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In this episode, we’ll trace English back to its oldest known ancestor: an ancestor it shares with almost all of Europe’s languages, as well as some Asian languages. That ancestor is called Proto-Indo-European.

I also talk about the controversial Nostratic language family and ask whether there could really be a “Proto-Earth” language.

📚LINKS📚
Quellant reading P-I-E: • “The King and the God” – Proto-Indo-E…
Britannica on Nostratic: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nost…
Proto-Indo-European vocabulary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Eu…
Simon Pulleyn’s “Secret Life of Language” is also an enjoyable read

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