It might be pointed out that the integrating function of religion, for good or ill, has often supported or been identified with other groupings -- political, nationality, language, class, racial, sociability, even economic.

It has become painfully clear that the very attempt to make the language of social research free of values by erecting mathematical and physical models, is itself a conditioned response to a world which pays a premium price for technological manipulation.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

The complexities of communication have been considerably abetted in this case by appropriately stilted English language that has been excellently dubbed in place of the Russian dialogue.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

Swift has his proposer further degrade the Irish by using language ordinarily reserved for animals.

A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as the consonants.

Recently, Corey Anton has argued that we cannot be certain what is separate from or unified with something else: language, he asserts, divides what is not in fact separate.

Based on the proposed correspondences listed below, the following phoneme inventory has been reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto (- Macro )- Altaic language ( taken from Blažek's summary of the newest Altaic etymological dictionary et al.

It is a very traditional form of the language, probably derived from medieval deeds and documents, and has a very complicated structure and vocabulary which is generally reserved only for such documents.

Anatolia has been proposed to be the origin of the Indo-European language family.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

As a language of deaf education, ASL has been introduced to numerous countries, where it has often diverged into a separate dialect.

In recent years, researchers have shown that exposure to sign language has a positive impact on the socialization of hearing children.

ASL has come a long way from its condemned days of banned use to being viewed as a grammatical language, which is the main form of communication in American Deaf culture.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 speakers of the language remain, while other research places the number at fewer than 15 speakers – the language has been regarded as “ endangered ”.

In fact, no attempt to show a relationship with Ainu to any other language has gained wide acceptance, and Ainu is currently considered to be a language isolate.

Second language varieties of English in Africa and Asia have often undergone " indigenisation "; that is, each English-speaking community has developed ( or is in the process of developing ) its own standards of usage, often under the influence of local languages.

In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.

By the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse.

It survives in this fixed form from the days of Old English ( having undergone, however, phonetic changes with the rest of the language ), in which it was constructed as "" + " me " ( the dative case of the personal pronoun ) + " thinks " ( i. e., " seems ", < Old English thyncan, " to seem ", a verb closely related to the verb thencan, " to think ", but distinct from it in Old English ; later it merged with " think " and lost this meaning ).

Although Greek has undergone morphological and phonological changes comparable to those seen in other languages, there has been no time in its history since classical antiquity where its cultural, literary, and orthographic tradition was interrupted to such an extent that one can easily speak of a new language emerging.

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

According to the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the entire area has thousands of river names that can be traced back to an original Baltic language, even though they have undergone Slavicization.

In these languages, words from Proto Indo-European have p at the beginning if they come from initial * p. English cognates often start with F, since English is a Germanic language, and has undergone the Grimm's law.

They now use the term " creole " or " creole language " for any language suspected to have undergone creolization, terms that now imply no geographic restrictions nor ethnic prejudices.

This language seems to have primarily been a creole of the Dwarvish Khuzdul and some Avarin dialects, and it is almost wholly unclear which parts ( if any ) of its vocabulary and structure were purely " Mannish " in origin, though the answer is probably very little ( it is stated that Felagund was able to quickly master Taliska purely by determining the various changes undergone by its Avarin component from Primitive Quendian ).

Dutch has undergone a series of major spelling reforms beginning in 1804-with varying levels of official sanction and popular acceptance across the areas in which varieties of the Dutch language are spoken.

The script has undergone considerable modifications to suit the evolving phonology of the Burmese language.

The phonology of the low back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, dating from Late Middle English ( c. 1400 ) to the present.

For example, Votic has undergone such a change historically, in for example * keeli → tšeeli (' language '), but there is currently an additional distinction between palatalized laminal and non-palatalized apical consonants.

Whereas the Bonan language of Gansu has undergone Chinese influences, the Bonan language of Qinghai has been influenced by Tibetan.

Every friend of science ought to be opposed to the introduction into a modern language of names of plants that are not already there, unless they are derived from a Latin botanical name that has undergone but a slight alteration.

Judging from the modern perspective, two approaches seem to dominate the contemporary appraisal of Gundulić's poetry: on one hand, his poetic influence has dimmed due to a change in aesthetic sensibility ( Gundulić's chief literary predecessor and influence, Torquato Tasso, has undergone similar reassessment, but his artistic integrity and individuality have withstood the test of time better ); while Gundulić's impact in the final standardisation of the Croatian language was overwhelming.

( Indonesian: Tulisan alay ) is a form of the Indonesian language that has undergone " excessive leet transformation ".

Oriya language has undergone through several phases.

The original definition has been lost as the Mi ' kmaq language has undergone many revisions over the last two centuries.

The language had undergone certain changes which distinguished it from the Old Norman spoken in Normandy, as can be seen from graphical characteristics, from which certain rules of pronunciation are to be inferred.

Extensible programming systems must support the debugging of programs using the constructs of the original source language regardless of the extensions or transformation the program has undergone in order to make it executable.