Sentences with phrase «few speakers of a language»

Their parents were partial speakers and their grandparents were the remaining few speakers of a language that, as the Elders, they alone could pass down to the next generation.

Not exact matches

Many books are translated into and out of languages such as English, German, and Russian, but Arabic has fewer translations relative to its many speakers.

This means that fewer communications in those languages reach speakers of other languages.

Although the human eye can distinguish millions of colors, human languages have only a few color terms, such as «red,» «green,» «blue» and «yellow,» which speakers can use to communicate about colors in everyday life.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

But fewer than half of states saw gaps shrink between low - income children and their more affluent peers; between English language learners and native English speakers; and between children with disabilities and all students.

I am a native English speaker, fluent in Dutch and German and with a smattering of a few other European languages.

There was a great comedy piece a few years back (whose origin escapes us) that gave examples of how the English would use their language when speaking to a non-native speaker to imply the precise opposite of what was actually being understood.

With few fluent speakers, some of these languages are considered endangered.

In most of the meetings with the Elders Council, I was one of the few people who did not speak or understand the Cree language; all of their meetings were conducted entirely in Cree, with a translator available to translate for non-Cree speakers in attendance.

There are only a few speakers of Lower Southern Aranda and Wangkangurru languages at the moment.