This chaper mainly addresses two concepts. The first one is that language is always changing as is referred to the last vido we watched. All levels between generations such as vocabulary, phonology, morphology, and so on are changing too. The second concept deals with the language families, which Finegan spends a number of pages to talk about. It begins with Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Afroasiatic, and other language families of Asia and Europe. It's good to learn that Indo-European family includes English, German, Russian, French, and Hindi while Chinese language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family, and the Austronesian family includes Malay while the Afroasiatic family contains Arabic.
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and also the intersting thing is Japanese does not belong to any one of them lol
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Japanese belongs to? I was interested to see that Latin is not a parent language of English; I had always sort of thought it was. But really, it makes more sense that it's a Germanic language after seeing all the language comparisons in the chapter.
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