Sentence examples for ranking languages from inspiring English sources

Classifications that are not based on family trees usually involve ranking languages according to degree of differentiation rather than grouping them; thus, if the Romance languages are compared with Latin, it is seen that by most measures Sardinian and Italian are least differentiated and French most (though in vocabulary Romanian has changed most).

How long it takes to learn a language does not answer which ones are hard independent of the learner's first language (nor the related question "How hard is English?") Ranking languages on a universal scale of difficulty is itself difficult and controversial.

The U.S. government ranks language proficiency on a zero-to-five scale, in which five is the equivalent of a native speaker.

I guess the keynote would be inner conflict, inability to decide about and rank language, ways of thinking, ways of feeling.

Comparing 21 feature parameters across hundreds of languages, they ranked 239 languages.

Just as linguists have abandoned the notion of progressive evolution of languages, with some languages ranking as more primitive than others, so historians of writing have come to treat existing orthographies as appropriate to the languages they represent.

HOW would you rank "important" languages?

So what do they think of his rank language?

He is the only modernist who created a language that ranks with the architectural languages of the past, and while this has sometimes been troubling for his reputation — it seems, falsely, easy to imitate a Mies building, in the same way it seems easy to knock off a Greek temple — his architectural forms become more astonishing as time goes on.

Industry analyst firm RedMonk published today its latest quarterly programming language popularity ranking.

Less difficult are Russian and the Slavic languages, Vietnamese, Farsi and some Asian languages, to which the Defense Department devotes 47 weeks' training, followed by German, Indonesian and other languages ranked with them in difficulty.