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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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Does language improve over time, or does it just change?

So evolution is not an automatically proceding process. We live with a much richer language in qualitative terms. … In general language evolution is a process of growth, friction and fitting. …
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How fast is the number of languages spoken today decreasing/increasing?

Separate evolution of a language like American English from British English is hard to judge. …
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