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 approximated that the precursor to the language of the Huastecs diverged from the Proto-Mayan language between 2200 and 1200 BCE.

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.

It has also been continuously developed by Linguists such as Kees Hengeveld.

Linguists such as Zaliznyak pointed out that certain linguistic elements in Slovo dated from the XV-XVI centuries, when the copy of the original manuscript ( or of a copy ) had been made.

Wallis is a Vice President of equal rights charity Parity, and has been elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists ( FCIL ).

Linguists have been able to explain why it is so: Both Saurashtra and Gujarati branched off from a common parent, and have since taken completely different paths to modernity.

* Linguists have been drawing on his works as he studied languages as diverse as Ge ' ez, Amharic, Oromo, Swahili, Kamba, Mijikenda and Massai.

As of 2005, Ethnologue lists Taba as having a speaking population of approximately 20, 000, however, it has been argued by Linguists that this number could in reality be anywhere between 20, 000 and 50, 000.

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 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.

Linguists today distinguish four different dialects, which are not all mutually intelligible: Hill Mari ( мары йӹлмӹ ), concentrated mainly along the right Volga bank ; Meadow Mari ( марий йылме ), spoken in the lowland regions of the Kokshaga and Volga rivers, which includes the city of Yoshkar-Ola ; Eastern Mari, spoken east of the Vyatka River ; and North-Western Mari.

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 ' 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 do not normally use the term to refer to orthographical rules, although usage books and style guides that call themselves grammars may also refer to spelling and punctuation.

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

During the filming of the 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded 20 speakers and estimate there may be between 35-40 fluent speakers out of a community of overall 426 members.

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

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.

" 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 and anthropologists refer to Kham as the ' Ethnic Corridor of Southwest China ', as its vast and sparsely populated territories are inhabited by over 14 culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups.

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 Morris Halle and Samuel Jay Keyser developed a set of rules ( English Stress: Its Forms, Its Growth, and Its Role in Verse, Harper and Row, 1971 ) which correspond with those variations which are permissible in English iambic pentameter.

Linguists are generally satisfied that the Halstatt culture originated among people speaking Celtic languages, but art historians often avoid describing Halstatt art as " Celtic ".