Family Quote by Sören Eberhardt

“Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.”

— Lauren Kate

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the…

— Joseph H. Greenberg

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

— Samuel Johnson

“The world speaks many languages,”

— Paulo Coelho

“Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language that became the sacred tongue of Hindu ritual, and the Greek and Latin languages, as well as similarities between…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”

— Lucille Clifton

“English is the most dominant language in the world philosophically, culturally, and Jarod Kintzically.”

— Jarod Kintz

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences,…

— Courtney Milan

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

— Ishaan Khatter

“In the history of humanity, there have been many languages, including French, that have served as universal languages: Latin, Chinese, Arabic, and more. Yet…

— Minae Mizumura

“He spoke 29 languages, including Greek, Arabic, Persian, Icelandic, Turkish, Swahili, Hindi, and a host of other European, Asian, and African tongues.”

— Michael Rank