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Multilingual Books June Newsletter

Thanks for reading the Multilingual Books newsletter, your source for foreign language news, information, and product information and specials from Multilingual Books. This is also available as a web page at our website, www.multilingualbooks.com. In this issue: Language Feature - Kashmiri: the Major Language of Kashmir Language News - Early Proponent of Bilingualism Dies at 80 Ask The Experts - Ask a question of our expert staff and win a gift certificate! Product News - Tagalog course now on CD Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers! Send to a Friend Please send this along to anyone you think might be interested by clicking the link above. Unsubscribe Information This newsletter is intended as a service to language enthusiasts and customers of Multilingual Books. You have received this because our records indicate you have ordered products from us or have asked to join our mailing list. If this message was unwanted, we apologize and will be happy to remove your address from our list. Please see the unsubscribe information at the bottom of this message.		Featured This Issue
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Language Feature

Kashmiri - the Major Language of Kashmir
By Larry Zoumas

Kashmir, a province of India, is currently an area that has been in the news a lot lately. Sixty million people currently reside in Kashmir, and the dominant language is Kashmiri, which is spoken by 28.5 million people. The Kashmiri language has its roots in Indo-Aryan and Sanskrit. The next most spoken language is Punjabi, which has 13 million speakers. Other languages spoken in this area are Shina, Hindi, and Urdu among others.

Kashmiri Links

Language and Politics in Kashmir
Language is the most powerful means of communication, vehicle of expression of cultural values and aspirations and instrument of conserving culture. As such language is an important means to acquire and preserve identity of a particular group or community.
https://www.kashmir-information.com/Miscellaneous/Warikoo1.html

An Outline of the History of Kashmir by Professor L. N. Dhar
A good information source on the history of the Kashmir from the ancient times through the present. Includes sections on language, culture, history, and literature.
https://koausa.org/Crown/history.html

Kashmiri Language: Roots, Evolution and Affinity
Kashmiri is a unique language in the Indian linguistic context. It is analytic like the modern Indian languages of Sanskritic stock and synthetic like the Old Indo-Aryan itself, possessing characteristics of both and at the same time having peculiarities of its own many of which are yet to be fully explored.
https://jammu-kashmir.org/KOA/Languages/Shashi.html

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Language News

Bilingual Education Pioneer Dies at 80

Antonia Pantoja, an advocate for New Yorkers of Puerto Rican origin, died in Manhattan recently at the age of 80. Her educational organization, Aspira, won a landmark lawsuit in the 1970s that brought bilingual education to New York City public schools. Ms Pantoja was motivated partly by the fact that Spanish-speaking students in New York City schools had a drop-out rate of about 80% at that time. By allowing them to continue studying in their native Spanish, many students were able to accomplish more and the drop-out rate was vastly reduced. Today, the debate continues. Bilingual education is now being banned in some places, including California.

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Ask The Experts!

Question: Dafydd Goff of London, UK asks, "What is the oldest language in the world?"

Answer: It is impossible to date the oldest spoken language because no recording devices were available. The oldest spoken language was little more than a few grunts and groans of pre-historic man. It's a little easier to guess with written languages. According to Joseph Foster, PhD Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, Sumerian was the first known language to be written down. For more information visit: https://www.sumerian.org/

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Product News

Multilingual Books Announces Tagalog Course on CD Multilingual Books announces the world's first CD audio course that teaches Tagalog - the language of the Philippines. This course is a re-mastered version of the Defense Language Institute Philippine Headstart course. It teaches the dialogues, pronunciation, sentence structure and basic grammar needed to converse in Tagalog. It comes with 13 CDs or cassettes and a book. This course is on sale now for readers of this newsletter as part of our FSI special - save $20!

On-line Learning at Multilingual Books Multilingual Books is proud to now offer on-line learning, using the proven Rosetta Stone method. The on-line courses use real-life images, text, and voices of native speakers to help you to learn to speak, read and write the new language quickly, naturally and easily. Access your online courses from any compatible computer with internet access, anywhere in the world. Go through a simple, free registration process for access to our 24-language online demo - two lessons are available in each language! Try our on-line learning...

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June Newsletter Specials

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