Sentence examples for language alliance from inspiring English sources

Judith Thurman introduces us to Kaufman and the Endangered Language Alliance.

The Endangered Language Alliance will apply field techniques usually employed in exotic and remote foreign locales as it starts its research in the city's vibrant ethnic enclaves.

"New York is the single most linguistically diverse place on earth with more than 800 languages spoken," says Solnit, who worked with the Endangered Language Alliance when researching the languages.

In an effort to keep those voices alive, Professor Kaufman has helped start a project, the Endangered Language Alliance, to identify and record dying languages, many of which have no written alphabet, and encourage native speakers to teach them to compatriots.

The five boroughs of New York City are reckoned to be home to speakers of around 800 languages, many of them close to extinction.New York is also home, of course, to a lot of academic linguists, and three of them have got together to create an organisation called the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), which is ferreting out speakers of unusual tongues from the city's huddled immigrant masses.

They are called Seleka which in the local Sango language means alliance.

Earlier this month, for example, Google launched the Indian Language Internet Alliance, which seeks to increase offerings for Hindi speakers, as well as Hindi voice search.

America had the Bradleys and the Abrams, but it knew next to nothing about Iraq, and soon ignorance -- of the language, tribal alliances and family and clan networks -- left U.S. soldiers ambushed and outwitted in the deadly alleyways of Falluja and Najaf.

Why then do unionist politicians employ incendiary language, denouncing the Alliance party this week as a "delivery system for Sinn Féin", and loyalists riot and burn over a policy change that does not alter the constitutional status quo?

These days, frequent international business travelers are fluent in the language of the alliances.

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