Sentence examples for as a distinct language from inspiring English sources

Aromanian is used and codified as a distinct language in the Republic of Macedonia and in Albania.

Under the Kulashekhara dynasty (c. 800 1102), Malayalam emerged as a distinct language, and Hinduism became prominent.

Scottish government ministers were also pleased that the number of residents saying they could speak or understand Scots – regarded by the government as a distinct language – stood at 1.5 million.

There are more than 20 million deaf people in China, for instance, but Chinese Sign Language, which has hardly been documented, has only been acknowledged as a distinct language for the last 30 years.

Soviet linguists last probed the region's linguistic patterns during a 1972 expedition, but their records contain no mention of Ös as a distinct language.

Jillian Cavanaugh: My first research project was in the Italian town of Bergamo, looking at how attached people were to the local language, which some call a dialect but that I view as a distinct language.

Fueled by a distinct language and culture as well as economic grievances, aspirations for a separate state have percolated for generations in Catalonia before boiling over this month.

Money talks, and the US has not seen it as worthwhile to declare a distinct language, since American English, like the American dollar, is the current dominant force globally, like it or not.

As in Arabic, I use a distinct language for each work in the series.

However, there is a strong lobby made up mainly of Scottish nationalists which argues either that Scots continues to be a distinct language, or that, as Derrick McClure puts it 'Unquestionably Scots was once a language; unquestionably it has the potential to become one again'.25 Their arguments have been taken up by Ulster-Scots enthusiasts, with one interesting variation.

A tube line with a distinct language along its length, a journey on the Bakerloo passes through areas with large proportions of Gujarati, Portuguese, French and Tagalog languages speakers, as well as the varied Chinese languages spoken in Chinatown.