Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do we keep track of them all? Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past.
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How languages evolve
Listening Task:
Put the key words of the presentation in the order they are mentioned.
Traced back
The Tower of Babel
Conditions
Early human migration
Fertile land
Proto-language
Neighbours
Borrowed terms
Grammar and syntax
False cognates
Common ancestor
Reconstruct
Other historical clues
Pronouns numbers and kinship terms
Categories
Evidence
Super families
Correspondences
Two main problems
Dialects
Here they are in order:
The Tower of Babel
Traced back
Early human migration
Fertile land
Conditions
Neighbours
Proto-language
False cognates
Borrowed terms
Grammar and syntax
Pronouns numbers and kinship terms
Correspondences
Reconstruct
Other historical clues
Two main problems
Dialects
Categories
Evidence
Super families
Common ancestor
Now reconstruct what you heard in the video using these key words
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