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Horses or farmers? The tower of Babel and confidence in trees
Author(s) -
Nicholls Geoff
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00305.x
Subject(s) - tower of babel , danish , linguistics , syntax , root (linguistics) , history , first language , tower , daughter , genealogy , political science , philosophy , archaeology , law
Gaelic, Danish, Vlach and Italian: what do these languages have in common? A great deal, in words and syntax. Along with many Indian and Central Asian languages they have descended and diverged from an earlier language—a root language to them all But when did this ancient Indo‐European tongue reach Europe? And how—and when—did its daughter‐tongues split off? Geoff Nicholls finds discrepancies between the statisticians and the historians of language.