CLA 30 Lecture 29: Unit 10 - Cognates and Borrowings
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What we call the language family and the speakers of the ancestral language. After india and europe, which were thought to be the extreme eastern and western regions of their spread before the modern period. Europeans were well aware that the modern romance languages (spanish, french, portuguese, italian, romanian, etc. ) had developed from latin. Model of a parent language and descendants. Around 1500, europeans started traveling to india and noticed similarities between indian languages and greek and latin. By 1800, it was apparent that greek, latin, and sanskrit had all developed from a common ancestor. It was realized that many other european, middle-eastern, and south asian languages came from the same source: these include persian, slavic, germanic, and celtic languages. Likely to have originated in anatolia (the asian part of modern turkey) according to an article in science from 2012. First real father of comparative linguistics and pie studies. Proto-indo-europeans = the earliest people who spoke indo-european.
