The Hebrides also have a living ancient language: Gaelic is more widely spoken here than anywhere else in Scotland.
When you first encounter it, there is a whiff of sci-fi make-believe about this tearing down of ancient language barriers.
The phrases have a particular rhythm, based upon traditional poetry and the distinctive intonation of the Ryukyu scale, and are performed in the ancient language of Okinawa.
The codex (Latin for "book") dates to the sixth century, when Christian Palestinian scribes wrote down the words of Christ in Aramaic, the ancient language that is believed to have been close to the dialect spoken by the messiah himself.
This is an Indo-European concoction, derived from avancer, French for "to advance, " and the word sthapna, which means "well grounded" in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language.
Vietnam may have been divided between North and South, but it encompassed an ancient culture with common language and traditions.
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Worshipers of both churches chant in versions of ancient Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, although the dialects would be mutually unintelligible.
As Nassim Taleb points out, there is no word in English (or in any other language, ancient or modern) that conveys this idea.
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You could argue this is new language, begotten by the old but heard beyond the ancient barriers, and Thomas might agree language such as this might actually mean something.
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James Joyce reanimated this ancient term back into the language when he used it in Ulysses.
The canton is the only part of Switzerland that speaks Swiss German, Italian and Romansch, a language close to Latin that originated in ancient Rome.
The BBC's Ray Furlong says that another issue at the conference will be the standardisation of the Roma language, which is related to the ancient Sanskrit tongue of India, from where the gypsies migrated 1, 000 years ago.
Last year, Google removed a YouTube video related to an ancient Hindu epic that had been edited to include foul language, according to a lawyer who has represented the company.
The search giant's philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched the Endangered Language project, a website devoted to preserving those ancient tongues that are now only spoken by a few thousand of us.
He created a new architectural language for the government buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh, grafting a new democracy to the roots of an ancient civilization through archetypal brick forms.
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