National Language Quotes

6 quotes by 4 authors

• A national language is a band of national union. — Noah Webster
• As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and… — Edward Sapir
• No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is… — Edward Sapir
• They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely… — George Mikes
• Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes
• Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick

Who Wrote These National Language Quotes

4 authors contributed a total of 6 National Language Quotes as follows:

• 2 National Language Quotes by Edward Sapir
• 2 National Language Quotes by George Mikes
• 1 National Language Quote by Noah Webster
• 1 National Language Quote by Cynthia Ozick