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| Subject: | Age of a language |
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How is the age of a language, without any written evidence, determined? |
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Pidgins and creoles (and Esperanto, and even Klingon) don't come from totally nowhere either. Pidgins and creoles don't invent their words, for example. So they also have a long history, probably going back to our origins in Africa. These origins look increasingly complex and increasingly distant, by the way. Anthea |
| Reply From: | Anthea Fraser Gupta click here to access email |
| Date: | 27-Oct-2012 |
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