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Language change - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Andaman, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak, Arawakan, Armenian, Aryan, Assamese |
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Language change is the manner in which the phonetic, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and other features of a language are modified over time, it is the topic addressed by historical linguistics who look at the past states of a language and seek to explain how the present state came about. Language reconstruction looks at language in the present and seeks to reconstruct the past.
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Example Usage of Language |
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tristanprooth: Nice service. Cute baby in the row in front of me--his uncle wasn't too bad either. It was weird though. It felt in the wrong Language. |
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OsciiDee: Try this for size http://bit.ly/5o1hue - it's wick, cool, dude and super (not very good at whole modern Language malarky) |
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TwitchyMonkey: Love makes you want to write epic poetry, paint/sketch/draw immortal landscapes, redefine our Language as we know it. |
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