Linguists have had a hard time establishing the precise relationship of the Baltic languages to other languages in the Indo-European family.

Linguists have an incomplete understanding of all aspects of the rules underlying natural languages, and these rules are therefore objects of study.

Linguists classify it within the Eastern Polynesian languages as being closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, Rapanui and Tahitian ; somewhat less closely to Hawaiian and Marquesan ; and more distantly to the languages of Western Polynesia, including Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean and Tongan.

Linguists ' observations of Old Malay ( sanscritised ), Old Javanese ( sanscritised ) and Old Bugis borrowings in the initial Proto-SEB languages, indicate that the first Hova waves came probably in the 8th century at the earliest.

" Linguists study particular languages, such as English or Xhosa, by examining the utterances produced by the people who speak the language.

Linguists who understand particular languages as a composite of unique, individual idiolects must nonetheless account for the fact that members of large speech communities, and even speakers of different dialects of the same language, can understand one another.

In a paper presented to the 1st International Congress of Linguists in 1928, Trubetzkoy defined a Sprachbund as a group of languages with similarities in syntax, morphological structure, cultural vocabulary and sound systems, but without systematic sound correspondences, shared basic morphology or shared basic vocabulary.

Linguists later applied the name to related languages.

Linguists include the Rotuman language in a subgroup with the languages of western Fiji, but Rotuman also has a large number of Polynesian loanwords, indicating later contact with Samoa and Tonga.

Linguists differ somewhat on the way they classify Samoan in relation to the other Polynesian languages.

Linguists classify the language into the Indic subgroup of Indo-European languages and consider it to be one of the Indo-Iranian languages of the area.

Linguists refer to Maya ( language ) as Yucatec or Yucatec Maya to disambiguate any confusion with other Mayan languages.

Linguists agree that Slavic languages evolved in close proximity with the Baltic languages.

Linguists have classified Maithili as one of the Indo-Aryan languages.

Linguists such as Sergei Starostin have proposed a Dené – Caucasian macrofamily, which includes the North Caucasian languages together with Basque, Burushaski, Na-Dené, Sino-Tibetan, and Yeniseian.

Linguists agree that, apart from such things as pidgins, there are no " primitive " languages: all modern human populations speak languages of comparable expressive power, though much recent scholarship has explored how linguistic complexity varies between and within languages over historical time.

Linguists universally refer to Wakhi as an East Iranian language independent of Tajik Persian, but many Tajik nationalists insist that Wakhi and other Pamir languages are actually dialects of Tajik.

" Linguists ", vs. multi-languists, are not very familiar with the cultural and other nuances contained in many languages, therefore many " linguists " are unable to understand the cross correlations between words and word origins, specifically because they are not well versed in several languages, completely failing to understad the linguistic nuances of foreign languages that are attached to a particular culture.

Linguists who, due to this and similar facts, reject the Medieval origin of the Kensington inscription, consider this word to be a neologism and have noted that, in a Norwegian newspaper circulated in Minnesota, the late 19th century Norwegian historian Gustav Storm often used this term in articles on Viking exploration.

Linguists of the NSM school rely on semantic primitives ( or semantic primes ) for analysis ( that is, simple, indefinable, and universally lexicalized concepts ) and reductive paraphrase ( that is, breaking complex concepts down into simpler concepts ).

Linguists such as Dimmendahl, Blench, Hyman, and Segerer classify them into three or more independent branches of Niger – Congo.

Linguists have been interested in home sign for the insights it offers into the uniquely human ability to generate, acquire, and process language in general, and particularly as it pertains to such topics as the origins of language, notions of linguistic universals, the hypothesized critical period for language acquisition, children's natural tendency to invent language ( language acquisition device ), and the relationship between gesture and language.

Linguists say that there are six levels of honorifics in Korean but, in daily conversation, only three of them are widely used in contemporary Korean.

Linguists have long classified Walloon as a dialect of French ( See langues d ' oïl ).

Linguists who studied English as spoken in California before and in the period immediately after World War II tended to find few if any distinct patterns unique to the region.

Linguists have found that, while humans form sentences in ways apparently governed by very complex systems, they are remarkably unaware of the rules that govern their own speech.

Linguists tend to view prescriptive grammars as having little justification beyond their authors ' aesthetic tastes, although style guides may give useful advice about standard language employment, based on descriptions of usage in contemporary writings of the same language.

Linguists often prefer to define nouns ( and other lexical categories ) in terms of their formal properties.

Linguists working on Burushaski use various makeshift transcriptions based on the Latin alphabet, most commonly that by Berger ( see below ), in their publications.

Linguists and philologists, the authors of dictionaries, grammars etc., were not allowed to write their works freely and according to the best of their professional knowledge and competence.

Most linguists are listed in subcategories of the Linguists by nationality category by their country of birth and / or the location of their linguistics work.

* Portraits of Linguists and their studies in the area of the Old Germanic Languages

Linguists in this program assume that humans use as economic a system as possible in their innate syntactic knowledge.

Linguists of the Romanian Academy reacted by declaring that all the Moldovan words were also Romanian words ; while in Moldova, the head of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Ion Bărbuţă, described the dictionary as a politically motivated " absurdity ".

Linguists have reconstructed about 100 Dacian words from placenames using established techniques of comparative linguistics, although only 20-25 such reconstructions had achieved wide acceptance by 1982.

Corpus Linguists specify a Key Word in Context ( KWIC ) and identify the words immediately surrounding them.

Linguists have not thoroughly investigated the origin of the / N / phoneme, which occurs only in a few words.

Linguists and historians have proposed a variety of origins for the seemingly nonsensical chorus, suggesting that the words may come from a melange of cultures.

Linguists tend to eschew this term, but historically some have reserved the term joual for the variant of Quebec French spoken in Montreal.

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Linguists will make distinctions within these categories ; for example, the audience can be distinguished as addressees and other hearers.

The son of a co-op butcher, Walter and his wife Lilian Mary ( née Peel ), Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School ( in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford ) and then Leeds Modern School ( now Lawnswood School ), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his national service and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Linguists were commissioned to translate recently published foreign literature, often without carefully considering its interest for the Chinese reader.

He carried out his National Service at the Joint Services School for Linguists, where he learnt to speak Russian.

Linguists coined Balearic (, ) as a collective name for the group of Catalan variants that people speak in the Balearic Islands.

After closure the Joint Services School for Linguists ( JSSL ) was based here in the 1950s.

Between 1956 and 1958, the airfield was used by the Joint Services School for Linguists to train linguists in Russian.

Linguists including Christopher Beckwith argue for Japanese as a descendant of Goguryeo, and for Korean as a descendant of the Silla language, based on lexical similarities between Goguryeo and Japanese, and based upon Silla's ultimate triumph in the quest for political control of Korea.

Hall attended The Perse School in Cambridge and went on to the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, where he learned to speak Russian.

Before going up to Cambridge he served as a national serviceman in the Royal Navy, training at the Joint Services School for Linguists as a Russian interpreter.

The main characteristic of this Prakrit is the replacement of ś ( শ ) and ṣ ( ষ ) by s ( স ), which is contrary to the Vararuci's rule for Magadhi Prakrit which warrants that ṣ and s are replaced by ś. Linguists claim this apabhramsa gave rise to various eastern Indo-European languages like modern Assamese and felt its presence in the form of Kamrupi and North Bengali.

Linguists are interested in the letter because the names of the community members are of Turkic, Slavic, and Hebrew origins ( for example, names such as: " Hanukkah ," " Yehudah ," " Gostata ," and " Kiabar ").

Linguists were commissioned to translate recently published foreign literature, often without carefully considering its interest for the Chinese reader.

The Joint Services School for Linguists ( JSSL ) was founded in 1951 by the British armed services to provide language training, principally in Russian, and largely to selected conscripts undergoing National Service.

For a time in the early 1960s the school ( renamed the Joint Services School for Linguists ) was based at RAF Tangmere near Chichester in Sussex, where Mandarin, Polish and Czech in addition to Russian were taught.

Joint Services School for Linguists

For his National Service he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian.