Sentence examples for language rank from inspiring English sources

In doing so, SFL highlights five fundamental dimensions for studying language: rank, delicacy, stratification, instantiation, and metafunction (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014: 20).

The language ranks high in motion and low in density.

Less difficult are Russian and the Slavic languages, Vietnamese, Farsi and some Asian languages, to which the Defense Department devotes 47 weeks' training, followed by German, Indonesian and other languages ranked with them in difficulty.

Just as linguists have abandoned the notion of progressive evolution of languages, with some languages ranking as more primitive than others, so historians of writing have come to treat existing orthographies as appropriate to the languages they represent.

Asian languages ranked second in priority at 29percentt.

On the "borrowability scale" 39, which ranks the ease with which different elements of language are assimilated by recipient languages, borrowing of words ranks highest.

If a change of life is a change of language, why rank the one above the other?

In Hindi, you have chosen a language that ranks in the top four languages of the world in terms of the number of people who speak it.

He is the only modernist who created a language that ranks with the architectural languages of the past, and while this has sometimes been troubling for his reputation — it seems, falsely, easy to imitate a Mies building, in the same way it seems easy to knock off a Greek temple — his architectural forms become more astonishing as time goes on.

There is a scene in "The Towers of Trebizond" in which the narrator realizes that she has copied the wrong sentence out of her Turkish phrase book and has accidentally been soliciting the attention of a hotel guest when she merely wished to explain that she didn't speak the language; it ranks among the best comic scenes in fiction.

Industry analyst firm RedMonk published today its latest quarterly programming language popularity ranking.