ICE AGE WORDS............
Scientists have discovered some words that had been used for centuries.The University of Waikato's Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, was part of a team led by Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the University of Reading in England, which has come up with a list of words which can be traced to old forms around the time of the last Ice Age."This research is completely new and unbelievable says a crew member.
The researchers looked at cognates across several language families, including Indo-European; Dravidian (from southern India); Altaic (which includes Turkish, Uzbek and Mongolian); Uralic (which includes Finnish and Hungarian); Kartvelian (east European, Baltic area); Chukchi-Kamchatkan (from the far northeastern part of Siberia) and Inuit-Yupik (from the Arctic).The results showed that a 'proto-language' existed which, over time, evolved into the different language families, giving rise to many individual languages spreading all over the continent.Finally,The list of Twenty Three words are.....
- Thou
- I
- not
- that
- we
- to give
- who
- this
- what
- man/male
- ye
- old
- mother
- to hear
- hand
- fire
- to pull
- black
- to flow
- bark
- ashes
- to spit
- worm.
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