torsdag 20 november 2014

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Indo-European Language Family Tree

An interesting diagram showing the family tree of Indo-European languages. At the bottom is Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor. Its word *wel (‘turn’), for example, gave rise eventually to English words including: waltz, valve, convolve, evolve, revolt, valley, helix, wallow, willow, walk and Helen ~ http://www.amazon.com/Unfolding-Language-Evolutionary-Mankinds-Invention/dp/0805079076
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