
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
The History of English Podcast
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Introduction
In this episode, we look at how a fairy tal collector helped to resurrect a dead language. The endo european language hasn't been spoken for over four thousand years. We'll also look at how linguists have used grimm's research to reconstruct large portions of the original indo europeanlanguage. And finally, we turn our attention to germany and the set of rules which are known as grim's law.
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