What is "languages"

Usage examples of "languages".

We can translate languages because, even if all contexts are situated, a great number of contexts are similarly situated across cultures.

In America Elihu Burritt, while attending the anvil, made himself a master of a score of languages and became the literary lion of his age and country.

It also seems to be the most highly developed of all the languages Tolkien devised.

The Tolkien languages are well worth studying for their high aesthetic values alone.

He endlessly refined the structure and imaginary evolution of his invented languages, but he wrote remarkably few substantial texts in them.

LotR, the most important volumes of HoME are LR, WJ and SD, which any serious student of these languages should have in his or her private library.

Of all the languages Tolkien mentioned in Etym, Quenya is in any case among the tongues that were not very significantly affected by his subsequent revisions.

Elvish languages as Tolkien had come to see them in the post-LotR period: This essay dates from ca.

Having published LotR, Tolkien obviously could not revise his languages anything as freely as he could before.

Some oriental languages, like Vietnamese, show a great preference for monosyllabic words.

English pronominal system, and certain other languages dispense with them.

I have this bizarre fascination for rather exotic languages associated with mammoth-sized epics, and references to one pop up even when I am supposed to be discussing another.

They spoke different languages, had different customs, lived in different shelters -- but they were human.

She seemed not only to lack an understanding of the languages he knew, but to have no desire to communicate.

He had heard many languages, but none had the quality of the sounds she made.