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2. History of linguistics - Wikipedia

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   Linguistics is the scientific study of language, [1] involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. [2]Language use was first systematically documented in Mesopotamia, with extant lexical lists of the 3rd to the 2nd Millennia BCE, offering glossaries on Sumerian cuneiform usage and meaning, and phonetical vocabularies of foreign languages.

3. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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   Language Language family Region Notes 4th century AD: Hismaic: Afroasiatic: Ḥismā Oasis [299] 4th century CE: Aquitanian: Isolate or Vasconic: Novempopulania and Basque Country: Evolved into Basque. 4th century CE: Galatian: Indo-European: central Anatolia: 4th century CE: Geʽez: Afroasiatic: Ethiopia; Eritrea: still used as a liturgical ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Welsh language and history enters Minecraft world - AOL

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   For the first time, children will be able to use Minecraft entirely in Welsh. Manon Jones, a teacher at Ysgol Pennant, helped with the translation and pupils at the school were the first to trial ...

7. Historical linguistics - Wikipedia

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   Etymology studies the history of words: when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. Words may enter a language in several ways, including being borrowed as loanwords from another language, being derived by combining pre-existing elements in the language, by a hybrid known as phono ...