language evolution context hello linguist lurking proper use conversations since good year linguist usually talk lot first teacher french language taiwan must tell much feel listening list really brings lot specially hold nonprescriptive view language contrary think majority teachers certainly embattled french ministre de la culture mr toubon lot people france usually call mr allgood prompted write problem evolution languages far allusion mr toubon opened message seems obvious apart phonological evolution language may evolve morphosystactic level acculturation influence another dominant language historical times close geographically also commercial contacts modern times another story mean close talk taiwan think matter quite complicated mentionned far first chinese case seems complicated specific chinese isolat 4000 years quite interaction cultures except bouddhist indian one gave rise quite specific sublanguage mainly phonetic transcription samskrit words adaptedon purpose chinese characters little generic chinese b feedback ideographs chinese language nt evolve independantly writing since long time c phonologic evolution spoken language directly reflected onto writing system builts upon logic possible laws evolution could different languages using alphabetic syllabic systems notation french certainly influenced english use internet chinese use dayto day life point sometimes realise talking sister france phone find unthinkingly telling j habite dans une petite hsiang derriere l ecole live little hsiang behind school hsiang chinese little alley connected main street apologize reexplain mainly switch languages little chance create pidgin creole many taiwanese minnan speaking people south island mean evolution depend education level people would differential inside society according say social class probably well critical mass effect france turned chinesedominant state idea homogeneity evolution vitiated pretention modern nationstates generate superculture linguistic homogeneisation also aware phenomenons resistance acculturative evolution conscious quebecquois telling un hotdog french un chien chaud toubon opinion marginal impedement natural evolution whatever direction takes another exemple complexity issue would rigidification language facing threat given explanation student kurdish learnt language common old persian ergative construction transitive verbs past tenses presented quite passive construction allow comparisons knowledgeable people explain little infix representing agent appended end verb infix representing subject appended object mindaleke sew ek xuward 0 eke ek e k suffixes expressing definiteness eke childthe appleone ate indefiniteness respectively ek represents child 0 null infix one apple child ate apples would mindaleke sew ek xiwardn n several apples childthe applesthe atethem told time construct used old persian still used variety persian spoken afghanistan archaic construction characteristic periphery indoiranian domain kurdistan southkurmandji soranispeaking part also among baluches represents rigidification language due threat languages languages domain periphery would sometimes evolve slowly disappeared standard modern persian would want know still considered true though think guess well different levels evolution taking place simultaneously contradictory phonology vocabulary syntax anyway see several reasons difficult infer linear evolution languages whatever fascination feel read posts speaking modelisations 10 20 000 years back anything else caseby case basis fact populations densities obviously undergone dramatic change since changing dynamics contacts resume questions ascertain language reaction without resort extralinguistic implicit hypothesis homogeneity classes identity evolution whatever number speakers would lngswitching vs creolisation existence type evolution scripting system etc told linguist neither linguistician philologist hope waste time thus getting community angry ack terrible perspective interested read friendly gerard gautier kurdish would good case point uses three different scripting systems according place latin arabopersian cyrillic northkurmandji latin arabopersian sorani wentzao school gerard gautier foreign languages _ _ _ _ _ _ _ kaohsiung taiwan _ _ _ _ _ gauier cc nsysu edu tw