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... languages . When the social need arises , terms appropriate to industrial civilization can be developed by any language . This can be done either through the direct borrowing of the words of one language by another ( " sputnik ...
... languages . When the social need arises , terms appropriate to industrial civilization can be developed by any language . This can be done either through the direct borrowing of the words of one language by another ( " sputnik ...
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... language . In other words , all human languages are mutu- ally translatable . This statement must be carefully distinguished from the view that would say all languages are translatable with equal ease or facility . The latter is ...
... language . In other words , all human languages are mutu- ally translatable . This statement must be carefully distinguished from the view that would say all languages are translatable with equal ease or facility . The latter is ...
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... language is dis- persed or broken into smaller groups , the accumulation of sound changes results in the appearance of dialects . As the changes con- tinue , languages emerge that differ not only from their ancestral forms but from each ...
... language is dis- persed or broken into smaller groups , the accumulation of sound changes results in the appearance of dialects . As the changes con- tinue , languages emerge that differ not only from their ancestral forms but from each ...
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Population Genetics | 13 |
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Suborder Anthropoidea versus Suborder Prosimii | 27 |
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