http://www.polyglotter.net The blog that truly speaks your language Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:25:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_33" align="alignnone" width="227" caption="Diaz (left) and Katsidis (right) gave a great pose prior their fight Saturday night"][/caption] Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz bagged a split decision verdict from the judges over Michael "The Great" Katsidis." One of the judges saw the bout 115-113 for Katsidis, while two judges considered Diaz to ... http://www.polyglotter.net/diaz-won-via-spli-decision-against-katsidis.html A. Language Extinction An extinct language is a language which no longer has any speakers, whereas a dead language is a language which is no longer spoken by anyone as their main language. Normally this conversion to an extinct language occurs when a language undergoes language death while being directly ... http://www.polyglotter.net/on-the-existence-of-language-extinct-dead-or-endagered.html A person who speaks several languages is called a polyglot. The following individuals are some of the world's famous polyglots who claimed to speak 10 or more languages: Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was the 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of India. He led one of ... http://www.polyglotter.net/world-renowned-polyglots.html Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s. He is especially known for his book Language (1933), describing the state of the art of linguistics at its time. Bloomfield was ... http://www.polyglotter.net/leonard-bloomfield-the-great-american-linguist.html Multilingual individuals A multilingual person, in the broadest definition, is one who can communicate in more than one language, be it actively (through speaking and writing) or passively (through listening and reading). More specifically, the terms bilingual and trilingual are used to describe comparable situations in which two or three languages ... http://www.polyglotter.net/multilingualism.html