Bringing it back to AtD: was, "Thru the language glass"

[Mark Kohut]

Did anyone else hear--or read, it's all over the interwebs---the linguist on NPR, Ira Flatow's 
Science show, who, with others, has, they think, found out where the Indo-European languages
originated? Turkey--Anatolia--about 9,500 to 10, 000 years ago. Turkey, another of TRP's
essential foci in AtD.  He doesn't miss. 
 
One major way the linguists arrived at this conclusion is that they have been gathering and databasing
language 'cognates' for a long while.....and then they sorta 'matched' them up and got ye olde off-on
binary match or miss....guy actually said they got rows of 0-1, 1-0, etc.
 
Further explanation of the spread of the language is that an agricultural civilization started in Anatolia then,
which brought security therefore growth to human communities and generation after generation took their
farming skills elsewhere and brought their languages and rang the changes over time...


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Subject: through the language glass; language and mind; robt lane-greene

http://m.thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
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