Sentence examples for not languages from inspiring English sources

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People have religious beliefs, not languages.

At dinnertime, the words Greek, Chinese and Italian are understood to mean cuisines, not languages.

The results are not languages, exactly, but sub-languages, byways that weave between the main roads of common parlance, navigable only if you have the right kind of map.

But Communist Party mandarins insist on calling them dialects, not languages, in an attempt to create "national unity and homogeneity" and promote the standard language, says Umberto Ansaldo, a linguist at the University of Hong Kong.Official efforts to spread Mandarin sometimes encounter resistance.

And it's just not languages: remember Kevin Costner in Robin Hood reaching the white cliffs of Dover and beginning his journey on foot all the way to Sherwood Forest, and reaching it by night... Maybe that's why Hannibal got so mad.

Remember that they are sign SYSTEMS, not languages.

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Why not language?

The words are responses, not language".

She says it's culturally driven, not language driven.

What is this thing if it'snot language?

Or, the constraints might be innate, but not language-specific.

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