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Most other language preservation projects have a base, however small, of people who speak the language.
Research in the 1980s and 90s lead to the recognition that vocabulary knowledge is a precondition for most other language abilities, (see, Alderson & Banerjee, 2001, for a review of that research); and, the emergence of lexical approaches to language learning (Willis, 1990; Lewis, 2002; McCarthy, 2003).
A Klingon language dictionary will work like most other language dictionaries.
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Most other languages do not make that distinction.
English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and western Asia from Iceland to India.
(That is to say, direct objects in languages like Dyirbal have the special syntactic status that subjects have in English and most other languages).
A recent Guardian survey revealed that 39% of young native English speakers were put off learning a foreign language because "most people speak English", and 14% by the idea that "most other languages are not useful".
This, I think, rather than any supposed "English mentality", is what makes cryptic clue writing possible and explains why it can't easily be replicated in most other languages.
Some linguists once argued that ergativity represented a "deep" grammatical feature of at least some Australian languages, such as Dyirbal, whose syntax could then be thought of as a kind of mirror image of the subject-object syntax of English and most other languages.
He named it Naseeb.com, or "destiny" in Urdu, Arabic and most other languages in the Muslim world.
In this respect Polish is different from most other languages, in which the last name has only one form independent of the gender.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com