Sentence examples for from a common protolanguage from inspiring English sources

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The linguistic characteristics of South Caucasian languages indicate descent from a common protolanguage.

One of the most difficult problems in language comparison is to distinguish systematically between those words likely to be derived from a common protolanguage and the many words that are shared as a result of borrowing (and hence are not evidence of the languages themselves being related).

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Languages are said to be genetically related when they meet two criteria: they match in phonology, vocabulary, and grammar in such a way that they can be systematically related to a common protolanguage, and the matches can be determined not to have resulted from chance resemblance or previous contact between genetically unrelated languages.

Most scholars of Afro-Asiatic agree that the verbal systems of all Afro-Asiatic languages can ultimately be traced back to the common protolanguage (usually allowing for a unique development in Egyptian).

Inherited from a common ancestor.

The bands are all from a common area playing common music from a common genre.

Their unhappiness stems from a common source.

A sports hernia is different from a common hernia.

Oddly, though, these cases stem from a common root.

Yet all these alternatives suffer from a common problem: refueling.

They hail from a common sect, and share beliefs.

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