Photo of a letter from Rosetta Stone scholar Thomas Young. By Ann Wuyts under a Creative Commons license
Many of the world’s languages apparently derived from a prehistoric common ancestor known as Indo-European. But since no one ever wrote down a word of it, how do we know what it was like?
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Books:
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Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (2e) by Benjamin W. Fortson
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American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins
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Historical Linguistics by R.L. Trask
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