dead language

Examples of dead language in the following topics:

• Introduction to Human Language

  • Human language is recursive.
  • Human language has displacement.
  • Speaking is the auditory form of language, but writing and sign language are visual forms.
  • A language family is a group of languages descended from a common language.
  • For example, Latin, which was spoken in the Roman Empire, is now considered a dead language, or a language that has no native speakers.

• The Book of the Dead

  • The Coffin Texts used a newer version of the language, included illustrations for the first time, and were available to wealthy private individuals.
  • The New Kingdom saw the Book of the Dead develop and spread further.
  • There was no single Book of the Dead, and works tended to vary widely.
  • During the New Kingdom, the Book of the Dead was typically written in cursive hieroglyphs.
  • Describe what the Book of the Dead was and explain its use in Ancient Egypt

• Teotihuacan

  • Other scholars maintain that the largest population group must have been of Otomi ethnicity, because the Otomi language is known to have been spoken in the area around Teotihuacan both before and after the classic period and not during the middle period.
  • The city's broad central avenue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name Miccoatli), is flanked by impressive ceremonial architecture, including the immense Pyramid of the Sun (third largest in the World after the Great Pyramid of Cholula and the Great Pyramid of Giza) and the Pyramid of the Moon.
  • Along the Avenue of the Dead are many smaller talud-tablero platforms.
  • Further down the Avenue of the Dead is the area known as the Citadel, containing the ruined Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
  • Further archeological evidence reveals that only the buildings associated with the elites along the Avenue of the Dead were sacked and burned.

• The Haymarket Affair

  • August Spies , editor of the German-language Arbeiter-Zeitung ("Workers' Times"), spoke to a crowd estimated variously between 600 and 3,000 while standing in an open wagon adjacent to the square on Des Plaines Street.
  • Parsons , the Alabama-born editor of the radical English-language weekly The Alarm .
  • Twelve Policemen Dead or Dying", reported that Fielden spoke for 20 minutes, alleging that his words grew "wilder and more violent as he proceeded. ".
  • The exact number of dead and wounded among the demonstrators is unknown.

• Dead Space: V/Q Mismatch

  • There are two types of V/Q mismatch that produce dead space.
  • Dead space is characterized by regions of broken down or blocked lung tissue.
  • Dead space is created when no ventilation and/or perfusion takes place.
  • Anatomical dead space, or anatomical shunt, arises from an anatomical failure, while physiological dead space, or physiological shunt, arises from a functional impairment of the lung or arteries.
  • Compare and contrast anatomical and physiological dead space and their role in V/Q mismatch

• Correctness

  • Third, it's hard and time-consuming to write absolutely correctly; as Thoreau noted, "A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare. " Finally, even the pundits' views of many features of the English language continue to change with time.
  • The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. ~ E.E.
  • Some language experts keep track of the kinds of writing errors which make them cringe.
  • " Some languages employ identical singular and plural verb structures; Japanese and Korean are examples.
  • A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. ~ Max Weinrich, quoted by Steven Pinker

• Symbols and Nature

  • A single language is any specific example of such a system.
  • Written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system.
  • Written language exists only as a complement to a specific spoken language.
  • A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveying sound patterns, uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning.
  • Sign languages, like spoken languages, organize elementary units into meaningful semantic units.

• The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

  • The Harifian culture migrated out of the Fayyum and the Eastern deserts of Egypt to merge with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; this created the Circum-Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex, who invented nomadic pastoralism and may have spread Proto-Semitic language throughout Mesopotamia.
  • Weaving occurred for the first time in this period, and people buried their dead close to or within their settlements.
  • The dead were buried in cemeteries.

• The Spanish Conquest

  • Because of the language barrier, the Inca rulers probably did not understand much of these demands and the meeting quickly escalated to the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532.
  • This clash left thousands of native people dead.
  • This battle began in 1532, leaving thousands of native people dead and ending with the capture of Atahualpa.

• Prayers

  • When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creed, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.
  • According to this ceremonial tradition, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to native peoples throughout the region.