The main idea of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. There have been experiments to support this, but the hypothesis has never been proven to the extent that is often implied. […]
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. However, there are challenges in this hypothesis. […]
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. However, the recent studies that have been aimed at the issue, have been extremely unpromising. […]
Modern English has diverged from the Germanic nature of Old English. It was a result of the Viking influence in England. While learning Old English, they introduced some changes to the language. […]
There is something odd about Proto-Germanic in comparison to other languages that come from the same source: Proto-Indo-European. The sounds are different, and sometimes the consonants too. […]
Proto-Indo-European became many subfamilies, one of which was Proto-Germanic which eventually gave rise to English. […]
Mandarin and Swahili are both intermediate languages, in that they have both been modified by interaction with speakers of other languages. […]
Riau Indonesian has very little complexity in terms of grammar and structure. But how did it get this way? […]
A language might try to convey very small pieces of information through grammatical bits. Prefixes and suffixes are such bits. However, they did not start as prefixes and suffixes. They were whole words that conveyed the same meaning when Stage One of the language began. […]
It is believed that languages evolve as speakers of different languages meet, live together, and communicate. This is what happened to many languages around the world. However, there is a theory that debunks this idea completely.
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