 | Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs - 1998 - 468 Seiten
...originibus gentium There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because...people; that is to say, if you find the languages are a good deal the same; for a word here and there the same will not do. Samuel Johnson, quoted in... | |
 | Peter Kemp - 1997 - 512 Seiten
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 | 1998 - 252 Seiten
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 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...Ch. 18 10:14 There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson, 18 September 1773, in lames Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides W'.1S [of... | |
 | David Crystal - 2002 - 212 Seiten
...years ago? There is no tracing the connection of ancient languages, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Some of his vocabulary is unpalatable nowadays, but his final observation is unassailable. Languages... | |
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 300 Seiten
...speakers is in the unsafe zone. This leaves 600, or 10% of the current total, in the safe category. 'I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations', said the eighteenth-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson,24 Johnson's concern is unusual. More people... | |
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There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that... 
