Jacob Grimm
The famous fairy-tale collector who formulated the rules helping modern linguists reconstruct the ancient Indo-European language.
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Jul 11, 2012 • 50min
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
The famous fairy-tale collector Jacob Grimm formulated the rules which help modern linguists reconstruct the ancient Indo-European language. In this episode, we look at Grimm’s Law and how the Germanic languages evolved from the original ancestral language.
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