Enlarge / But nobody can explain Welsh. (credit: flickr user: Groundhopping Merseburg) A funny thing happens to languages that have huge numbers of speakers: over time, they seem to simplify. They lose all the fiddly bits that make languages like Hungarian so incredibly hard to learn, and instead become more regular and grammatically simple. But at the same time that the grammatical challenge of these languages shrinks, their vocabulary explodes.
Linguistic Bots Explain Why Big Groups Produce Simple Grammar
Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 11:20am
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