Abstract

Abstract Gaelic, Danish, Vlach and Italian: what do these languages have in common? A great deal, in words and syntax. Along with many Indian and Central Asian languages they have descended and diverged from an earlier language—a root language to them all But when did this ancient Indo-European tongue reach Europe? And how—and when—did its daughter-tongues split off? Geoff Nicholls finds discrepancies between the statisticians and the historians of language.

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