英语词汇“root language”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

root language n. Linguistics (a) a language regarded as the source of another or others, a mother language; (b) a language composed only of roots or radicals (now rare).

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1808 Monthly Anthol. Feb. 82 T[homas] H[ollis] has been particularly industrious in collecting Grammars and Lexicons of the Oriental Root languages, to send to Harvard college.

1859 New Englander Feb. 123 It [sc. Chinese] is a language of monosyllables, a root-language, as we may call it, an undeveloped form of human speech.

1900 Science 1 June 842/1 Form New Zealand..to Madagascar..we find a root language covered by the same grammatical system.

1954 J. H. Greenberg in R. F. Spenser Method & Perspective Anthropol. 196 Of his [sc. Schlegel's] first class, called by later writers isolating or root languages, he says, ‘One might say that all their words are roots, but sterile roots which produce neither plants nor trees’.

2008 K. James Myst. in Clay 32 One thing we must ask..is whether it is really possible for whole language families to evolve from root languages in 4000 years.

单词	root language
释义	> as lemmas root language root language n. Linguistics (a) a language regarded as the source of another or others, a mother language; (b) a language composed only of roots or radicals (now rare). ΚΠ 1808 Monthly Anthol. Feb. 82 T[homas] H[ollis] has been particularly industrious in collecting Grammars and Lexicons of the Oriental Root languages, to send to Harvard college. 1859 New Englander Feb. 123 It [sc. Chinese] is a language of monosyllables, a root-language, as we may call it, an undeveloped form of human speech. 1900 Science 1 June 842/1 Form New Zealand..to Madagascar..we find a root language covered by the same grammatical system. 1954 J. H. Greenberg in R. F. Spenser Method & Perspective Anthropol. 196 Of his [sc. Schlegel's] first class, called by later writers isolating or root languages, he says, ‘One might say that all their words are roots, but sterile roots which produce neither plants nor trees’. 2008 K. James Myst. in Clay 32 One thing we must ask..is whether it is really possible for whole language families to evolve from root languages in 4000 years. extracted from rootn.¹ < as lemmas
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