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undergrad
 Linguistics Courses (LING)
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LING

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200

Languages of the World

This course aims to acquaint students with basic knowledge of the world's natural languages. We will look at the diversity and fundamental similarities among the languages of the world and in doing so explore the following topics: language families and historic relationships, linguistic typology and language universals, language policy and politics, writing systems, and language obsolescence.
 

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3 cr.

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