allthingslinguistic:theparisreview:“It’s not like Klingon or anything. It is reasonable to believe i
allthingslinguistic:theparisreview:“It’s not like Klingon or anything. It is reasonable to believe it once existed. But nobody ever wrote it down so we don’t know exactly what ‘it’ really was. Instead, what we know is that there are hundreds of languages that share similarities in syntax and vocabulary, suggesting that they all evolved from a common ancestor.” Listen to a story in Proto Indo-European, a speculative attempt by linguists to recreate an ancient root language.Happy PIE Day! (Proto Indo-European Day, of course.) -- source link
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