Sentence examples for earlier languages from inspiring English sources

The literary languages borrowed words and suffixes from earlier languages.

Precisely what the relationship holds between these suffixes; whether one language borrowed from the other, or whether each language inherited them from earlier languages, is not at all clear.

The earlier language had a distinctive musical accent.

The European Union delegation, as well as those from many Asian, African and Latin American countries, favors maintaining earlier language.

Chinese words often have only one syllable, although modern Chinese makes greater use of compounds than did the earlier language.

Berber, the earlier language of the Maghrib, survived in Tunisia in only a few pockets, mainly in the extreme south.

The comparative method in historical linguistics is concerned with the reconstruction of an earlier language or earlier state of a language on the basis of a comparison of related words and expressions in different languages or dialects derived from it.

Later in the 19th century, scholars began to consider an earlier language, Hieroglyphic Luwian, which was initially thought to be a hieroglyphic form of Hittite.

Another example is identifying a nonlanguage recognition with an earlier language content, e.g. something read (for example, in a guide book) or heard about.

Cicero sometimes speaks of doubting, dubitari (e.g., Acad. 2.27, 106; however, he often sticks with the earlier language of assent and suspension).

Of course, instead of responding contritely or taking even a shred of responsibility for his earlier language, Chad lashes out.