Sentence examples for languages die from inspiring English sources
Languages die the way many people do -- at home, in silence, attended by loved ones straining to make idle conversation.
When languages die under the pressure of a dominant tongue like Spanish, there is a familiar path of retreat.
"Mother Tongue," which had its première in 2005, addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away.
To let languages die out, en masse, is to permit the phrase "terra incognita" to creep back onto our environmental maps.
This is how languages die.
Languages die, but they are also born.
Mr. Ringeisen, a professor of humanities and languages, died in 2007.
When Romance borrowed vocabulary from the substratum, differentiation must have taken place early (certainly before the indigenous languages died out).
The Shuadit and Zarphatic Judeo-French languages died along with many of their speakers during the holocaust.
His mother, Agata, a teacher of classical languages, died in 2010 as Moretti was finishing We Have a Pope.
Dr. Joseph H. Greenberg, an eminent linguist and classifier of the world's languages, died on May 7 in Stanford, Calif.
