Languages are like big families, they grow, split up, and sometimes even die. A language can be born when people from different groups start talking to each other and mix their words. Sometimes it dies out if too few people use it anymore, like a small family with no kids.
Examples
- A group of kids from different countries at summer camp start mixing up words and creating their own slang.
- An old man stops speaking his mother tongue because he can’t find anyone else who knows it anymore.
- Two neighboring tribes trade goods and eventually begin to speak the same language.
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See also
- How Did the First Languages Begin?
- How Did the First Languages Come to Be?
- What Makes a Language Differ from Another?
- What Makes a Language ‘Popular’ or ‘Endangered’?
- What Makes a Language Feel Foreign to Us?
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