Timeline for Has it been argued that linguistics could only have arisen after exposure to foreign languages?
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | Jeff | @curiousdannii: I am not sure that all cultures had contact with other cultures. There are examples today of this. And the Russian name for Germans, which translates as "The Deaf" implies to me that rather than thinking Germans spoke a different language the Russians may have thought the Germans did not have a language. Perhaps the term "barbarian" implies a similar idea of the language of other cultures. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 14:27 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 9:59 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | Perhaps not, but I'm not aware of any cultures that have ever been unaware that other languages existed... | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 9:57 | answer | added | Bram Vanroy | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 6:42 | history | asked | Jeff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |