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The Silk Road and Hybridized Languages in North-Western China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

S.A. Wurm
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The present-day languages and language situation of the Silk Road regions of Central Asia reflect the consequences of the former use of many different languages and the multilingual trading along these routes, as demonstrated by the existence today of a number of hybridized languages whose emergence may in part be attributable to the trading activities on the Silk Road. These languages have, until very recently, received little attention, if any, by linguistic scholars. It has been mainly through the large Language Atlases project mentioned in note 1 below that interest has become focused on them.

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Diogenes , Volume 43 , Issue 171 , September 1995 , pp. 53 - 62
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Copyright © 1995 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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