Sentence examples for the first vernacular from inspiring English sources

The quotations above are English translations from the Irish, the first vernacular language of Europe to be written down.

With the exception of the Cantilène de Sainte Eulalie (c. 900), the first vernacular writings date only from the middle of the 12th century.

The first vernacular English text of any part of the Bible to be so published, Tyndale's version became the basis for most subsequent English translations, beginning with the King James Version of 1611.

The first modern vernacular Bible to segregate the disputed writings was a Dutch version by Jacob van Liesveldt (Antwerp, 1526).

Particularly after the second half of the sixteenth century, vernacular treatments of Aristotelian natural philosophy also began to circulate, such as the translations by Antonio Brucioli (1498 1566), the paraphrases by Alessandro Piccolomini (1508 1579), the summaries by Jean de Champaignac (fl.

Among those ruined were an edition of the rare 1488 Prague Bible, the first in the vernacular Czech (the New York Public Library has another copy), and the 1836 first edition of "Maj," or "May," a poem by the Czech Romantic Karel Hynek Macha.

However, he succeeded in publishing the first officially authorised vernacular service, the Exhortation and Litany.

On 27 May 1544 the first officially authorised vernacular service was published, the processional service of intercession known as the Exhortation and Litany.

Dutch poet, translator, playwright, and moralist who set down Humanist values for the first time in the vernacular.

Thus the word pizza "can be counted among the first words of Italian vernacular," he told La Repubblica.

"So I hook him up with some UBS Warburg people in the region," one tells the others, in perhaps the first use of that vernacular phrase in financial advertising.