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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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Are there any "simple" languages?

Rotokas has a small phonetic inventory, but otherwise, like most languages of small isolated communities, the language is mind bendingly complex with respect to morphology and syntax. Piraha may have …
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