Old language with established literature or use; may survive as a precusor to modern language.
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The ancient language of Italy possessed a strong affinity with the modern.
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They swayed in unison, murmuring an unfamiliar spell in the ancient language.
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Who else could bring ancient language to this continent but a demon?
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Gabriel says some words in an ancient language, but I don't hear them.
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In the ancient language, Oromis said, Welcome back to Ellesméra, Eragon-finiarel.
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The offer was refused, however, in the following classical language:
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She used sarcasm couched in such classical language that the targets of her shafts only wished she would wax profane and vulgar.
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War is a survival, like the classical languages, for example.
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Board and lodging, ancient poetry, the classical languages, all the good things at once!
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Attacks on the classics by men ignorant of the classical languages tend to perpetuate the superstition.
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Generally French, German, and English have an advantage over the classical languages in point of accuracy.
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No doubt the classical languages would have been required, to some extent, in matriculating to enter college.
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They used to have a very odd way of teaching the classical languages when I was a boy.
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The education at school was of course chiefly in the classical languages; he acquired a sufficient mastery of Latin.
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That is left to the scholarly folk who eat their meals in the sacred classical languages of the past.
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One was the revival of learning, which made popular again the study of the classics and the classical languages.
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The project of the First Consul instituted thirty-two Lycées, intended for instruction in the classical languages and in the sciences.
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My basic training in the classical languages took place at the University of British Columbia, where I completed my B.A.
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This 'Chronicle' is the oldest and most important work of the kind produced outside of the classical languages in Europe.
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Taste for the classical languages had aroused a lively interest in Hebrew and a desire to know the Scriptures in the original.
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The New Yorker, May 15, 1937 P. 37 Intrigues to make Classical Languages popular with the students.