“Language is an archaeological vehicle, full of the remnants of dead and living pasts, lost and buried civilizations and technologies. The language we speak us a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.” — Russell Hoban in Novelists in Interview with John Haffenden
relatedly: ‘mixed’ language, something new from something old and borrowed (but not blue)
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/linguistics/article01161-light-warlpiri-language-australia.html