How different are different languages?
1.2 How
different are different languages? :
The number of world languages is about 6,500; there are actually 7,106 living languages in the world. Although this number might be the latest count, there is no one clear answer as to the exact number of languages that still exist. The question of how many languages there in the world has always been surrounded by uncertainty. However the census of India 1961 identified 1652 languages in India it is believed that 880 languages are still in use.
English is used by many different people in many different settings for many different purposes. Naturally, the result is that English is not a single unified whole but comes in many different packages. Linguists have had to develop a number of different specialized terms to label the different ways we have of using English.
There are regional variations abounding England, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, India, Africa, and Asia. These varieties differ considerably in pronunciation and much less so in vocabulary and grammar. Language is not like dead water it is continuously changing as times changes. It changes time to time, place to place and people to people. Language what is today may not as it was after 40to 50 years. In English literature from Chauser to till today’s poets when we study English language we may find great changes.
How Language does differ: A new born child learns its mother tongue by observing and imitation therefore language transfers from one generation to another while changing we may find difference in 1. Sound 2. Meaning. 3. Grammar.
Reasons for change in language: 1. Geographical factors. 2. Impact of inventions in thinking. 3. in appropriate Learning. 4. Social prestige 5. Pronunciation pattern
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