Sentence examples similar to branches of language from inspiring English sources

Sociolinguistics is the branch of language study that focuses on how language functions in society.

The language of the Persian people -- belonging to the Indo-European branch of languages -- apart from having a considerable influence on neighbouring languages and beyond, was once the lingua franca (lingua persica) of the central part of the Islamic world in the East, as well as in South Asia.

Although parallel semantic shift involving cognate words in different branches of a language family is surely much rarer than borrowing, this has to be considered when applying the method to linguistic data.

Other stories seem to be much younger, appearing for the first time in more modern branches of the language tree.

There's such an emphasis on branches of programming language and tools today that it's easy to miss the bigger forrest.

This method smoothes the observed rates of lexical change over the branches of the language phylogeny, whilst incorporating date information from calibration points.

There are comparatively few cognate words found in all three branches of Altaic languages.

This language is most closely related to the Ch'olan branch of the language family, modern descendants of which include Ch'ol, Ch'orti' and Chontal.

National labels are problematical because words move easily from one branch of the language to another.

She hopes to turn an unused farmyard complex into a country branch of her language school and, while she's at it, fix Alfred up with a colleague of hers, a "thoroughly nice woman" who's a scholar to boot.

These two language families are all branches of the Altaic languages.