By: Eric Nelson Posted on Tue, 04-09-2018
Since the discovery of the Rosetta stone, our knowledge in linguistic history has increased with each passing year. And many scientific breakthroughs later, we have arrived at a point where we can conclusively map the Language family trees of various languages right down to the original languages.
Today, there are over thousands of languages that are spoken worldwide, most of them that are widely spoken belong to one of three language groups. These are:
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We can map out language family trees (Language trees by decoding the similarity in the dialectics of different languages: For example:
Let’s look at two words, Two, and Three and map out the similarities of this word in various Indo-European languages.
Let’s start with the word Two and let’s see the word translated into various Indo-European Languages:
English: Two
Latin: Duo
Spanish: Dos
Sanskrit: Dva
English: Three
Latin: Tres
Greek: Treis
Sanskrit: Trayas:
This is an example of the similarities between various languages caused by being originated from a single Language Tree. A language tree whose first language was Proto Indo-European and now the Language tree has diverged and spread to create various different languages which include:
Latin (French, Spanish and Italian)
These Languages, that evolved from Sino-Tibetan include:
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