LIN 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Linguistic Reconstruction, Eurasian Steppe, Language Change
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Around 6500 years ago, all of the indo-european languages. Pie is how english is related to many languages in europe and india. What have developed from pie speakers who moved into. 1st wave of indo-european languages going west across europe. Classical latin - standard dialect spoken in rome. Vulgar latin - collection of dialects spoken by the people of the roman empire. Most recent language to diverge from the indo-european. Proto spoken around 500 bce in north central europe. West: english, german, dutch, yiddish, and afrikaans. Individual offshoots of pie include: albanian, armenian, and greek. We use the comparative method to infer what it looked like. Noted similarities between sanskrit, greek, and latin. Two or more words in descendant languages that go back to a common. Borrowing is not the same thing as language derivation! There are three main rules that capture sound changes in consonants between.