Schleicher's Fable

slowburner

Here's a link to how Proto-Indo-European may have sounded.
Is it possible that this is how our pre Bronze Age ancestors sounded?
(sounds not all unlike Saxon recreations to me)

http://archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable

tac foley

Hmmm 'ekvos' = horse...........well, I got that much.

Makes one wonder about the thousands of languages that are NOT based on an basic Indo-European root - any of the many 'native languages spoken in North or South America for a start.

tac

Fox_In_Socks

tac foley wrote: »

Hmmm 'ekvos' = horse...........well, I got that much.

Makes one wonder about the thousands of languages that are NOT based on an basic Indo-European root - any of the many 'native languages spoken in North or South America for a start.

tac

What about them?

tac foley

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

What about them?

What are THEY based on a a root language?

tac

Fox_In_Socks

tac foley wrote: »

What are THEY based on a a root language?

tac

All languages will have evolved. Sometimes they will be left in splendid isolation like Basque with the language branch that sprouted this "twig" having died.

Indo-European has been studied so much because it is the dominant language group in the world.

goose2005

tac foley wrote: »

What are THEY based on a a root language?

tac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proto-languages