Sentence examples for surviving languages from inspiring English sources

In America north of Mexico, more than 50 percent of the surviving languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers each.

The Selkup language, divided into several dialects, is one of the few surviving languages of the Southern Samoyedic group of Uralic languages.

A major collective effort to record the surviving languages began in the early 1970s, and fairly complete grammars or grammatical sketches of perhaps 100 languages are now available.

Nevertheless, there are hundreds of Aboriginal languages, though many have become extinct since 1950, and most of the surviving languages have very few speakers.

The fact that many of the surviving languages are endangered and some are even on the point of extinction bears testimony to inexorable social, economic, linguistic, and demographic forces that continue to marginalize and consume indigenous linguistic and cultural minorities.

Cognate vocabulary between the surviving languages dispersed from Shandong precedes rice cultivation.

The Vedic people were in close contact with the ancestors of the Iranians, as evidenced by similarities between Sanskrit and the earliest surviving Iranian languages.

Cultural pressures from adjacent Germanic- and Romance-speaking civilizations eliminated the Celtic culture area, save for a few remnants in the British Isles and Brittany, in northwestern France; surviving Celtic languages include Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, and Breton.

The message and the meta-message are both clear: that is the way out, and this is a country that spoke Irish, one of a handful of surviving Celtic languages, long before the arrival of English.Johnson's last column looked at the expansive multilingual policy of the European Union, which allows any member state's official language to be an EU language.

Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world.

Here we develop a simple model of language competition that explains historical data on the decline of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Quechua (the most common surviving indigenous language in the Americas) and other endangered languages.