bigar
largely speak
Czech
rather than
Romanian
?
Portuguese language
Hindi
,
Bengali
, and
Portuguese
have all recently been proposed as
official languages of the United Nations
?
President of Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
recently launched
TV Brasil Internacional
, a
Portuguese language
television station aimed at 49 African nations?
radio station
KLBS
broadcasts a
Portuguese-language
world music
format to California's
San Joaquin Valley
?
Quốc ngữ, the
Vietnamese alphabet
in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual
Latin
-
Portuguese
-
Vietnamese
dictionary
Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum
?
the earliest
Portuguese
description of
Malaysia
,
Tomé Pires's
Suma Oriental
, lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?
Italy
19th century Polish general
Ludwik Mierosławski
led revolutionaries in
Poland
,
Germany
and
Italy
?
Bulgarian
–
Italian
Futurist
painter
Nikolay Diulgheroff
, an honorary citizen of
Turin
, studied at the original
Bauhaus
in
Weimar
?
canoe racer
Josefa Idem
, a
1984 Olympic
bronze medalist for
West Germany
, later took an
Italian
citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
chief justice
Frederick Richard Jordan
once decided that the government of
New South Wales
had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was
Italian
?
Christmas
is traditionally celebrated in
Agnone
,
Italy
, with a torchlight parade known as
Ndocciata
?
(2006 event pictured)
Galileo
's father
Vincenzo Galilei
was a noted
Italian
lutenist
?
Giorgio Francia
of
Italy
became the first non-
German
to win the
German Formula Three Championship
, by winning the title in the year
1974
?
Italian
aerodynamicist
Antonio Ferri
took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the
Allies
?
Italian
aeronautical engineer
Corradino D'Ascanio
developed a record-setting early helicopter in 1930 and designed the original
Vespa
motor scooter
in 1946?
Italian
film director
Marco Ferreri
hired actor
Michel Piccoli
almost immediately after the two first met for his
art house
masterpiece
Dillinger Is Dead
?
Prestige (sociolinguistics)
despite the different
prestige
that languages and dialects have,
linguists
do not consider any languages or dialects to be inherently superior or inferior?
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