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Modification or development of a language
Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, over time. It is studied in several subfields
Language_change
Evolution of a word's meaning
Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution
Semantic_change
Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker
linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer
Language_death
Structured system of communication
effects on language structure. One source of language change is contact and the resulting diffusion of linguistic traits between languages. Language contact
Language
Sound change converting an alveolar consonant to a rhotic consonant
common may be of /z/ to /r/. When a dialect or member of a language family resists the change and keeps a /z/ sound, this is sometimes known as zetacism
Rhotacism
1980 book by Roger Lass
On Explaining Language Change is a 1980 book by Roger Lass in which the author examines various aspects of language change. The book was reviewed by Suzanne
On_Explaining_Language_Change
Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure
delimiters. In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech
Sound_change
Group of languages related through a common ancestor
the proto-language undergoing different language changes and thus becoming distinct languages over time. One well-known example of a language family is
Language_family
Human-caused changes to climate on Earth
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system
Climate_change
1981 linguistics book
Language Change: Progress or Decay? is a book on the topic of language change by Jean Aitchison in which the author concludes that language change is neither
Language Change: Progress or Decay?
Language_Change:_Progress_or_Decay?
Contact language from mutually intelligible dialects of the same language
not change any existing dialect, which distinguishes koineization from the normal evolution of dialects. While similar to zonal auxiliary languages, koiné
Koiné_language
Study of language change over time
of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical
Historical_linguistics
Common ancestor of a language family
proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language
Proto-language
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2
Languages_of_Africa
Type of linguistic change
Language convergence is a type of linguistic change in which languages come to resemble one another structurally as a result of prolonged language contact
Language_convergence
Linguistic concept
In language change, analogical change occurs when one linguistic sign is changed in either form or meaning to reflect another item in the language system
Analogical_change
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
often called a "dead language", Latin did not undergo language death. Between the 6th and 9th centuries, natural language change in the vernacular Latin
Latin
Phenomenon in phonology
linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language. In other words, a language develops a new system
Phonological_change
Language family
and minority languages can bring about contact induced language variation and change. This appears to be the case for the Karenic languages, as evidenced
Karenic_languages
West Germanic language
Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is
Dutch_language
Stable natural languages that have developed from a pidgin
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing
Creole_language
Ngbandi-based creole of the Central African Republic
language spoken in Central Africa, especially the Central African Republic, southern Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo. The primary language of
Sango_language
Language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with other languages
A language isolate, sometimes called an isolated language, is a language that has no demonstrable genealogical relationship with any other language. That
Language_isolate
West Germanic language
Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The language is named
English_language
Language that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers
language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. A heritage language, or sometimes a dormant language, is an extinct language that
Extinct_language
West Germanic language spoken in South Africa
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and also Argentina, where a group
Afrikaans
Language family indigenous to the South Caucasus
kartveluri enebi), also known as South Caucasian or Kartvelic languages, are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in
Kartvelian_languages
population change and language shift. In some areas, there are no reliable census data, the data are not current, or the census may not record languages spoken
List of languages by total number of speakers
List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
Language family of Northern Eurasia
The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən), are spoken predominantly in Europe
Uralic_languages
Branch of the Romance languages
Gallo-Romance languages are quite innovative, with French and some of the Gallo-Italian languages rivalling each other for the most extreme phonological changes compared
Gallo-Romance_languages
Indo-Aryan language
𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲, Marāṭhī, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] ) is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by the Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra
Marathi_language
Level of respect towards a language variety in a speech community
new language, known as a creole, language contact can result in changes, such as language convergence, language shift or language death. Language convergence
Prestige_(sociolinguistics)
Intentional programs to alter language
Language reform is a kind of language planning by widespread change to a language. The typical methods of language reform are simplification and linguistic
Language_reform
Scientific study of language
of language, historical research today still remains a significant field of linguistic inquiry. Subfields of the discipline include language change and
Linguistics
Change of a community's language over time
Language shift, also known as language transfer, language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a
Language_shift
Specific form of a language or language cluster
specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, registers, styles, or other forms of language, as well as a standard
Variety_(linguistics)
Indigenous language family of western Canada and the US
The Salishan languages (/ˈseɪlɪʃən/ SAY-lish-ən), also known as the Salish languages (/ˈseɪlɪʃ/ SAY-lish), are a family of languages spoken in the Pacific
Salishan_languages
Overview of the history of the French language
history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that affected
History_of_French
Changing between languages during a conversation
can occur when there is a change in the environment in which one is speaking, or in the context of speaking a different language or switching the verbiage
Code-switching
English-based creole spoken in Sierra Leone
Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is the lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation
Krio_language
Language of the ancient Aquitani people
The Aquitanian language, also Vasco-Aquitanian or Eusko-Aquitanian, was the language of the ancient Vasco-Aquitanian peoples, namely the Aquitani and
Aquitanian_language
How science fiction has used the science of language as a subject
historic change." True to this, Paul Kocher noticed that the evolution of the languages of Middle-Earth was similar to that of the Indo-European languages. As
Linguistics in science fiction
Linguistics_in_science_fiction
European languages prior to the Bronze Age
The Paleo-European languages (or Old European languages) are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Neolithic (c. 7000 – c. 1700 BC) and Bronze
Paleo-European_languages
Linguistics term for language forms that change little over time
feature of a language or dialect is one that has changed relatively little across the language's history, or which is relatively resistant to change. It is
Conservative and innovative language
Conservative_and_innovative_language
Deliberate effort to influence languages or their varieties within a speech community
common use a language which has few or no surviving native speakers Language reform – deliberate change in specific aspects of language or extralinguistic
Language_planning
Body of practices intended to cause a desired change in language
Baldauf (1997), "A language policy is a body of ideas, laws, regulations, rules and practices intended to achieve the planned language change in the societies
Language_policy
Type of machine learning model
A large language model (LLM) is an AI model (typically a neural network) trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially
Large_language_model
population change and language shift. In some areas, there is no reliable census data, the data is not current, or the census may not record languages spoken
List of languages by number of native speakers
List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
Community restriction of languages or dialects to specific settings
dy-GLAW-see-ə) is where two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community. In addition to the community's
Diglossia
Chinese varieties spoken at and south of the Yangtze delta
which coincided with a period of rapid language change in the city. The languages of Northern Wu constitute a language family and are mutually intelligible
Wu_Chinese
Use of computational tools for the study of linguistics
interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic
Computational_linguistics
2005–2009 series of films by Dylan Avery
the reported information. Throughout the film minor changes in talking points, images and language were made. The end of the film shows a clip from The
Loose_Change
Romance subfamily of Southeast Europe
Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages. The group comprises the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), the Aromanian language and two other
Eastern_Romance_languages
Nubian language spoken in northern Sudan
Bechhaus-Gerst, Marianne. The (Hi)story of Nobiin — 1000 Years of Language Change. Peter Lang, 2011, p. 22. Massenbach, Gertrud von. Nubische Texte im
Dongolawi_language
Proposed language family including Basque and Aquitanian
The Vasconic languages (from Latin vasco 'Basque'), also called Euskarian or Basque-Aquitanian, are a putative language family that includes Basque and
Vasconic_languages
Topics referred to by the same term
(epigraphy). see list of languages by first written accounts. the conservative nature of a given language (low rate of language change, viz. "old" in the sense
Oldest_language
Tupi language of northwestern Brazil
study language change, as it has documentation that spans several centuries. The name of the language derives from the words nhẽẽga (meaning "language" or
Nheengatu
Branch of the Indo-European language family
Indo-European (IE) languages, of which Albanian language varieties are the only surviving representatives. In current classifications of the IE language family,
Albanoid_languages
Complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis
understanding how the language functioned at a given stage in its history. A diachronic approach, by contrast, studies language change by comparing different
Diachrony_and_synchrony
Austronesian language spoken by Butuanon people in northeastern Mindanao
Language and Its Speakers in Northern Mindanao: Findings on Ethnic Identity, Language Attitudes, Language Ability, Language Use, and Language Change (Ph
Butuanon_language
Concept in linguistics
field of linguistics, syntactic change is change in the syntactic structure of a natural language. If one regards a language as vocabulary within a particular
Syntactic_change
Language family native to Eurasia
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the north of the Indian subcontinent, most of the European continent, and the Iranian plateau
Indo-European_languages
East Slavic language
Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is
Russian_language
Hypothesis about the spread of language families
The farming/language dispersal hypothesis proposes that many of the largest language families in the world dispersed along with the expansion of agriculture
Farming/language dispersal hypothesis
Farming/language_dispersal_hypothesis
Endangered language of Solomon Islands
contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton; Darrell Tryon (eds.). Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian
Tanimbili_language
Nubian language spoken in Egypt
Bechhaus-Gerst, Marianne. The (Hi)story of Nobiin — 1000 Years of Language Change. Peter Lang, 2011, p. 22. Abdel-Hafiz, Ahmed Sokarno (1988). A Reference
Kenzi_language
Process of language formation
borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or dialect. In typical
Borrowing_(linguistics)
Altered phrase that is still plausible
to linguists as they not only show language changing in real time, but can also shed light on how and why the change occurs. The term egg corn (later contracted
Eggcorn
Special language used in Papua New Guinea
involved with trips to harvest karuka nuts, and changes as words become known outside an area. The language is often spoken to control the claimed magical
Pandanus_language
sociolinguistics whereby language change is studied by comparing the speech of individuals of different ages. If language change is taking place, the apparent-time
Apparent-time_hypothesis
11th–19th c. language of the Mediterranean basin
The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean basin from the
Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
Taboo involving restrictions on language
language, offensive word, language taboo or linguistic taboo is a kind of taboo that involves restricting the use of words or other parts of language
Word_taboo
Collection of English words and their meanings, published by HarperCollins
same question in past decades, to give a clearer sense of how the language changes over time. Houghton Mifflin dissolved the usage panel on February 1
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
The_American_Heritage_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language
Pun that utilizes words or phrases from multiple languages
pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be
Bilingual_pun
Type of language change
Two types of language change can be characterized as linguistic drift: a unidirectional short-term and cyclic long-term drift. According to Sapir, drift
Drift_(linguistics)
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia
Demeke, Grima A., & Meyer, Ronny. "Contact-induced language change in selected Ethiopian Semitic Languages." Demissie, Ambaw (1990), The phonology of Zay:
Zay_language
French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius
is a French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius. English words are included in the standardized version of the language. In addition, the enslaved
Mauritian_Creole
Capacity for a sign to have multiple related meanings
applying pre-existing words to new situations is a natural process of language change, looking at words' etymology is helpful in determining polysemy but
Polysemy
Processes of understanding how earlier languages were spoken
original pronunciation. Language change – Modification or development of a language Sound change – Process of language change that affects pronunciation
Linguistic_reconstruction
Classical and liturgical language of central Sahel
also known as Old Kanembu or Classical Kanembu, is a classical and sacred language created and used by Muslim scholars in the Kanem–Bornu Empire, located
Tarjumo_language
Hagen language of Papua New Guinea
'Pandanus Languages' of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea - a further report" (PDF). In Dutton, Tom (ed.). Culture change, language change - case
Kaugel_language
Reconstructed predecessor of Basque
protovasco; French: proto-basque) is a reconstructed ancient stage of the Basque language. It preceded another reconstructed stage, Common Basque, which is derived
Proto-Basque_language
General-purpose programming language
C is a general-purpose programming language created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie. By design, C gives programmers relatively direct access to the features
C_(programming_language)
Hypothesis on language affiliation
linguistics such as language change, language acquisition and sociolinguistics. The Father Tongue hypothesis also has implications for language acquisition,
Father_tongue_hypothesis
Study of how society shapes language and language use
expectations, and contexts, including how that variation plays a role in language change. Sociolinguistics combines the older field of dialectology with the
Sociolinguistics
Words inherited by different languages
descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Because language change can have radical effects on both the sound and the meaning
Cognate
Type of website edited collaboratively
engines usually allow content to be written using a lightweight markup language and sometimes edited with the help of a rich-text editor. There are dozens
Wiki
Prescriptive rules of grammar and usage
resistant to language change; if radical, it may produce neologisms. Such prescriptions may be motivated by consistency (making a language simpler or more
Linguistic_prescription
Dialect of English
statehood, the English language received official sanction as the language of promulgation and preservation of laws. Despite this change, many Cajuns at the
Cajun_English
Endangered language of Solomon Islands
"Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton; Darrell Tryon (eds.). Language Contact
Asumbuo_language
Language whose grammar rarely uses word inflection
contrasted with a synthetic language such as Latin, in which the same difference in meaning can be expressed by changing the individual words while keeping
Analytic_language
Language change by vocabulary replacement or absorption
mechanism of language change by which one language changes much or all of its lexicon, including basic vocabulary, to the lexicon of another language, without
Relexification
Semitic-speaking ethnic group in Ethiopia
Demeke; Ronny Meyer (14 June 2011). "Contact-induced language change in selected Ethiopian Semitic Languages" (PDF). Centre français des études éthiopiennes
Gurage_people
Isolate language spoken in Australia
Tiwi /ˈtiːwi/ is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Tiwi people on the Tiwi Islands, within sight of the coast of northern Australia. It is
Tiwi_language
Language spoken in a historical period, distinct from its modern form
language change. Language code, for a general discussion of language codes, together with information on specific implementations. List of languages by
Historical_language
There are a number of languages spoken in Brunei. The official language of the state of Brunei is Standard Malay, the same Malaccan dialect that is the
Languages_of_Brunei
Romance language
française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, French and its closest relatives—the langues
French_language
Study of the geographic distribution of languages
change. That move has paralleled similar concerns in geography and language studies. Some studies have paid attention to the social use of language and
Language_geography
Northwest Semitic language
Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the
Hebrew_language
Bantu language spoken in Africa
Égide De Boeck. This name change was accepted in western and northwestern Congo, and in other countries where the language was spoken, but not in northeastern
Lingala
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CHANGE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Langdale, Cumbria, named in Old Norse as ‘long valley’, from lang ‘long’ + dalr ‘valley’.Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Langdal, Langdalen, Langdahl, habitational names from any of numerous farmsteads named Langdal(en), having the same etymology as 1.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Sweet Language
Boy/Male
Tamil
Prangel | பà¯à®°à®¾à®‚ஜல
Language
Prangel | பà¯à®°à®¾à®‚ஜல
Boy/Male
Muslim
Language of religion (Islam)
Boy/Male
Tamil
Girvan | கிரà¯à®µà®¾à®¨
Language of God
Girvan | கிரà¯à®µà®¾à®¨
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Tongue; Language
Boy/Male
Hindu
Language
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Language
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Child Language
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Sweet Language
Boy/Male
Hindu
Language of God
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Language
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Beautiful Language
Boy/Male
Hindu
Language of God
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Language of Bihar
Boy/Male
Tamil
Girven | கீரà¯à®µà¯‡à®¨Â
Language of God
Girven | கீரà¯à®µà¯‡à®¨Â
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Language of God
Girl/Female
Tamil
Language
Girl/Female
Tamil
Tamilarasi | தாமீலாரஸீÂ
Queen of Tamil language
Tamilarasi | தாமீலாரஸீÂ
Girl/Female
British, Hindu, Indian, Norwegian, Sanskrit, Tamil
Language of Vedas
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CHANGE
Boy/Male
Tamil
New light
Girl/Female
Tamil
Vapurda | வாபà¯à®°à®¤à®¾
Granter of beautiful appearance
Boy/Male
Hindu
The enriched one, Prosperous
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Full of Energy
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Suffolk called Cavenham (of which this is a reduced form), from the genitive case of an unattested Old English byname CÄfna (from cÄf ‘bold’, ‘active’) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Vidaysagar | விதாயà¯à®¸à®¾à®•à®°
Learning ocean
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Joyful
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Beachley in Gloucestershire, recorded in the 12th century as Beteslega ‘woodland clearing of a man called Betti’.Americanized form of German Buechler or Büchle or of the Swiss form Büchli (see Buechel).
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Good Hearted
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hebrew
Variant of Salome or Solomon; Peace; Tranquility; Peace or Tranquillity
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CHANGE
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Language
n.
Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
n.
The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
n.
The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
n.
The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
a.
Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition.
imp. & p. p.
of Language
n.
The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.
n.
A race, as distinguished by its speech.
n.
The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.
n.
The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
n.
The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
n.
The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
n.
The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
a.
Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
v. t.
To communicate by language; to express in language.
n.
The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.
n.
The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.
n.
A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.