He knew only the photographic language of the small-town studio, but he clearly tried to elevate, even transform his subjects, even though he used props the way photographers did nearly a century before him, posing the girls with prie-dieus, high-backed chairs and oriental rugs.
Because few of the languages of the smaller indigenous minorities are taught in the schools, it is likely that some will disappear.
International research in Baltic religion has, however, been greatly hindered by the fact that the languages of these small Baltic countries (Latvia and Lithuania) are but little known and because Baltic scholars have been able to work in this field only relatively recently.
It would help to know something about the region – and that the Komi language is part of the small Finno-Ugrian language group, something that Jerne, like many Hungarians, is obsessed with.
Page C1 EXPOSING A RARE LANGUAGE Dan Everett, a linguist who studies Pirah?the language of a small tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, is raising academic hackles again with a new book, and a documentary is on the way.
Yiddish was the language of the street and small home-grown businesses, bakeries and factories flourished.
This connubial language pervades the small but growing world of evangelical single mothers' ministries.
Politicians on both the left and the right have grown alarmed by the increasingly confrontational tactics and hysterical language of small sections of the protest movement.
Mayor Steven M. Lonegan of Bogota once demanded that McDonald's remove a Spanish-language billboard, and tried to make English the official language of his small New Jersey town.
In the past, the local authorities generally turned a blind eye to the 100,000 to 200,000 North Koreans estimated to be staying illegally in this border region, where the language of small talk is Korean and the favored dish is spicy kimchi because many of the citizens are ethnic Koreans.
Urbanization, mass travel, universal education, broadcasting, ease of communication, and social mobility all foster rather large regional and social dialects, with special occupational types of language within them, in place of the small, strictly localized dialects of earlier times.
