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 \nBy the time we finish high school,wehave a vocabulary of about 20000words.  \nEnglish speakers are big on yod-dropping—taking out the little“y”sound in words.So \"news\"becomes\"noos,\"and \"student\"becomes\"stoodent.\"Why drop the “y\"?We’relazy and take shortcuts.  \nWords disappear because they are nolonger used,and new words appear.For example,the new word “freegan”means a person who eats food that'sbeen discarded.  \nLike animals,languages can becomeextinct.There is only one remainingspeaker of the Amurdag language ofAustralia.When he dies,so will thelanguage.  \nChitchat gives an overview of the world oflanguages and the languages of the world inone kid-friendly,eye-popping package.  \nнелсомннорентозTEQUEENS LBRARY.SALEOF THIS TEMJPPOPTFD -4FIIPRA  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2018 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/chitchatcelebrat0000isab  \n# Celebrating theUorld's Languages\n\nORITTEN BYJUDE ISABELLAILLUSTRATED By KATHY BOAKE  \nKids Can Press  \nDo m'Aint Pat,ag gluaiseacht chun cinn i gcónaí,ag treabhadh an ghoirt do chách—J.I.  \nTo my family with love:my husband Bruno,which means brown;my son Beau,meaning handsome;and my daughter Belle,beautiful—K.B.  \nAcknowledgments  \nA big thank you to the academics,friends and friends of friends who lent their native tongues,expertise and enthusiasm to thisproject.Any errors are myown.Special thanks to Henry Davis(Dept.ofLinguistics,University of British Columbia)for takingthe time to read over the manuscript.And thanks to:Hashem Ahmadzadeh (College of Social Sciences and International Studies,University of Exeter),Veronika Ambros (Slavic Dept.,University of Toronto),Douglas Bigham(Dept.of Linguistics &Asian/Middle Eastern Languages,San Diego State University),Laurel Bowman(Greek and Roman Studies,University ofVictoria),EwaCzaykowska-Higgins(Dept.ofLinguistics,University of Victoria),Máirín Nic Dhiarmada (Celtic Studies,University of Toronto),John Dyson(Emeritus,Dept.of Linguistics,indiana University),Virginia Evans(English instructor,University of British Columbia),Jila Ghomeshi(Dept.of Linguistics,University of Manitoba),K.David Harrison(Dept.of Linguistics,Swarthmore College),John Hewson(Dept.of Linguistics,Memorial University),lain Higgins(Dept.of English,University of Victoria),Hua Lin(Dept.of Linguistics,University of Victoria),Dianne Newbury(Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics,University of Oxford),April Nowell(Dept.of Anthropology,University of Victoria),Tom Palaima(Director,Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory,University of Texas,Austin),Drew Rendall (Dept.of Psychology,University of Lethbridge),John Ross(Cherokee Nation TranslationDepartment),Nigel Strudwick(Dept.of Art History,University of Memphis),Doug Trick (School of Graduate Studies,Linguistics,Trinity Western University),Hiroto Uchihara(Dept.of Linguistics,University of Buffalo),Sakoieta'Widrick (Indigenous Studies,Brock University)and Erin Wilkinson(Dept.of Linguistics,University of Manitoba).Also thanks to bilingual and multilingual people(musicians,accountants,Writers,lawyers,biologists,farmers)who are many times over human beings:Arthur Arnold (Dutch),EvaBild(French),David Butvill(Spanish),Rhitu Chatterjee(Bengali),Rhona Ní Chearbhaill (Gaelic),Molly Chythlook(Yup’ik),RossCrockford(Czech),Martin Gelzinis (Lithuanian),Mina lsota (Japanese),Laima lvule and friends (Latvian/Lithuanian),Yeongha Jung(Korean),Nomi Kaston(Hebrew),Karen LaViolette-Nibe (Japanese),Margaret Mason (Legalese/French),Julia Naimska(Polish),Tomás Óh-Ide","cbCaisL2Mz9rzKZa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisL2Mz9rzKZa","pdf",4626668,52,"English","# Introduction\n## Kids Can Learn About Languages\n## Why Languages Change","[{\"question\":\"What topics does CHITCHAT cover about languages?\",\"answer\":\"CHITCHAT looks at spoken, written, and signed languages, including where alphabets and writing symbols came from and how languages are changing.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do languages change over time?\",\"answer\":\"Words can disappear when they’re no longer used, and new words appear. 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