Communication
Mandarin and Swahili: The Intermediate Languages
Mandarin and Swahili are both intermediate languages, in that they have both been modified by interaction with speakers of other languages. […]
Foreign Languages
Communication
Origins of Standard English and Ups and Downs of Dialects
Dialects everywhere have gone through many challenges but emerged as an ongoing process that a standard today may become redundant tomorrow. […]
Communication
Developing English Language and Different Dialects of the World
Dialects have developed with time but those now considered medium sized were used well in their times. Are there many dialects within a country which are different from each other? […]
Communication
Language Versus Dialect: Understanding the Relationship
There is a connection between language and different dialects but what are the usual notions that dialects are a different species? […]
Communication
The Process of Word Order Change
There are many elements in a language that have evolved over centuries. One of them is the word order. There is a debate as to which word order was used first, but we now have many languages with different word orders. […]
Communication
Proto-Indo-European and Borrowed Words of Languages
There were some languages, wanting to move on, and others were somewhat conservative. Why does it all trace back to Proto-Indo-European? […]
Communication
Changes in Grimm’s Law and the Slow Death of Celtic Languages
Indo-European languages were common yet deviated to each other at the same time. What were the changes that took place in Grimm’s Law? […]
Communication
Indo-European Languages and Their Nonexistent Common Source
Indo-European language, one of many language families in the world, believed to have sprung from something ancestral. Does that source still exist? […]
Communication
Semantic Changes: The Proto-Indo-European Language Family
The Proto-Indo-European language is the largest language family in the world. It has played a seminal role in the birth of the languages that we use today. […]
Communication
The Processes of Semantic Changes in Language
Over the years, the language has evolved. This evolution has also brought about a change in the meaning of words, or semantics. […]