Sentence examples for Cognate languages from inspiring English sources
In 1874 Briggs accepted an offer from Union Theological Seminary to teach as provisional professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages.
"The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses over 225 manuscripts; most of them in Hebrew but with a fair sampling of manuscripts also written in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish.
Philological criticism consists mainly in the study of the biblical languages in their widest scope so that the vocabulary, grammar, and style of the biblical writings can be understood as accurately as possible with the aid not only of other biblical writings but of other writings in the same or cognate languages.
Receive a rating of 'Advanced Low' on the Foreign Service Institute/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (FSI/ACTFL) oral proficiency except in the non-cognate languages which require an 'Intermediate High' rating.
There are comparatively few cognate words found in all three branches of Altaic languages.
They analyzed 36,000 words from 195 Pama-Nyungan languages and compared the loss and gain of cognate words in 189 meanings through time.
Languages could then be compared on the basis of how many cognate words on a Swadesh list they shared in common.
Using an algorithm known as the Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler, the program sorted through sets of cognates, words in different languages that share a common sound, history and origin, to calculate the odds of which set is derived from which proto-language.
The more cognates two languages share, the more recently they split apart.
"Skin + Bones" starts with the unexceptional premise that fashion and architecture are, if not equals, cognates — related languages with a common root.
The guslar tradition is almost certainly older than that and may well share an origin with other epic singing traditions in cognate Indo-European languages; the paucity of written evidence, however, prevents decisive claims regarding historical origin.
