Canada's 60-odd aboriginal languages are now spoken by just over 200,000 people.In a country where multiculturalism is seen as a virtue, the language revelations in the census were mostly noted as a positive sign.
This is the language of Revelation, and these are the words of "the Lamb that was slain," the apocalyptic Christ of the sermon.
Set down in human language, divine revelation has spawned thousands of exegeses, glosses and interpretations, each demanding to be read as the only true one.
After a few years, Pryor gave up on what his friend and collaborator Paul Mooney once called "copycat Cosby bullshit" and began to embrace the kind of excess that Cosby took pains to avoid: profane language, unsparing revelation, emotional turmoil.
As a Muslim, Arabic is the language of revelation; sacred, yet sometimes abstruse and esoteric, fascinatingly timeless at others.
Mr. Pryor's brilliant comic imagination and creative use of the blunt cadences of street language were revelations to most Americans.
Barlow gives him the language of Revelations and old spirituals, acknowledging the religious fervour sometimes found in the band's following, who often quote lyrics as if they were divine wisdom: "My time coming any day, don't worry 'bout me, no/ It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so".
Kureishi's language was a revelation.
To be fair to Christopher Andrew, whose MI5 history, Defence of the Realm, provides the occasion for this farrago, neither his language nor his revelations are nearly so lurid.
Its theme was contemporary politics and its language that of divine revelation.
