Linguists which distinguish them may not agree on the distinction being made.

Linguists distinguish between two kinds of universals: absolute ( opposite: statistical, often called tendencies ) and implicational ( opposite non-implicational ).

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 identify at least four sub-groupings of Dani languages:

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

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 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 been investigating the dialects of Romani since the second half of the eighteenth century, and although there are no ancient written records of the language, it has been possible to reconstruct the development of Romani from the medieval languages of India to its present forms as spoken in Europe.

Linguists documenting the sounds of speech use various special symbols, of which the International Phonetic Alphabet is the most widely known.

Linguists believe that the Norse name is ultimately derived from a proto-Germanic word * raudnian meaning " getting red " and which referred to the red foliage and red berries in the autumn.

Linguists trace the origin of the term “ diwata ” to Hindu word Devata which also means deity.

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

Linguists have defined a Second Consonant Shift creating Old High German ( OHG ) from which modern standard German descends.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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 group all of these under the name Picard.

* Sigint missions ( comprising Maths & cryptoanalysis, IT & computer systems, Linguists & translation and the Intelligence analysis unit ),

* The Linguist ( magazine ), bimonthly magazine of the Chartered Institute of Linguists

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.

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

Linguists often regard Auslan as having two major dialects-Northern ( Queensland and NSW ), and Southern ( Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia ).

Linguists believe that the etymology of the word either involves the Middle High German word lab ( to clot ) or the word laib ( loaf ), and the Slavic root quas ( feast ).

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.

After serving his National Service in the RAF ( where he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists, and was engaged in SIGINT ), Walter studied history at Exeter College, Oxford, 1954-1957, afterwards becoming a journalist.

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

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 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.