Language change
Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time.
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- We know that two neighbouring languages can evolve at different rates: Danish. for instance, developed much more rapidly than German, or even Swedish.
- J. Duchesne-Guillemin, quoted in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
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- いつ、どこの言語でも、完成したものはなく、言語は、すべて生々発展の途上にあるものである。 [...] 実は、われわれの弱さ、どうかすると、日常のことに心が慣れて、この見やすき事実を見忘れ、知らず知らず言語の「変化」を否定する誤りに陥ることがある。
- No language has finished the "language change". All languages are constantly experiencing the "language change", which is easy to observe. [...] But as we go about our daily lives, we tend to forget that it's happening. This is due to our innate weakness. Unknowingly, we may fall into the mistake of denying these "language changes."
- Original Japanese text 国語シリーズ8 現代かなづかいの意義 (昭和27年3月, 1952年3月), 緒論 国語史 序説, p.3, English translation is own work.
- On language change of the Japanese language by the w:Government of Japan.
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- Changes [of language] are quicker in unsettled communities than in more settled ones.
- W.B. Lockwood 1969: 43: Indo-European Philology. quoted from THE ṚGVEDA AND INDO-EUROPEANS Author(s): Nicholas Kazanas Source: Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. 80, No. 1/4 (1999), pp. 15-42
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- Languages change at different speeds, and English has certainly changed more quickly than, say, Lithuanian or Icelandic.
- Simeon Potter. quoted in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
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- As regards the kinship of the languages, it is quite impossible to state definite chronological limits within which languages change. Some languages change very rapidly , others remain more or less unaltered for a long period. It is true that hieratic languages, like those of the Vedic hymns and the Avesta, can remain unaltered much longer than spoken languages.
- Moriz Winternitz, quoted in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.