Sentence examples for prestige language from inspiring English sources

But the religion made its way into India's prestige language of Sanskrit, too.

There is Greek, whose fortunes were tied only loosely to Greek civilisation and which somehow managed to hitch a ride on the Roman empire and become, as the prestige language of learning, an integral part of that historical era too.

Those Romans and Romanized indigenous peoples living in regions where Greek was the dominant prestige language became pastoralists or town dwellers during the Slavic invasions of the 6th and 7th centuries, if they were not already in one or the other social class at the time of those invasions.

Dr. Salmi listed "prestige, language of instruction, student aid package and access to visas" as factors that "pull" students toward certain receiving countries.

During the Spanish colonization of Central America, all indigenous languages were eclipsed by Spanish, which became the new prestige language.

For example, when a central authority nationalizes one language, that attaches economic and social advantages to the prestige language.

They may have served as prestige languages, coexisting with other dialects in some areas.

To this day we all know that there are prestige languages and others that are not, whose speakers become the target of discrimination.

Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language extinction, we analyze two cases: (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can take any value but its change at each time step is bounded.

The prestige of a language has been considered as one of the main factors affecting language competition since Labov's Sociolinguistic Patterns [22].

Can immigrant communities in NYC have a positive effect on language prestige and transmission in the homeland?