Sentence examples for native vocabulary from inspiring English sources

Thomson holds particular love for the way Jamaicans express themselves: the richness of the native vocabulary, its rangy elasticity and speculative verbiage.

But English is actually the odd one out, in having jettisoned so much of its native vocabulary to borrow from classical languages.

Most people who had it in their native vocabulary have in fact spent the last 40 years Leaving Brooklyn, even if they haven't Fuhgotten about it.

The first used special military terms devised in the native language, the second didn't and just used the native vocabulary already spoken.

Despite having a diverse pool of loanwords Mongolian uses more native vocabulary than languages like Japanese or Korean where words of Chinese origin take up to 60% of vocabulary.

Language contact may also lead to a variety of other linguistic phenomena, including language convergence, borrowing, and relexification (replacement of much of the native vocabulary with that of another language).

Loanwords in Grabar (from Greek, Syriac, and, most numerous of all, ancient Iranian), however, were considered part of the native traditional vocabulary and were fully absorbed.

Though these words are entirely lacking from the Samoyed languages, within the Finno-Ugric division they are shared by the most remotely related members and show the same phonetic relationships as the native Finno-Ugric vocabulary.

Sometimes you have to finish his sentences for him because, despite more than 25 years in the UK, the native German's vocabulary can falter.

Even if you have an acceptable grasp of the English language, with good grammar and an extensive vocabulary, native English speakers may find you very difficult to understand if you don't work on your pronunciation.

This third ALBAYZIN STD evaluation was specifically designed to evaluate the performance of STD systems that address several challenging conditions (in-vocabulary vs. out-of-vocabulary terms, native (Spanish), henceforth in-language (INL) vs. out-of-language (OOL) terms, single-word vs. multiple-word terms, and single-domain vs. multiple-domain databases).