Some linguists, though, instead classify them as separate languages within a language family, analogous to the French, Spanish and Italian languages within the Romance language family.
Recent research has shown that the language family tree as reconstructed by linguists overlaps remarkably well with the one independently drawn for the corresponding people by molecular biologists.
Language, family ties, and work opportunities are powerful magnets.
His wife is French, his children speak the language and the family has a house in Paris.
The examples are drawn from my own blog and as such might perhaps contain language unsuited to a family readership.
The method starts by making use of well-established linguistic data on words and grammar within these language families, and building "family trees" of those languages.
Nolan's take, which has some strong language that might not be suitable for family reading can be found here.
Beeld, an Afrikaans language newspaper, has reported the Pistorius family owns 55 weapons -- between his father, grandfather and two uncles -- not counting Oscar's six guns.
Since it shares a similar overall design language as the Idol Ultra, the family resemblance is easy to see, but there are plenty of differences on the outside and inside to tell the two apart.
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The monarchies do not pretend to be democracies but openly and honestly espouse hereditary rule, whereas the likes of Libya, Syria, Egypt and Yemen clothed ruling dynasties in the language of democracy while entrenching a ruling family in power.
Nikki Johnson said her parents were channel surfing Sunday -- looking for a cartoon for their granddaughter to watch -- when they saw video of their Shoshana being broadcast by Spanish-language television station Telemundo, before the family had even learned she was missing.
His family spoke Welsh, a noble language but not much use outside Wales.
An Albanian-language television station has transformed itself into a family reunion service.
It is also never going to air content during a family-viewing hour replete with language it deems offensive or what it perceives to be crude stereotypes.
As his command of language and his emotional attachments to friends and family deteriorated, he continued to listen to the band at full volume for many hours a day.
Teddy has the family trait of using fundamentalist and extreme language to advance the causes he believes in.
The courts are filled with cases of family members suing each other over ambiguous language in a will that must have seemed so easy to understand at the time it was written.
That is because the laxness or otherwise of national regimes is only one factor determining where asylum-seekers make their claims: family and cultural ties, work opportunities and language are just as important.
When the family moved to Turkey she had to learn another language from scratch.
"Tribes, " starting previews this week at New York's Barrow Street Theatre, is a lighthearted British drama by playwright Nina Raine about a deaf man who decides to learn sign language in his 20s after growing up in a family that insisted he lip-read and try to speak instead, in hopes of assimilating him into hearing culture.
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Not one correlation persisted across all language families, and only two were found in more than one family.
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Since then, he has played down his language proficiency, bolstered during childhood summers spent at his mother's family estate in Brittany.
Three members of the family subcommittee of the full platform committee attempted to have the language softened in a way that would include an exception in cases of rape, incest and when a woman's life is endangered, and show some sort of party acceptance of their divergent viewpoint late last week.
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After his death, his family said he was always proud of his Welsh roots and spoke his native language at every opportunity.
At the same time, social and intellectual activities such as visiting family and friends, reading, playing intellectually stimulating games or learning a new language did nearly nothing to ward off the symptoms of an aging brain, the study said.
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The family had to pull strings to get their seven children admitted to an Afrikaans-language Catholic boarding school that was officially designated for so-called "coloreds, " South Africans of mixed race.
If I'm Luis Suarez sitting at home with my wife and family, who absolutely love it here -- they love life in Liverpool and learning the language -- it's arguable he will never have a better season than he has had this.
It was Richard's tragedy that after being betrayed by the turncoat Stanley family at Bosworth, he then had to contend with the greatest poet-playwright in the English language spin-doctoring against him on behalf of the incoming regime.
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They will have powers of government: in taxation, land use, family, social and health services, police, courts, schools (which they run already), language and culture.
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