Sentence examples for dominant languages from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'dominant languages' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to languages which are used in a certain region or by a certain group of people more often than any other language. For example, Spanish and English are the dominant languages in the United States.

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Gathii (2011) holds a more radical position and asserts that the power of Europe and the United States produce structures of domination that persist until today (dominant languages and religions) - a result of the replication by the former colonies of the Western State model.

Greek and Aramaic became the dominant languages.

Dominant languages do exist in most of the nations.

While Portuguese is spoken, Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese are now the dominant languages.

When we weren't talking about Kawes-qar, we were measuring holes, figuring out how to run a sewer pipe into the bay and reading the toilet-assembly instructions (helpfully printed in five dominant languages).

In South Africa a variation of this process allowed the Khoisan languages to exert a powerful linguistic influence on the dominant languages before they disappeared, leaving Afrikaans and some Bantu languages with a number of distinctive Khoisan features.

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That is, speaking for a longer time increased social dominance for those who spoke with socially dominant language but decreased dominance ratings for those who did not use dominant-sounding language.

The dominant language is Xhosa.

English will be the dominant language.

It's cool speaking the dominant language.

Spanish is the dominant language heard in the streets.

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