European and Asian languages have one mother tongue

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European and Asian languages have one mother tongue

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Re: European and Asian languages have one mother tongue#14306861

By Rancid - 30 Sep 2013 15:06

- 30 Sep 2013 15:06 #14306861

Considering we all came out of Africa this is completely unsurprising that all humans share elements of a common language. It's the same as saying we all have a common ancestry.

This.

It confirms that language or some basic form of it was developed before humans left Africa. That's about it.

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Re: European and Asian languages have one mother tongue#14307125

By Thunderhawk - 01 Oct 2013 01:50

- 01 Oct 2013 01:50 #14307125

If the theory about common words having less variation over time is true, then it sounds a lot like social inertia. Would languages spoken by small populations be highly mutable or highly conserved?

I suspect they would be highly mutable, akin to genetics and with their own founder effect. If so, then wouldn't any language spoken long ago by small populations have gone through many variations?

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Re: European and Asian languages have one mother tongue#14312911

By keso - 13 Oct 2013 07:39

- 13 Oct 2013 07:39 #14312911

Thunderhawk wrote:If the theory about common words having less variation over time is true

It isn't.

The "research" in this article isn't done by people who focus in linguistics. Would you trust medical research done by anthopologists? Well trained anthropologists, or not?

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