Communication
From Old English to Modern English
Modern English has diverged from the Germanic nature of Old English. It was a result of the Viking influence in England. While learning Old English, they introduced some changes to the language. […]
Communication
Communication
Proto-Germanic and Germanic: Consonant Shifts and Vowel Changes
There is something odd about Proto-Germanic in comparison to other languages that come from the same source: Proto-Indo-European. The sounds are different, and sometimes the consonants too. […]
Communication
The Roots of English: Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic
Proto-Indo-European became many subfamilies, one of which was Proto-Germanic which eventually gave rise to English. […]
Around The Web
The Rise of Social Media, a Great Turning Point in History
What started as a college project in 2004 turned into an epoch-making point of history. Facebook heralded the rise of social media to democratize the flow of information and make it available to everyone. […]
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. […]
Communication
Tsez: The Most Complex Language in the World?
Tsez is a complex language that is spoken in a very small region high up in the Caucasus mountains. […]
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
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. […]