A few examples of countries generally considered to have been affected by colonialism during their histories includeAmerica,Australia,New Zealand,Algeria, andBrazil—countries that came to be controlled by a large number of settlers from European powers. Typical examples of imperialism, cases in which ...
Colonialismis defined as to the process wherein one country takes control and rules over another country or another region. This may include the arrival of settlers from the colonizing country, but not necessary. For example, the eastern seaboard of North America was colonized by England, central...
sheds some light on how dialect leveling works. Researchers there describe a three-stage process: the original settler generations kept their home dialects, the next generation chose somewhat randomly from all the linguistic options available, and the third generation leveled out the diversity in favor...