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Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. I am multilingual. by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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