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2. Planet Word - Wikipedia

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   Planet Word is a language arts museum that opened in Washington, DC, in October 2020. [1] The museum is described as "The museum where language comes to life" and features interactive exhibits dedicated to topics such as the history of the English Language, how children learn words, languages around the world, humor, poetry, and how music and advertising use words. [1]

3. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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   The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...

4. Origin of language - Wikipedia

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   The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...

5. List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe - Wikipedia

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   Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Date of revival Region Ethnic group Cornish: Indo-European: 1700s AD [123] 1900s Cornwall: Cornish people: Livonian: Uralic: 2 June 2013 [124] 2020 Livonian Coast: Livonians: Ludza: Uralic: 2006 [125] or 2014 2020 Latgale: Ludza Estonians: Manx: Indo-European: 27 December 1974 [126] 1970s Isle of Man ...

6. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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   A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the ...

7. Historical linguistics - Wikipedia

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   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.