西班牙的席尔波语是一种口哨语言，只有四个元音和四个辅音。几英里外都能听到它的声音，它就像鸟儿的鸣叫。
Spanish Silbo, a whistle language, has only four vowel and four consonant sounds. Audible for miles, it resembles bird calls.
东非的斯瓦希里语被选为宽扎节的官方语言，因为这是一种非部落语言，大部分非洲人都说这种语言。
The East African language of Kiswahili was chosen as the official language of Kwanzaa because it is a non-tribal language, spoken by a large portion of the African population.
东非的基斯瓦希里语被选为宽扎节的官方语言，因为这是一种非部落语言，大部分非洲人都说这种语言。
The East African language of Kiswahili was chosen as an official language of Kwanzaa because it is a non-tribal language spoken by a large portion of the African population.
象形文字主要是语音符号；它们代表的是声音，而不是图像，其本质上的语言是科普特语。
Hieroglyphs were mainly phonetic; they represented sounds, not pictures, and the underlying language was Coptic.
这个国家的官方语言为西班牙语。
他认识到梵语，即印度的语言，与拉丁语、希腊语、日尔曼语和凯尔特语密切同源。
He recognized that Sanskrit, the language of India, was related very closely to Latin, Greek, and the Germanic and Celtic languages.
许多语言，譬如法语和意大利语，都有相似的词。
There is a similar word in many languages, for example in French and Italian.
“语域”是一个术语，通常用以描述语言中用语的正式程度。
'Register' is the term commonly used to describe different levels of formality in language.
他除了希腊语之外不会说其他任何语言。
世界语是一种人造语言，目的是充当国际上不同语言使用者之间交流的辅助手段。
Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.
我们说的是十进制的语言，这是因为我们的始祖语言——原始印欧语——是基于十进制的。
We speak a decimal language because an ancestral tongue, proto-Indo-European, was decimally based.
东亚的语言往往有带声调的元音，而东北高加索地区的语言以辅音复杂而闻名：尤比克语有78个辅音。
Languages in East Asia tend to have tonal vowels, and those of the north-eastern Caucasus are known for consonantal complexity: Ubykh has 78 consonant sounds.
18世纪研究古代语言（梵语、拉丁语和希腊语）的学者们注意到这三种语言有许多相似之处。
In the 18th century, scholars who have studied the ancient languages, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek, noticed that these three languages had many similarities.
学者们把这种源语言称为原始印欧语。原始印欧语是一种重建的语言。
The scholars referred to that source language as Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language.
尽管他们的语言与印地语有关，但他们的领土起源却很模糊。
Though their language is related to Hindi, their territorial origins are misty.
我们坐在餐桌旁沉默不语，宁愿那样也不愿使用一种难懂的语言交流。
We sat at the dinner table in silence, preferring that to speaking in a difficult language.
世界语跨越了语言边界，它已在全球范围内被至少100万人使用，尤其是在专业领域。
Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 million people, particularly in specialized fields.
它主要用作宗教教学的工具，通常用拉丁语表达，也就是当时在意大利影响相当大的基督教会语言。
It was used primarily as a vehicle for teaching religion and was generally presented in Latin, the language of the Christian Church which had considerable influence in Italy at that time.
出现这个问题的部分原因是部落总是不相信他们的语言濒临灭绝，直到他们成了最后几个说本族语的人。
Part of the issue is that tribal groups themselves don't always believe their languages are endangered until they're down to the last handful of speakers.
原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言，也就是说，这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。
Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.
也许，这些语言是很久以前从同一种源语言发展而来的；也就是说，也许它们在“基因”上是有联系的，这就是梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的情况。
Maybe the languages developed from the same source language long ago, that is, maybe they are genetically related, that was what happened with Sanskrit, Latin and Greek.
与传统的单语课程不同，双语课堂旨在从中学开始培养学生使用两种语言的能力。
Unlike traditional monolingual programs, bilingual classrooms aim at developing students' ability to use two languages by middle school.
虽然荷兰语是官方语言，但阿姆斯特丹的大多数人都说英语，而且很乐意帮你指路。
Although Dutch is the official language, most people in Amsterdam speak English and are happy to help you with directions.
英语、荷兰语和德语是同源语言。
最终，阿拉伯语取代了科普特语，这切断了古埃及和现代埃及之间的语言联系。
Eventually, the Arabic language replaced Coptic and this cut off the linguistic link between ancient and modern Egypt.
纳瓦特语，像希腊语和德语一样，是一种允许形成广泛复合词的语言。
Nahuatl, like Greek and German, is a language that allows the formation of extensive compounds.
知更鸟认为他对他们胡言乱语，因为他们不够聪明，听不懂鸟类的语言。
The robin thought he spoke this gibberish to them because they were not intelligent enough to understand feathered speech.
他用拉丁语问了汤姆一个问题，汤姆用同样的语言结结巴巴地回答了他。
He asked Tom a question in Latin, and Tom answered him lamely in the same tongue.
英语、荷兰语、德语是同语族的语言。
English, Dutch, and German are the languages of the same language family.
我想说意大利语、葡萄牙语、韩语、中文、任何语言！
I would love to speak Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, anything!
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