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. […]
Professor John McWhorter
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. […]
History
Overdevelopment of Languages: Grammaticalization and Possession
Languages overdevelop. They eventually build branches and grammatical rules that are not necessary for conveying meanings and act more like decorative things in a building. An important part of the overdevelopment of languages is grammaticalization. […]
History
What Do the Evidential Markers in a Language Show?
When a language is created, it starts developing in different directions. However, sometimes the features are not necessary. Evidential markers are those decorative development in a language. […]
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’. […]