In the field of linguistics, there are Language families. Related languages come from an older mother tongue. Examples include French, Spanish, and Italian, which are Latin, so they come from the language spoken in the Roman Empire. English, German, and Dutch are Germanic languages, meaning they come from a language spoken in the Germanic Tribes north of the Roman Empire.
There are steps between there, but that's not important to the story at hand. Languages drift due to sound changes and slurring. The sound changes are predictable, and there's a law which predicts which sounds change, and what they change to. This is called Grimm's Law, one of the Brothers Grimm formulated the law.
Using Grimm's Law, modern linguistics proposes a super-family of languages encompassing languages from Europe to India. This is called Proto-Indo-European. Because the name of this family is so cumbersome, it's abbreviated to PIE.
So, some linguists study PIE.
Sounds like a WAM script is waiting to be written.
piboiva said: In the field of linguistics, there are Language families. Related languages come from an older mother tongue. Examples include French, Spanish, and Italian, which are Latin, so they come from the language spoken in the Roman Empire. English, German, and Dutch are Germanic languages, meaning they come from a language spoken in the Germanic Tribes north of the Roman Empire.
There are steps between there, but that's not important to the story at hand. Languages drift due to sound changes and slurring. The sound changes are predictable, and there's a law which predicts which sounds change, and what they change to. This is called Grimm's Law, one of the Brothers Grimm formulated the law.
Using Grimm's Law, modern linguistics proposes a super-family of languages encompassing languages from Europe to India. This is called Proto-Indo-European. Because the name of this family is so cumbersome, it's abbreviated to PIE.
So, some linguists study PIE.
Sounds like a WAM script is waiting to be written.
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