Another legacy of primary education's origins is the relatively low emphasis given to the spoken language, compared to reading and writing.
Even after the Arab conquest, Persian remained the language of local rulers, as Iranian administrators, mullahs and traders settled in the cities of Transoxania (which covered much of today's Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan), and is the basis of the language spoken by the Tajiks today.
Some focus on phonetic search or various other voice indexing technologies whose accuracy rate depends on the quality of the line recording, the language spoken and the dialect.
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He was in the military before declaring independence for south-eastern Nigeria, where Igbo is the most widely spoken language, following the slaughter of thousands of ethnic Igbos in northern Nigeria.
There is an entire sequence of the game spoken in the Mohawk language, and Connor's village is represented as well.
To ensure their victims were Christians, the jihadists addressed them in Fulani, the language spoken by local Muslims.
The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
Even the soft-spoken language manuals are agents of tyranny.
Not only are higher frequencies responsible for the crispness of sound and for being able to cut through background noise, but the comprehension of spoken language relies heavily on vowel sounds in these higher registers.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
Hence, the deaf never get a true sense of the phonemic structure of spoken language: they have no sounds in their heads that can represent the written letters.
The remedy for Valley Girl Talk is to drop the voice at the end of sentences in spoken language, at the ends of phrases thus parsing the logic of the phrases.
The production also visited Oklahoma to hear the Comanche language being spoken and worked with Voelker and others to give Depp Comanche lines in the movie.
In making the case for the language as it was spoken, the descriptivists did one great service: they encouraged studies of the vernacular.
This peaceful riverside enclave sparks to life during the weekly Thursday morning market, when you will hear vendors and shoppers trading the melodic sounds of Occitan (the original language of the region, spoken today by about 1.5 million people in southern France).
Khmer is the official national language and spoken by more than 95% of the population.
Only Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and English the world's most widely spoken second language have the sheer numbers of speakers to make it probable that they will survive for at least the next 300 years.
Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.
Reading and writing problems appear to develop in deaf people because sign languages are not phonemic in the sense that a spoken language is.
Oi is hi in Portuguese, which is the 10th most-spoken language.
There have been movements for land rights and formation of states on the basis of language spoken by its people and against deforestation and commercial forestry in Himalayas and big dams.
They found work through a private agency after taking an intensive course in Dutch, the language most commonly spoken in the north of Belgium.
And though paleoanthropologists are coming around to the view that Neanderthals developed sophisticated ways to communicate, including some form of spoken language, they may have lacked the rich vocabulary or symbolic structure we take for granted today.
The codex (Latin for "book") dates to the sixth century, when Christian Palestinian scribes wrote down the words of Christ in Aramaic, the ancient language that is believed to have been close to the dialect spoken by the messiah himself.
Before this project, the language of the Yukagir was spoken fluently by only seventeen people.
Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.
The traditional liturgical language of both Assyrian and Chaldean Churches is Syriac - a derivative of Aramaic, the language thought to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples.
Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, has analyzed the language and syntax of hundreds of handwritten letters, diaries and documents of Columbus and concluded that the explorer's primary written and spoken language was Castilian Spanish.
And indeed some schools have tried to resist the compulsory extension of Welsh language lessons, arguing that since little Welsh was spoken in their community, the money could be better spent elsewhere.
But the language, which sounds like Italian spoken through a mouthful of peanut butter, is beginning to rebound.
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