Languages have undergo different alterations in the course of time via migration of which as a result of the events of migration, several people all relates in several languages. Take for instance, in those times when people were moving into the United States of America, some out if those individuals spoke Portuguese, German, English and several different indigenous languages. During those times, when individuals were migrating, languages at one point or the other got mixed up. This then resulted in varying connotations and interpretations for words that are presently used today. Let's take for instance, in the Portuguese language, there seems to be some sets of words that might be pronounced the same way but in truth they mean something different From each other. The same can also be said of the English language, which possesses rich couple of words that are pronounced in the same way but have a total set of meaning which differs from each other.
Whatever the cause, the <u>movement of people also means the movement of languages</u> from their original geographic locations to new locations and to new language ecologies. Where once users of the language may have been in contact with speakers of a specific set of other languages, in the new context, they are interacting with a very different configuration of speakers and their languages.
As we think about the influx of refugees and safety-seekers in Europe, we can expect to see some significant modifications in the language repertoires of the migrants as Arabic speakers learn German and French and English, as their children may become more proficient in those second languages than they are in their mother-tongue (and certainly more proficient than their parents and grandparents), and as the vocabulary and structure of both the Arabic and the German that the <u>migrants speak is altered by the new kinds and increased level of contact between a variety of different languages.</u>
Migration, however, also challenges us to <u>keep track of the inventory of languages within any given country's borders.</u> Ethnologue organizes its presentation of the languages of the world as entries that describe a "language in country."
The triadic division of the planet since WWII places the emphasis on Germany in Europe. Starting from the second world war, the alignment of forces was restructured in a threefold manner. This triadic division consists of a Germany-focused Europe, a Japan-concentrated east, and an American-based west.
Some 13,000 years ago, small bands of Stone Age hunters walked across a land bridge between eastern Siberia and western Alaska, eventually making their way down an ice-free inland corridor into the heart of North America.
