
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. […]
Mandarin and Swahili are both intermediate languages, in that they have both been modified by interaction with speakers of other languages. […]
Dialects everywhere have gone through many challenges but emerged as an ongoing process that a standard today may become redundant tomorrow. […]
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? […]
There is a connection between language and different dialects but what are the usual notions that dialects are a different species? […]
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. […]
There were some languages, wanting to move on, and others were somewhat conservative. Why does it all trace back to Proto-Indo-European? […]
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? […]
Indo-European language, one of many language families in the world, believed to have sprung from something ancestral. Does that source still exist? […]
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. […]
Over the years, the language has evolved. This evolution has also brought about a change in the meaning of words, or semantics. […]
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