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This would also make a great Christmas gift for the language nerds and creative writers in your life!

You could definitely use this as a textbook for a conlanging class designed to introduce students to linguistic typology, but otherwise it seems like it would make a great handbook for anybody interested in conlanging.

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Linguist Britton Watkins developed the framework for both the spoken and written Yautja language.

Read more about the language of “Predator: Badlands” here:

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P.S. @MerriamWebster.com this is me begging you to start using the International Phonetic Alphabet for your pronunciations tho 😭

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This makes Scots one of the most closely-related languages to English (although it is nonetheless a distinct, non–mutually intelligible language). Scots is also distinct from **Scottish English**, which simply refers to the dialects of English spoken in Scotland.

**Scots**, on the other hand, is a West Germanic language that descends from Early Middle English. The Northumbrian dialect of English started to branch off from other dialects as early as the 7th century, and became more distinct around the 12th century. 3/

The Celtic languages are actually distantly related to English: they form one branch of the Indo-European family tree, whereas English sits in another branch called Germanic. Celtic separated from the other Indo-European languages perhaps as early as 1300 BCE. 2/

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It includes powers for ministers to commission research into the use of Gaelic and Scots and establish teaching standards for the languages.”

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