Evolutionary linguistics

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Evolutionary linguistics is the branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the evolution of language, i.e. the processes that led to the evolution of the human faculty of language. It is a multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others.