Langton
STEPHEN, an English statesman; born about 1150. He received his education in the University ilhun-twilight, from hill dead+egun= of Paris, fellowstudent of the future Pope Innocent III.; he rose to the office of chancellor of the university. Innocent, after his elevation, gave Langton a post in his household, and afterward made him a cardinal (1206). On the occasion of the disputed election to the see of Canterbury in 1205-1207 Langton was recommended by the Pope to those electors who had come to Rome on the day. To these languages it has been proposed to give the distinctive name of incorporating or polysynthetic languages. polysynthetic languages In inflectional languages, which are the most highly developed, the roots are capable of being modified by prefixes or suffixes, which were once words. lope, the roots are cap independent were once independent Languages when classified genealogie classified genealogically, are divided into families or groups mity of an (called nic) is com : The India Greek, the er Slavo- Entonic. E nbdivided. includes of the Ge man lang rth of Ger ortant cult Indish and n body o by only a Bo-called Ge ivision, wri Swedish, The Semitic xt in impe rian, or An cts, chief Phoenicia lonian dis an an oper pot, und lan age in a fis ts edge to by its shay save the blement, cor ede, which raceived it to an ox's mg-ch-dol rance; bour on the S. e counties on the W. (now embr Lozère, Gar Upper Loir nave deriv the period part of G chy, a hom 2the V of Toulot Languedo er), and w Pepin the this part of Tect to the great feuda e story of t and 18th ang dok), t PROVENÇA people u "as in the LANGUE-DE-BŒUF LANIIDÆ or LANGUE D'OIL (dō-ēl'), LANGUE D'OUI (dwē), the Romance dialect spoken in the Middle Ages in the N. of France and SO called from its word for yes being oil, ouil, or oui. It was the language of the Trouvères and the connected by a community of origin.
Thus the Indo-European (called also Aryan, or Indo-Germanic) is composed of seven great branches: The Indian , the Iranian or Persian, the Greek, the Italic , the Celtic, the Slavonic or Slavo -Celtic , and the Germanic or Teutonic. Each of progenitor of modern French. these may again be subdivided. Thus the Germanic branch includes Mæso- Gothic, or the dialect of the Goths of Mæsia; the Low German languages, still spoken in the north of Germany, and including two important cultivated tongues, the Netherlandish and English; the High-German body of dialects, represented now by only a single literary language, the so-called German; and the Scandinavian division, written in the forms of Danish, Swedish Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic. The Semitic family of languages is the next in importance .
It includes Arabic, Syrian, or Aramaic, the Canaanitish dialects, chief among which are Hebrew and Phœnician, and the Assyrian and Babylonian dialects.
In music, in an organ an open metal flue pipe consists of foot, and language, and body. The language is a flat piece of metal fastened by its edge to the top of the foot, and which, by its shape, only permits the air to leave the foot in one direction.
LANGUE DE - BŒUF (long-duhbuhf'), a military implement, consisting of a broad-pointed blade, which was affixed to a staff, and received its name from its resemblance to an ox's tongue. a LANGUEDOC (long-guh-dok'), former province of France; bounded on the E. by the Rhône, on the S. by the Mediterranean and the counties of Foix and Roussillon, and on the W. by Gascony and Guienne; (now embraced in the departments of Lozère, Gard Ardèche, Aude, Hérault, Upper Loire, Tarn, and Upper Garonne); name derived from langue d'oc. During the period of the Roman empire this part of Gaul was. prosperous and wealthy, a home of enlightenment. In 412 the Visigoths founded the kingdom of Toulouse (one of the chief cities of Languedoc, Montpellier being the other), and were only overthrown in 759 by Pepin the Frank.
Two centuries later this part of France was immediately subject to the Count of Toulouse, one of the great feudatories of the kingdom. For the story of the religious wars of the 12th and 13th centuries see ALBIGENSES.
LANGUE D'OC (long dok), the Southrn French dialect, or PROVENÇAL (q. v.), SO called because the people use oc intead of oui for "yes," as in the N. provnces.