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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: 23. Do All Languages Come from the Same Source?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.38142

Blurb:

The Indo-European language family is the most widely spoken group of languages in the world today. Non-Indo-European languages can be grouped together or, according to some theorists, all of the world languages can be grouped together into a giant family.

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