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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...n, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (pr... ... (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life expectan... ... religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality r... ...opean Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rat... ...- tive Indonesian Ethnic divisions: majority of Malay stock comprising 45.0% Javanese, 14.0% Sundan- ese, 7.5% Madurese, 7.5% coastal Malays, 26.0% ot... ...eading foreign languages; local dialects, the most widely spoken of which is Javanese Infant mortality rate: 95/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: 54 Liter... ...uage: French; Melanesian-Polynesian dialects Labor force: 50,469 (1980 est); Javanese and Tonkinese laborers were imported for plantations and mines i... ...sions: 37.0% Hindustani (East Indian), 31.0% Creole (black and mixed), 15.3% Javanese, 10.3% Bush black, 2.6% Amerindian, 1.7% Chinese, 1.0% Europe- a... ...ca among others; also Hindi Suriname Hindustani (a variant of Bhoqpuri), and Javanese Infant mortality rate: 23/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy: men 64.8...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...0 A woman of Booton....................................................... 372 Javanese Canoes........................................................... ...us city and there questioned by the King. But being unable to understand their language, the ruler sent for many interpreters from whom one was at len... ...any interpreters from whom one was at length obtained who understood the Latin language, which it happened that one of the fishermen too could speak. ... ...iod of five years, during which time they acquired a thorough knowledge of the language of the new people. One of the fishermen visited different part... ... where the young Venetian speedily acquired a knowledge of four of the leading languages of Tartary, and thus fitted himself for active service under ... ...d wives, while his son had half that number. So great was the obedience of the Javanese to their rajah, that whenever he commanded, however dangerous ... ...y clothed, and of complexion very much fairer. According to the customs of the Javanese, when their king died his body was burnt, and the ashes preser... ... kings appeared to be favored with exceedingly long life, if assertions of the Javanese are to be credited. RETURN OF CAVENDISH. The Portuguese entert... ...cquaint themselves with the customs, superstitions and character of the native Javanese, of which Cook gives very full report. Among the many singular...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...orth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for the love and the language where he could befriend someone who was handicapped and he chas... ...er number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new f... ...streets. Everything from the thin dust-sheathed roads to the hangul (Korean language) on the signs, looked as identical as the occasional mom and pop... ...ading for the most part. He wished that his family had taught him his native language. Here he often felt like a handicapped moron. If he were an Angl... ...onths in the host country without learning much of anything about the Korean language, it wouldn't have been even a minor offense. To most he was a r... ... of Java チN each with its own provincial language; the provincial languages, Javanese, and Indonesian all spoken in Java; those calls to prayer from d...

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Sekar Karya

By: Various

...Sekar Karya is a collection of public domain literary works, including poems and prose, in both the Modern and Old Javanese languages. Javanese: Sekar Karya yaiku koleksi kasastraan ing domain umum kelebu ing puisi lan prosa, iki ing basa jawa modhèrn lan basa jawa kuna. Indonesian: Sekar Karya adalah koleksi kesastraan dalam domain umum ...

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Within the Tides Four Stories

By: Joseph Conrad

...he island of Cuba on his two legs, and with no more than four words of the language to begin with. The officer and the man were walking now on a thick... ... him menacingly. The evening found him fairly near to them, but, in sailor language, uncertain of his position, hungry, wet, and tired out by a day of... ... been up that creek, where no European vessel had ever been seen before. A Javanese passenger he had on board offered him fifty dollars to call in the... ...e where there was water enough to float a soup-plate. “Davidson landed his Javanese plutocrat, and, as he had to wait a couple of hours for the tide, ... .... Aha! Now you remember. He couldn’t, apparently, speak any other European language than English, but he flew the Dutch flag on his prau. “The other w...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...adily for benevolence and affability, because Phileas had made him- self a language of his own, remarkable for its immoderate use of the formulas of p... ... monsieur,” said the Duc de Rhetore, interrupting him, “the result of such language?” “Thoroughly, monsieur; and I repeat that the property left to Ma... ...ed from the newspapers; and he put them forth in lively, easy, and elegant language; so that after his departure Monsieur de Ronquerolles and Monsieur... ... government are often judged with severity, and that the utmost liberty of language reigns in our discussions. The consequence is that about a year ag... ...admirer and probably the echo of Mother Marie-des-Anges, but using her own language; “I don’t blackmail a family in affliction. I should remember it o... ...oll- parrot.” 301 Balzac “Why, no,” said Jacqueline, “not at all; with my Javanese face” (she was born on the island of Java), “oriental things set m...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

..., and it did wonders as Peroo leaped from gunnel to gun- nel, shouting the language of the sea. Findlayson was more troubled for the stone-boats than ... ... brother. There’s no doubt thinkin’ broadens the horizons o’ the mind. His language is quite lofty.” “Hesh, sis,” Nip answered. “He hain’t widened not... ...randfather of our John, went into his country, lived with him, learned his language, shot the deer that stole his poor crops, and won his confidence, ... ...ccinator, with lancets, lymph, and an officially regis- tered calf. In the language of State, they had “manifested a strong objection to all prophylac... ...en, had been known to break down in those waters, and the honest Malay and Javanese traders would sometimes aid them in their own peculiar way. But th... ...s of their apprenticeship they had come by that road from Bombay. Then the languages in which the names of the sta- tions were written changed, and th...

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