"tongue" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The rest were swarthy, unwashed seamen who swore in Slavic tongues and spent a lot of time glaring sullenly at the passengers, who either ignored them or lectured them on the evils of eating beef.
- With the gradual decline of the use of these local Slavic tongues, the term Wends slowly disappeared, too.
- As the Sorbs see it, their Slavic tongue and the history and geography of the region make the community of 68,000 Sorbs a natural bridge between Germany and a revived Eastern Europe.
- Eventually those who had defeated the Germans arrived and spoke in the coarse Slavic tongue, familiar from school days, which he had learned to fear even more than German.
- He added something in a rasping, Slavic tongue, and the two men with him came in and shut the door, taking up positions on either side of it.
- Albanian is not a Slavic tongue nor does it have recognizable links to any other European language.
- The institute was set up as a research center for the study of contemporary Jewish culture and Yiddish, the everyday language of European Jewry that borrowed heavily from the Germanic and Slavic tongues.
- However, in isolated rural areas where Wends formed a substantial part of the population, they continued to use Slavic tongues and kept elements of local Wendish culture despite a strong German influx.
- Lachley was not Hungarian by birth, but he knew the Slavic tongues and more importantly, their legends and myths, had studied them almost since boyhood.
- There were words in it; they didn't sound like her own strange Slavic tongue, rolling and rounded rather than sibilant, more like a sonorous Italian or Latin.
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