Sentence examples for languages of local from inspiring English sources

With this attitude, Europeans, with the exception of Christian missionaries, seldom adopted the customs and languages of local people under their empires.

It wasn't thickly accented English he spoke so much as the language of local pride -- exultant and, truth be told, hyperbolic.

Rather than finding any rock excess there, however, instead they find Alice discoursing knowledgeably on the language of local native American tribes.

But it is these same terrified soldiers, often not even speaking the language of local people, who are at the heart of Nato's plan for victory in Afghanistan.

This multipurpose language, which evolved along the coast from elements of local Bantu languages, Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Hindi, and English, is the language of local trade and is also used (along with English) as an official language in the Kenyan legislative body, the National Assembly, and the courts.

Even after the Arab conquest, Persian remained the language of local rulers, as Iranian administrators, mullahs and traders settled in the cities of Transoxania (which covered much of today's Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan), and is the basis of the language spoken by the Tajiks today.

"A buffer around each tube station was created, and the languages of the local population in each buffer were extracted, to produce a 'second language' (after English) most likely to be spoken by the local community there.

A key strength of our study is the use of selected European Core Health Indicators (ECHI), which we translated and applied in the prevailing languages of the local asylum seekers population.

In India, for example, it makes little sense to match local stations' vernacular-language coverage of local news.

Most pupils found the school language policies forbidding the use of local languages appropriate.

He learned the language of the local Indians and led several expeditions against hostile tribes.