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In this episode, we'll trace English back to its oldest known ancestor: an ancestor it shares with almost all of Europe's languages, as well as some Asian languages. That ancestor is called ProtoIndoEuropean.

I also talk about the controversial Nostratic language family and ask whether there could really be a "ProtoEarth" language.

LINKS
Quellant reading PIE:    • "The King and the God"  ProtoIndoE...  
Britannica on Nostratic: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nost...
ProtoIndoEuropean vocabulary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndoEu...
Simon Pulleyn's "Secret Life of Language" is also an enjoyable read

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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:17 English language family tree
0:57 What is ProtoIndoEuropean?
1:43 How PIE was discovered
5:00 Comparing IndoEuropean languages
7:20 Babbel
8:47 Tracing words to PIE
12:30 Surprisingly related words
15:45 What did PIE sound like?
16:55 Nostratic language
19:42 ProtoWorld