c/anthropology · by fossilesque@mander.xyz · 3yLanguage trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg08188 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world
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FlyingSquid@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
It's amazing to hear, say, Hindi and German and realize they come from the same roots.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
What is mental is that there are other languages in the Indian subcontinent that are not part of that language family at all!
FlyingSquid@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
True about Europe as well. Finnish, for example.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
Right, Finnish and Hungarian owe their roots to the mongol invasion if memory serves. But in India both language groups emerged separately in the north and south.
FlyingSquid@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 3y
Then there's Basque, which seems to be a totally isolated language.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
I didn't know that, cool.
Mookulator@wirebase.org · 1 pts · 3y
Today I learned the Indus Valley Civilization had a language with no surviving descendants