Sentence examples for divergent languages from inspiring English sources

This ontological interpretation of the Chinese orthography laid a foundation for accounts of its conceptual robustness and representational versatility as the shared writing system through historical changes (Chou and Huang 周亞民, 黃居仁 2006) and for typologically divergent languages (Huang and Chou 2015).

Nevertheless, midwives provided evidence of 'interpersonal competence' [ 38] through using the divergent languages positively: sharing some Somali words reduced initial distances and could be a starting point for a deeper relationship.

This region was originally home to peoples representing two widely divergent language families.

Over the millennia, both Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic branches of Uralic have given rise to more or less divergent subgroups of languages, which nonetheless have retained certain traits from their common source.

Sherpas are of Tibetan culture and descent and speak a Tibetan language divergent from that spoken in Tibet.

Thus, in contrast to Gongsun Long, their investigations were not aimed at establishing a universal linguistic system that could unify divergent models of language application.

Never before has a supranational assembly composed of such widely divergent nations, cultures and languages aspired to legislate on behalf of such a disparate continent.

It is the most divergent of modern Mayan languages.

As a language label the term "Nahuatl" encompasses a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects within the Aztecan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

In what must have been the largest-scale linguistic plan in history, untold millions of Chinese, whose mother tongues were divergent Mandarin or non-Mandarin languages or non-Chinese languages, learned to speak and understand the National Language, or Putonghua, a name it is now commonly called; with this effort, literacy was imparted to great numbers of people in all age groups.

And each uses language to divergent ends -- to wound or to placate, to unveil the truth or obscure it.