Phonetics
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Name
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Language Resource
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| Hill, Dana Brown |
Portuguese
Phonetics
This site is an excellent guide to understanding Portuguesse Phonetics |
| Linder, Ellen |
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| Martin, Beverly |
Culture of the Andes-Pronunciation
(Quechua Ayacucho)
You can listen to several words of the Quechua Ayacucho Indians. A
pronunciation guide of vowels is given with advice for consonants sounds
(similar to German). |
| Money, Kimberly |
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This website offers historical information on phonetics and historical
background of the native languages of South America. The Diversity
of language families contributes a great deal to the spoken languages in
S. American countries. |
| Paxton, Nancy |
Official Aymara
Alphabet "Unico"
This is a detailed pronunciation guideline
for the 26 consonants and 3 vowels of the Aymara
alphabet. |
| Purvis, Debbie F. |
Spanish Pronunciation
This web site shows you how to pronounce different sounds in Spanish.
There is also sound samples to listen to. |
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Phonology
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Name
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Language Resource
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| Hill, Dana Brown |
Portuguese
Phonology
This site explains the Portuguesse consonants complete with a pronunciation
guide. |
| Linder, Ellen |
Basic
Lessons in Spanish, pronunciation
Summary: A chart of the alphabet with English pronunciation of
each letter. |
| Martin, Beverly |
Comparison
of Quechua Dialects
There is a view of a table of phonemic comparison of five major Quechua
dialects. |
| Money, Kimberly |
Pronunciation
Guide for Spanish
This site gives short descriptions on pronunciation of Spanish phonemes
and offers links that enable you to hear examples of a native speaker speaking
words that begin with the different phonemes. |
| Paxton, Nancy |
Quechua
Phonology
This is a phonological inventory for
Cuzco/Bolivian Quechua |
| Purvis, Debbie F. |
Phonological
Characteristics
A detailed essay about phonological features of the South
American
languages. |
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Morphology
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Name
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Language Resource
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| Hill, Dana Brown |
Portuguese
Morphology
This site compares and contrasts the differences between spellings
in European Portuguese to South American Portuguese. |
| Linder, Ellen |
Basic Quechua
Lessons
Summary: Verb endings - All verbs are regular in Quechua |
| Martin, Beverly |
Fun facts to know and
tell about Quechua
This article has a great deal of information on almost everything about
Quechua and its people. There is an easy to read section on grammar
talking about morphemes. |
| Money, Kimberly |
Spanish Word parts- Cognates
This site offers a list of words ending in -tion in English that are
translated into Spanish. It shows how the words are cognates one
another, and offers high and low frequency vocabulary. |
| Paxton, Nancy |
Basic Quechua Lessons
Site contains many grammar lessons in
Quechua, including plurals, verb tenses and the use of
suffixes. |
| Purvis, Debbie F. |
Paradigm of the
Verbal Flexions
This site was full of information about verbs, singular and plural,
root
words and suffixes. There is a lot of information. |
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Syntax
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Name
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Language Resource
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| Hill, Dana Brown |
Portuguese
Syntax
This site explains the word order using compartive and superlative
forms of adjectives. |
| Linder, Ellen |
Spanish
for Travelers
Summary: Basic lessons in word order, questions, telling time
and dates |
| Martin, Beverly |
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| Money, Kimberly |
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This site features syntax of Bolivian poetry in English and Spanish. |
| Paxton, Nancy |
Brazilian Portuguese
This is an overview of Brazilian Portuguese
grammar and expressions and how they vary from
Portugal Portuguese. (Also contains a fun list of
Brazilian proverbs.) |
| Purvis, Debbie F. |
Brazilian
Portugese
This web site tells about formal and informal ways to address people.
It also talks about the importance of nouns and adjectives. |
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Semantics
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Name
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Language Resource
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| Hill, Dana Brown |
Portuguese
Proverbs
This is really neat! This site lists popular Portuguese Proverbs
and their meanings |
| Linder, Ellen |
Business
Spanish
Summary: Business themes and etiquette in Spanish in various lessons |
| Martin, Beverly |
Too
Much Spanish In Your Quechua?
Many people trying to speak Quechua insert Spanish words into Quechua
changing the meaning of the expression or sentence. There is a very
great danger here of inventing words which sound plain silly to native
speakers. |
| Money, Kimberly |
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This is a website to be placed under Semantics for South America
No
Title
This website discusses how Paraguay in South America is currently undergoing
semantic changes due to the combination of historical language spoken plus
present day immigrants from Brazil who are bringing with them their own
semantic meanings of language. The article specifically discusses
Idyllic Bilingualism. |
| Paxton, Nancy |
Random Idiom Generator
This page randomly selects Spanish idioms
and translates them into English. |
| Purvis, Debbie F. |
Languages Made Clear
Excellent source of grammar rules, word meanings and translations.
This
site contains lessons that you can do to help in translating Spanish
to
English and English to Spanish.
Languages Made Clear:
Grammar Chapter Nouns
This site gives information on the noun. It gives guidelines
for the
Spanish Language. |
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Sociolinguistics
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Name
|
Language Resource
|
| Hill, Dana Brown |
Portuguese
Sociolinguistics
This site compares the differences in phonology and morphology of European
Portuguese to South American Portuguese. |
| Linder, Ellen |
Latin World
Magazine
Summary: Articles of various topics in South American countries |
| Martin, Beverly |
English
as a Lingua Franca in the Brazilian Academic World
This article describes how Brazilian academics uses English in their
work and which problems and misunderstandings they may have using this
foreign language as a lingua franca. |
| Money, Kimberly |
No Title
This site provides information and links for the Indigenous Languages
and cultures in Ecuador.
No Title
This site discusses characteristics of the Chocho langauge in the culture
of Mexico. |
| Paxton, Nancy |
The
History of Spanish
This site has many links (some in English,
some in Spanish) that take you on a tour of the
history of the Spanish language |
| Purvis, Debbie F. |
Aymara UTA
This web site tells about the history of the Aymara language.
There
are other links to tell about the phonetics, etc of the language. |
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