A third view, that the bilingual character of the work points to a time when both languages were used indifferently, is equally unsatisfactory,[12] because it is highly questionable whether two idioms can ever be used quite indifferently.
It should be remembered that Palestine in the first century after Christ was a bilingual country.
In answer to this question the bilingual condition of Syria may be appealed to.
But the fact is that more bilingual and semi-equivalent text is becoming available online every day, and the quality will keep improving to at least the current levels of MT engines built by hand.
This method allows one to create a machine translation (MT) system automatically, as long as one gives it enoughbilingual text.
Unity has arisen in spite of the bilingual difficulty.
The way to this point of this story is shown by explaining how important the bilingual Bible becomes for the writer.
This idea runs through the story and motivates the climax of the story, an attempt to steal the bilingual Bible.
At my brothers friend in Hamburg I met a bilingual Chinese man.
After the rich and interesting daily programmes I always ran back to my hotel room to spend the lonely evenings in the company of my new friend, an EnglishNorwegian bilingual Bible.
Three or four weeks after mailing the forty or fifty bilingual "Norwegian Bibles" as my Christmas cards this year, my everyday post has grown.
Though some of them spoke no English, I hoped they would be happy to get the small bilingual book.
Further, to scholars a reminder is needed that even the syllabaries and bilingual texts do not give exact information.
The First Dynasty of Babylon was bilingual at any rate in its legal documents, though the letters are all pure Semitic.
At any rate, in the bilingual days he might well have combined the offices.
Karibu-sha-Shushinak, whose recently discovered bilingual inscription has been referred to above, was one of the earlier of the subject princes of Elam, and he probably reigned at Susa not later than B.
Two Egyptian inscriptions have been found at Knossos, but nobilingual one.
Still we need not despair of finding the much desired Cretan-Egyptian bilingual inscription yet.
The bilingual boss accordingly furnishes us with two important ideographs, and the phonetic values of four other characters.
Meanwhile we must be content to await the discovery of another bilingual text.
But the fact that one bilingual inscription has been found is an earnest that other bilingual inscriptions have existed, and may yet be brought to light.
Even the Libyan inscriptions belong, at least as regards the majority, to towns in part or wholly inhabited by Berbers; the bilingual inscriptions found at Tenelium (C.
Tiberius, but as bilingual tell rather for the view that, when they were set up, the Phoenician language was already degraded.
Bilingual Legends (Assyria and Phœnicia), (in Journal of the Royal Asiat.
One of the first acts of the new count was to secure Artois, thus reconstituting the bilingual Flanders of the previous century.
He and his scribes made bilingual lists of signs and words and objects of all classes and kinds, all of which are of priceless value to the modern student of the Sumerian and Assyrian languages.
Ashur-bani-pal caused interlinear translations to be added in Assyrian, and of such bilingual documents the following extract from a text relating to the Seven Evil Spirits will serve as a specimen.
This curious result has been produced, by a study of the bilingual inscription on the monument of Thugga, which is published in the first volume of the Transactions of the Ethnological Society of New York.
Neither he nor anybody else ever read a word of the Cretan language until the finding of the Greek-Cretan bilingual in 1963, because only with a bilingual text, one language already known, can an unknown ancient language be learned.
Henceforth the coins of his successors, many of whom are otherwise unknown to history, are bilingual (Plate V.
During the last thirty years bilingual silver coins have been issued for the Mohammadan population of Chinese Turkestan (Plate IX.
Yet Belgium is bilingual and Switzerland is quadrilingual.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bilingual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
