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🎧 Lecture 13 of The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter

Listened to Lecture 13: The Story of Human Language by John McWhorterJohn McWhorter from The Great Courses: Linguistics

Lecture 13: The Case For the World’s First Language
Despite the hostility of most linguists to the Proto-World hypothesis, there is increasing evidence that many of the world's language families do trace to "mega-ancestors," even if evidence for a Proto-World remains lacking.

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