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Development of languages, language families, etc, through time with influences by other languages or pre-existing ones.
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What do you call a visual language based on color frequency?
I guess visuo-chromatic (or perhaps visuo-pigmental) would be the proper term. You can mostly hear about audio-oral languages or forms of communication, occasionally also about visuo-gestural ones (si …
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Why does the name for Germany vary so much between languages?
The primary reason is because there were many Germanic tribes with which the other nations came into contact with directly. This may actually be because of the position in Central Europe - i.e. the co …
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Why did English evolve to have so little inflection?
Typically there is only so much in the way grammar systems tend to simplify on their own and this usually does not lead into complete loss of entire categories on such a grand scale (typically there a …
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Why there are no grammatical cases in the French language?
It has to do mostly with sound change. French underwent two principal sound changes that effectively prevented it from keeping the case system from Latin.
1) Elision of any post-accentual vowels: Fre …
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