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"The more significant these factors....." translation help

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I'm having trouble translating this, mainly because it's a construction fairly common to English but that I've not yet heard in Spanish. Help?

The more prominent these factors, the more time that passes after the language starts to split, and the greater the influence of other languages, the more significant the differences that develop between the newly-forming dialects.

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updated Sep 5, 2011
edited by Soninmyeyes
posted by Soninmyeyes

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This might help: link

updated Sep 5, 2011
posted by lorenzo9
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El más prominente de estos factores, mientras más tiempo pasa después de que el lenguaje empieza a dividirse, y cuanto mayor es la influencia de otras lenguas, más significativa son las diferencias que se desarrollaron entre los nuevos dialectos que se están formando. I hope to be helpful smile

updated Sep 5, 2011
posted by 00a4c226
Thanks! I think, though, you may have misunderstood the sentence: It's supposed to be an if-then situation where the first three items ("The more prominent..., the more..., and the more...") are the "if" part, and "the more significant..." is the "than". - Soninmyeyes, Sep 5, 2011
Correction: "... is the 'then'." - Soninmyeyes, Sep 5, 2011
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You should probably wait for a native but here's my stab at it.

La más importancia que tienen estos factores, el más tiempo que pasa después de que el lenguaje empieze a dividirse, y cuanto mayor es la influencia de otras lenguas, resulta en la más elocuente de las diferencias que se desarrolló entre los dialectos de reciente formación.

updated Sep 5, 2011
posted by Eddy
Sounds good! Not exactly what's in the link Lorenzo posted, but does anyone know if this way works too? - Soninmyeyes, Sep 5, 2011