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While the English language is generally seen as something that developed in the British Isles, influenced by Norse and French invaders and shaped by European culture over the course of hundreds of years, the true roots of English go back many thousands of years, to some of the first farming communities in what is now Turkey. Researchers have been applying the same techniques they use to track the spread of diseases towards tracking the spread of the “mother” language of the Indo-European language family of which English is a part.
In fact, they’ve used the word “mother” as one of the words to trace the lines that connect languages, in the search for cognates, or words that share the same root. Take a look:
mat* (Russian)
madar* (Farsi/Persian)
mitera* (Greek)
mutter (German)
moeder (Dutch)
mère (French)
madre (Spanish)
mother (English)
máthair (Irish Gaelic)
modir* (Icelandic)* pronunciation only, word not in original alphabet
Learning how languages are connected not only helps us to understand English words, but also understand how societies developed and spread over time. English continues to grow and develop, with new words added every year from both local and global sources. It will be interesting to see what paths we take in the future – will we be able to trace the spread of human languages out into the stars one day?
For more information on the language project, you can listen to an interview with researcher Quentin Atkinson here.