
Vol 2 Ep 28 - Indo-European languages
History of the World podcast
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The Origins of the Indo-European Language
Linguists look at the kind of words that their ancestors were using. If they knew horses, then they must have lived in the range of the horse. They would also need to be alive after the first wide spread use of the wheel. The Latin word discos evolved into vulgar Latin which is everyday speech whereas traditional Latin was preserved mainly for religious scriptures and ceremony. VOGA LETTING would evolve differently in different areas of the vast Roman Empire as branches of what would later become the modern Latin languages began to emerge such as Old French, Old Italian and Old Spanish.
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