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The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (Spanish: Atlas Lingüístico de la península ibérica; ALPI) is a project aimed at creating a linguistic atlas of the Iberian Romance languages. It was conceived by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), directed by his student, Tomás Navarro Tomás , and notable in part for its long and troubled ...
Native languages of Oceania fall into three major geographic groups: . The large Austronesian language family, with such languages as Malay (), Tagalog (), and Polynesian languages such as Māori and Hawaiian
The earliest scholar to notice the similarities between Balkan languages belonging to different families was the Slovenian scholar Jernej Kopitar in 1829. [4] August Schleicher (1850) [5] more explicitly developed the concept of areal relationships as opposed to genetic ones, and Franz Miklosich (1861) [6] studied the relationships of Balkan Slavic and Romance more extensively.
Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.. Genetic relatedness implies a common origin or proto-language and comparative linguistics aims to construct language families, to reconstruct proto-languages and specify the changes that have resulted in the documented languages.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...
While traditional linguistic studies had developed comparative methods (comparative linguistics), chiefly to demonstrate family relations between cognate languages, or to illustrate the historical developments of one or more languages, modern contrastive linguistics intends to show in what ways the two respective languages differ, in order to help in the solution of practical problems.
Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. [1] It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages.
From 1884 to 1914, the northern half of the present-day country was a German colony known as German New Guinea, in which German was the official language.Tok Pisin derives some vocabulary from German as a result of this influence.