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WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL OF
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE part of the Faculty for Humanities.

Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledge of methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn non US-English languages and explore their cultures, too. We also discuss many works of literature and literary epochs they belong to, as well as their historical development and the main characteristics by which they can be recognized.

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 history

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 of Wikiversity's schools.

On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, though it failed to organize or function adequately.

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.

School bulletin board

We are always looking for contributors to our school--please see our list of projects if you're looking for a place to start! Signed, Trinity507
We are in the process of reformatting the school homepage in the hopes of making it easier to navigate--please bear with us and feel free to jump right in and help! Signed, Trinity507

Notice of New Resources

The School of Language and Literature library was founded February 21st, 2009.
The School of Language and Literature resource catalog has been revised and updated (still under construction) as of February 21st, 2009.

Did you know?

...that Old English is grammatically closer to modern German than to modern English?
...that Slavonic languages are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
...that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author 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 Tamil is the oldest surviving language in the world, still spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Departments and divisions

Foreign language departments

see also School of Linguistics

Foreign Language Learning center
Arabic language department
Aymara language department part of the South American Languages Division
Breton language department part of the Brythonic Celtic Languages Division
Chinese language department
Cornish language department part of the Brythonic Celtic Languages Division
French language department
German language department
Hebrew language department
Italian language department
Japanese language department
Klingon language department language invented for Star Trek by Marc Okrand
Korean language department
Quechua language department part of the South American Languages Division
Southeast Asian language department
Spanish language department
Tolkien language department languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
Turkish language department

Writing and literature departments

Disputed departments

listed here are all of our substantial but disputed pages

Tasks

all of our potentially valuable but empty, underdeveloped or nonexistent pages

Topic:Portuguese
Indonesian
Department of Germanic Studies(under major construction)
American poetry
American poetry
British novel
Slavic
History history of literature

Catalogs and Directories

School of Language and Literature library wikibook library
School of Language and Literature resource catalog

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 *The [[School of Language and Literature library]] was founded February 21st, 2009.
 *The [[School:Language and Literature/Catalogue|School of Language and Literature resource catalog]] has been revised and updated (still under construction) as of February 21st, 2009.
+===Did you know?===
+*...that Old English is grammatically closer to modern German than to modern English?
+*...that '''[[Topic:Slavistics|Slavonic languages]]''' are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
+*...that '''[[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]]''', author 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 Tamil is the oldest surviving language in the world, still spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
 == Departments and divisions ==