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These online presentations supplement the current exhibit at the museum.
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Glimpses of the French-Speaking World
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Overview of Exhibit Read and listen to ads in Baltimore newspapers from 1807
View a timeline of Noah Webster's life
Guess the 1812 Spellings (no need to sign in, just click on start)
Influential People 1806 - 1828 (view online)
English
Emerging American Language in 1812This exhibit paid for in part by the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an Instrumentality of the State of Maryland.
World Englishes
Rebecca Oxford and Rashi Jain's Presentation on World Englishes
- Video: View Online | PowerPoint: View Online | Download PowerPoint
Arabic
Calligraphy
Calligrams
ASL
American Sign Language
- Sign Writing Resource Page
- Bilingual Deaf Education article: Signing on to Deaf Education
- Deaf Bilingual Blog
Chinese
Calligraphy Video
Did you know that?
You Xi Quiz
Chinese Characters to Write
- Chinese Characters
- Basic guide to Chinese by Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (used by permission of SACU)
Chinese Folding Screen: The Four Beauties
Cubeo
- Essay by Janet Chernela, NML Associate: The Cubeo, who live along the forested banks of the Uaupés River in Brazil and Colombia, traditionally held three-day funeral ceremonies called Óyne or “Weepings.” Suppressed by missionaries in the 1940s, the ceremony was partially revived in 1970, but the Óyne is not known to be practiced today. Read more...
Cherokee
The Cherokee Syllabary: Presentation by Carrie Clarady
Esperanto
An international language not associated with an ethnic group, Esperanto is proposed as a means of egalitarian communication on a world scale.
- Prague Manifesto
- Esperanto broadcasts from Radio Polonia or from Radio China International:
- World Congress of Esperanto
- Youth Esperanto Organization TEJO
Games
Ge'ez
Free activities for Learning Sign Langauge (ASL) , Gaelic, Polish, and Spanish.
Free computer games for practicing English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Join the Young Linguists of America
THE POWER OF THE TEXT: Ge’ez: An Ancient Ethiopic Script in Prince George’s County, Maryland
Japanese
The Japanese Writing System
Latin
Why study Latin?
Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights
From the conference in Barcelona in 1996
Vietnamese
The History of Vietnamese Writing
- Vietnamese Writing pdf file
- Note: sound files are embedded in the pdf file. Mac users open in Acrobat Reader and click on speaker icons on page 2 to hear the tones.
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