The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonization, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between "unsafe" and "extinct".
美国本土语言在欧洲殖民以前就已经存在了，现在美国已经丢失了超过三分之一的本土语言。剩下的192种语言被联合国教科文组织列为介于“不安全”和“灭绝”之间。
This is why the organisation does extensive research, takes on local writers and uses native languages.
这就是为什么该组织要进行大规模研究、吸收当地作者、使用当地语言的原因。
We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished,as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.
我们感激他们，因为在此之后，由于说这些语言的部族或是消亡了，或是被同化而丧失了自己的本族语言，因而这些语言中有一部分已经消失了。
They often speak their native languages and follow many of their old customs at home.
他们常常讲母语，依然连结着他们国度的民俗。
In these packed communities, the people clung to their native languages, institutions and folkways.
在这些拥挤的社区中，人们仍然沿用自己故乡的语言、制度以及社会传统。
Customers are four times likely to do business with companies who communicate in their native languages.
较之非母语交流，使用客户的母语与之谈生意，成交的可能性可以提升四倍。
I don't see any problem in speaking one universal language and learning other native languages by choice.
我不认为使用一种世界共通的语言，同时又学习其它当地的语言，会有任何问题。
A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade.
在商业贸易中，为了交流由说不同母语的人所使用的一种语言，尤指混杂语。
For example, she says schools should teach African children in their native languages, not simply in English or French.
例如，她说，学校应该用本土语言为非洲儿童授课，而不是用英语和法语。
My classmates had different backgrounds, native languages, interests, and goals, but nearly all of them had a love for reading.
我们有着不同的成长背景、不同的母语、不同的兴趣和目标，但是几乎所有人都喜爱阅读。
Another reason for this is that old buildings, like native languages, form a cultural identity and keep a unique record of a country.
另一个原因是：旧建筑，就像母语一样，组成了文化特征，保存了一个国家独有的记录。
Naturally, ESL learners influenced by their native languages will have frequencies and use patterns different from English native speakers.
自然，受到母语影响的二语学习者在英文写作中也必然出现与以英语为母语的人不同的使用频率与模式。
Language: there are more than 742 native languages. Pidgin and English are in common use. English and Motu are the official languages in Parliament.
语言：有742种以上的土语方言。英语和皮金语较为流行。英语和莫土语是议会中使用的官方语言。
The native languages of the two translators are English and Chinese respectively, so they represent foreign-to-native and native-to-foreign translations.
两位译者母语分别为英语和汉语，因此两个译本分别代表了外语向母语和母语向外语的翻译。
Different from the theory of contrastive analysis, the investigators emphasize the errors themselves instead of comparing native languages with aim languages.
与对比分析理论不同的是研究者研究的重心从对比母语和目的语转向了研究错误本身。
We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished， as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.
我们之所以感激他们(两位先驱)是因为在此之后，这些(土著)语言中有些已经不复存在了，这是由于说这些语言的部族或是消亡了，或是被同化而丧失了自己的本族语言。
An increasing number of people take up the study of Japanese every year, bringing with them an increasing diversity of native languages and goals in studying Japanese.
随着学习日语的人数逐年增加，其母语及学习目的也趋于多样化，随之出现了各种形式的日语学习书籍。
Michael Wehrs, Nuance's vice president of industry affairs, says allowing texting in native languages makes it easier for people who don't speak English to conduct business.
Nuance负责行业事务的副总裁迈克尔o韦思(Michael Wehrs)表示，母语文本输入可使那些不会英语的人士更易于开展商务。
Ngugi campaigned in his more recent career not to write in English and also to urge other African writers to write in native languages and not in the language of the colonizer.
恩古吉在职业生涯后期宣扬不用英语写作，并鼓励其他非洲作家，用母语写作，而不是用殖民者的语言。
English is becoming universal. I estimated that there were at least 35 native languages I would have had to have learned if I wanted to speak with locals in their own tongue.
英语正在变得通用：我算过要是我想和当地人说他们的母语的话我得学至少35中语言。
Two anthropologists—linguists, Franz Boas and Edward Sapir, were pioneers in describing many native languages of North and South America during the first half of the twentieth century.
两位人类学家、语言学家佛朗茨•博厄斯和爱德华•萨皮尔在二十世纪上半叶描述了北美和南美许多土著语言，在这方面他们堪称先驱。
Two anthropologists—linguists, Franz Boas and Edward Sapir, were pioneers in describing many native languages of North and South America during the first half of the twentieth century.
两位人类学家、语言学家佛朗茨•博厄斯和爱德华•萨皮尔在二十世纪上半叶描述了北美和南美许多土著语言，在这方面他们堪称先驱。
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