How Can We Know What Language Used to Look Like? Historical Reconstruction
What did our languages sound like before we had written records? How can we work that out? In this week's episode, we talk about historical reconstruction of languages: what methods we can use to rebuild long-dead systems, what groupings of languages we can put together using these techniques, and if there's a limit to how far back we can go.
This is Topic #56!
This week's tag language: Latin!
Last episode:
Let's Talk about Sets - Set Theory and Adjectives: • How Do We Build Meaning with Math? Set The...
Other of our historical linguistics videos:
Let Us Be Franca - Lingua Francas: • How Do We Share Our Languages Around? Ling...
Writing It Down - Writing Systems: • Writing Systems
Sense and Shiftability - Semantic Shift: • Semantic Shift
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