Sentence examples for ancestral languages from inspiring English sources

I also disagree with the writer's contention that speakers abandon their ancestral languages voluntarily.

North Dakotans of Icelandic, Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, and German ancestry also retain some ethnic customs, and in some families ancestral languages are still spoken.

"If they're right, then that would strongly suggest that these sounds are just arbitrary, much as many of the first words in our own ancestral languages must have at some point started off as arbitrary".

It tells the story of Dr. Anderson, the director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, and K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College, and their quest to document ancestral languages like Chulym in Siberia and Sora in India.

Some of them are looking at language death in the next decade, and some are trying to just stabilize the number of children who are learning and speaking their ancestral languages.

Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur.

But to Christians all around the world, it is still the ancestral language of faith.

On the rare occasions when I meet other Hungarians' grandchildren, disbelief in our absurd ancestral language unites us.

The Gullah community has retained many of its original African customs and much of its ancestral language.

The Nilo-Saharan languages are presumed to be descended from a common ancestral language and, therefore, to be genetically related.

The world of world of Auriona exists 10,000 years in the future on a place far from Earth, where they speak an ancient ancestral language.