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

Linguists group all of these under the name Picard.

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

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 ".

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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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 use it as an example for the similarities between Illyrian and Daco-Thracian languages.

Linguists with other interests and differing perspectives than the originators ' can exploit this work.

Linguists do not agree whether passing the answer ellipsis test is sufficient, though at a minimum they agree that it can help confirm the results of another constituency test.

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

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 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 consider Maithili to be an Eastern Indic language.

Linguists who reject Chomsky claim to be going beyond Chomsky, or they cling to phrase-structure grammars.

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.

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.