Sentence examples for parent language from inspiring English sources

Old Norse is the parent language of the three modern languages, Icelandic, Faroese, and Norwegian.

The later Urartian language is thought to be descended from the same parent language as Hurrian.

Although for some language families there are written records of the parent language (e.g., for the Romance languages, which are variant developments of Latin), in the case of Germanic no written records of the parent language exist.

Nor is it normally the case that the parent language "lives on" for a while, relatively unchanged, and then "dies".

The accent just before the breakup of the parent language was apparently mainly one of pitch rather than stress.

Language families group languages together on the basis of descent i.e., unbroken transmission from an earlier common parent language.

It is simply the case that all but literate dialects have been lost in the past, and an artificial homogeneity is attributed to most ancient languages and to the so-called reconstructed parent languages of families.

For example, in their study--published in the 1 February issue of Science--the researchers estimate that 31% of the vocabulary differences among Bantu languages arose about the time they split from their parent languages.

E's consonant and vowel inventories are mostly similar to those of its parent languages.

They shouted at Ray in his parents' language.

Children can learn to speak their parents' language without an accent, but not vice versa.