22.3545, FYI: Virtual Linguistics Campus: 500 Languages & Audio

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Subject: 22.3545, FYI: Virtual Linguistics Campus: 500 Languages & Audio

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Date: 10-Sep-2011
From: Juergen Handke [handke at staff.uni-marburg]
Subject: Virtual Linguistics Campus: 500 Languages & Audio
 

	
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:23:56
From: Juergen Handke [handke at staff.uni-marburg]
Subject: Virtual Linguistics Campus: 500 Languages & Audio

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The Virtual Linguistics Campus (www.linguistics-online.com) invites you 
to make use of the wealth of linguistics data, in particular its huge 
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- The story the ''North wind and the Sun''
- The numerical system
- The monophthongs 
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- A free passage

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To use the VLC Language Index create your FREE VLC-account. Currently ca. 4,000 users constitute the VLC-community.

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marburg.de/secure/generalmodules/languages/templates/start.php?
lang_ID=1014 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Typology





 







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