Reyes, Andrian G.

February 10, 2020

BSCE I – 1 Purposive Communication

Two different worlds collide

The language is constantly changing, because we're learning more about the world's

languages every day. Beyond that, the languages are continuously growing year by year.

They’re living and dynamic, spoken by communities whose lives are shaped by our rapidly

changing world. This is a fragile time; roughly 40% of languages are now endangered, often

with less than 1,000 speakers remaining. Meanwhile, just 23 languages account for more than

half the world’s population. Overall, 7,111 languages are used today.

Before it grows, there are only some languages that are considered as original

language. According to Guyana chronicle, the language called Sanskrit is considering as the

mother of all languages. Hinduism and Judaism primarily they used it to their holy script as their

primary language. Until now, the title is still debatable in different areas. Now, this language

believes that it bears fruit. Its fruit they called sub-language and from the present time, it grows

until reach the accumulated number.

So, the question is how does the language grow to old few ones into many? According

to Linguistic Society of America, the language grows because it is a flux. This change called

language contact and according to Thought Co., Language contact is the social and linguistic

phenomenon by which speakers of different languages (or different dialects of the same

language) interact with one another, leading to a transfer of linguistic features. Because of

language contact, the adaptation of culture of others affects the idea of a person. As the person

engage more on any culture of others, the more its language change. This changing brings up

many languages and the culture as well.

 Most dialects have been affected at once or another by contact, bringing about shifting

degrees of move of highlights from one to the next. English, for example, has acquired a lot of

jargon from French, Latin, Greek, and numerous different dialects over the span of its history.

Move of this sort doesn't require speakers of the various dialects to have genuine contact since

it very well may be practiced through book learning by instructors who at that point give the new

jargon to different speakers by means of writing, strict writings, word references, etc. Yet,

numerous other contact circumstances have prompted language move of different kinds,

regularly so broad that new contact dialects are made.

Reference:

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http://guyanachronicle.com/2014/05/05/sanskrit-the-mother-of-all-languages

Winford, Donald. (2003). Languages in Contact. Retrieved from

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