
Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C
The History of English Podcast
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Hittite and the Hittarian Language in Northwestern China
Hittite is consider the oldest attested into european language. The first speakers of anatolian languages probably broke away from the original indo europeans before the kintum sa split occurred. So these ancient ancestors of the hittites in turkey broke away first, and then some time later, the early ancestors of the satem speakers broke away and began their migrations. And there's other evidence to support this theory as we'll see.
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