Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

English and Serbo-Croatian illustrate the point.

Compared to the differences between the variants of English, German, French, Spanish, Hindustani or Portuguese, the distinctions between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant.

However, some languages also allow other sounds to form the nucleus of a syllable, such as the syllabic l in the English word table ( the stroke under the l indicates that it is syllabic ; the dot separates syllables ), or the r in Serbo-Croatian vrt " garden ".

To assist in the direction of this huge, multi-national undertaking, the Russian director had four interpreters permanently at his side: one each for English, Italian, French and Serbo-Croatian.

90. 6 % spoke English, 2. 7 % Spanish, 1. 3 % Italian, 1. 2 % Serbo-Croatian and 1. 1 % Polish as their first language.

In the 1960s, William Stewart and Heinz Kloss introduced the basic concepts for the sociolinguistic theory of pluricentric languages, which describes how standard language varieties differ between nations ( e. g. American // Canadian / Australian English ; Austrian / German / Swiss German ; Bosnian / Croatian / Montenegrin / Serbian Serbo-Croatian ).

Albright is fluent in English, French, Russian, and Czech ; she speaks and reads Polish and Serbo-Croatian as well.

Drnovšek was fluent in six languages, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, English, Spanish, French and German.

French linguist Paul-Louis Thomas maintains that, compared to the differences between the variants of English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese, the distinctions between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant.

Canadian linguist Sean McLennan argues that the differences between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant than those between the variants of English.

A standard language can be either pluricentric ( e. g. English, German, Serbo-Croatian, French, and Portuguese ) or monocentric ( e. g. Icelandic ).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 88. 2 %), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 2. 5 %) and English being third ( 2. 2 %).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 95. 3 %), with English being second most common ( 1. 0 %) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0. 8 %).

Mother Teresa was fluent in five languages: Bengali, the local language of the people of Kolkata, Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, English, and Hindi.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 95. 8 %), with English being second most common ( 0. 6 %) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0. 6 %).

English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Greek, Malayalam, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian.

* SVO languages include English, the Romance languages, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Chinese and Swahili, among others.

* Milton, John, Paradise Lost ( from the original English to Serbo-Croatian ), 1969

The wheel (-Vedic Sanskrit cakrá, Greek kúklos, Old English hweol, Serbo-Croatian kolo ; or-Vedic Sanskrit rathá, German rad, Latin rota ) was known, certainly for ox-drawn carts.

Apart from his native Slovene, he is fluent in Serbo-Croatian, English, and French.

The daily news bulletins were broadcast in 12 foreign languages, ( Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish, Rumaninan, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Albanian, French, Polish, English ) and once a week in Arabic.

This programme is transmitted in 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Albanian, Rumanian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish and Arabic.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages ( English, French, German ).

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

In languages such as English with morphophonemic variation, an alphabet song usually chooses a particular pronunciation for each letter in the alphabet ( e. g. " cake " is, not ) and also typically for some words in the song.

Because the English language has 40 sounds and only 26 letters, children and beginning readers also need to learn the different sounds ( phonemes ) associated with each letter.

Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and " tut-ball ".

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.

The French and English were each seeking to control lucrative Indian Ocean trade routes.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

Most provision worldwide is through the state school system of each individual country, and as such the instructors tend to be trained primary-or secondary school teachers that are native speakers of the language of their pupils, not English.

Australian English and New Zealand English are closely related to each other, and share some similarities with South African English.

Second language varieties of English in Africa and Asia have often undergone " indigenisation "; that is, each English-speaking community has developed ( or is in the process of developing ) its own standards of usage, often under the influence of local languages.

Also, in Chapter XI ( entitled ' How to compare two different Systems of Laws ') of Book XXIX he advises that " to determine which of those systems the French and English systems for the punishment of false witnesses is most agreeable to reason, we must take them each as a whole and compare them in their entirety.

The Dialect Test was designed by Joseph Wright to compare different English dialects with each other.

For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.

A key aim was to base categorization on colloquial English descriptive language ( which would be easier to use by federal administrative offices ), rather than assumptions of etiology, although its categorical approach assumed each particular pattern of symptoms in a category reflected a particular underlying pathology ( an approach described as " neo-Kraepelinian ").

As with the English heroic, each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.