Twenty years ago, the distinct language of Welsh was in intensive care, destined to die.
As part of an interprofessional research team, the chaplains expressed feeling that the project benefited from the deep commitment of the non-chaplain team members to understanding pastoral care theory and the distinct language of chaplaincy.
(Another, albeit faint precursor was the idea contained in a 1910 remark of Frank's pointing out the applicability of Hilbert's method of implicit definition to the reconstruction empirical scientific theories as conceived, also along the lines of two distinct languages, by the French conventionalists Rey and Duhem; see Uebel 2003).
While some argue that the world would be a better place if everyone spoke English, we believe that the world would be profoundly impoverished by the reduction of distinct languages and cultures.
Such differences take the form of dialectal differentiation as long as there is some degree of mutual comprehension but eventually result in the emergence of distinct languages.
We assessed the translatability of the PROs into three distinct languages; if it becomes necessary to translate the PROs in to other languages, further modifications may be required to ensure conceptual equivalence.
There are over 70 distinct languages in the Solomon Islands – and as well as speaking a dialect native to a group in central Guadalcanal, he was also fluent in Solomons Pijin, a language that enables communication between groups with different mother tongues.
In the general model of linguistic change, "a single ancestor language (a proto-language) develops dialects which in time through the accumulation of changes become distinct languages".
In a model of language competition that assumes the speakers to be monolingual, distinct languages are similarly predicted to survive only if they are spoken by distinct, partially unmixed populations [53].
So do hundreds of different tribes with entirely distinct languages, making this the most linguistically diverse area in the world.
