T
he sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new way.
As a word is uttered it vibrates air, and the shape of this soundwave can be measured and turned into a series of numbers
John Aston
No matter whether you speak English or Urdu, Waloon or Waziri, Portuguese or Persian, the roots of your language are the same. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the mother tongue – shared by several hundred contemporary languages, as well as many now extinct, and spoken by people who lived from about 6,000 to 3,500 BC on the steppes to the north of the Caspian Sea.
They left no written texts and although historical linguists have, since the 19th century, painstakingly reconstructed the language from daughter languages, the question of how it actually sounded was assumed to be permanently out of reach.
Now, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have developed a sound-based method to move back through the family […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
