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The U.S. language influenced only two other countries.
Instead the lingua franca is Tetum, an Austronesian language influenced by Portuguese.
The Mennonites in Belize speak Plautdietsch, an archaic Low Saxon (Germanic) language influenced by the Dutch.
Those who opposed the government's position, by contrast, appeared to be much younger, with their language influenced by computers and western visual culture.
All of which means that while trends and tics bubble along the surface of language, influenced by prominent people, or more likely, the prestige and power of certain social groups, changes in its deeper structures are governed by other factors.
Papiamentu, a Creole language influenced over the centuries by African slaves, Sephardic merchants and Dutch colonists, is now spoken by only about 250,000 people on the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba.
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Put simply, Whorf believed that language influences thought.
He argued for the "weak" version -- that language influences thought.
A written language influences its spoken version just as much as the other way around.
Her work explores how people can make less biased choices by dedicating balanced focus to all options, and how marketing language influences brand perceptions.
According to a weak interpretation of this hypothesis, language influences thought in such a way that translation and shared understanding are difficult but not impossible.
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