Timeline for Language Creation and Development as a Result of Unification
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 29, 2017 at 21:00 | vote | accept | Drew Christensen | ||
| May 29, 2017 at 2:34 | answer | added | RLoopy | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 28, 2017 at 18:54 | answer | added | Ville Niemi | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 28, 2017 at 16:39 | answer | added | Cyan_Cap | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 28, 2017 at 9:44 | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 28, 2017 at 0:29 | comment | added | MolbOrg | Not necessary it can go both ways. I have spoken with people, who immigrated as grown adults to another country and they haven't spoken their native language for 10-15-20 years. Some of them barely can speak(it depends). Bilanguage people who practice native language but speak mostly the language of the country they are in, have difficulties to speak the native language and begin to mix words. To keep the skills it requires constant practice, and if there are no reasons to do so - skills degrade. Try to find emigrants from your country as an example on YT and see how good do they speak now. | |
| May 28, 2017 at 0:06 | comment | added | Drew Christensen | You are stating that it is harder to speak your native language than a language that you have learned along the way, if I'm reading this correctly. I honestly have no idea where that is coming from. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 23:03 | comment | added | MolbOrg | Writing a good answer to the question, even at WB level of things is quite a work, which I have no wish to do in the case because I find the question and premise of it flawed on different levels. However, I'm interested in the languages in general, and I had some observations which I wish to share in the short form of a comment. "It doesn't take much to speak a language that you already know, especially when you're a native speaker." - how many languages do you know? I know 4. One of which I knew(at some point in the past) and used almost as good as my native language. There are some problems. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 17:26 | answer | added | AlexP | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 27, 2017 at 16:32 | comment | added | Drew Christensen | @MolbOrg If you have an answer, post it as an answer rather than a comment, please, as comments can not be voted as the answer. Note: in question 2, there already exist groups greater than 1000 that share an original language. It doesn't take much to speak a language that you already know, especially when you're a native speaker. As to question 3, the initial population was stated as 10,000. This is nowhere near to 300,000,000. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 16:15 | comment | added | MolbOrg | 1. not really - select native languages they are better and a lot of non obivious work was put in their creation 2. without significant events not reason for that - people are lazy and language change is a hard work. 3. depends on size of the group, more than 300 millions - yes they will begin to split. billion - yes they will be significantly different. Take look in google "dialects of US", "china dialects". | |
| May 27, 2017 at 16:01 | history | asked | Drew Christensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |