#Linguistics: “In search of our mother language” (Intro)
When you came up with this subject, there’s a lot of questioning to do about it, maybe you can think: What’s a language? Does language make us humans? What is involved in this linguistic process? Maths and binary code are language? Those are very intriguing questions, but I’ll take care of them later. For now, let’s focus on the languages that are being (or were) speaking (or spoken) worldwide.
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There’s around 6000 of spoken languages in the world, wow, that’s a lot! Some of these languages are similar to each other, and this is not an accident or randomness, it means that those are related, but, how can this happen? Well, that’s because those similar languages were only one at some moment in the past, but it split up. The closer the languages, closer the time that they split. It is very important to have this knowledge to reconstruct ancient languages.
I will try to make it as didactic as possible and show you that anyone with a litte bit of sense of logic and dedication can do it!
Hi, I’m Fernando and I welcome you to my blog! I hope that you enjoy this section as much as I enjoy doing this!
In the next part of “In search of our mother language”, I’ll show you how to recognise similarities between the languages and how to classify them based on their proximity.
