the areal typology, which is sometimes also called geographical, since it is carried
out taking into account the territorial location of speakers of classified languages.
Areal typology of languages refers to their division into certain classes on the
basis of common features that arise in them as a result of long contacts of people
speaking these languages. A distinctive feature of areal typology is that it does
not apply to all the world languages, but only to the languages of individual
regions, while genealogical and structural typologies cover all languages of the
located within a proper geographical area, that is, they occupy adjacent territories,
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while different groups of languages distinguished by genealogical and structural
typologies, can be territorially divided, separated from each other by the
territories where other type languages are spoken.
One of the main notions of areal typology are language unions. The
language unions are a special type of linguistic community, which include various
languages within the boundaries of the same geographical space. These languages
are characterized by common structural features obtained over a long time of
coexistence. For instance, East Asian language union was organized as a result of
centuries-old relationships of Southeast Asian languages of different origin,
including Thai and Vietnamese. These features were adopted from Chinese with
its most expressive features, in particular monosyllables and meaningful tones.
However, Thai and Vietnamese are not genetically related either to Chinese, or
even to each other. Another example of language union is called Uzbek-Tajik
language union.
This Union is characterized by several interlingual exchanges
both in lexical and grammatical terms.
Of particular interest are language contacts in a specific area or state, the
emergence of hybrid languages and many etc. Controversial cases include
problems associated with the determination of the nature of the English language
variants (American, Australian, Asian, etc.), as well as the status of hybrid
languages type – Pidgin English such as Chinglish, Hinglish, Konglish, Singlish
and many others.
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