"Every time Russians speak, their ancestors speak, too," he said.

These mainly enroll students who are dominant in English but whose parents, grandparents, or other ancestors spoke the partner language.

Share the same ancestors, so to speak.

Somewhere way back her ancestors had spoken Spanish.

Her female ancestors within, a veritable horde, spoke with her, from the past to the present and the future.

My ancestor was speaking with a cold authority, and I shared his knowledge, his excitement, his fear.

The ancestor spoke with Macha and the two together were unassailable; no-one living could withstand them.

Some would have said that his ancestors had just spoken.

But this piece can also be considered an act of speech to show how his ancestors speak through him.

Through the performance of rites, the ancestors speak, the gods dance, and the world is again made right.