
Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C
The History of English Podcast
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The Tecarian Language Was Not a Sotom Language
The language was spoken in northwestern china, along the famous silk road. It cast doubts on the validity of the traditional kentum satum distinction. But modern linguists have accounted for this discrepancy by concluding that the early ancestors of the tecarian speakers separated from either the initial indo european people before the kentom sotum split occurred or perhaps from the kentum group after the split with sodom speakers occurred.
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