2017年7月22日 · If two groups of speakers from the original language were isolated for these lengths of time, the resulting dialects would probably be considered new languages. So the lower limit is probably 500 years and a reasonable limit would be 1000 years for a language to have diverged enough to be mutually incomprehensible.

The government has chosen to use a constructed language as a part of the process of building national identity. They don't want to use a foreign language. They also don't want to use local dialects because they are quite similar with the languages of the neighboring countries. The time setting is decolonization after 1945.

2021年10月4日 · This ranges from trivially easy if the foreign language is closely related to a language that the learner already knows (e.g., a Romanian learning Italian from watching La piovra on Bulgarian TV), to relatively easy if the languages are closely related but not very (e.g., the same Romanian watching Escrava Isaura and Avenida Paulista on the ...

People who speak that language could get seriously insulted. You need to learn a language to modify it. Otherwise, you run the risk of breaking rules in the unmodified language, which can then ruin the modified language's authenticity. Building Your Own. Some Perks: It …

2017年4月18日 · $\begingroup$ @AlexP Proto-Indo-European like any human language was a complex and highly structured inflected human language of people with an increasingly complex economy whose large social scale made it possible for it to expand and conquer half the world. Also, the nature of the process of generating proto-languages in linguistics naturally ...

2018年7月12日 · So there is both a retention of native language with use of a foreign script. Would Aztecs not be able to see that perhaps for doing trade and interstate communication, that perhaps their own writing script is not efficient, aztecs would understand be able to understand with instruction that water=水、sun=日、fire=火, etc.

2019年12月18日 · $\begingroup$ "Some local terminology will surely arise, but for the rest it won't feel like a foreign language." just a note on this - the Greek/Byzantines would definitely create new words for concepts they discovered in the continent. They didn't like using foreign words when they could use or create a Greek one or at least make the existing ...

2015年11月14日 · English is a language that has grown organically, and it enthusiastically incorporates words from other languages that it encounters. This is likely due to the way the language came into existence as a hybrid of Germanic, Latin, Norse, and French influences in the first place. Probably less English → French borrowing, though.

How would the answer differ, if like the earliest literate cultures of Sumeria, Minoan palace society, ancient Egypt, and the earliest literate days of Chinese society, there was a written language, but it was only taught to future scribes starting at about high school age, and only 1%-5% of the population ever learned to read and write, and 90 ...

after the normans conquered england, the conqueror's "old french" mixed with the commoner's "old english" to form a new simpler language we today call "english". that said, it took a few generations for the languages to mix, so in 1073 you would be just about as lost as 1065, but by 1300's things would start sounding familiar (e.g. the ...