languages

Example Sentences

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To reflect the 100-plus languages spoken in the Philippines, they selected a Hiligaynon lullaby called “Ili Ili Tulog Anay.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

He added that, stuck in an unfamiliar country, thousands of miles from home, where the main languages are French and Lingala and few people speak English or Spanish, there is just "nothing to do".

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Reid AI speaks 74 languages; the real Reid speaks only one.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

These languages can often serve as great apprenticeship languages, teaching us how to learn a language and about grammatical structures.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

There were men and women, children and elderly, of all colors and ethnicities, whispering in a dozen languages stories of heartache and spite, a perfect ghostly mirror to the living of the city.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland