Re:Switzerland's mysterious fourth language
by baxtr on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:19AM
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The difference is that before languages were newly created too, due to separation. Now, languages just die.
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Re:Switzerland's mysterious fourth language
by jmulho on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:14PM
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Right, for now, but what about the future? The ingredients for diversity of language and culture are isolation and time. If you send some friends to the other side of a river, or a mountain, or a wall, or an ocean, or to a different planet, and then stop communicating much for a long time, languages will be newly created again. The question is not if, but when and why will this kind of isolation happen again.