Words similar to languages

Example sentences for: languages

How can you use “languages” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Its origins are obscure, but we know that it is distantly related to Finnish and belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages.
Languages with the same word for green and blue have no plural nouns or adjectives.
The daft charm of Edgar Rice Burroughs' protagonist--a little boy raised by gorillas whose animal and human languages are constantly vying for supremacy--doesn't have the same piquancy when the gorillas talk like characters from Leave It to Beaver . If we're all the same under the skin (or fur), then what's the point of the story?
Despite their many similarities, Koreans and Japanese have long been mutually hostile and have pointed to the vast differences between their languages as proof that they lack a shared ancestry.
The use of genuine foreign languages is called xenoglossia . Familiar examples are the ancient languages, Latin, Coptic, Hebrew, and Greek, used in modern liturgies.