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"MIGRATIONS AND CULTURAL DIFFUSION carried the Indo-European protolanguage from the homeland, which the authors place in the Transcaucasus( see Historical Armenia maps), and fragmented it into dialects. Some spread west to Anatolia and Greece, others southwest to Iran and India. Most Western languages stem from an Eastern branch that rounded the Caspian Sea. Contact with Semitic languages in Mesopotamia and with Kartvelian languages in the Caucasus led to the adoption of many foreign words."
See also This
You can consider it equivalent to Root in *nix :)
allan
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As the eternal tranquility of Truth reveals itself to us, this very place is the Land of Lotuses
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Actually, I was thinking of Indo-European as equivalent to C, which has fragmented into the many languages most of us use everyday.
But that likening will lead to another set of strange thoughts, like Finnish being Lisp, French being Bliss, ending with Chinese as APL.
Oh, and assembler as prehistoric. Ook!
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Yes, or probably Fortran being the Indo-European Root of all higher computer languages...
Welsh would be Cobol then (isn't the longest word known to man Welsh...?),
To begin at the beginning; It is a spring, moonless night in the small town, tarless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the haunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat bobbing sea. ... etc.
And thats translated. Quite a jump there to C :
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And Perl...? Hmmm, kindof Esperanto, maybe...
La nokto rapide la ombrojn delasis,
Dum alpan vilaĝon junulo trapasis;
Li portis sur vojo la neĝa, glacia,
Standardon, kun stranga devizo ĉi-tia:
Excelsior!
or die;...
allan
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As the eternal tranquility of Truth reveals itself to us, this very place is the Land of Lotuses
-- Hakuin Ekaku Zenji
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