{"id":1027,"date":"2012-09-01T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T10:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/09\/01\/where-did-the-english-language-begin\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:35","slug":"where-did-the-english-language-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/where-did-the-english-language-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the English Language begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Here is one explanation:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">English is descended from a language that emerged in Turkey 8,000 and 9,500 years ago, new research has suggested.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Scientists traced the origin of all Indo-European languages to Anatolia, an ancient region of western Asia which covers most of modern Turkey.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Indo-European languages span a wide linguistic spectrum including English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Persian, Hindi and ancient Greek.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">All evolved from a common ancestor, scientists believe.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Experts think Indo-European languages spread out from the Middle East along with agriculture.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Scientists led by Remco Bouckaert, from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, traced the origins of Indo-European languages using a method borrowed from evolutionary biologists.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Instead of comparing DNA from different species, the researchers looked at &#8220;cognates&#8221; which are words with a common origin. One example is &#8220;mother&#8221;, &#8220;mutter&#8221; (German) and &#8220;madre&#8221; (Spanish).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Such similar words could not plausibly have occurred by chance. By modelling the evolution of hundreds of such words through time, the researchers were able to pinpoint their birthplace in what is now modern Turkey.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The research is published in the journal Science.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/english-language-began-turkey-180502182.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one explanation: English is descended from a language that emerged in Turkey 8,000 and 9,500 years ago, new research has suggested. Scientists traced the origin of all Indo-European languages to Anatolia, an ancient&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}