Research Paper on:
Linguistics And Change

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has evolved, readily identifiable by such ever-changing linguistic components as dialect, syntax and the melding of two entirely different languages as with Spanglish. While every region of people across  the globe has its own language, each of them comes equipped with its own rendering of sound and inflection known as dialects. English, for example, is spoken by nearly  four-hundred fifty six million people worldwide, yet the five hundred thousand words that make up the language are all borrowed or adapted from a great many other languages - such  as Native American, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, Scandinavian and Spanish - where sound has been the primary conduit between old and new words.  Even Spanish, a language spoken by about two-hundred eighty million people in Spain and nineteen other Latin American countries, is comprised of various other tongues  that began with one sound and ended up as a similar but different sound. As a derivative of the Vulgar Latin that came by way of ancient Roman colonists  and soldiers in the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish is the result of a combination of sounds based in Latin, French, Italian, Arabic and all of the Americas.  English and Spanish, for example, have a number of dialects within them that have, over time, developed into mini languages of their own. McWhorter (2002) further  notes how their modern day structures have greatly changed from their original form. Each language has grown by many thousands of words, and their various forms of pronunciation and  spelling have been greatly altered since their inception many centuries ago. Changes such as these do not occur over a relatively fast amount of time; rather, they happen slowly,