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1. Japanese and Ryūkūan. These two Japanese languages are relatively closely related to four or five Ryūkyūan languages, which are spoken in the Ryūkyūan Archipelago, which consists of a chain of islands much smaller than the main Japanese islands, stretching roughly from Southern Kyūshū to Taiwan.
Between 1900 and 1945 the Japanese sprachraum briefly underwent a rapid expansion as the Empire of Japan took control of Korea and Taiwan, instituting Japanese as the official language in its colonies. Much more briefly, during World War II, Japanese had a short-lived official status in the Philippines, China and occupied Pacific islands.
Sep 1, 2017 · Language was built piece by piece, but not like Esperanto, which was the work of a person with linguistic models and a linguistically wired brain. Language was built by a population with a prelinguistic brain and on the basis of prelinguistic mapping principles.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
This article presents the principles of linguistic geography and palaeodemography, which indicate that language originated gradually over a diverse population of pre-languages and pre-language families. Many linguists discussing the origin of language assume there was a single origin of language and therefore a single ancestral language, a ...
Since language is universal among modern populations, this model mandates the development of the full language faculty as occurring some time prior to the Out‐of‐Africa dispersal, i.e. prior to 55 kya.
Nov 17, 2011 · The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution presents critical accounts of every aspect of the field. The book’s five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a ...
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Slowly at first, possibly beginning with simple sounds made by our ancestors Homo heidelbergenis, and then increasingly rapidly until there were thousands of languages spoken around the planet. But this has been fiercely debated and much is still not understood.
