A group of languages related via a common ancestor, or proto language, is referred to as a language family.

Britain and America are two countries divided by a common language.

The common language of many Asians is English.

The common language of many anime is subtitles.

Jews were spread across many countries, but to some extent shared a common language and a sense of common fate.

A proto language is the common ancestor of a group of languages or dialects.

The most common aboriginal language is Cree 17,215 (0.53 ).

So in our common language, Dutch, the name for T.B.

to 700 A.D. deriving from a common Proto Sami Finnic language (M. Korhonen 1981).

Culture, self understanding, and language mediate whatever we identify as fundamental to a common human nature.

Tom and Mary couldn't talk to each other then because they didn't speak a common language.

This is not a language feature per se, but it is common in most JavaScript implementations.

It was during the 20th century that a common, standardized national language became available to all Swedes.

When common interests no longer prevail, language and culture begin to matter more.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

I have no doubt English is the most common language in the world.

Okinawan play is performed in a mixture of the language of Shuri, the capital of Ryukyu kingdom, and the language of Naha, where common people lived.

Even the necessary minimum of a common language requires a deliberate effort, to say nothing of certain rules of behavior.

They need enhanced cooperation, which, given a common language, would rest on a stronger foundation than it does in Europe.

Another common criticism is that Objective C does not have language support for namespaces.

Their rhetoric suggests that France and Germany have a great deal in common, but the facts speak a completely different language.

However, lack of a strong opposition corrupted the political right, which splintered into various groupings that cannot find a common language.

Europe had neither a common language, nor was it as religiously and culturally as homogeneous as the Middle East.

Indeed, how are doctors to explain and control disease without a common language for the phenomena that they observe?

The country's subsequent modernization and World War II left English the nation's most common language.

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English is the most common language, albeit Scots English with a distinctive Aberdonian accent that may take a little getting used to!

It helps if this is based on something deeper than shared interests a language, a sense of common history, pride in cultural achievements.

Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.

It's a common mistake.

It's a common misconception.

It's a common name.

Common threats to Europe s energy security demand a common response.

In a compiled language that supports runtime creation of functions, such as Common Lisp, the runtime environment must include a compiler or an interpreter.

To achieve this shared identity, all citizens have to speak the one official language and be educated according to a common curriculum.

Language groups transcends colonial borders, and the musical languages of neighboring South Africa and southern Mozambique have a great deal in common.

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Everyone speaks a language.

English is a language.

It's a difficult language.

What is a language?

What is a language?

It's a complicated language.

It's a weird language.

It's a beautiful language.