Sentence examples for lost languages from inspiring English sources

Their field is language revitalization, the science of reconstructing lost languages.

AD Yes, but for me there are all these lost languages.

They represent one of the best chances for reviving lost languages by reëstablishing traditional lines of transmission.

As she travels the globe, Challenger charts lost languages, skills and tribes, a melancholy litany of squandered diversity.

In sum, the decipherment of ancient scripts and the recovery of lost languages are practically identical with the interpretation of previously unintelligible ancient inscriptions, because texts involved are almost exclusively epigraphic.

Blair A. Rudes, a linguist at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, who specializes in reconstructing Indian languages, said several Algonquian communities in the East had efforts under way to recover their lost languages and return them to daily use.

It is an old song that is now part of the lost language of Manchester United.

But he also sees how choreographing or dancing to jazz has become a bit of a lost language.

But a sadness runs through the liveliness: a throbbing lament for a lost time, a lost civilization, a lost language.

Now and then they let out a screech, sometimes saying a few words and phrases in the lost language.

Even then, as he tells me, reading the entire text of Beauty was "like playing detective or like deciphering a lost language.