Episode 81 - Mark My Words: Historical Linguistics
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
To learn more, check out:
What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens)
Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics)
Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia)
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books)
The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies)
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine)
Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?
Photo credit: A page from the Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae, public domain, via Wikipedia.
