Proto-Indo-European - Linguistic Discovery

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1,000 subscribers! 🎉 And did Proto-Indo-European have SOV word order?

The Linguistic Discovery newsletter just reached 1,000 subscribers! 🎉 And linguist Danny L. Bate suggests that Proto-Indo-European didn’t have Subject-Object-Verb word order after all.

Discovery Dispatch

The quest for the first Indo-Europeans, and whales communicating like humans

New DNA evidence emerges in the hunt for the first speakers of Indo-European, and researchers discover that whalesong shares a property of human language never before found in the animal kingdom.

The text "language isolate" written in chalk on a blackboard.

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What are language isolates?

A language isolate is a language that is unrelated to any other known language.