Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
The World's Largest Family
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The World's Largest Family

Almost half of all people speak an Indo-European language as their mother tongue. How did that happen?
Countries with a majority of native speakers of Indo-European languages, countries with IE minority languages with official status and countries with IE minority languages without official status (by Brianski).

Working backwards from existing languages, linguists have had great success reconstructing Proto-Indo-European. Does that mean we can do the same for all language families? John explains.

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Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.