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The Prehistoric Mother Tongue (minicast)
September 14, 2009 10:00 pm
(@grantbarrett)
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Many of the world's languages apparently derived from a prehistoric common ancestor known as Indo-European. But since no one ever wrote down a word of it, how do we know what it was like?
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