Sentence examples for not a single language from inspiring English sources

They are a diverse group, sharing not a single language or culture: Pakistanis in Britain; Turks in Germany; Northern Africans in France; Arabs scattered in several places.

Spoken Chinese is not really a single language — linguists sometimes compare its diversity to that of the major Romance tongues.

Unlike Sanskrit authors, mainly well-educated members of the Brahman class whose learning and status shaped their outlook, bhakti poets were not restricted to a single language or class.

In a speech at a conference in Brussels on the French language and EU enlargement, Pierre Defraigne, a senior official at the commission, argued that "it's not so much a single language that I fear but the single way of thinking that it brings with it".

On these grounds, for example, Cantonese and Mandarin are two languages, not two dialects of a single language called Chinese.

The techniques we have proposed in this article are not constrained to work for a single language.

Because language problems within a single language do not loom so large to ordinary people as those that arise in the learning of a different language, the interlingual dictionaries developed early and had great importance.

We shall make every effort to ensure that using a single language does not mean a single world view.

Moreover, since no language, and no quantifier, is ontologically privileged, it would not help to first translate into a single language.

Forty million immigrants speaking a single language will not assimilate.

These outsiders found a mosaic of peoples, collectively known as the Iberians, who did not have a single culture or even share a single language.