Sentence examples for folk languages from inspiring English sources

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Folk languages could be regarded as E-languages, but Chomsky does not have the folk in mind so much as philosophers who are explicitly or implicitly behaviourist in their assumptions.

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Frederic G. Cassidy, a lexicographer who followed his love of folk language into the nooks and crannies of Jamaica's creole and across the linguistic expanses of the United States, died yesterday in Madison, Wis.

One of the things that damage the mind of Native American narrator Chief Bromden is the damming of the Columbia River where his tribe used to fish, and maverick hero McMurphy announces himself in the exaggerated, boastful folk language of frontiersmen such as Davy Crockett.

There is a long literary and folk Hindi language tradition in the state.

Like Long, Trump could speak to ordinary folk in a language that they could understand and relate to, Buchanan said.

In "Lob", Thomas fancifully touches base with English tradition, represented as fluid traffic between landscape, language, folk culture and literary culture.

Yet to quote the title of a contemporary Welsh language folk song that is rapidly becoming an unofficial second national anthem, we are "Yma o Hyd" (still here).

A contemporary poet who also used folk metrics and language with success was Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı; unlike the Garip poets, who were urban dwellers, he was born deep in Anatolia.

Hakka culture, the material and spiritual wealth of the Hakka, originated in Xijin Dynasy (266 AD) and manifests in the forms of language, folk customs, architecture, relationship, etc. Yongding County, the Hakka culture resorts, are attracting more and more tourists home and abroad over the past few decades in China.

Far removed from the world of ritual sacrifice, most modern folk find such language confusing, even offensive.

At the same time, the group was developing a varied and eclectic repertoire of calypso, folk, and foreign language songs, suggested by all three of the musicians though usually arranged by Guard with some harmonies created by Reynolds.

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