International Association of Young Linguists

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IAYL witch stands for International Association of Young Linguists is an ideal center for all kinds of linguistic activities, . Enthusiastically encourages those eager young minds both in age and in thinking. This Association is established to help linguists and linguistic life far from political boundary, cultural boundary, ethnical boundary and religious boundary. What is important is how we continue our interests, how our interests approach us together and how we can live in large linguistic family with love affection and creativity…..

In this site we have established a forum, we invite all linguists around the world to register and have discuss over boards we have created to let other know their opinion. If you liked this site you can Recommend this site to any one just within few seconds. We tried to make a Download Center Index for all stuff and also an Article Section to access to full linguistic articles without any restriction, absolutely free of charge. you don't need even any registration or stuff like that to access these parts of site. If you think you can help us we invite you to Join Us and help other people as we do. the Web Links section allow you to access other useful sites over Internet. You can find out who we are and see our beautiful Gallery and Upload Your Pictures to this site Gallery. Registration in Forum and Site are totally free, if you want to Upload any Pictures or Send any Web Link you need to register and login into site. Contacting with us is very simple. you can send your comments about any Article or Picture or Download Center by clicking on Comments Link below each one. This site has function to be viewed in 9 other languages except English, you can view our site in these languages : French , German , Italian , Portuguese , Spanish , Japanese , Korean , Chinese and Arabic . More languages will be added. Make sure to read our Term Of Use and Forum Rules before any activity in site and forum. We Hope you good hours in this site.

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Alphabet

Scientific Board - General Linguistics
Contributed by Mohammad Shadmani
Monday, 23 July 2007
*I INTRODUCTION* Alphabet, set of letters or other symbols, each representing a distinctive sound of a language. These letters can be combined to write all the words of a language. The letters of an alphabet typically have names and a fixed order. Alphabets are the most common type of writing in the world today. Only a few languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, do not use an alphabet. The first alphabet was probably developed at least 3,500 years ago by people who lived on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and spoke a Semitic language. The earliest surviving alphabet is that of the Phoenicians (see Phoenicia). Around 3,000 years ago the Phoenician alphabet spread east to other Semitic peoples and west to the Greeks. The word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. The Greeks helped spread alphabetic writing to the Etruscans and the Romans and through much of the rest of the ancient world. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 846

Linguistic Relativity

Scientific Board - General Linguistics
Contributed by Mohammad Shadmani
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), American anthropological linguist, known for his theory of linguistic relativity, which asserts that a person's view of reality is shaped to a large extent by the linguistic system of the language used. Born at Winthrop, Massachusetts, Whorf attended public schools there and majored in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1919 he began a long career at the Hartford Fire Insurance Company and eventually became its assistant secretary. He remained with the company until his death, pursuing his scholarly interests in his spare time. Read More Add Comment (4) Hits: 3360

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Semantics

Scientific Board - Semantics
Contributed by Mohammad Shadmani
Thursday, 19 April 2007
I) INTRODUCTION Semantics (Greek semantikos, “significant”), the study of the meaning of linguistic signs— that is, words, expressions, and sentences. Scholars of semantics try to answer such questions as “What is the meaning of (the word) X?” They do this by studying what signs are, as well as how signs possess significance—that is, how they are intended by speakers, how they designate (make reference to things and ideas), and how they are interpreted by hearers. The goal of semantics is to match the meanings of signs—what they stand for—with the process of assigning those meanings. Read More Add Comment (1) Hits: 7439