16 sentences with 'languages'

• « Linguists study languages and how they are used in communication. »

• « The official language of Spain is Spanish, but other languages are also spoken. »

• « Although I don't understand everything they say, I enjoy listening to music in other languages. »

• « The linguist analyzed an unknown language and discovered its relationship with other ancient languages. »

• « A complex relationship emerged between the cultures and languages of the kingdoms. »

• « Supposedly, the word barbarian comes from the Greeks mocking the sound of the non-Greek languages: "bar-bar-bar-bar-bar-bar". »

• « The state used several languages to communicate with its subjects, and the government sponsored a major effort to standardise a new, simplified cuneiform alphabet. »

• « Certain Mesopotamian languages, especially Akkadian, became international languages of diplomacy, allowing travellers and traders to communicate wherever they went. »

• « Claudius was also a scholar, mastering the Etruscan and Punic languages and writing histories of those two civilisations (the histories are now lost, unfortunately). »

• « Ultimately, the Greeks and then the Romans adopted the Phoenician script, and the alphabets used in most European languages today are direct descendants of Phoenician. »

• « Parts of this library survived and provide one of the most important sources of information scholars have on the beliefs, languages and literature of the ancient Middle East. »

• « All the lands Julius Caesar invaded were so thoroughly conquered that the descendants of the Celts ended up speaking Latin-based languages, such as French, instead of their native Celtic dialects. »

• « Greek was still the language of the state and the language of the elites, the Persian trade language of Aramaic was still used in most lands, and a host of local languages then existed as the vernacular. »

• « Kings often did not speak a word of the local languages; for example, Cleopatra VII (the famous Cleopatra and last ruler of Egypt before its conquest by Rome) was the first Ptolemaic monarch to speak Egyptian. »

• « However, the empires he left behind united in important ways, using Greek as one of their languages, employing Greek architecture in their buildings, making Greek-style plays and, of course, trading with each other. »

• « The Romans united their provinces with the Latin language, which is the ancestor of all the major languages spoken in southern Europe today (French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, etc.), Roman law, which is the ancestor of most of the forms of law still used in Europe today, and the Roman form of government. »

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