Sentence examples for position of languages from inspiring English sources

The coalition government is particularly concerned about the position of languages, the white paper pointing out that the proportion of pupils studying a language dropped from 79% in 2000 to 44% in 2009, Labour having allowed pupils to drop the subject at the age of 14 in 2004.

The geographic position of these languages doubtless contributed to these losses: Sinhalese coexists with Tamil, Assamese is surrounded by Tibeto-Burman languages, and Kashmiri is on the border of the Iranian area.

Its chapter on Scotland described the current position of foreign languages in secondary schools as "a matter of concern".

Due to the uncertain position of Kordofanian languages in the NC tree, the initial centre of diffusion of the phylum is still matter of debate.

See Full Size Morphological criteria must, of course, be taken into account in defining the position of a language.

There is controversy concerning the precise position of the language of the Indo-Iranian family first attested in Middle Eastern texts of about 1450 1350 bce.

The positioning of foreign languages within Japanese compulsory education is similar to that in its fellow island nation, the United Kingdom, but Kawashima knew from a young age that if he was to be a star footballer, he would have to get learning.

Relationships between the various language groups in Finland are good, and the position of the minority languages is strong compared with that of minority groups in most other multilingual and multicultural countries.

Learn the language by going back to English to memorize the position of certain words then going to the other language and finding the position and reading the word that is there now.

The position of the Swedish language was progressively weakened toward the end of the 1930s, as more Finnish speakers moved into positions of economic and cultural power.

From the 1860s the government embarked on a policy designed to strengthen the position of the Russian language and nationality in the borderlands of the empire.