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The diachronic study of language and its evolution.
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Are there any other examples of words being borrowed via their written forms only (or writte...
Chinese dialects, Korean, and Japanese all use Chinese characters in their writing systems, at least in some capacity. Chinese trivially so, Japanese through Kanji, and Korean through Hanja. As to be …
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Why do we call some countries a different name than the people of that country?
Historical Reasons
The most of these differences in English seem to be due to historical reasons.
"China" seems to refer to either the Qin province or the Qin Dynasty which comes to English via Pers …
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Are there documented languages that evolved from tonal to nontonal?
Korean was a tonal langauge until the 16th Century. In fact, even today the Gyeongsang dialect still uses tones.
From my ancedotal experience, remanents of tone are still visible in the "standard" Se …
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What are the job opportunities in linguistics?
This board is supposed to be for actual linguistics-based questions with possible fact-based answers and I don't mean to encourage these types of opinion-based questions here in the future but I do fe …
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