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...y linguists even believe the Ancient Tongue to be ancestral to some of the languages spoken in the Empire. This does not, however, represent the extent of its ...ources for scientific names, including [[proper noun]]s and words of other languages.

...languages, or in fact to bear them any relation at all; they are separate languages unconnected to the language of the towns, or even necessarily to each other ...hat the salvage-men's powers extend to actually [[resurrection|raising the dead]]—and a few desperate people have sought their aid to bring back love

...eople]] nearby. The City is made entirely of the [[bone]]s of the honored dead; after their flesh decays, the [[skeleton]]s of those chosen to join the [[ ...in general, the closest settlements to the City tend to give more of their dead over the City of Bones than the farthest, though there are many exceptions.

..."[[incarnation (Thorgh)|incarnation]]", as applied to the treatment of the dead on Thorgh, does not have its otherwise common meaning of [[incarnation|embo ...t even help the living experience some of the thoughts and feelings of the dead.

...ometimes [[metonymy|metonymically]] known as a "[[tongue]]". The study of languages is known as [[linguistics]]; a specialist in linguistics is a [[linguist]]. ...ferent dialects of the same language; if they cannot, they speak different languages. There are some circumstances under which this definition proves problemat

* Communication with speakers of other languages, with the dead, with animals, with plants, or perhaps even with inanimate objects.