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What could these two languages, Punjabi and
English have in common?
In fact, English and Punjabi as well as other
languages of the north of
He was a judge who went out to
It’s surprising that no one spotted the
resemblances earlier. Take the numbers again for example, the Sanskrit on the
right has strong resemblance to Latin and Greek on the left.
The word one two and three
obvious four and five in the closer look to spot the connection. English have discovered rules that govern has
sounds in different languages are related. Look at the fords for four. This is
one of many examples where a word beginning with q in Latin, say, is
similar to a Greek word beginning with t and a Sanskrit word beginning with k.
These sound correspondences can review how apparently
unrelated languages are members of the same family. The question is how can you
tell that the languages you’re looking at reflect a single original language
and therefore form a family? The only way you can do that is by finding
systematic similarities between these languages in every area of their grammar
similarities and their sound similarities and other inflections similarities on
the syntax of the language and so forth. And the similarities have to be very
precise and they have to be interlocking for the assertion that these languages
form a family are to be believable.
You take a look at an English word like tooth
and see that in Hindi is dant and the bites of that doesn’t mean very
much. But you take a look at an English ten and the ---- Hindi as das
and you see the same ---- emerging. You’ve got an initial t in
English and an initial d in Hindi.
When you find that the word two, the
numeral, in English shows up in Hindi as do and you’ve got once again an
initial t in English and an
initial d in Hindi you begin to think that perhaps this is not an
accident.
Linguists now establish that a whole range of
languages stretching from Island to