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Language Change and Historical Linguistics

Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will teach you all about language, from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and computers, to writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!

Language Change and Historical Linguistics

Season 1 Episode 13 | 12m 23s | CC

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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