<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Ian,<div><br></div><div>Finnish is not a good example of a written language "remaining conservative". Modern Standard Finnish as it was codified in the late 19th century is a strongly planned language, involving numerous combinations of different features and compromises between originally highly divergent Western and Eastern dialects and, therefore, lots of unintended or implicit archaisms. It looks conservative on paper, but this is a product of conservative or archaizing language planning and the conscious shifting of the language’s dialectal basis.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Johanna<br><div>
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<div>By spoken language I guess you mean opposed to written/formal language and not as opposed to sign language?</div>
<div>If so, then it would be easy to find cases where the written form of a lect has remained conservative whereas the spoken form has changed considerably, e.g. Finnish, Burmese, Arabic, Tamil, and many others.</div>
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I have always assumed that language change typically occurs in spoken language, but can't recall references to this claim, which a colleague asked for. Can I get some help?</div>
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