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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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Is there a trend toward more homophones over time? What can counteract that trend?
Well, there are more homophones in Mandarin than in its ancestor Middle Chinese, but this is compensated for by increased use of compounding. Still, other Sinitic languages like Cantonese did not los …
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