ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca.
An explanatory theory of sound change, and of language change in general, must therefore not only explain the origins of variation, but also take into account the orderly differentiation in a language serving a community [13], as reflected in correlations between linguistic variation and such macrosocial structures as socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and gender [12].
Thereafter, Akkadian (Babylonian) became the first diplomatic language, serving as the international tongue of the Middle East until it was replaced by Aramaic.
Finnish, together with Swedish (an unrelated North Germanic language), serves as a national language of Finland.
For those who felt the companies had taken an unserious approach to their offerings, the unconventional S-1 language served as a potent symbol.Twitter learned from those companies' mistakes, according to someone familiar with its thinking.
Language serves as a useful example.
The high-level language serves as a glue to tie the modules or components together and to create a specialized application.
Just as language serves as a visual binder in many Islamic cultures, so it does in Mr. Koraichi's formally diverse but completely of-a-piece show, "Love Side by Side With the Soul," at Aicon Gallery.
An exploration into the cultures, societies, and languages of Russia and Eastern Europe (including Polish, Czech, Boznian-Serbian-Croatian). Russian language serves as a gateway to the study of literature, politics, cultural anthropology, film and visual arts and Russia's still problematic relationship to the West.
Semantic networks provide insights into how language serves as a framework for representing and communicating information.
If both are constitutively linguistic, language serves as a medium of experience that binds the ostensible "subject" and "object" in a more profound, perhaps mystical, relationship of underlying kinship.
