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Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 3, 2012 @06:10AM from the start-of-it-all dept.

phantomfive writes "Language geeks might be interested in a recent study that suggests Turkey as the birthplace of the Indo-European language family. The Indo-European family is the largest, and includes languages as diverse as English, Russian, and Hindi. The New York Times made a pretty graph showing the spread."

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I am multilingual. by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2012-09-03 06:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Ahh, the second-most important language family on the planet, after the C/C++/C#/Java family.

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Now ... by 32771 · 2012-09-03 08:00 · Score: 3, Funny

If those scientists could prove that Finno-Ugric languages don't have extra-terrestrial origin I would be glad.

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Re:So it's Turkey by Hognoxious · 2012-09-03 08:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Turks hate Arabs because they think they're not Arabs - they think they're better than the Arabs.
Arabs hate the Turks because they think they're not Arabs and, though they'd never admit it, the Arabs think the Turks are better than them.
They both hate the Iranians.

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