Words similar to tongues

Example sentences for: tongues

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

But even if we had a universal language, it would soon begin to break up into minority tongues.
Language, like water, tends to seek the path of least resistance—not, I think, because tongues are naturally indolent, but because their owners are instinctively efficient.
Since Slurvian thus exists in both a Germanic language (English) and a Romance language (French), must it not therefore follow that Slurvian has its origin in the common ancestor of both tongues, that is in the Indo-stage?
Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.
But some very clever comparative linguists, beginning in Germany in the 19th century, theorized about how the nature of the ancestors of the more modern tongues.