Sentence examples for continental language from inspiring English sources

The Frisians, the continental language group closest to English, live across Germany and the Netherlands, but who cares?

In last week's Guardian puzzle by Picaroon (you can Meet the Setter here), many clues referred to eighteen down … 18d Back continental way: tolerant, embracing a unionist (8) [ a word for a road ("way") in a continental language, spelled backwards + synonym for "tolerant" around ("embracing") A ] [ RUE backwards + OPEN around A ] … that is, EUROPEAN.

The language or languages of Tasmania were not extensively studied before their extinction; the meagre surviving lists of Tasmanian words show the characteristic Australian sound system, but the words themselves do not form demonstrable cognate sets with continental languages.

Newly published volume by newly published volume, working almost as a simultaneous translator, Moncrieff inserted Proust into the English-speaking reader's consciousness with a force that Proust's contemporaries in continental languages never really got.

In the more lenient definition of science (scienza, Wissenschaft) found in Continental languages, it is, because it has a recognizable body of practitioners and generally accepted protocols for validating its claims to truth.

It is believed the term "Dutch" comes from an archaic form of English, which referred to any continental Germanic language.[4].

In practice, the decimal point is used in English-speaking countries and most of Asia, and the comma in most of Latin America and in continental European languages.

The first three thematic priority programs (the origin of languages; continental margins; and self-organized nano-structures) have been set up with the aim of identifying the best performers and/or interactive projects through rigorous international peer review.

(Thus n+1's frequent and unapologetic references to literary theory and continental philosophy, presented in language free of jargon and ideological posturing).

While the Scandinavian languages in continental Europe were losing inflection, Icelandic preserved Old Scandinavian grammar almost intact.

Most specialists agree that the languages of continental Australia are a genetic group.