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<center><big>Welcome to the Wikiversity '''School of Language and Literature'''</big>, part of the [[Portal:Humanities|Humanities]].</center>  
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You might also be interested in the [[School:Foreign Language Learning|School of Foreign Language Learning]] and the [[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]].
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<div style="font-size:133%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">'''W<small>ELCOME TO</small> S<small>CHOOL OF</small><br>L<small>ANGUAGE AND</small> L<small>ITERATURE</small>,'''</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">part of the Faculty for [[Portal:Humanities|Humanities]].</div>
<div style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:80%;">You may also be interested in [[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]].</div>
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[[Image:Globe of letters.svg|right|88px|Languages]] Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity '''School of Language and Literature'''. Here we share our knowledges about methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, too. Here we also discuss about many works of literature and literary epoches they belong to, as well as their historical development and main characteristics by which one can regonize them.
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Science that studies the structure of a language and its development is called ''linguistics''. Wikiversity's [[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]] is part of the Faculty of [[Portal:Social Sciences|Social Sciences]].
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The School of Literature and English Studies was founded within the Wikiversity's Department of Humanities on 15 July 2004, in the time when Wikiversity was still part of the [[:b:|Wikibooks]] project. Eventually, it became one of the most developed Wikiversity's schools.
 
On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, although it was actually never organized properly, nor it ever worked well.
 
Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities.
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<h2 style="padding:3px; background:blue; color:white; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">''Selected biography''</h2 >
[[Image:VukKaradzic.jpg|right|99px|Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] '''Vuk Stefanović Karadžić''' (1787-1864) was one the most prominent Serbian linguists. He reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by applying the principles ''one letter per one sound'' and ''write as you speak'', and realized the idea of introducing the spoken language into the Serbian literature. He was collecting and publishing Serbian folk stories and poems. His major books were ''Serbian Dictionary'' and ''Serbian Grammar'', published in 1818, in which he for first time used the reformed alphabet. Although there were some opponents of Vuk's language reform, his principles were finally accepted and realized in Serbian literature and linguistics. Vuk's language was a base upon which the modern Serbian standard language was developed.
 
'''[[:w:Vuk Stefanović Karadžić|read more...]]'''
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<h2 style="padding:3px; background:blue; color:white; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">''Quote''</h2 >
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"Language is guardian of a nation. As long as the language exists, as long as we keep it, love it, and respect it, as long as we write in it and speak it; the nation exists as well, and it doesn't flow over into another one, nor it will disappear."<br>
— ''Vuk St. Karadzic, Serbian slavicist''
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<h2 style="padding:3px; background:blue; color:white; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">''Related schools''</h2 >
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! style="text-align:center;width:33%"|'''[[School:Classics|Classics]]'''
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<h2 style="padding:3px; background:blue; color:white; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">''Divisions and Departments''</h2 >
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[[Image:Nuvola apps kfind.png|right|70px|Did you know?]]
*...that '''[[Topic:Slavistics|Slavonic languages]]''' are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
*...that '''[[Russian]]''' is the third most used language in the world, after English and Chinese?
*...that '''[[J.R.R Tolkien]]''', writer of ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'', has highly influenced later fictional literature worldwide? And did you know that he was also a great expert in languages, and that he has created about twenty artificial languages himself?
*...that '''[[Esperanto]]''' is the most famous among many artificial languages? It is an auxiliary language created by Polish doctor Zamenhof, whose pseudonym was ''doctor Esperanto''.
*...that '''Indo-European languages''', according to the theory that is accepted by most linguists and historians, have most probably originated in present-day India and Iran, but there are also some linguists who believe that they originated from Europe, since the most of them are spoken in Europe?
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==Active participants==
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The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).
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<h2 style="padding:3px; background:blue; color:white; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">''Associated Wikimedia for Literature''</h2 >
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|'''[[Wikipedia:Literature|Literature on Wikipedia]]''' &nbsp; &nbsp;
|'''[[Wikinews:Literature|Literature on Wikinews]]''' &nbsp; &nbsp;
|'''[[Wikiquote:Literature|Literature on Wikiquote]]''' &nbsp; &nbsp;
|'''[[Wikibooks:Literature|Literature on Wikibooks]]''' &nbsp; &nbsp;
|'''[[Wikisource:Literature|Literature on Wikisource]]''' &nbsp; &nbsp;
|'''[[Wiktionary:Literature|Literature on Wiktionary]]'''
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|<font color=black>[[Wikinews:Literature|News]]</font>
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|<font color=black>[[Wikibooks:Literature|Manuals & Texts]]</font>
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* '''Date founded''' - School founded!
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|'''[[Wikibooks:Language|Language on Wikibooks]]''' &nbsp; &nbsp;
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Revision as of 16:53, 16 September 2006

WELCOME TO SCHOOL OF
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE,
part of the Faculty for Humanities.
You may also be interested in School of Linguistics.
Language and Literature
Language and Literature

Language and Literature

Languages
Languages
Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledges about methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, too. Here we also discuss about many works of literature and literary epoches they belong to, as well as their historical development and main characteristics by which one can regonize them.

Science that studies the structure of a language and its development is called linguistics. Wikiversity's School of Linguistics is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

School news and current events

News
News
  • Looking for contributors.



School history

History
History

<font-size="85%"> The School of Literature and English Studies was founded within the Wikiversity's Department of Humanities on 15 July 2004, in the time when Wikiversity was still part of the Wikibooks project. Eventually, it became one of the most developed Wikiversity's schools.

On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, although it was actually never organized properly, nor it ever worked well.

Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities. </font-size>

Selected biography

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) was one the most prominent Serbian linguists. He reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by applying the principles one letter per one sound and write as you speak, and realized the idea of introducing the spoken language into the Serbian literature. He was collecting and publishing Serbian folk stories and poems. His major books were Serbian Dictionary and Serbian Grammar, published in 1818, in which he for first time used the reformed alphabet. Although there were some opponents of Vuk's language reform, his principles were finally accepted and realized in Serbian literature and linguistics. Vuk's language was a base upon which the modern Serbian standard language was developed.

read more...

Quote

Quotation
Quotation

"Language is guardian of a nation. As long as the language exists, as long as we keep it, love it, and respect it, as long as we write in it and speak it; the nation exists as well, and it doesn't flow over into another one, nor it will disappear."
— Vuk St. Karadzic, Serbian slavicist

Divisions and Departments

Writing
Writing
Code Divisions
Literary Studies
Foreign Languages Learning
English Studies
Reading
Reading
Further division
Code Subdivisions
Writing Center
History of Literature
Germanic languages
Romance languages
Slavistics

Did you know...

Did you know?
Did you know?
  • ...that Slavonic languages are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
  • ...that Russian is the third most used language in the world, after English and Chinese?
  • ...that J.R.R Tolkien, writer of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, has highly influenced later fictional literature worldwide? And did you know that he was also a great expert in languages, and that he has created about twenty artificial languages himself?
  • ...that Esperanto is the most famous among many artificial languages? It is an auxiliary language created by Polish doctor Zamenhof, whose pseudonym was doctor Esperanto.
  • ...that Indo-European languages, according to the theory that is accepted by most linguists and historians, have most probably originated in present-day India and Iran, but there are also some linguists who believe that they originated from Europe, since the most of them are spoken in Europe?