“He is a linguist and fluently speaks in Urdu, Persian, Tamil, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi and Assamese, besides English and Khasi languages.”

“Peter Farb, a linguist and anthropologist, carried out a fascinating study about baby talk.”

“But as any linguist would tell you, a word never has a single determinant meaning.”

“We alternated speaking in French, the language of all educated Mauritians, and English, the lingua franca of the computer literate.”

“Although English is generally touted as the lingua franca in Fiji, all sociolinguistic research to date has shown this to be an exaggeration.”

“So, it's true, franglais elevated to the world's lingua franca would be really convenient for us.”

“Rebirthing was felt to programme people to expect trauma and breath-though because of the linguistics used.”

“He delves deeply into the linguistics literature on anaphorically used pronouns, especially the Discourse Representation Theory.”

“If I studied linguistics my French professor would be sure to have a stroke.”

“Well, linguistician that I am, my first thoughts set me to playing about with semantics and, as is my wont on these occasions, to casting my thoughts back to the bard.”

“Most reference books, bibliographies, and databases contain, under the heading 'Hyphen', either nothing or items of interest mainly to linguisticians and software designers.”

“While some British and Anglophile linguists denigrated American English as provincial and corrupt, Webster inverted the argument.”

“Nonetheless, linguists ain't just whistling Dixie when they say there are no linguistic limits to the number of coordinates.”

“Origin of Kashmiri language has been a topic of debate among linguists and scholars for a long period of time.”

“As Sigmund Freud reminds us, the lapsus linguae is, like the dream, a royal road to the unconscious.”

“Chinese has long had considerable dialectal variation, hence prestige dialects have always existed, and linguae francae have always been needed.”

“It was also recommended that there was need for the promotion of African languages as well as their adoption to be linguae francae for African people.”