Natural languages: emergence and extinction

Authors

  • Jorge Chacón Sihuay Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v1i1.26415

Keywords:

extinction of languages, linguistic discrimination

Abstract

When we speak of language emergence or language birth, we are not referring to the change of appearance and name of a language as a consequence of its uninterrupted, slow and gradual transformation, but rather to the emergence of a linguistic system -simple AND restricted- when it comes into contact for the first time with human groups speaking different languages. In the first case it is, in reality, a pseudo-birth of language, since we are not in front of a new linguistic system, but in front of the same language that has only changed its formal aspect and name.

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Published

1998-10-23

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Academic articles

How to Cite

Chacón Sihuay, J. (1998). Natural languages: emergence and extinction. Lengua Y Sociedad, 1(1), 23-27. https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v1i1.26415