There are dialects of German ( such as Luxembourgish ) which are indeed heavily influenced by French, but neither parent language has been killed as a result.
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Cognate nouns in closely related languages are likely to have the same gender, because they tend to inherit the gender of the original word in the parent language.
33.
Creoles often possess grammatical features that do not occur in the parent languages of the pidgin; the children of pidgin speakers are presumably the source of these innovations.
34.
The roots in which the plain consonant was generalized are those traditionally reconstructed as having " plain velars " in the parent language in contrast to " palatovelars ".
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According to another view the Anatolian subgroup left the Indo-European parent language comparatively late, approximately at the same time as Indo-Iranian and later than the Greek or Armenian divisions.
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The process of language change may also involve the splitting up of a language into a family of several daughter languages, leaving the common parent language " dead ".
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Common Brittonic is a form of Proto-Celtic, a hypothetical parent language that, by the first half of the first millennium BC, was already diverging into separate dialects or languages.
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The processes by which place names change include abbreviation, conflation, convergence, development in the parent language ( but stasis in the place name ) and replacement of the parent language.
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In contrast to the parent language, Proto-Celtic does not use labiovelar * did not merge with *, though : plain * became * in Proto-Celtic, while aspirated * became *.
40.
That is, from what I was reading, the common Indo-European parent language didn't simply develop into other languages, it rather leached into them, carrying words and perhaps some grammatical influence.
