Mother of all Indo-European languages was born in Turkey
PARIS (AFP/Wed Nov 26, 2:08 PM ET) -- The vast group of languages
that dominates Europe and much of Central and South Asia originated
around 8,000 years ago among farmers in what is now Anatolia, Turkey.
So say a pair of New Zealand academics who have remarkably retraced
the family tree of so-called Indo-European languages -- a linguistic
classification that covers scores of tongues ranging from Faroese to
Hindi by way of English, French, German, Gujarati, Nepalese and Russian.
Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson, psychologists at the University of
Auckland, built their language tree on the same principles as the theory
of genetic evolution.
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George