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Crash Course Linguistics
Language Change and Historical Linguistics
Season 1
Episode 13
Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages change, what happens when languages come into contact with each other, how linguists piece together the history of a language and more.
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