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

Linguists Arnold Zwicky and Geoffrey Pullum argue, however, that the form has the properties of an affix rather than a syntactically independent clitic.

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.

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 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 ).

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.

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.

Linguists divide the Romance languages of France, and especially of Medieval France, into three geographical subgroups: Langues d ' oïl and Langues d ' oc, named after their words for ' yes ', with Franco-Provençal ( Arpitan ) considered transitional.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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