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have meant in the world's history. There are just five languages that have had an overwhelming significance as carriers of culture. They are classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Greek, and Latin. In comparison with these, even such culturally important languages as
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historians, playwrights, and philosophers. It has contributed many words to the vocabulary of English and many other European languages, and has been a standard subject of study in Western educational institutions since
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The following languages are generally taken to have a "classical" stage. Such a stage is limited in time and is considered "classical" if it comes to be regarded as a literary "golden age" retrospectively. Thus,
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that came in with Hindu Buddhism centuries ago, or that whether we argue for or against the teaching of Latin and Greek our argument is sure to be studded with words that have come to us from
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Crooker, Jill M., and Kathleen A. Rabiteau. 2000. "An interwoven fabric: The AP latin examinations, the SAT II: Latin test, and the national "standards for classical language learning."
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Beach, Adam R. 2001. "The creation of a classical language in the eighteenth century: standardizing English, cultural imperialism, and the future of the literary canon."
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Koutropoulos, Apostolos. 2011. "Modernizing classical language education: communicative language teaching & educational technology integration in classical Greek."
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Ashdowne, Richard. 2009. "Accidence and Acronyms: Deploying electronic assessment in support of classical language teaching in a university context."
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Eschbach-Szabo, Viktoria, and Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh. 2005. "Chinese as a classical language of botanical science: Semiotics of transcription."
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Mokāśī, Digambara Bālakį¹›į¹£į¹‡a; Mokashi, Digambar Balkrishna; Engblom, Philip C.; Mokāśī, Digambara Bālakį¹›į¹£į¹‡a; Mokāśī, Digambara Bālakį¹›į¹£į¹‡a (1987).
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Hymes, Robert. 2006. "Getting the Words Right: Speech, Vernacular Language, and Classical Language in Song Neo-Confucian 'Records of Words'."
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In this sense, a classical language is a language that has a broad influence over an extended period of time, even after it is no longer a
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Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan
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as a whole. A "classical" period usually corresponds to a flowering of literature following an "archaic" period, such as
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to devise new words such as "telephone", etc.), this is an indication that the second language is a classical language.
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forms of Ancient Greek roots are used in many of the scientific names of species and in other scientific terminology.
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Quote (p.ixā€“x) "Tamil, one of the four classical languages of India, is a Dravidian language ... These poems (
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in its original form. If one language uses roots from another language to coin words (in the way that many
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Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana.
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can hardly frame a single literary sentence without the use of Chinese resources, that to this day
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holds to this day: taxonomists assign a Latin or Latinized name as the scientific name of each
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Tieken, Herman. 2010. "Blaming the Brahmins: Texts lost and found in Tamil literary history."
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The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India: On Tamil Literature of South India
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Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil
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and the Northern/Central Indian subcontinent, 13th-18th century, became standardized as
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even for non-Sumerian texts until the writing system went out of use around the
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in the Eastern Roman Empire, remains in use today as a sacred language in some
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International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations
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with an independent literary tradition and a large body of ancient written
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Nair, K. Ramachandran (1997). "Malayalam". In Ayyappapanicker (ed.).
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with many divergent written dialects, but partially standardized in
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Kodikas/Code. Ars Semeiotica: An International Journal of Semiotics
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from the 5th century and literary language until the 18th century)
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it survived to the later 20th century. The modern international
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Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
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When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin.
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during its Golden Age, 10th century, earliest manuscript is
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succeeding Archaic Sumerian, Classical Sanskrit succeeding
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and, as such, only a small subset of the varieties of the
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2. the earliest strata of bardic poetry in the so-called
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Sanskrit: An Introduction to the Classical Language.
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