Sentence examples for elderly speakers from inspiring English sources

ACHUMAWI: there are 10 elderly speakers of this language left in northern California.

Her elderly speakers are comfortable with technology but use it in ways particular to their needs.

As of 1982, reports listed only 70 elderly speakers of the language.

Outside efforts to "preserve" language often undermine native peoples' revitalization efforts, since they compete for the time and energy of a tiny number of elderly speakers.

Mandaic, an ancient Semitic language of Iraq and Iran, has only a few elderly speakers left, in Flushing and Nassau County.

Without the revitalization of youth, a language can go from being alive to endangered (declining speakers among the young), then moribund (only elderly speakers left alive), then dead (the last known speaker dies) -- all linguistic terms of art.

They set up a preschool in which elderly Hawaiian speakers taught the language to the children.

The Ainu language, which has no proven relationship to Japanese or any other language, is moribund, with only a few elderly native speakers remaining in Hokkaido.

A total of 34 hearing impaired elderly Cantonese speakers, aged above 60 years and exhibiting a bilateral mild to severe degree of hearing loss, regardless of the nature of the loss, were recruited.

An elderly guest speaker at Blair's high-school graduation is another: "Auntie Lynn," some old lady who'd basically founded the Girl Scouts or something, was supposed to talk.

Over the speakers, another elderly man cried his son's name over and over.