This has been translated into nearly or quite a hundred languagesand dialects--a record never approached by any other book of English authorship.
On the other hand, gradual union of the two languages was no less inevitable than that of the races themselves.
Utopia' was written and published in Latin; among the multitude of translations into many languages the earliest in English, in which it is often reprinted, is that of Ralph Robinson, made in 1551.
He had been Professor of Physics, Mathematics, and Oriental Languages at Wuerzburg, but was driven from there by the disturbances incident to the Thirty Years' War, in 1631.
Here his interest in Oriental languages began, and he established a special course in this subject at the University of Wuerzburg.
While he continued to teach Oriental languages and issued in 1644 a book with the title "Lingua AEgyptiaca Restituta," he also continued to apply himself especially to the development of physical science.
This was considered one of the author's greatest books, and the whole of it was translated into French, whilst abstracts from it, especially the chapters on poisons, appeared in most of the other languages of Europe.
It should be remarked here that the patient actually did know a few common phrases in severallanguages which he picked up during his sailor days.
But he always insisted that he knew thoroughly twenty-two languages, and when asked to enumerate these he found himself in deep water and was obliged to invent the languages for the occasion.
He does speak a number of languages fluently and, so far as we can learn, with fair correctness (?
In languages in the inflected or synthetic stage the terminations must be pronounced with marked distinctness, as these contain the correlation of ideas; it is all-important to hear whether a word is bonus or bonis or bonas or bonos.
Representatives of earlier languages survive in Wales and the Scottish Highlands, though in neither case can the substitution of English be very remote.
Our batteau carried as curious a muster of races and languages as perhaps had ever been congregated within the same compass in any part of the world.
Five years earlier he had been graduated from Yale, with honors in languages and history.
U3] [Both the Norman and English languages would be heard at the houses of the great.
The foregoing version was rendered as literal as the nature of the two languages would admit.
Civilization for him dwelt chiefly in AEgean Greece and Asia Minor, where Lydians and Carians and Trojans lived a life and probably spoke languages like his own.
They ruled the great Assyrian empire and they had conquered Egypt; Assyria, Babylon, Syria were all Semitic, speaking languages that were mutually intelligible.
In Gaul, Spain and Italy and in Dacia the Latin speech still prevailed in locally distorted forms, but in Britain and east of the Rhine languages of the German group (or in Bohemia a Slavonic language, Czech) were the common speech.
This use of recited language as an entertainment did much to make it a fine and beautiful instrument of expression, and to that no doubt the subsequent predominance of the languages derived from Aryan is, in part, to be ascribed.
Only some strong mutual interest, such as the common defensive needs of the Swiss mountaineers, can justify a close linking of peoples of dissimilar languages and faiths; and even in Switzerland there is the utmost local autonomy.
Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain.
The materials of these tales and legends have been derived from the aborigines, and interpreted from their languages by various individuals, among whom it is deemed important to name the following: Mrs. Henry R.
Many of the tribes and languages are already extinct, and we can allude to at least one of the still existing smaller tribes who have lost the use of their vernacular tongue and adopted the English.
The history of the manners, customs, and languages of the ancient nations, and particularly of the oriental branches of the human family, from whom they were thought to have descended, was deeply in the dark.
The result was, then as now, that they comprehended the scope and genius of none of the languages they spoke.
Languages were a very important part of my training.
All languages are here spoken; therefore no trouble for any nation to obtain what it desires.
In 1863 he was appointed by the general assembly professor of oriental languages at New College.
The three languages may then have been suggested by the Latin, Greek and Hebrew, in which his title was written on the cross.
He studied theology and oriental languages in the university of his native town, and in 1850 was appointed professor ordinarius of theology at Erlangen, where the school of theologians became almost as famous as that of Tubingen.
But what a difference between the two languages in the matter of precision!
Its present owner is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, professor of modern languages in Harvard University, and widely known in the world of literature as one of the most gifted men of the age.
The ends of the earth were to be brought together, and all nations, and tongues, and languages united under the banner of the Redeemer.
I would be bared out because while I might pick up the French and maybe 1 or 2 others I couldn't possibly master 8 or 9 languages in hardly a month you might say.
And it looks like I won't be able to get into the officers training camp because I heard today that they won't leave nobody in that can't talk all the languages of the ally countrys.
Speaking about foreign languages Al the next time I see you I will be talking French like a regular Frenchman and you will have to ask me to translate what I am talking about.
My expressions also are as near as the idioms of the two languages would admit of in translation.
Graces and virtues, languages and arts, Beauty and learning, fill'd up all the parts.
Some of them were of foreign aspect, since a large number of the workmen had to be addressed in other languages than English.
This astounded him so that he spoke in two languages at once: "Your schwister!
Elizabeth Eliza thought their lessons in the foreignlanguages would help them much in conversing in character.
They would thus require but one teacher, and could branch out into the other languages afterward.
In fact, my tutor's mind was so imbued with the dead languages that he was unable to write his own, but had constant recourse to Greek and Latin to make his meaning clear.
Subsequently, when he perceived that no one understood him, he quickly dropped his Provençal and replaced it by French, but would not trouble himself to speak two different languages together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "languages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
