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		nologic01 on July 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New insights into the origin of the Indo-European ... Its quite difficult to fathom how these early linguistic branches have sounded around 8000 bc when they have changed so dramatically from 1000 bc to today. Is there any way (for a layman) to get a feel about this?

ashleney on July 31, 2023 [–]

It is very hard to predict how fast a language will evolve even for linguists.

I'd like to recommend a video https://youtu.be/evJ_E7k1pvY

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