Language change
modification or development of a language
Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time.
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edit- いつ、どこの言語でも、完成したものはなく、言語は、すべて生々発展の途上にあるものである。 [...] 実は、われわれの弱さ、どうかすると、日常のことに心が慣れて、この見やすき事実を見忘れ、知らず知らず言語の「変化」を否定する誤りに陥ることがある。
- No language has finished the "language change". All languages are constantly experiencing the "language change", which is easy to observe. [...] But as we go about our daily lives, we tend to forget that it's happening. This is due to our innate weakness. Unknowingly, we may fall into the mistake of denying these "language changes."
- Original Japanese text 国語シリーズ8 現代かなづかいの意義 (昭和27年3月, 1952年3月), 緒論 国語史 序説, p.3, English translation is own work.
- On language change of the Japanese language by the w:Government of Japan.
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edit- Changes [of language] are quicker in unsettled communities than in more settled ones.
- W.B. Lockwood 1969: 43: Indo-European Philology. quoted from THE ṚGVEDA AND INDO-EUROPEANS Author(s): Nicholas Kazanas Source: Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. 80, No. 1/4 (1999), pp. 15-42