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Lecture 2: Language Trees Indo-European Henry Harpending Anth 4234 February 5, 2015
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Page 1: Lecture 2: Language Trees - Indo-Europeancontent.csbs.utah.edu/~rogers/ant4234/lectures/HCH-language.pdf · Aus Bantu, etc (Congo-K ordof8ni811) auco-sl_mnc D r avidi811 Twelve Extant

Lecture 2: Language TreesIndo-European

Henry Harpending

Anth 4234

February 5, 2015

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World Language Families (Ruhlen)Maximum Lumping

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English in the Past

Source: Ruhlen

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Some Languages of Europe

Some European Languages

Source: Ruhlen

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Language Identification

Some European Languages!

• Group 1!• A = Arabic!• B = Hebrew!

• Group 2!• C = Sanskrit!• D = Avestan!• E = Classical Greek!• F = Latin!• G = Gothic!• H = Old Irish!

• Group 3!• I = Turkish

Source: Ruhlen

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Language Tree of Descent

Source: Ruhlen

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Indo-European Languages TodayNotice Shrinkage