Sentences with phrase «other language group»

The same is true of any other language group.

At the same time it was estimated that there yet remained five hundred to a thousand other language groups spoken by substantial numbers of people into which translations should be made, and many of them will be.

«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Among many immigrant populations from other language groups, even those who arrived generations ago, Saturdays are reserved for children to learn their home language, be it Greek, Italian, Chinese, Arabic or any other language represented in this linguistically diverse city.

Not exact matches

The NAIC working group will study the language, among other aspects, of the DOL fiduciary rule standard, Nickel said.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Remember that the congregation is idiomatic; it constitutes itself by a very distinctive language whose indicative aspect identifies a world in some ways allied with metaphors widely employed in the culture but in other ways peculiar to that group alone.

The novel is a brilliant demonstration of the power of language to define groups, to warp character, and to empower some people over others.

This essay draws on some language and ideas generated by the author and others in the advisory work group on ethics for the White House task force on health care reform.

Richard Bernstein calls this approach pluralistic: not a «flabby» pluralism, where we simply accept a variety of perspectives, vocabularies, paradigms, and language games, each on an equal footing; nor a «fortress - like» pluralism, where disparate groups work out of isolated frameworks and there is no communication between them; but rather an «engaged pluralism» where we acknowledge our fallibility and try to be responsive to the claims of others.

’39 Apparently the colloquial of Pulaya speech and language was vastly different from that of other caste groups like Syrian Christians and Nairs, with whom the missionaries communicated on a regular basis.

This communication relies on a body of language and custom that allows mutual intelligibility with other members of the group.

On the other hand, they are a special group in respect to such features as rational capacity, imagination, memory, foresight, language, and the ability to create and transmit culture.

At one overcrowded station, a group began to pray the Hail Mary in - I think - Portuguese, and other groups joined in, using their own languages, and a calm descended.

All in - groups speak their own languages, they (sometimes) exclude others from their little club, and feel proud of it.

But normally they were not distinguished from other religious groups in terms of language, dress, food, or most of their customs, except for worship.

Others insisted that the topic could only be fruitfully pursued if one spoke of cultures, always in the lower - case plural and always designating empirical realities, to refer to all groups that shared a common language and a common past or identity.

However, some other groups with even less cross-cultural experience developed a close relation with the local people and managed to communicate through sign language.

My African colleagues have reported instances in which an individual has, with the sympathetic and concerted concern of others in his group, come from a position of extreme weakness (and even a serious language problem) to full sharing and flowering.

As participant in that culture, a congregation will be as deeply shaped by those «languages as is any other group in the culture.

In general, we'd ask you to be civil towards other readers and refrain from obscene language and any comments on religion, ethnic groups or politics.

Whichever way you do the numbers, the centre - left grouping (get used to that sort of language) of Labour, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, Respect and others is dominant.

Willing to describe groups other than whites in pilloried language: Mexicans as criminals, for instance, gave Trump a massive salience in the contest.

FPI and 16 other groups delivered a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo today asking him to drop language included hundreds of times in his executive budget proposal for 2012 - 2013.

The North Side neighborhood that once housed mostly German and Italian immigrants is now home to a new group of immigrants where 20 percent of families speak a language other than English at home, according to U.S. Census data.

The researchers next asked parents of three groups of children — Turner's females, normal females, and normal males, who get their single X chromosome from the mother — to rate their children's cognitive skills, such as awareness of other people's feelings and interpreting body language.

«It's really about [scientists and policy - makers] recognizing the existence of the other group of people, recognizing those populations are there, and that you can talk to them — that the language barriers aren't insurmountable,» she says.

A new study of how it changed shows that people who came from different language groups — or who lived a few hundred kilometres apart — were more likely to have children with each other than to exchange their version of the story.

«It doesn't mean that most Native American languages are related to each other, it just means that the populations that speak those languages descend from a single ancestral group,» says Reich.

For other occupations, there was no difference between the speech and language disorders group and the Alzheimer's group.

And even this broad ancestral difference underlines something important about enslaved Africans, according to Schroeder: They lived alongside other Africans who spoke different languages and came from different cultural groups.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

It will also improve our understanding of the way other animal groups are socially organised and how human language evolved.

They live in tightly knit social groups, have complex relationships, communicate with each other using language - like vocalizations, and even have regional dialects.

After searching for her profile name, «Kevina», and the place in Hong Kong where she is supposedly from, «Tuen Mun:, New Territories, «Hong Kong», I found a similar profile on many of the «cupid» group of dating sites, in a few different languages (Spanish, German), even though the profile doesn't mention that she speaks any other language apart from English.

With a focus on social skillbuilding, the group consults on a person's body language, tone of voice, image, and other important aspects of dating.

The simple fact of the matter is Hispanics and all other people groups tend to like to date people of similiar language, culture and values.

Zemeckis has apparently determined that audiences will no longer support the fiction that a group of foreign - language characters all speak to each other in English, so he's forced to invent all sorts of pretexts for Petit to speak primarily in the language of Hollywood: he's going to New York so he must practice; Annie speaks good English, so she's happy to establish their relationship in that language.

While many groups require the film to be in a foreign language, others merely ask that the film be produced outside of the U.S..

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages has all kinds of tools on its Web site at www.actfl.org, including a new networking hub that allows foreign language teachers to connect with each other via discussion groups and blogs.

On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the approach to bolstering students» advanced literacy skills, and academic language skills in particular, need not be entirely different for different groups, particularly with increasing grade levels.

Some civil rights organizations say lumping together different types of students, such as English - language learners and students in special education, makes it much tougher to see how individual groups are progressing relative to other groups of students and the student population as a whole.

Evaluate the idea that the language used by social and occupational groups is primarily designed to exclude others.

CPAHS has an enrolment of 1100 students from Years 7 - 12, with approximately 35 per cent coming from a language background other than English across 56 language groups.

Depending on your student's language level you can ask them to have a small discussion: learners state their opinion and the others in the group try to convince them of the opposite alternative.

creation of many two - way integrated bilingual schools in which students of each language group work with, learn with, and help each other acquire fluency in a second language;

Alternatively, if students want to strengthen their Japanese or English first, Kuromiya adds, the respective groups could «work on their own campus at first and then, as their language skills grow stronger, they can start collaborating with each other.»

To attain to a high level of intercultural competency, students require enough time to not only acquire another language to sufficient proficiency, but also time to explore, explain, investigate, and reflect upon the perceptions of other cultural groups, their values and their beliefs.

The challenge is particularly testing when it comes to «live» events such as webinars, online group discussions, and other activities where international students will have to speak - up in their second language while watched by people they do not know.