Natural languages: emergence and extinction

• Autor: Chacón Sihuay, Jorge
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1998
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/26415
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/lenguaysociedad/article/view/26415
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: extinción de lenguas; discriminación lingüística; extinction of languages; linguistic discrimination; extinção de línguas; discriminação linguística

When we speak of language emergence or language birth, we are not referring to the change of appearance and name of a language as a consequence of its uninterrupted, slow and gradual transformation, but rather to the emergence of a linguistic system -simple AND restricted- when it comes into contact for the first time with human groups speaking different languages. In the first case it is, in reality, a pseudo-birth of language, since we are not in front of a new linguistic system, but in front of the same language that has only changed its formal aspect and name.