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Grammar Traces Language Roots

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ancestral-tongues dept.

mlewan writes "Researchers use grammar to trace relations between Papuan languages. What is interesting is not that much that they use grammar features to do this, but that they seem to have given up using vocabulary as a help."

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  1. Re:Makes sense. by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The vocabulary varies within the three major countries that speak it (America, England and Australia)

    Eh?

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