10 Lost Languages Spoken Before Writing Was Ever Invented
Before writing was ever invented, billions of people across the ancient world spoke languages that left no recorded sentence behind — and yet we can still hear them. Through buried loanwords, ritual fossils, undeciphered scripts, and two centuries of comparative reconstruction, linguists have partially recovered ten of these vanished tongues, from the "banana languages" of pre-Sumerian Mesopotamia to Proto-Indo-European of the Eurasian steppe. This is the story of the lit edges of an immense dark continent of human speech.
Chapters:
00:00 - The Banana Languages of Pre Sumerian Mesopotamia
02:38 - The Pre Greek Substrate
05:23 - The Harappan Language of the Indus Valley
08:30 - Hattic of Pre Hittite Anatolia
11:17 - The Vasconic Family
14:28 - Proto Afroasiatic
17:34 - Proto Sino Tibetan
20:47 - Proto Uralic
23:47 - Proto Austronesian
27:30 - Proto Indo European
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