parent language in a sentence
Examples
- There are dialects of German ( such as Luxembourgish ) which are indeed heavily influenced by French, but neither parent language has been killed as a result.
- Cognate nouns in closely related languages are likely to have the same gender, because they tend to inherit the gender of the original word in the parent language.
- Creoles often possess grammatical features that do not occur in the parent languages of the pidgin; the children of pidgin speakers are presumably the source of these innovations.
- The roots in which the plain consonant was generalized are those traditionally reconstructed as having " plain velars " in the parent language in contrast to " palatovelars ".
- According to another view the Anatolian subgroup left the Indo-European parent language comparatively late, approximately at the same time as Indo-Iranian and later than the Greek or Armenian divisions.
- The process of language change may also involve the splitting up of a language into a family of several daughter languages, leaving the common parent language " dead ".
- Common Brittonic is a form of Proto-Celtic, a hypothetical parent language that, by the first half of the first millennium BC, was already diverging into separate dialects or languages.
- The processes by which place names change include abbreviation, conflation, convergence, development in the parent language ( but stasis in the place name ) and replacement of the parent language.
- In contrast to the parent language, Proto-Celtic does not use labiovelar * did not merge with *, though : plain * became * in Proto-Celtic, while aspirated * became *.
- That is, from what I was reading, the common Indo-European parent language didn't simply develop into other languages, it rather leached into them, carrying words and perhaps some grammatical influence.