In addition to Urdu and Punjabi, other languages claimed as mother tongues include Sindhi, Pashto, Siraiki, Balochi, and Brahui.
A local plumber needs both to find the cheapest suppliers, or to land jobs in nearby France and the Netherlands".English, in effect, blocks the learning of other languages," claims Mr Baetens Beardsmore.
As evidence, Sapir and Whorf cited variations between English and several Native American languages, claiming, for example, that the Hopi Indians have no concept of time and, famously, that Eskimos have more than half a dozen words for snow.
But South Africa is much more equitably multilingual than Zimbabwe: none of the official languages claims more than a fourth of South Africa's population.The inability of South Africa's government to provide equal treatment for its 11 official languages bodes ill for much poorer Zimbabwe, where the government remains in a state of near-fatal paralysis.
criticized him for speaking foreign languages, claiming it was part of a grand plan to claim the White House for Islam.
They can wear our colours, speak our language, claim to support our aims, and discover in our agitation not new constraints but new opportunities for manufacturing consent.
Authorities believe the 69-year-old, who is of Syrian origin, lodged Fabien Clain, who is reported to have recorded Isis' French-language claim of responsibility for the Paris attacks.
Modality is a property of sentences, not part of their content, and modal sentences therefore involve both a declarative sentence and a meta-language claim about that sentence.
This, plus multiple diagnostic tests for H. pylori which are sometimes discordant, creates a large number of statistical comparisons, any of which could be described as supporting the plain language claim, "poor nutrition affects H. pylori status".
We have also softened the language claim to make clear that the scenario we propose for the ancient mode of spindle orientation is a hypothesis to be further tested.
