Sentences with phrase «most ancient languages»

The Italian language is one of the most ancient languages in the...

The Italian language is one of the most ancient languages in the world.

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The first is relatively uncontroversial to most believers except, perhaps, to evangelical philosophers and fundamentalists of various types — namely, that laypeople are in no position to adjudicate disputes among experts in New Testament scholarship because the scholars have an expertise in languages and ancient history that laypeople lack.

The use of biblical language to express a Victorian worldview makes it very difficult for most Protestants to remember that the books of the Bible address questions posed in another time in terms of the worldviews of ancient cultures.

Comparisons of vocabularies and root words in the most ancient as well as modern forms of the related languages, as well as comparisons of their historically attested mythologies and lore, revealed remarkable similarities.

A new study uses ancient DNA to suggest that a massive migration of herders from the east shaped the genomes of most living Europeans — and that these immigrants may have been the source of Proto - Indo - European (PIE), the mysterious ancestral tongue from which the more than 400 Indo - European languages sprang.

But though it derives from an ancient Greek myth, auteur Yorgos Lanthimos» most recent English - language film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, spoke to me of a more Freudian concept: the idea of psychology as an impossible, inner dystopia.

Information packs include facts about the country, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper if needed

56 per cent believe that coding is more important than ancient languages such as Latin, and most UK adults (53 per cent) now agree that learning coding is just as important for future career prospects as learning a modern language.

As Ostler takes in the sweep of languages from ancient Sumerian and Akkadian to modern English and Mandarin, he focuses most interestingly on instances where languages defied the odds.

Boasting almost 2,000 km of stunning coastline, its own language and a variety of ancient architecture, Sardinia is one of the most interesting and picturesque holiday destinations.

With their location at the crossroads of trade, religion, language and the arts, these countries are home to fascinating modern cultures as well as some of the world's most ancient and timeless architecture.

Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play on the language of ancient art as well as modernism and the abstract compositions of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.

Because all we know of Socrates reaches us secondhand, and because it comes to most of us in translation from a long - gone version of an ancient and foreign language — discuss, if you wish, the multiple layers of hearsay involved here — it can be stated in any number of ways, none of which carries any guarantee of accuracy.