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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  • 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
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