How do people know what Proto-Indo-European sounded like? Apparently the language has been reconstructed. Why is this considered scientific? Sounds like made up bullshit.
How do people know what Proto-Indo-European sounded like? Apparently the language has been reconstructed...
Leo Lopez
Lincoln Hill
en.wikipedia.org
It took decades of tedious lexical comparison to eke out what little exists of PIE's defined properties. It's still all completely hypothetical though since no direct evidence of PIE even exists. It could be that linguists are just inventing a proto language out of coincidences, who knows.
Jacob Robinson
Sanskrit is closest to proto Indo European and is also the oldest, the language family came from India
Austin Parker
>t. Sanskanesh Vindaloo
Luke Gray
Sanskrit is derived from Indo-Iranian, and is a completely separate branch of the family from the European language families.
Nobody knows where PIE is from because there's no evidence PIE is even a real language. There's zero historical or archaeological proof of its existence. The entire thing is a hypothesis based on apparent similarities between ancient Indo-European languages and the assumption that this indicates shared ancestry.
Brayden Clark
I don't understand why nobody seems to go for the most straight forward explanation which is that apart from latin itself, and greek, the european indo-european languages are based on exposure to latin + the indigenous pre indo european languages. Latin is probably based on greek, or they are both based on a common ancestor. Other origins of some of the european indo-european languages could be from the influence of illyrian or an ancestor of illyrian.
Greeks probably got their language from central asia or persia, and sanskirit and persian both have a common ancestor, probably in central asia.
For me one thing that undermines the idea that german for example, or celtic languages, had a different ancestral path then latin or greek, is just how much proto-germanic and even old high german, and reconstructed ancient celtic languages, sound so much like latin or greek.
Zachary Miller
I'm a Hindu and a Sanskrit speaker, and even I don't believe in this shit.
Yeah Sanskrit is very conservative and was a principal component in reconstructing PIE, but there's features other languages have retained that it didn't. And no, PIE isn't from India. Fuck off.
Just saying, the "European language families" aren't really that easily groupable with each other. Slavic has some pretty strong affinities with Indo-Iranian which say, Armenian does not (besides all the Iranic loanwords).
Caleb Gonzalez
>just how much proto-germanic and even old high german, and reconstructed ancient celtic languages, sound so much like latin or greek.
No, they don't sound anything alike.
David Hughes
Either you lie or your head is filled with Western propaganda.
Samuel Perry
>*Awiz ehwōz-uh: awiz, sō wullǭ ne habdē, sahw ehwanz, ainanǭ kurjanǭ wagną teuhandų, ainanǭ-uh mikilǭ kuriþǭ, ainanǭ-uh gumanų sneumundô berandų. Awiz nu ehwamaz sagdē: hertô sairīþi mek, sehwandē ehwanz akandų gumanų. Ehwōz sagdēdun: gahauzī, awi! hertô sairīþi uns sehwandumiz: gumô, fadiz, uz awīz wullō wurkīþi siz warmą wastijǭ. Awiz-uh wullǭ ne habaiþi. Þat hauzidaz awiz akrą flauh
wow
much greek
so latin
wow