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Groupings of languages which can all be traced back to a common ancestor language they evolved from, for instance the Romance languages are all descended from Latin.
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Are proto-languages necessary to divide languages within a family into groups?
The main question is: was Proto-Slavic in fact a language or a group of closely related dialects? In a tribal nomadic society which occupied huge territories and had no writing one can hardly speak ab …
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Does Sanskrit really have a large proportion of borrowings from non IE stock?
Sanskrit and wider the Vedic language really had a non-IE substratum, or, to be more precise, no less than three substrata: Dravidian, Munda, and one more called "unknown Language X". Apart from T. Bu …
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Is Thai language related or a descendant of Sanskrit?
The script has nothing to do with the origin of the language. In fact, every script can be used to write any language. Usually a language adopts the script that is associated with the religion and/or …
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