Sentence examples for recorded languages from inspiring English sources

SANSKRIT, in which classical Indian literature was composed, is among the world's oldest recorded languages.

Long ī and ū in the recorded languages derive in large part from sequences of i or u plus laryngeal, as in Latin vīvus 'alive' from *gwiH3wós.

The 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, however, have witnessed the death of many of the recorded languages and dialects, and their distribution is now largely confined to Botswana and Namibia.

The satem languages are not geographically separated from one another by any recorded languages that preserve the palatals as stops; it is therefore inferred that the change to affricates (whence later spirants) occurred just once and spread over a cohesive dialect area of Proto-Indo-European.

Fick presented his reconstruction of a parent language of remote prehistoric times in the first edition of his major work (1868), later titled Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen ("Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-European Languages"), emphasizing the lexical comparison of ancient recorded languages.

The Incas did not possess a written or recorded language as far as is known.

In 5,000 years of recorded language history, a few dozen languages have achieved the status of lingua franca, a language of wider communication among people whose mother tongues may be quite different.

While the Mycenaeans are known to have spoken an early form of Greek, the earliest recorded language spoken by the Minoan people on Crete - known as Linear A - can be read but not translated.

What fired Kuhl's curiosity, though, was how excited and engaged typical infants were during test sessions in which they played with adults while hearing recorded language from native speakers.

Ladefoged said linguists should record languages but not necessarily try to save them, even though he predicted that all but a handful of the world's 6,500 languages would disappear over the next thousand years.

Or should he be a watcher, recording language as it is really used?