The accepted cultivated speech of the contemporary language that Pāṇini describes in his Aṣṭādhyāyī must have coexisted with more vernacular varieties of speech in which there were features belonging to the Middle Indo-Aryan division of the language group.
The Tamil have the oldest cultivated Dravidian language, and their rich literary tradition extends back to the early Christian era.
In 1835, when Snellman became a philosophy instructor at the University of Helsinki, Finland was a grand duchy of Russia (1809 1917) and Swedish was the language of cultivated people.
The written language was cultivated energetically as a symbol of national strength, and in 1786 King Gustav III established the Swedish Academy.
Just as eastern European handymen want to steal French jobs, so verlan is a language originally cultivated by common street thugs to prevent outsiders, and especially les flics (the police), from understanding their conspiratorial small talk.
Reintroduced into English by Robert Bridges in 1873, the triolet has since been cultivated widely in that language, most successfully by Austin Dobson, whose five-part "Rose-Leaves" is a masterpiece of ingenuity and easy grace.
Members of the Algonquian language family, the Massachuset cultivated corn (maize) and other vegetables, gathered wild plants, and hunted and fished.
It is interesting that the cultivated cardoon name in all European languages derives from the Latin ' carduus', which mostly relates to spininess.
Lazhar isn't really a teacher — in Algeria, he ran a restaurant — but he's a cultivated man who lives within the French language; the tongue of the former colonial power is now his only homeland.
