A modern Friulian speaker can understand these texts with only a little difficulty.
Because of this, modern speakers can understand the Icelanders' sagas.
There are two main dialects of Cherokee spoken by modern speakers.
So, you're, you're trying to find something which is in the language of the modern speaker.
There are a few words which may be unfamiliar to modern English speakers.
President Obama is one of the great modern Presidential speakers, but he has not been successful at saying memorable things.
Others argue that gender-neutral translations simply update the ancient text for modern English speakers.
The first would be considered quite archaic; out of context, most modern speakers would understand it as "I take it and eat".
For later languages there is information from medieval writers and modern native speakers, together with place names.
Descartes used "conscientia" the way modern speakers would use "conscience."