A diachronic study of the urdu language change in nawaewaqt editorials
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2019
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UMT Lahore
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Living languages undergo a natural inclination towards a process of change over time. Urdu language is also experiencing the continuous practice of language change. The present research is a diachronic study of the Urdu language change in Nawaewaqt editorials. It is a corpus-based research covering the period of 63 years with the aim of studying the lexical changes within the Urdu language. For this research a new corpus is developed that is the Corpus of Urdu Newspapers Editorials CUNE (1952-2015) which includes 65 editorials and sare-rahe. Sare-rahe always appears on the same editorial page of the Nawaewaqt newspaper. The study identifies a set of 30 words in the corpus and analyzed them with the purpose of finding the kinds of lexical changes in the Urdu language that occurred in this specific period. The methodological approach for the current study incorporates into lexical replacements and etymological origin of the words .