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by defrost
1252 days ago
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> we can trace the roots of modern languages back to the Phoenician script That's modern European languages ... and post ~1100 BCE if I recall correctly. So, indigenous languages from people settled in Australia [1] for 50,000+ years can be a little different, some don't have "left" | "right" as relative to PoV directions and stick with East V. West as absolutes for example. We're down to maybe 20-30 from pre colonial 100's though [2]. [1] https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSXFvDDjYE |
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That's Indo-European (as in descended from PIE/Yanmaya). Basque is older than all of them and it's a living European language.