Sentences with phrase «languages spoken today»

Truly modern language, akin to languages spoken today, may thus have been the key cultural innovation that allowed the emergence of these and other hallmarks of behavioral modernity and ultimately led to our colonization of the globe.»

While large digital collections of language data are becoming more abundant, only a tiny fraction of the more than 7000 languages spoken today has been thoroughly analyzed.

«The ability to rapidly share the skill to make Oldowan tools would have brought fitness benefits» to early humans, Morgan says, such as greater efficiency in butchering animals; and then Darwinian natural selection would have acted to gradually improve primitive language abilities, eventually leading from protolanguage to the full - blown, semantically complex languages we speak today.

The Basques, from northern Spain and southwestern France, speak a language unrelated to any other language spoken today.

Not exact matches

Use this guide to enhance your ability to speak the language of sports in today's corporate world, and your team will stick to you like pine tar... I mean glue... no, wait.

Today we still speak of the cross only in the explicit language of the Church and religion; perhaps some pious old Christians may still use the expression for the experience of their own life.

The Jewish community of Jesus» time and the Jewish people of today must be affirmed if the church is to speak a language both true to its past and addressed to all people today.

The greatest challenge facing oldline Protestantism today is whether within our life and thought we will welcome movements that buck the currents of establishmentarianism, Christendom and modernity and that call the church to speak once again the «language of dissent» to a culture and church of compliance and consumption.

What sounds like earthy language today were, generally speaking, acceptable Biblical euphemisms.

The deposit of these practices incorporates the unjust, ideological, and power - driven habits of previous generations and thus binds those today who still speak their languages.

Because the ordinary Spaniards of that period of time were mostly illiterate and came from the medieval world which was so rich in imagery and the native world of the Americas communicated mainly through an image - language, it was much more at the level of the image - word than of the alphabetic spoken word that the new synthesis of Iberian Catholicism and the native religions took place and continues to take place today.

If the King James Bible brought the Bible to the English - speaking masses, today's technology goes a giant step further, making Scripture - in any language and any translation - accessible to anyone on earth with a smartphone.

My little man just turned 4 today, just you wait until Elsa starts talking like a 4 year old: - / Love that she speaks a little of both your languages.

Being one of the oldest languages spoken on the planet today, names with a Greek origin provide a historic and mythical feel fit for a baby king, queen or warrior.

Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you speak a foreign language in the street or simply happen to look foreign.

Today we are ensuring that the city speaks the language of our people.»

They brought with them a language that is the root of many of those spoken today — including English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian and Persian.

The Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 language varieties (both languages and dialects) is today spoken by about 220 million people, mostly in southern and central India but also in surrounding countries.

If so, the Yamnaya steppe people would not have spoken PIE but an already derived Indo - European tongue ancestral to today's Balto - Slavic languages such as Russian and Polish, Heggarty says.

«That language persisted and over 120 descendant languages continue to be spoken today, making Vanuatu the most linguistically diverse place on Earth per capita.

Around the world today, some 7000 distinct languages are spoken.

And all the Blackberries, Etrali super-phones, laptops and monitors — a constant stream of communication and information — pale in significance to the most important trait a carbon broker can have: The ability to «smell BS» as Hochschild put it, even more important than speaking any of the multiplicity of languages carbon is traded in today.

Why not just use the time - tested tradition of science: Name them in some language so obscure hardly anyone today speaks it.

Today I'm speaking a love language almost every woman I know can relate to....

According to a research article on the significance of laughter on Psychology Today, «[laughter] is a hidden language that we all speak.

Bretagne, France About Blog This Blog describes how to learn modern French language like it's spoken today in France.

Today, the site has more than 30 million members (from more than 25 countries who speak more than eight different languages) and is responsible for the most romantic connections made by a dating site.

Today, Chinese (Mandarin) is the most widely spoken language in the world, with about 850 million native speakers (and about total speakers worldwide).

The case doesn't mention them and my player couldn't even identify most of the languages, but I think just about everything spoken today is covered besides Klingon.

(For example, today most Indians speak the English language, live in homes like other people's, go to college, drive cars, and shop at grocery stores.)

Strategies to boost attainment for pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) will be tested in a new # 2m funding round launched today by...

In the bilingual public schools of St. Louis, one - fourth of the students during the second half of the 19th century were not of German descent, reminiscent of the present trend of what we call today «two - way dual - language,» a type of bilingual education where students of ethnolinguistic minorities and English - speaking majorities are educated jointly to develop the bilingualism of all.

Teachers today are being asked to do more than ever before: implement more rigorous standards, teach students to succeed in the 21st century, provide differentiated instruction to a myriad of learners, employ rapidly changing technology, and support the socio - emotional development of students who, increasingly, come from low - income families and speak a language other than English at home.

Will we be able to say the same for today's young people, no matter where they were born or what language they speak at home?

Wade Simpson looks at the needs of today's K - 12 students, and the Las Vegas - born architect speaks the language of professional educators.

Today, there are three distinct Mayan groups, each speaking their own dialect of the Mayan language.

Due to the influence of Mayan, Creole and English languages most of the islanders speak today what is known as «kitchen Spanish» - informal Spanish that incorporates English, Mayan and Creole words.

Bretagne, France About Blog This Blog describes how to learn modern French language like it's spoken today in France.

Today, Latin culture and language has persisted in the community, and a large portion of Corozal's 10,000 residents speak Spanish.

Though in 1900, 70 % of the population spoke Spanish, today English is the most widely spoken foreign language in the Philippines, and you will find it spoken widely at most resorts and major hotels.

The intricate work moves between writing, image, and pattern, and speaks to the fragmented way in which we acquire information and experience language in today's world.

The result is a sensational mixture of spoken - word poetry and anthropology, using the visual language of the Internet age to tell ancient guesses at the big questions that we still strain to answer today: Who are we, and why are we here?

Boshier's work, steeped in the language of Pop throughout his six - decade career, speaks to the distinct vantage point of a British ex-pat experiencing America's cultural imperialism at its source, beginning in the Vietnam era and continuing today.

The Dallas - based plaintiffs» personal - injury firm Baron & Budd announced today that it has launched a Spanish - language Web site, Mesotelioma en Espanol, to provide information for Spanish - speaking victims of mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure.

For those of us who did not learn Latin as a language in school, we have been privileged to join the noble class of people who «speak» the language in today's world either through our affiliation with church or the legal profession.

Starting today, Nuki Smart Lock, Nuki Bridge and the Nuki Fob are officially available in all Benelux countries and our Nuki apps now speak your language (Dutch and French).

Today Google introduced a new Chrome extension that will help you when you hit a site in a language you don't speak.

Today, Lingo Live is an online school that teaches employees at multinational companies to learn to speak a foreign language.

There is value in speaking a second or third language in today's global marketplace.

Speaking multiple languages fluently is great for business today.