Linguists have not always been more enlightened than `` practical people '' and sometimes have insisted on incredibly trivial points while neglecting things of much greater significance.

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

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 who have been active in this field are Jennifer Jenkins, Barbara Seidlhofer, Christiane Meierkord and Joachim Grzega.

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

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

Linguists have reconstructed the word taniwha to Proto-Oceanic * tanifa, with the meaning " shark species ".

Linguists have been documenting Shelta since at least the 1870s, with the first works published in 1880 and 1882 by Charles Leland.

Linguists have made significant effort toward defining the difference between borrowing ( loanword usage ) and code-switching ; generally, borrowing occurs in the lexicon, while code-switching occurs at either the syntax level or the utterance-construction level.

Linguists have associated the word with the root / wel, as in / halískomai, " to be captured, to be made prisoner.

Linguists working on Tungusic have proposed a number of different classifications based on different criteria, including morphological, lexical, and phonological characteristics.

Linguists have reconstructed the term to Proto-Nuclear Polynesian * sawaiki.

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

Linguists have documented locoism in use among English speakers by 1889, and both loco and locoweed in use by 1844.

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.

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

Linguists have traditionally considered Wyandot as a dialect or modern form of Wendat.

Linguists have provided evidence in:

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 have established firmly that the / h / is a reflex of a proto-Mayan */ h /.

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

Linguists have pointed out that the placement of the letters in the constructed word is in fact inconsistent with the claimed pronunciation, that the expected pronunciation in English is as in goatee.

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.

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Linguists now recognize that creole formation is a universal phenomenon, not limited to the European colonial period, and an important aspect of language evolution ( see ).

" 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.

The language is now near extinction ; during the filming of Ironbound Films ' 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded one of the last remaining 3 speakers.

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 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 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.

Linguists consider Maithili to be an Eastern Indic language.

Linguists are able to reconstruct the names of some deities in the Proto-Indo-European language ( PIE ) from many types of sources.

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 have found that Quingnam was related to the language of the earlier Moches, Mochica or Muchik.

Linguists distinguish between language " death " and the process where a language becomes a " dead language " through normal language change, a linguistic phenomenon analogous to pseudoextinction.

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.

Linguists think that its name comes from the Proto-Indo-European language.

Linguists have postulated a Comecrudan language family with Comecudo, Mamulique, and Garza as related and Coahuilteco and Cotoname possibly related.

*' The Linguists ': Raiders of the Lost Tongues (" I have always loved the Chulym language.