Sentence examples for recognized as a language from inspiring English sources

Cued speech was invented by R. Orin Cornet in 1966 shortly after William C. Stokoe Jr., a linguistics professor, successfully pushed for signing to be recognized as a language and helped end a century-long banishment of signing from classrooms.

In the late 1960's, William Stokoe Jr., a linguist at Gallaudet University, a university for the hearing-impaired in Washington, pushed for it to become recognized as a language.

Albanian is not officially recognized as a national language, and there are no accredited Albanian-language universities.

The Afrikaans language began to diverge seriously from European Dutch in the late 18th century and has gradually come to be recognized as a separate language.

By the 6th century, Apabhramsha was recognized as a literary language.

Achi' is officially recognized as a separate language and is usually considered by linguists to be a dialect of K'iche'.

"Undoubtedly the criticism of his work has a lot to do with the politics of the art world and the demand by critics and many artists themselves that only contemporary abstraction be recognized as a viable language for the postwar era," said Elizabeth Broun, the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

But sign language wasn't recognized as an official language at the time.

While not recognized as an official language, pidgin combines linguistic characteristics of other languages to allow for two or more groups to communicate.

Later that year, Tamil also was recognized as an official language (alongside Sinhalese) by constitutional amendment.

It is also recognized as an official language in Russia's Karelian region, alongside Russian.