In making the case for the language as it was spoken, the descriptivists did one great service: they encouraged studies of the vernacular.

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Before this project, the language of the Yukagir was spoken fluently by only seventeen people.

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For most of them, it was the first time they had heard their language spoken by another human being.

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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.

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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.

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Spoken by two humans at once the Hosts could understand that it was an attempt at Language but something still prevented their understanding.

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