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A scenario where British Latin survived and developed further into a modern language. Wenedyk (Venedic) 2002 Jan van Steenbergen: Polish as a Romance language. A language with Polish phonetics and orthography but with Romance instead of Slavic vocabulary.
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The Conlang Flag, a symbol of language construction created by subscribers to the CONLANG mailing list, which represents the Tower of Babel against a rising sun. A constructed language (shortened to conlang) [a] is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised ...
The approximate locations of the sixteen Guthrie Bantu zones, including the addition of a zone J Following is a list of Bantu languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström , and following the Guthrie classification .
In linguistics, the word Bantu, for the language families and its speakers, is an artificial term based on the reconstructed Proto-Bantu term for "people" or "humans". It was first introduced into modern academia (as Bâ-ntu) by Wilhelm Bleek in 1857 or 1858 and popularised in his Comparative Grammar of 1862. [7]
The Urewe culture may correspond to the Eastern subfamily of Bantu languages, spoken by the descendants of the first wave of Bantu peoples to settle East Africa. At first sight, Urewe seems to be a fully developed civilization recognizable through its distinctive, stylish earthenware and highly technical and sophisticated iron working techniques.
Northwest Bantu is more divergent internally than Central Bantu, and perhaps less conservative due to contact with non-Bantu Niger–Congo languages; Central Bantu is likely the innovative line cladistically. Northwest Bantu is not a coherent family, but even for Central Bantu the evidence is lexical, with little evidence that it is a ...
Most claimed Proto-Bantu is either confined to particular subgroups, or is widely attested outside Bantu proper." [6] According to this hypothesis, Bantu is actually a polyphyletic group that combines a number of smaller language families which ultimately belong to the (much larger) Southern Bantoid language family.