This is because this is a monosyllabic language with the differentiation between one word and another being entirely dependent on the tone in which it is said (there are four tones in Pŭtōnghuà, seven in Cantonese).
An alternative possibility is that certain types of physical environment, such as the Eurasian steppes, favour language spread and differentiation, whereas other types, such as the mountainous zones, favour the proliferation of small linguistic communities, regardless of technology.
This source for historical, literary, or anthropological research, and for the study of languages in contact, and the evolution and differentiation of language communities, will then be available to a worldwide community of scholars.
This source for historical, literary, or anthropological research, for the study of languages in contact, and for the evolution and differentiation of language communities, is now available to a worldwide community of scholars.
First, people have been living in Australia for at least 50,000 years, ample time for repeated differentiation of language families; and Aboriginal Australian history has been without the homogenizing population movements analogous to the spread of Chinese farmers, whereby one language family could replace all others.
New language to describe gonadal differentiation.
Principal among several factors (beyond the variation in income levels and language) was the huge differentiation existing among prospective Eurozone participants: in the strength of their underlying economic fundamentals, and in their track records for implementing and executing sound economic policies.
As variation in ethnic identities, cultural practices, oral histories and languages of the peoples of the Cross River are so well described with many tongues believed to have separated hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of years ago this region provides an excellent opportunity to examine possible associations of language and uniparental genetic differentiation on a fine scale.
Classifications that are not based on family trees usually involve ranking languages according to degree of differentiation rather than grouping them; thus, if the Romance languages are compared with Latin, it is seen that by most measures Sardinian and Italian are least differentiated and French most (though in vocabulary Romanian has changed most).
