Crash Course Linguistics

Language Change and Historical Linguistics

Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages change, what happens when languages come into contact with each other, how linguists piece together the history of a language and more.

Language Change and Historical Linguistics

12m 23s

Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages change, what happens when languages come into contact with each other, how linguists piece together the history of a language and more.

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