LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Typology, Language Revitalization, Mutual Intelligibility
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Language typology: the diversity and universality found in languages. Language universals: properties that are universal among all languages. Examples of dead languages: latin (which led to roman languages such as french, spanish, ), sanskrit (evolved to hindi-urdu, bengali, marathi etc. But it can also be considered dead because there are no native speakers of. Speakers use them less and less because other language may appear to offer greater economic or educational opportunities. Usually occurs over the course of 3 generations: parents are monolingual
