Sentence examples for of related languages from inspiring English sources

Semite, person speaking one of a group of related languages, presumably derived from a common language, Semitic (see Semitic languages).

Numic, formerly called Plateau Shoshonean, is a division of the Uto-Aztecan language family, a group of related languages widely distributed in the western United States and Mexico.

Linguists have not found a reliable and precise way to determine from linguistic evidence alone the date at which any set of related languages must have begun diverging.

This confirms the importance that historical linguists have long attached to including regular sound changes into attempts to reconstruct protolanguages, identify borrowings, and infer the genealogical history of a set of related languages, including their probable dates of origin and subsequent divergences.

Romance languages, group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.

But studies on the historical phonology of Chinese demonstrate that Chinese must have had a kind of morphology by affixation comparable to that of related languages such as Tibetan or Burmese.

The comparative method in historical linguistics is concerned with the reconstruction of an earlier language or earlier state of a language on the basis of a comparison of related words and expressions in different languages or dialects derived from it.

The Elvish languages are a language family of several related languages and dialects.

The etymological method of investigation, which ultimately depends upon the recognition of presumed cognates from related languages, seems to have failed because no clear and certain relationship between Etruscan and any other language has ever been established.

Normally the task of the translator is aided by prior linguistic knowledge — either of the actual language to be translated or of some related language.

Thus, in a comparison of Arabic and Hebrew reading, we compare examples of two related language families (Semitic languages) that are similar in their morphological structure but radically different in their orthographic and phonetic systems.