Communication
Riau Indonesian: The Simplest Language in The World?
Riau Indonesian has very little complexity in terms of grammar and structure. But how did it get this way? […]
Language
Language
Where is The Stage One of a Language?
A language might try to convey very small pieces of information through grammatical bits. Prefixes and suffixes are such bits. However, they did not start as prefixes and suffixes. They were whole words that conveyed the same meaning when Stage One of the language began. […]
Communication
Linguistic Equilibrium Vs. Punctuation: How Do Languages Evolve?
It is believed that languages evolve as speakers of different languages meet, live together, and communicate. This is what happened to many languages around the world. However, there is a theory that debunks this idea completely.
Communication
Similarities and Differences in Indo-European Languages
Sometimes people get confused when they see diverse languages grouped together in one family. A language also evolves and over a period of time it begins to share common characteristics with other languages due to immigration, invasions, bilingualism and multilingualism. […]
Communication
Language Bundles and Their Linguistic Evolution
Language bundles are groups of languages that look so similar that they are not expected to be from different families, while they are. Over the years, the languages in a bundle begin to look very different from their original family. […]
Communication
Intertwined Languages: Media Lengua and Mednyj Aleut
When speakers of two different languages come into contact with each other, the languages can mix and form a new language. these have been coined intertwined language by the linguists. […]
Communication
Language Mixes: Incomplete Acquisition and Code Switching
Multilingual people often use languages they know together in a conversation. But this is not an indicator of incomplete learning rather it indicates proficiency in both languages and has been termed ‘code switching’. […]
Communication
Grammar and Structure in Language Mixes: Sounds and Word Order
When speakers of different languages meet, a mix of language structures is created. […]
Communication
Word Borrowing: The Inevitable Universal Phenomena
Due to their cultural disposition, there is lesser word borrowing in some languages as compared to others. […]
Communication
How the Infiltration of French Words Changed English
French had become the language of England, and this resulted in a great many French words being borrowed in English. […]