classical language

collocation in English

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classical
adjective
uk
/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/
traditional in style or form, or based on methods developed over a long period of time, and considered to be of ...
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language
noun
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/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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(Definition ofclassicalandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This label is the name for the rule, and it is also a term in theclassicallanguage.
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The modern language is a "revived"classicallanguagewhich now per forms all the functions of a community vernacular.
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It has been designed intially to help children learn theclassicallanguageand for teachers to mark translations.
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This neural machinery extends along a left-sided network, comprising all theclassicallanguageareas.
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One of the great things about theclassicallanguageis that one has to mean something to be able to say something.
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In the moreclassicallanguage, this is the same as saying that projective space is a complete variety.
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Both combinations would be condemned, though, by prescriptive school grammars based on theclassicallanguage.
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The script was also used less formally to record local varieties, which had over time diverged from theclassicallanguageand each other.
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This patient eventually developed superior language and intellectual abilities despite the removal of the left hemisphere, which contains theclassicallanguagezones.
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The work effectively juxtaposesclassicallanguageof literati with the vulgar idiom of daily life.
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Another modern use ofclassicallanguagehowever, is the subject of often acrimonious debate.
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Oriya is the onlyclassicallanguagefrom this language family and it is least influenced by any foreign language.
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This phenomenon is not easily expressed in theclassicallanguageof algebraic geometry.
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Some believed the curriculum should be toughened up, but there was little improvement after the implementation of measures to emphasizeclassicallanguageand math in secondary schools.
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All the remaining arterial languages have also been heavily influenced by one or more of these same classical languages.
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Classical languages might serve the purpose just fine.
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The class of functional languages will be more widely used if we bring the development facilities of classical languages to users.
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They required education in the classical languages, a mark of distinction.
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Usually, students take a literature course in their own language, another modern orclassicallanguage, a science and a mathematics course, a humanities and an arts course.
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Anyclassicallanguagecan be studied philologically, and indeed describing a language as classical is to imply the existence of a philological tradition associated with it.
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