By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

Moreover, like all natural language based IALs, Basic is subject to criticism as unfairly biased towards the native speaker community.

Standard Cambodian Khmer is mutually intelligible with the others but a Khmer Krom speaker from Vietnam, for instance, may have great difficulty communicating with a Khmer native to Sisaket Province in Thailand.

Doke supported the appointment of Benedict Wallet Vilakazi as member of the staff, as he believed a native speaker was essential for acquiring a language.

Kroeber had come into contact with Ishi, the last native speaker of the Yahi language, closely related to Yana, and needed someone to document the language urgently.

Although the letter ⟨ t ⟩ is pronounced by some speakers with aspiration at the beginning of words, this is never indicated in the spelling, and, indeed, this phonetic detail is probably not noticeable to the average native speaker not trained in phonetics.

If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.

The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.

Bloomfield's only other publication on an Austronesian language was an article on the syntax of Ilocano, based upon research undertaken with a native speaker of Ilocano who was a student at Yale University.

This plasticity is whittled down as a child becomes exposed to the specific sounds and structure of his or her language environment, and so, the child quickly becomes a native speaker of that language.

By the onset of puberty ( around age 12 ), language acquisition has typically been solidified and it becomes more difficult to learn a language in the same way a native speaker would.

Because Teriipia was a native French speaker, Brando became fluent in the language and gave numerous interviews in French.

The most famous native speaker of Esperanto is businessman George Soros, son of Tivadar Soros, publisher and writer in Esperanto.

Walter Sutherland from Skaw in Unst, who died about 1850, has been cited as the last native speaker of the Norn language.

* Accent reduction, modifying one's foreign accent towards that of a native speaker

The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and both his mother's father's parents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife ( unusually, for a speaker of the language ) and Uig on the Isle of Skye.

He is a native Xhosa speaker.

* Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct.

Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in Jerusalem.

** Ned Maddrell, last surviving native speaker of the Manx language ( b. 1877 )

* Informant ( linguistics ), a native speaker acting as a linguistic reference for a language being studied

Unwittingly poor translations from online language translation tools are used without consulting a native English speaker.

However, he mastered both languages like a native speaker and was possibly a bilingual child.

Syntax seeks to delineate exactly all and only those sentences which make up a given language, using native speaker intuition.

In Fish ’ s source the term is explained as “ the idea that it is possible to characterize a linguistic system that every speaker shares .” In the context of literary criticism, Fish uses this concept to argue that a reader ’ s approach to a text is not completely subjective, and that an internalized understanding of language shared by the native speakers of that given language makes possible the creation of normative boundaries for one ’ s experience with language.

Pragmatics and other aspects of the language not specified by Zamenhof's original documents were influenced by the native languages of early speakers, primarily Russian, Polish, German, and French.

The Deutsche Filmakademie was founded in 2003 in Berlin and aims to provide native filmmakers a forum for discussion and a way to promote the reputation of German cinema through publications, presentations, discussions and regular promotion of the subject in the schools.

In one study by Boroditsky, in which native speakers of German and Spanish were asked to describe everyday objects in English, she found that they were more likely to use attributes conventionally associated with the genders of the objects in their native languages.

The native Baltic Prussians were conquered and Christianized by the Knights with much warfare, and numerous German towns were established along the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea.

Of the twenty languages with the largest numbers of native speakers according to SIL Ethnologue, twelve are Indo-European: Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi, and Urdu, accounting for over 1. 7 billion native speakers.

The most controversial cuts were the scenes involving Otto, initially a recurring character, who had a thin Adolf Hitler-esque moustache and spoke with a German accent, shouting accusations of " racial impurity " at people whose conceptions were similar to Brian's ( Roman centurion rape of native Judean women ), and other Nazi-based phrases.

The native language appears to bear a close resemblance to modern German.

Apart from his parents ' native languages Russian and Yiddish and his adopted language Polish, his linguistics attempts were also aided by his mastering of German, a good passive understanding of Latin, Hebrew and French, and a basic knowledge of Greek, English and Italian.

Its native name,, is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning " by the monks ' place ".

In 1925, German authorities reported 40, 869 as giving Masurian as their native tongue and 2, 297 as Polish.

Robert Rasch, a German Trader who married a native woman, was the first administrator, appointed in 1890.

In the charter granted to this company by the German Imperial Government in May 1885, it was given the power to exercise sovereign rights over the territory and other " unoccupied " lands in the name of the government, and the ability to " negotiate " directly with the native inhabitants.

The Germans in particular began to show great commercial interest in the Samoan Islands, especially on the island of ' Upolu where German firms monopolized copra and cocoa bean processing ; the United States laid its own claim and formed alliances with local native chieftains, most conspicuously on the islands of Tutuila and Manu ' a ( which were later formally annexed to the USA as American Samoa ).

Recruits are generally instructed in their native language ; however, the small number of Romansh-speaking recruits are instructed in German.

With the latter two albums, the band sung the lyrics in their native German.

The Honorable H. Burton, speaking in London in August 1918 said, " Nothing struck our commanders in the East African field so much as the thorough, methodical and determined training of the German native levies previous to the war.

English, German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Walloon, Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian and Resian use W in native words.

He was a gifted linguist, over the years becoming fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, in addition to his native English.

In 1930, about 42, 000 inhabitants of Prague spoke German as their native language, while millions lived in northern Bohemia near the border to Germany.

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

The German word " Kinder " in the name came about because in 1967, Ferrero's German subsidiary introduced Kinder Chocolate (" Kinderschokolade ") to the German market, and in 1968 that product was introduced to Ferrero's native Italy, establishing the " Kinder " brand there, prior to the introduction of the Kinder Sorpresa chocolate eggs.